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BRUTUS:That you do love me, I am nothing jealous;
What you would work me to, I have some aim:
How I have thought of this and of these times,
I shall recount hereafter; for this present,
I would not, so with love I might entreat you,
Be any further moved. What you have said
I will consider; what you have to say
I will with patience hear, and find a ( Read more... )

Word of the day: "numinous" - revealing the presence of the divine; giving rise to a feeling of spiritual transcendence, especially in nature or art (from Latin nūmen - divinity, divine power). pic.twitter.com/fjlxJwzpSg
- Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) 17 February 2018

Truth is, when you're busy, it's a case of Occupied, Working,
Travelling, Focused - it was only today after all the movement
- west, east, north, south, north, northwest;
   train, tram, car;
                                get-in, get-out -
that I actually stopped. Still.

Later on, following on from a friend's post on mindfulness
- of sorting ( Read more... )

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... I trace the rainbow through the rain,
     And feel the promise is not vain,
     That morn shall tearless be.

It is true that when Much-Afraid looked at the mountains on the other side of the valley she wondered how they would ever manage to ascend them , but she found herself content to wait restfully and to wander in the valley as long as the Shepherd chose.

One thing in particular comforted her; after the hardness and slipperiness of the way on the ( Read more... )

I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don’t think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don’t even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. I have an ( Read more... )

"............... And by my prescience
I find my zenith doth depend upon
A most auspicious star, whose influence
If now I court not but omit, my fortunes
Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions."

All this, held as known
     but still; e'en so:

( I should tell you ... Let's just make this part go faster ... )

"Life is like a puzzle: amid these oddly shaped pieces there are two
that fit each other. They don't fit because they are perfect, they fit
because they are perfect for each other. Apart, they are two pieces without
definition; together they compliment each other and take on meaning.
This is the joy of.. the coming together of two damaged souls ( Read more... )