December 2011
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XVII (I do not love you…)
by Pablo Neruda
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from...
“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I’ll laugh. And then I’ll know what life is.”
—Sylvia Plath
Aren’t we all to you just lost causes? Are we all to you lost? Lost causes So all we are to you, Is all we are, is all we are All we are is all we are
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Take what you will, what you will And leave. Could you kill, could you kill me If the world was on fire and nothing was left but hope or desire And take all that I could bring forth, is this hell Or am I on the floor...
Christmas Inspiration 2011
Wishing you warmth, joy and peace with loved ones this Christmas xoxo
What a beautiful love letter.
via dolcevita.blogspot.com
“You cannot gauge or contain beauty. There are approximately 6 billion individuals on this plant who were born with their own unique expression of beauty. We live in a society that promotes a single standard of beauty, expecting everyone to go to extreme lengths to attain it. I do not fit in society’s standard of beauty and you probably don’t either, and there is no shame in...
Christmas is no longer the same. Once my favorite holiday, it died an almost unnoticed death a few years ago. Now it has turned into an awkward, repetitive attempt to create something special from years past.
Of course, the Christmas experience is different once one makes the transition into adulthood. No matter how hard we try, we can never recreate that sense of blind wonder...
My kind of Christmas tree
