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| John Lennon was taken from us 30 years ago this week, December 8th 1980. The world is a poorer place... robbed yet again. On Life and LOVE... |
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'What is it? My dear?' 'Ah, how can we bear it?' 'Bear what?' 'This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?' 'We can be quiet together, and pretend - since it is only the beginning - that we have all the time in the world.' 'And every day we shall have less. And then none.' 'Would you rather, therefore, have had nothing at all?' 'No. This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere.' A.S. Byatt, 'Possession' from 'The Time Traveller's Wife' by Audrey Niffenegger 'So... So you think you can tell... Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain, Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil Do you think you can tell... Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change... Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage... How I wish... How I wish you were here...' (Roger Waters, Dave Gilmour) for Grandad Bob Turpin and Nana Winnie Binns, for the soulmate I eventually found, whom I loved more than life itself, and then became lost... and of course... for Cookie. 'Dici che il fiume Trova la via al mare E come il fiume Giungerai a me Oltre i confini E le terre assetate Dici che come il fiume Come il fiume... L'amore giungerà L'amore... E non so più pregare E nell'amore non so più sperare E quell'amore non so più aspettare' (Bono, Brian Eno. Luciano Pavarotti RIP) |
____________________ 'Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield upon which your reason and your judgement wage war upon your passion and your appetite' Kahil Gibran from 'The Prophet' ____________________ 'Essentially, faith is an attitude of trust and commitment. The man of faith therefore, is the man who takes up such an attitude in the face of the world. The world as a whole is, finally, a mystery that cannot be grasped except in partial and fragmentary ways. But faith trusts beyond the partial and the fragmentary in order to place trust and commitment in the mystery itself.' author unknown ____________________ Smell The Flowers While You Can  American artist, David Wojnarowicz, captured this image depicting how Indians hunted buffalo by causing them to run off cliffs. He identifies ourselves with the buffalo, pushed into the unknown by forces we cannot control or even understand. ____________________ 'The Magic Exists' Stephen King ____________________ 'Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today' James Dean ____________________  'Elvis is not John Doe. It is certainly not a normal life, travelling and all that. But it is a nice abnormal life.' Linda Thomson People Magazine, 1975 ____________________ |