Amusing Muse's Musings: September 2011

Saturday, September 24, 2011

excellent Quote Dedicated to my children

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."~By Barbara Watson-Eastep Apache

Friday, September 23, 2011

To celebrate the first day of autumn:

In Blackwater Woods
by Mary Oliver

Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars

of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,

the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders

of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is

nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned

in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side

is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.

--

Mary Oliver. American Primitive. Boston: Back Bay Books, 1983.

Monday, September 19, 2011

quote

"Teach and Live the legacy you wish to be humbled by tomorrow...maybe we might have a chance to see our inspiration unfold into unimaginable beauty...we just like our children are WORTHY of that love!!!...wishes are only a lovely untouched choice of intention...!" - Shana Greathouse

quote

"Never forget that you're one of a kind. Never forget that if the weren't any needs for you in all your uniqueness to be on the earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that mater in the world come about. So be that one person."~Votre Ame ~

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“‘There are two kinds of people,’ she once decreed to me emphatically. ‘One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more surprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing…They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new trysts with life, and the motion of it keeps them young. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive. You must be constantly on your guard, Justin, against congealing.’”
Gail Godwin, The Finishing School