Joe's Black Dog

Joe's Black Dog
Joe's Black Dog by Marjorie Weiss

13 July 2013

from 'A Conversation With A Chance Acquaintance' by Robert Rozhdestvensky

14MAY11: mist on Country Club Pond by tarboxje
14MAY11: mist on Country Club Pond, a photo by tarboxje on Flickr.


'Look, 
             how the night is breathing
A star
             tired of glimmerng
                                                    has fallen
                                          and has burned your shoulder ...' 

'What?'

'Look,
             how ingratiatingly the mist
                                                    is clinging
                                           to young water ...'

'Where?' 
 
https://sites.bu.edu/russian-poetry/biography-robert-rozhdestvensky/
                           

02 July 2013

honesty, forgiveness

honesty, forgiveness by davidg
honesty, forgiveness, a photo by davidg on Flickr.

from James Buchan, author of Frozen Desire

'... it is told of Nelson Mandela ... after much persecution, and when he was finally freed from prison ... he said to himself that he had to forgive all those who had wronged him by the time he reached the prison gates or he would never be free of them.'



from Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

'The past buries the past and must end in silence, but it can be a conscious silence that rests open-eyed. Perhaps this is the final forgiveness ...'

22 June 2013

The Power of Vulnerability



'Vulnerability is about courage.'
 
'Uncertainty, exposure and emotional risks ... are part of our daily experience.'

'Our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.'