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Archive for November, 2009

You’re an airhead, not a bimbo. You have a helium-filled mind connected by a breakable string to a clown that keeps it down until the coming of the Scissors to set it rightfully, frightfully free.

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thoughts traveling the head never obey traffic laws. they run stop signs. they ignore posted speed limits and warnings of animal crossings, in spite of the overpopulation of collisions. but feel and listen how the heart never swerves its road of rhythm.

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One of the millions of floral descendants thinks it springs from Jesse’s tree. It is a visionary flower. It believes the first flower will come again only when all of its descendants agree. Its descendants do not agree; the iris argues tall and blue, the marigold squat and yellow and smelly; the lily bows and [...]

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That shoot looked like any blade of grass. Then, hearing springtime’s pitch pipe, it took a breath And tried its first colors, vocalizing softly in pink, Then lengthening its phrases into purple and yellow. The world of grass Welcomed its first flower.

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“How sad to be grass,” said the roses Advancing in their trellis careers. “Of course,” said the roses at the top, “They are silent because they are listening, Listening to us, And craving to make The music of color.” But who knows what the grass was really thinking? Who among the rich roses actually cared [...]

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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. -Eleanor Roosevelt

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Revisiting what we’ve already learned Is normal and is nothing to regret; After all, what we’ve already learned Is what we are most likely to forget.

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