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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

And so it did I went to bed at 7:00 a.m. Now could it please take me to sleeeeeeeeeeeeep.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Lord Byron:


Hmmm...I wonder. I was in so much pain yesterday I had no interest in existing anymore...but I had to hold out until Friday It's my favourite day!

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses;
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.

Ernest Dowson

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Lynda Barry

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
- David O. McKay

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. ~Stephen Vincent Bent

Happy Solstice

I have slept for ten thousand years.
Now I stretch and waken.
They are calling, calling me, and my heart leaps to greet them.
My forests my hair, the grasses my heavy eyelashes. They call me, and I waken.
My body bedecked with a million flowers,
And these many breasts of mine, the mountains joyfully rear their tips.
I long to suckle my...
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell

"The most powerful position is on your knees."

As I watched the break of dawn it gave me chills - and I was not cold. The sky promised a new beginning and it gave me hope.
Magsy