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August 11, 2008 - Monday
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Moments traded for silver
Tick, tock. Each day the same clock we wind
To awaken each day and walk dazed to our assigned grind,
Confined for 8 hours by the expectations of mankind
Selling our soul each day for a tiny piece of silver
Shouldn't we be worth more?
Asked once again our time to deliver
Moments we will never gain again. Moments we traded for silver.
The give and take, we tell ourselves are of our own choice
It's a chain of our own making, driven by retails' lore
The shiny bauble calling from the window of the corner store,
For the silver we traded our voice
The frailty of being human, unable to resist,
We bind ourselves once and again to repeat the daily tainted twist.
© Tammy
5:13 PM
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May 5, 2008 - Monday
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Love who you are..
Love who you are...
As I toss the pebble into the pool
Looking at the ripples of my reflections
To examine my inner self;
The ripples begin to fade . . .
I'm left with the reflection before me
I decide I like this soul I see looking back at me…
Gently taking my hand,
I pull myself up, dry myself off
And laugh while saying "Such a pretty, silly girl!"
© 2008 Tammy
3:32 PM
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April 30, 2008 - Wednesday
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Treasures of the Ocean
Treasures of the Ocean
Beautifully calming and soothing blue
Its beauty like its depth is boundless
Often finding sand where we seek water
Our worn and tired spirits often cry out for it.
We tread many well beaten paths in search of it,
We stare at it in amazement and smile
as its breezes gently brush away our tears.
It provides a route upon which our dreams can
set sail to grand new places far away,
Finding the home and welcoming doorstep
of our greatest hopes and desires.
So when your soul is thirsty and in need
Gently close your eyes
Reach out, touch the cool blue water
And let your soul be free to fly.
8:42 AM
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April 27, 2008 - Sunday
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Trust
Category: Life
What sense do you trust more?
The ones your eyes see and hands touch
Or the ones your heart feels?
Do you trust the senses of your hearing of words
Or the ones your heart feels?
Is it an illusion of trust or a needed trust of Illusion?
Could it be any or a combination of many?
5:41 AM
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April 19, 2008 - Saturday
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Shared Drawings
Category: Life
Softly drawn
into the paintings
of the conversation
her silence grew
she would order
a hot tea
and listen
Seeking first to understand
then to be understood
It is the sharing that creates the beauty
7:09 AM
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April 14, 2008 - Monday
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Smiling in the rain
Category: Life
She is the pretty picture under the broken picture frame
Most days she just searches to find the key to the cage we are all in…to set us all free.
Her quest is to redraw all the maps they have handed her. The world is boundless.
She wants to trace the all the stars in heaven and rename every constellation that she finds...
She is not always who she is, she often remembers who she was once and every now and then she still gets confused about who she should be next
If she had all the answers she would freely give them, but for now you have to just accept her as she is
She is the product of her every dream!
She often fears her fruition could wreck reality....but fear is to be conquered and released. So she travels on
She believes we all have a lot of life to live and it can't be done in the confines of the expectations of others
She wants to stand in the busy street of some 1000 year old Italian town square and have no one notice her at all
She wants to walk barefoot on the ground of that same city and stand in the rain, dance and laugh, all alone. A moment that belongs only to her.
She senses life meant her to be born in a different place and time.
She has to go now; there is a phone call from life
…and she promises this time to call back
~adapted by me from the writings of Sol Grundy
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December 23, 2007 - Sunday
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December 7, 2007 - Friday
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What fills your thoughts?
Feel free to contribute to these......
"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. " -Vachel Lindsay
"The most violent element in society is ignorance" --Emma Goldman
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -Mark Twain
"We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes." -- The late Fred Rogers.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. --Mother Teresa
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." (Mark Twain)
There are many things that will catch your eye, but only a few that will catch your heart . . . pursue those. - Henry David Thoreau
Learn to respond, not react. - Buddha
"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."
"Take a breath, kick off your shoes and dance!"
"We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us"
"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you."
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." Albert Einstein
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be thier option.
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