inspiration

a quote from one of my favorite reads.... which is sadly a fairly short list... i used to love to read....and they say the best writers are avid readers .... i was never one for spending time reading something that wasn't moving me. a simple story or historical recollection, fancy words or outdated english - unless i had some personal relation, was usually of very little interest to me. 


i have to say i can find a lot more interesting reads searching the internet for random blogs and THAT has inspired me more than anything else to put more time and effort into my own writing...


"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it." 

— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

props

to other blog posts. post props?! the damn p's!  but never when i play scrabble....


but i love this post. both the change of spelling and everything about it from there.


http://herollercoaster.blogspot.com/2010/09/hikoo.html


HYKOO
i want to be tree
rooted deep under the ground
leaves shaking with joy

move you

i think the thing i love most about songs/lyrics - is when i hear ONE line, and it really strikes me. and i go to read the lyrics (which is now an immediate instant gratification with my iPhone, unless i am driving of course) and the entire song is just so right on - to something i'm feeling or felt. and for some reason, the right combination of music and words can just MOVE you. 

an example. but i will let you decide what line moves you...maybe it moved me too. 

BEN LEE LYRICS

"Close I've Come"

I slipped into a house
To escape my enemies
And opened the door to another world

Of lovers and whores
But I loved you more
Than any of them and ever before

Look how close I've come
I'm far away

The universe is brought back
From the brink of destruction
Every time you smile

But I can see things clearer
It's all smoke and mirrors
Yeah you broke my fucking heart but I still want you

Look how close I've come
I'm far away

One can only guess
What would happen if
I got all my questions answered

Then we'd know for sure
Who's got the quickest draw
Who's laying dead and who's above the law

Look how close I've come
I'm far away 

overheard....

on bachelor pad this monday. which has honestly given me some of the best ones lately.... how i love trashy tv!

"i've never considered myself shallow!!! i don't even know what shallow means!"

a moment, a word

a moment, a love

a dream, a laugh

a kiss, a cry

our rights, our wrongs

i love this ...the simplicity in the words, and the power in the memory.....

The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition Lyrics video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN7HQrgakZU sweet disposition never too soon oh reckless abandon like no one's watching you a moment, a love a dream, a laugh a kiss, a cry our rights, our wrongs a moment, a love a dream, a laugh a moment, a love a dream, a laugh chorus just stay there cause i'll be comin over and while our bloods still young it's so young it runs and we won't stop til it's over won't stop to surrender songs of desperation I played them for you a moment, a love a dream, a laugh a kiss, a cry our rights, our wrongs a moment, a love a dream, a laugh a moment, a love a dream, a laugh chorus: just stay there cause i'll be comin over and while our bloods still young it's so young it runs and we won't stop til it's over won't stop to surrender a moment, a love a dream, a laugh a kiss, a cry our rights, our wrongs (won't stop til it's over) a moment, a love a dream, a laugh a kiss, a cry our rights, our wrongs(won't stop til it's over) a moment, a love a dream, a laugh a kiss, a cry our rights, our wrongs (won't stop til it's over) a moment, a love a dream, a laugh a moment, a love a moment, a love (won't stop to surrender)

word. redefined.

i have never been good at new years resolutions. 


"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out"... Italian proverb


so why not try in september?


in in attempt to update this more, to actually blog, to write, as i say i love to do, to use these words, i have realized i needed to be more practical, more personal, more persistent, and much much more flexible. is there a p word for that?


i have been known to send some friends a "quote of the day" (qotd) and lyrics (lotd) and i am always wishing i had a place to randomly quote things i overheard, whether on tv or in person or a story being told to me. but when a simple sentence or two has any profound affect - or provokes (p's!) an emotion - i really like that....


so with that simplicity - i redefine word. to be just that. 


to start the "new year" right...


QOTD:


"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." - Pope John XXIII

ignite

Main Entry: ig·nite 

Pronunciation: \ig-ˈnīt\

Function: verb

Inflected Form(s): ig·nit·ed; ig·nit·ing

Etymology: Latin ignitus, past participle of ignire to ignite, from ignis

Date: 1666

transitive verb1 : to subject to fire or intense heat; especially : to render luminous by heat
2 a : to set afire; also : kindle b : to cause (a fuel) to burn
3 a : to heat up : excite ignited the hatred of the people> b : to set in motion : spark intransitive verb1 : to catch fire
2 : to begin to glow

— ig·nit·abil·i·ty  \ig-ˌnī-tə-ˈbi-lə-tē\ noun

— ig·nit·able also ig·nit·ible  \-ˈnī-tə-bəl\ adjective

— ig·nit·er also ig·ni·tor  \-ˈnī-tər\ noun

QOTD: "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit"... Albert Schweitzer