Live The Vibrant Life
Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. ~ Mary Oliver
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
I love the rich earthy smell
right after a storm,
The flavor of heartaches
washed away with
the rain,
The feel of the wind
dancing around me
as I walk barefoot
in tall damp grass.
This is the time to dream,
with misty rainbows and
a pale sun in the distant sky,
And an orange glow to
light my way back home.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci
Stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don’t understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in. ~ Neil Gaiman
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. ~ Stephen King
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. ~ Albert Camus
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ~ William Faulkner