Not Goodbye

For Paul

Thank you for allowing me to say goodbye,

But it isn’t.

I’ll miss knowing you’re on the planet,

But I’ll feel you on the evening breeze

And always hear you in my Heart.

Saying it out loud. 

Soul endures.

And eternity is eternal.

Energy is not destroyed, only and always transformed.

Here’s to your transformation! 

Teach me from the other side.

And know I will hold you close. 

I celebrate your Life and your New Beginning.

 

I will always celebrate You.

Light the Way for Love

LIGHT THE WAY FOR LOVE by Susan Frybort (from Open Passages: Doors and Windows to the Soul)

They say beauty comes from a spirit that has weathered many hardships in life and somehow continues with resilience. Grace can be found in a soul who ages softly, even amid the tempest.

I think the loveliest by far is the one whose gentle heart bears
a hundred scars from caring, yet still finds a way to pick up the lamp, one more time, to light the way for love.

 

Live! (And Run Away From Sensible Advice)

“You start dying slowly

if you do not travel,

if you do not read,

if you do not listen to the sounds of life,

if you do not appreciate yourself.

You start dying slowly when you kill your self-esteem,

when you do not let others help you.

You start dying slowly if you become a slave to your habits,

walking everyday on the same paths… if you do not change your routine.

If you do not wear different colors or you do not speak to those you don’t know.

You start dying slowly if you avoid to feel passion & its turbulent emotions, those that make your eyes glisten & your heart beat fast.

 

You start dying slowly if you do not change your life when you are not satisfied with your job, or with your love, or with your surroundings.  If you do not risk what is safe for the uncertain, if you do not go after a dream,

 

if you do not allow yourself,

at least once in your lifetime

to run away from sensible advice.”

-Pablo Neruda

The photos below speak to me of these themes of LIVING:

 

Fiery Kiss to the Night

“O setting sun! though the time has come, I still warble after you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.”

-Walt Whitman

 

“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”

-Jo Walton

“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.”

-Crystal Woods