tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20526965244225551772024-03-13T14:07:04.524-04:00girlandlovelynotebookThe world in my eyes.Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04730320829480980880noreply@blogger.comBlogger316125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052696524422555177.post-44519840276665115512014-06-08T23:25:00.006-04:002014-06-08T23:28:58.933-04:00June things.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></span>
</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>A list of June things </b></span></span></span><br />
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<br />Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04730320829480980880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052696524422555177.post-63315336052610216862014-06-08T21:41:00.004-04:002014-06-08T21:45:12.147-04:00I promise they'll be wondrous.<div style="text-align: center;">
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Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04730320829480980880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052696524422555177.post-65002370316501195472014-06-08T21:30:00.000-04:002014-06-08T21:30:02.737-04:00A time machine.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">As time treads on, we may think memories become muddled and vague, slowly disappearing with each year. This isn't the case.The body remembers.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">When you revisit a place it has a way of pulling the past up from the depths of your bones and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">flooding your bloodstream with old familiar feelings, only this time they're more concentrated, more potent, more clear. Like a time machine. A time machine of remembrance and longing; longing to hold on, longing to go back, longing to never forget again.<br /><br />But nothing is ever truly forgotten, just stored inside us like a series of faded snapshots, simply waiting for recognition, rediscovery and sometimes permission to form the full picture.</span></span></span><br />
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Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04730320829480980880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052696524422555177.post-44194465297804439772014-05-25T09:08:00.001-04:002014-05-25T09:08:54.708-04:00Two heated hearts.<div style="text-align: center;">
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Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04730320829480980880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052696524422555177.post-67784325924005584552014-04-13T22:03:00.000-04:002014-04-13T22:03:18.915-04:00No less than everything.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Tonight, the sky sits silenced and suspended between calm and rage before the storm, awaiting the chance to release the pressure in order to change it's shape and form.</span></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">You sit and gaze at the face of a gently falling dusk, drenched in the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> sounds of fleeting birds and the last of the closing doors of those retreating into homes as we circle 'round the same old sun, as hot as the fire in your core, ready to rise into being by following the call that pulls you toward what you must finally become. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Embody yourself. You are fully supported by no less than everything. And everything is waiting for you.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">We are sitting in the country somewhere. Watermelon and warm grass. Rolling fields under the bluest of skies, stretched out for miles, as wide as they are high. We catch the slightest scent of smoke- perhaps a grill or bonfire from faraway</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">or maybe our space itself, between the sun, the heat, and the spark between you and I, filled with serenity, and ground, and wild grinning eyes.<br /><br />I'm often held and rocked in the space of fire and spring, and us in the countryside.<br /><br />Remember the spaces. The spaces are what count. Always the spaces. Not the answers. Not the destinations. Not the passage of time. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I'd like to meet you in a place neither of us has been, </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">with sunlight and white buildings </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">and blue seas and golden hills. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I'd like to hike and stretch and swim</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">and find music so good it melts </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">our shoulders and ears and eyes. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I'd like to share vibrant food </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">and care for you</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">be calm with you,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">learn your rhythms,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I'd like to know you,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I meant to tell you </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">the moon is still silver.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">It still rises same as it used to rise,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">shedding light onto cities and lands</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">softened by the coming of night.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I meant to tell you that I still gaze up,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">same as when you were here,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />and that in the stillest of hours<br />while carrying a heart </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">as wide as the sea,<br />if I soak in that moon, </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">it may bring some relief.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I meant to tell you that</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I still taste your song in me. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It comes in waves </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">under silent skies,</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">It threatens my sanity. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">How you came and you went </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">long before I could tell you</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I didn't want you </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">to leave.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">But you did.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">And the moon is still silver.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">So here I stand </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">left with echos</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">of us </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">And those nights</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">To catch them as they flee,</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">to tie them 'round my wrists,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">to be bound by a thousand reveries. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">To ride out longings until they're gone</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">rather than left behind, and aching.</span></span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Hey now, letters burning by my bed for you<br style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Hey now, I can feel my instincts here for you, hey now<br style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />By my bed for you, hey now, hey now"</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Everyday poetry: the collision of breath and winter, the pause between daylight and dusk, the breakthrough in the body, the sweet spot in the song, the photos in the attic, the rediscovery of a note, the strokes of paint on canvas, the silence in the nights, and the space after letting go.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">When you reach your edge, soften. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Soften until you slip through the constraints and can create </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">a new rhythm, a new route, a new release. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Water is soft, yet powerful. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Soulmates aren't the people </span></span></div>
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Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04730320829480980880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052696524422555177.post-40297610812639946052014-01-24T18:15:00.001-05:002014-01-24T18:16:00.248-05:00Content to be consumed.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Let's not travel to tick things off lists</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">or collect half hearted semi treasures</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">to be placed in dusty drawers in empty rooms.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Rather, we'll travel to find grounds and rooftops</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">and tiny hidden parks,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">where we'll sit and dismiss the passin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">g time,<br />spun in the city's web 'til we've surrendered,<br />content to be spent and consumed.<br />I need to feel a place while I'm in it.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">When connections are real, they simply never die. They can be buried, or ignored or walked away from, but never broken. If you've deeply resonated with another person or place, the connection remains despite any distance, time, situation, lack of presence, or circumstance. If you're doubtful then just try it- go and revisit a person or place and see if there's any sense at all of the space between now and then.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">If it was truly real, you'll be instantly swept back into the moment it was before it left- during the same year and place with the same wonder and hope, comfort and heartbeat. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Real connections live on forever.</span></span><br />
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