Bridgetyblogety

2012-01-24T00:04:00.002-05:00

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Jung

2011-12-05T11:23:00.001-05:00

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis Smedes

2011-12-02T17:39:00.003-05:00

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

2011-11-06T13:22:00.000-05:00

Everyone hears only what he understands.

2011-11-03T19:19:00.001-05:00

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

Marcel Proust

2011-11-02T12:04:00.003-05:00

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Krishnamurti

2011-10-14T09:56:00.002-05:00

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand-in-hand.

2011-09-06T17:29:00.001-05:00

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Bell Hooks

2011-07-20T12:49:00.003-05:00

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2011-06-23T11:59:00.001-05:00

Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.
Helene Cixous

2011-06-22T10:13:00.000-05:00

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.

2011-05-23T09:43:00.003-05:00

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Thomas Carlyle

2011-05-08T15:01:00.004-05:00

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Thomas Aquinas

2011-05-04T12:55:00.000-05:00

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

W. Clement Stone

2011-02-21T15:57:00.001-05:00

Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.

Jean-Paul Sartre

2011-01-30T14:05:00.010-05:00

Snowflakes

Out of the bosom of the Air,

Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,

Over the woodlands brown and bare

Over the harvest-fields forsaken,

Silent and soft and slow

Descends the snow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2011-01-17T14:34:00.000-05:00

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

2011-01-03T08:52:00.000-05:00

There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:
This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.
When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.

Stacey Charter

Born today

2010-12-31T15:58:00.001-05:00

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Henri Matisse

Dedicated to CMR

2010-12-27T18:04:00.002-05:00

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
Bertrand Russell

2010-12-23T16:00:00.002-05:00

The Infinite

It was always dear to me, this solitary hill,
and this hedgerow here, that closes out my view,
from so much of the ultimate horizon.
But sitting here, and watching here, in thought,
I create interminable spaces,
greater than human silences, and deepest
quiet, where the heart barely fails to terrify.
When I hear the wind, blowing among these leaves,
I go on to compare that infinite silence
with this voice, and I remember the eternal
and the dead seasons, and the living present,
and its sound, so that in this immensity
my thoughts are drowned, and shipwreck seems sweet
to me in this sea.

Giacomo Leopardi

2010-12-10T10:25:00.002-05:00

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

2010-11-16T11:19:00.002-05:00

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

CEM 11/14/30-11/04/10

2010-11-07T13:55:00.002-05:00

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

JM Barrie

2010-11-03T17:00:00.000-05:00

Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.

Eskimo Proverb

2010-11-02T12:21:00.000-05:00

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.

Washington Irving

To my Willie-Boy.

2010-10-21T09:50:00.010-05:00

Thanks:

for waking me up every day with your "monkey meow", your knock on the door or your burrow under the blanket

for walking the kids to the bus stop every day and waiting 'til they got on to come home

for treating me like your mom, snuggling with me every day & making me your favorite

for bringing me so many presents, even though I didn't appreciate any of them

for making friends with even the most resistant of people

for always making us laugh

for playing in the snow, having a sweet tooth, climbing under the sheets, getting in the dryer, having "fun time" with the blankets, sleeping with your head down like you were praying, prancing in front of our cars & then getting into them for a ride,

running to me when I called you and always staying on the walkway

Most of all, thanks for giving me your unconditional love, being glad to see me every day & making me happy. You were the best Willis. I already miss you chocolate kitty.

2010-10-11T13:10:00.003-05:00

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

George Eliot

That tattoo is so much better now

2010-10-05T13:16:00.003-05:00

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

2010-09-15T12:19:00.003-05:00

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

Thomas Jefferson

2010-09-14T10:16:00.004-05:00

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

Cyril Connolly

2010-09-13T10:17:00.002-05:00

Sometimes you put up walls not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

There is No Spoon.

2010-08-05T13:51:00.003-05:00

People are scared to empty their minds

fearing that they will be engulfed by the void.

What they dont realize is that

their own mind is the void.

Huang Po

2010-08-03T13:31:00.003-05:00

Dreams

Here we are all, by day; by night we're hurl'd

By dreams, each one into a several world.

Robert Herrick

2010-06-15T14:04:00.001-05:00

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm.

Sylvia Plath

2010-06-01T11:12:00.001-05:00

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

2010-05-28T12:44:00.000-05:00

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

Juvenal

2010-05-27T12:27:00.002-05:00

Accept everything about yourself-I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end-no apologies, no regrets.

Henry Kissinger

Cinco de Mayo/Karl Marx B-Day! Que Contradiccion!

2010-05-05T08:37:00.004-05:00

(who can resist a chili pepper with maracas?)

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Karl Marx

Been so long...

2010-05-04T13:32:00.003-05:00

2 Little Whos

2 little whos
(he and she)
under are this
wonderful tree

smiling stand
(all realms of where
and when beyond)
now and here

(far from a grown
-up i&you-
ful world of known)
who and who

(2 little arms
and over them this
aflame with dreams
incredible this)

ee cummings

2010-03-16T12:36:00.001-05:00

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Oscar Wilde

2010-02-04T11:46:00.002-05:00

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

Jean Vanier

2010-01-22T11:15:00.003-05:00

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin

2010-01-20T14:56:00.001-05:00

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

2010-01-07T12:39:00.001-05:00

Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

J.R.R. Tolkien

2010-01-03T19:34:00.001-05:00

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible

2009-12-30T11:19:00.003-05:00

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. ~Marya Mannes

2009-12-11T14:19:00.001-05:00

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws

2009-12-01T09:46:00.002-05:00

Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.

Benjamin Franklin

2009-11-15T14:31:00.002-05:00

Be what you would seem to be- or, if you'd like it put more simply-never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
Lewis Carroll- Alice in Wonderland

2009-11-10T14:19:00.002-05:00

Seeking is not always the way to find.

2009-11-09T23:08:00.000-05:00

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

2009-10-30T10:09:00.001-05:00

“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”

James Joyce -I think! ;)

2009-10-25T15:08:00.000-05:00

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for "False Evidence Appearing Real"

2009-10-06T12:27:00.002-05:00

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."
Abraham Lincoln

(or maybe it's Rev. William John Henry Boetcker)

2009-09-21T16:43:00.001-05:00

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul. -Heraclitus

2009-09-16T09:11:00.002-05:00

The highest form of wisdom is kindness.

The Talmud

2009-07-27T19:01:00.001-05:00

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo

2009-06-22T08:55:00.001-05:00

“I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries”

Theodore Isaac Rubin

It's on to Junior High for MKR!

2009-06-07T14:21:00.001-05:00

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”

Confucius

2009-05-31T18:21:00.001-05:00

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

2009-02-18T11:54:00.000-05:00

“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...”

Isak Dinesen

2009-02-03T21:36:00.004-05:00

Weep you no more, sad fountains;
What need you flow so fast?
Look how the snowy mountains
Heaven's sun doth gently waste.
But my sun's heavenly eyes
View not your weeping,
That now lies sleepingSoftly,
now softly liesSleeping.

Sleep is a reconciling,
A rest that peace begets:
Doth not the sun rise smiling
When fair at even he sets?
Rest you then, rest, sad eyes,
Melt not in weeping,
While she lies sleepingSoftly,
now softly lies
Sleeping.

Andrew Wyeth died today

2009-01-16T11:31:00.003-05:00

A tree beside the sandy

River-beach

Holds up its topmost boughs

Like fingers towards the skies

They cannot reach,

Earth-bound, heaven-amorous.

This is the soul of man. Body and brain

Hungry for earth

our heavenly flight detain.

Sri Aurobindo

2008-11-02T17:52:00.000-05:00

“I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.”

Fritz Perls

Halloween 2008

2008-10-31T16:53:00.000-05:00

2008-10-27T07:42:00.002-05:00

"We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream, and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death."

Francis Bacon

Obsessing on Matisse

2008-09-06T20:54:00.003-05:00

“The noontide light passing through the rib cage of Joshua trees, like morning for Matisse.”

Michael Easton

2008-09-04T13:29:00.002-05:00

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi

2008-07-08T13:10:00.000-05:00

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

Buddha

Happy Birthday Marc Chagall

2008-07-07T14:06:00.001-05:00

Like a thief reason sneaked in and sat amongst the lovers eager to give them advice. They were unwilling to listen, so reason kissed their feet and went on its way. Rumi

2008-04-09T15:14:00.000-05:00

“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”

Chinese Proverb

2008-03-26T13:59:00.004-05:00

I Am Part of The Load

I am part of the load
Not rightly balanced
I drop off in the grass,
like the old Cave-sleepers, to browse
wherever I fall.

For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains
floating and flying in the will of the air,
often forgetting ever being
in that state, but in sleep
I migrate back. I spring loose
from the four-branched, time -and-space cross,
this waiting room.
I walk into a huge pasture
I nurse the milk of millennia

Everyone does this in different ways.
Knowing that conscious decisions
and personal memory
are much too small a place to live,
every human being streams at night
into the loving nowhere, or during the day,
in some absorbing work.
Rumi

2008-03-26T13:47:00.001-05:00

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”

C.S. Lewis

2008-03-24T10:13:00.002-05:00

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others"
Maryanne Williamson

2007-10-08T09:03:00.000-05:00

Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night.
I am afraid of being, on this shore, a branchless trunk, and what I most regret is having no flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my despair.
If you are my hidden treasure, if you are my cross, my dampened pain, if I am a dog, and you alone my master,
never let me lose what I have gained, and adorn the branches of your river with leaves of my estranged Autumn
Frederico Garcia Lorca

2007-08-17T16:11:00.000-05:00

This song of mine will wind its music around you,
my child, like the fond arms of love.

The song of mine will touch your forehead
like a kiss of blessing.

When you are alone it will sit by your side and
whisper in your ear, when you are in the crowd
it will fence you about with aloofness.

My song will be like a pair of wings to your dreams,
it will transport your heart to the verge of the unknown.

It will be like the faithful star overhead
when dark night is over your road.

My song will sit in the pupils of your eyes,
and will carry your sight into the heart of things.

And when my voice is silenced in death,
my song will speak in your living heart.
R. Tagore

The Perennial Goofball Graduates 6th Grade

2007-06-01T10:10:00.000-05:00

And Even Got a Medal from the President for being Smart

2007-06-01T10:09:00.001-05:00

2007-05-09T13:45:00.000-05:00

The Light Wraps You
Pablo Neruda

The light wraps you in its mortal flame. Abstracted pale mourner, standing that way against the old propellers of the twighlight
that revolves around you.

Speechless, my friend,
alone in the loneliness of this hour of the dead and filled with the lives of fire,
pure heir of the ruined day.

A bough of fruit falls from the sun on your dark garment.
The great roots of night
grow suddenly from your soul,
and the things that hide in you come out again
so that a blue and palled people
your newly born, takes nourishment.

Oh magnificent and fecund and magnetic slave
of the circle that moves in turn through black and gold:
rise, lead and possess a creation
so rich in life that its flowers perish
and it is full of sadness.

2007-05-08T12:36:00.000-05:00

"You were not born to be a second-hander."

Brace Face!

2007-04-26T20:30:00.000-05:00

2007-03-29T11:15:00.000-05:00

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

Nietzsche

2007-03-21T10:07:00.000-05:00

“Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”

Walt Whitman

2007-03-02T11:00:00.000-05:00

A Woman's Last Word

I. Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before, Love, ---Only sleep!

II. What so wild as words are? I and thou In debate, as birds are, Hawk on bough!

III. See the creature stalking While we speak! Hush and hide the talking, Cheek on cheek!

IV. What so false as truth is, False to thee? Where the serpent's tooth is Shun the tree---

V. Where the apple reddens Never pry--- Lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.

VI. Be a god and hold me With a charm! Be a man and fold me With thine arm!

VII. Teach me, only teach, Love As I ought I will speak thy speech, Love, Think thy thought---

VIII. Meet, if thou require it, Both demands, Laying flesh and spirit In thy hands.

IX. That shall be to-morrow Not to-night: I must bury sorrow Out of sight:

X ---Must a little weep, Love, (Foolish me!) And so fall asleep, Love, Loved by thee.

Robert Browning

2007-01-22T16:35:00.000-05:00

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air; it is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of "I am afraid," we say, "I don't want to," or "I don't know how," or "I can't."

Andrea Dworkin

2007-01-16T19:12:00.000-05:00

“Hope is the dream of a soul awake.”

Welcome Baby M!

2006-12-14T09:22:00.000-05:00

Hey Camera man!

2006-12-14T09:19:00.000-05:00

"Don't think I'm as easy as that other kid!"

Dr.? Lawyer? What's the difference?

2006-12-14T09:10:00.000-05:00

Dressing for delivery, Mr. Cribs ego gets out of hand...

And another favorites birthday...

2006-12-10T16:41:00.000-05:00

I dwell in possibility...

Emily Dickinson

Would you like to touch my monkey?

2006-12-05T15:13:00.000-05:00

why do I get the feeling he's not happy I'm there?

Rilke's B-Day

2006-12-04T20:36:00.000-05:00

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Rilke

2006-11-16T20:27:00.000-05:00

“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”
Fulton Oursler

2006-11-10T13:03:00.000-05:00

Autumn River Song

The moon shimmers in green water.

White herons fly through the moonlight.

The young man hears a girl gathering water-chestnuts:

into the night, singing, they paddle home together.

Li T'ai-po

2006-11-01T20:28:00.000-05:00

I Would Live in Your Love

I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea, Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes;
I would empty my soul of the dreams that have gathered in me,
I would beat with your heart as it beats, I would follow your soul as it leads.

Sarah Teasdale

Spooky

2006-11-01T14:20:00.000-05:00

Something Wicked This Way Comes...

2006-11-01T14:19:00.000-05:00

2006-10-19T07:31:00.000-05:00

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo

2006-10-10T12:33:00.000-05:00

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”