If you’re going through hell, keep going……

……but stop by here for a drink along the way. Bar’s open. But check your weapons at the door, your permit’s no good in here.

(“This little one isn’t worth the effort. Come, let me get you something……”

“……No blasters! NO BLASTERS!!!!!”)

Kalidasa:

   Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!

   Look to this Day!

   For it is Life, the very Life of Life.

   In its brief course lie all the

   Verities and Realities of your Existence.

   The Bliss of Growth,

   The Glory of Action,

   The Splendor of Beauty;

   For Yesterday is but a Dream,

   And To-morrow is only a Vision;

   But To-day well lived makes

   Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,

   And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.

   Look well therefore to this Day!

   Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

Smile, or I’ll put an ice cube down the back of your shirt….or down the front if ye be a fetching lass with a nice rack. 🙂

And join me below the fold.

“She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night”

Ada Leverson

But never mind that.

“You can’t start worrying about what’s going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what’s happening now.”

Lauren Bacall

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.  “Pooh!” he whispered.  “Yes, Piglet?”  “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw.  “I just wanted to be sure of you.”  ~A.A. Milne

“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean – roll!

Lord Byron

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

Winston Churchill

If you’re happy and you know it……..

Just a plain ole country girl

Never asked for riches or gold

Just a life filled with love

A gift that could never be sold.

Ann Stareyes

Where do you come from,

Where do you go?

Nobody really knows the answers to that. It has been a long journey and it isn’t close to being over…

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.  ~Confucius

“Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn”

William Wordsworth

What do ya’ call 13 Witches in a hot tub?

Self-Cleaning Coven.

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Robert Heinlein

(and I hope you don’t mind a repeat from the last music diary I put up….)

shysters live from scheme to scheme and my 4th quarter pipe dreams

are seeming more and more worth fighting for

so I’ll curate some situations, make my job a big vacation

and I’ll say fuck Bush and fuck this war

And most importantly:

so if you wanna burn yourself remember that I love you

if you wanna cut yourself remember that I love you

if you wanna kill yourself remember that I love you

call me up before you’re dead, we can make some plans instead

send me an IM, I’ll be your friend.

Your thoughts and words are powerful.