another chance hello, another goodbye

When I was in high school I found this poem in one of our literature text books. I liked it so much I copied it down.

Flying Crooked ~Robert Graves

The butterfly, a cabbage-white,
(His honest idiocy of flight)
Will never now, it is too late,
Master the art of flying straight,
Yet has- who knows so well as I?-
A just sense of how not to fly:
He lurches here and here by guess
And God and hope and hopelessness.
Even the acrobatic swift
Has not his flying-crooked gift.

by William H. Murray (from his book "The Scottish Himalayan Expedition"):

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of th… Continue

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by Catherine Cardinal, Ph.D.


I. Thou shalt not consort with people who make thee feel bad about thyself.


II. Thou shalt cease trying to make sense out of crazy behavior.


III. Thou shalt not keep company with those more dysfunctional than thyself.


IV. Trust thy body all the days of thy life (thy mind doth fornicate with thee).


V. Thou has permission at all times to say "No," to change thy mind, and to express thy true feelings.


VI. W… Continue

The game we play
is let's pretend
and pretend
we're not pretending

we choose to forget
who we are
and then forget
that we've forgotten

who are we really?

the center that watches
and runs the show
that can choose which way
it will go

the I AM
consciousness
that powerful loving
perfect reflection
of the cosmos

but in our attempt
to cope with
early situations
we chose or were
hypnotized into
a passive position

to avoid punishment
or the loss of love
we chose to deny our
response/ability
prete… Continue