A beautiful song, and a beautiful poem to match. The words are different, but the essence the same.
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment. -Rabindranath Tagore-
"Lisey turned on the radio, and wasn't a bit surprised to get ole Hank singing "Honky Tonkin." She sang along, low. She knew every word. This did not surprise her, either. Some things you never forgot. She had come to believe that the very things the practical world dismissed as ephemera - things like songs and moonlight and kisses - were sometimes the things that lasted the longest. They might be foolish, but they defied forgetting. And that was good. That was good."
"Coraline sighed. 'Please. What's your name?' Coraline asked the cat, 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' The cat yawned slowly, carefully, revealing a mouth and tongue of astounding pinkness. 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said Coraline. 'No,' said the cat. 'Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.'
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'Well, what if I wanted to call you?' The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats,' it confided, 'tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.' "
Something I read on the cover of a female magazine today.
"Multi-tasking, time-saving tips for your staycation!"
Is this the end of spending one whole day doing nothing more productive than trimming split ends then? Do I now have to restyle my hair, dye it, straighten my teeth, give myself a manicure + pedicure and oh maybe find the cure for AIDS all before lunchtime?
