Posted in Life, Prose, Ramblings, Random, Writing, tagged Blind, Broken, Call, Conveyance, Crippled, Cry, Darkness, Dazed, Deaf, Disappear, Essence, Everywhere, Fade, Feel, Grasp, Groping, Hand, Heart, Life, Linger, Lost, Meaning, Mind, Music, Never, Power, Read, Scattered, Shattered, Sight, soul, Staggering, Stumbling, Sword, Thought, Trembled, Understand, Voice, Weaving, Wind, words, World, Write, Writing on May 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograph by pl9300
…and if I could not read or write I would be crippled
the soul of words…
if this sight could not recognize the little shapes I saw before me…
if this heart could not feel their essence as I felt the world around me…
if this mind could not understand their meaning, grasp it’s power…
if this hand trembled at [...]
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Posted in Death, Life, Mankind, Photography, Prose, Ramblings, Random, fate, tagged Life, fate, Age, Power, Burden, Fear, Question, reality, Death, empty, Writing, Blank, Path, Book, seeking, Weak, Helpless, Weaving, Cradle, Spindle, Thread, Ordained, Eternal, Spun, Promised, Strong, Powerful, Escape, Height, Distance, Conquer, Relief, Possessed, Spell, Fantasy, Dwell, Road, Journey, Vacant, Leafs, Written, Pages, Void, Write on April 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Photograph by pchweat
Are you not weak against it’s power? Helpless and trembling.
Weaving in and out spinning the cradle of life in its spindle. A thread that has been made and designed - ordained. Can you feel the turning, the wheel creaking with the weight, rusty from eternal age. No matter it’s burden it has kept [...]
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Posted in Life, tagged Bloom, Fiction, flickr, Friend Concept, Hemingway, intimate, Life, Meme, Memoir, Photography, Power, Progressing, Represent, Revealing, Searching, seeking, Six, Summarize, Tagged, Task, wither, words, Writer on March 13, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Photograph by ~priyak~
I’ve been tagged by my good friend, Baekho to write a six-word memoir. This concept apparently came about due to Hemingway who summarized his own life in the following six words:
For Sale: Baby Shoes, never worn.
Personally, I’m not all too familiar with Hemingway and was at first confounded by his choice of words. Actually, [...]
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Posted in Life, Photography, Ramblings, Random, tagged guide, Disease, Life, soul, time, Day, Home, Power, Willpower, Strength, Faith, bitter, memory, World, Beliefs, Emotions, Test, Light, Ailment, Illness, Terminal, Break, Perspective, Living, Moment, Blessing, Mortality, Bold, Enlighten, Immortality, Cheated, Angry, Vitality, Breath, Shrine, Sacred, Faithful, Souls, Guiding Light, Chaos, Body, Rationality, Reason, Person, Eyes, See, Hearts, Hearth, Depth, Seen, Felt, Endurance, Care, Salvage, Save on January 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Photograph by .tintin.
Ailments of the body are an odd thing, not in their occurrence but rather in their affect on us and our responses to them. Terminal illnesses in particular seem to have the power to make or break us. Our willpower, our perspectives, and the importance we place on life can be sourly tested [...]
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Posted in Life, Quotations, tagged flickr, guide, Life, Martin Luther King Jr, Men, Misquided, photograph, Power, Quotation, Quotations, quote, Scientific, Spiritual on December 16, 2007 | No Comments »
Photograph by ~Panache
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968 )
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"A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings" by Coleman Barks
"O wave! Plunge headlong into the dark seas,
And change thyself with many a twist and turn;
Thou wast not born for tile solace of the shore;
Arise, untamed, and find a path for thyself."
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal
