“Sometimes you’re the windshield; and sometimes you’re the bug.”
-Mark Knopfler
Jun 132011
“You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.”
-Oprah Winfrey
“Be yourself, everyone else is taken.”
-Oscar Wilde
Are they not one in the same? Their unconditional love makes them are our most loyal friends.
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice –
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles. Continue reading »
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.”
- Mary Oliver
“A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.”
-Mahatma Ghandi
“The road to success is always under construction.”
-Lily Tomlin
Jun 042011
Life is filled with unpublished books. Every person has a story. Some courageously put theirs to verse; others tuck theirs away, sharing them with a select few when the precious moment is ripe.
Sitting at Starbucks, sipping on your coffee, focused on writing the written word, a complete stranger drops her bod in the seat next to you, breaking your trend of thought. You raise your cup, whiff the java’s bold aroma, trying to resurrect your fleeting ideas. But the whimpers and body language coming from the person next to you, shifts your focus. Filled with compassion you reach out, gently touching her knee, asking, “Are you ok?”
Broken words begin to sputter, and her quick introduction gives you a glimpse into her life. She continues, painting a picture of the vivid characters playing an active role in her saga. Some seem realistic, others believable, others not, yet you listen. Without taking a breath, her life chapters begin to unfold, and events start rolling in. A connection is made. Continue reading »