Crossdiver.
August 2011
12 posts
“Look at the benefits good marriages bring to humanity… We are each other’s hand and ear and foot, because marriage doubles our energy, cheers our friends, and depresses our enemies. Sharing our troubles lessens the pain; joys put in common are sweeter; harmony makes riches more precious. And marriage is more precious than riches themselves. Marriage is the key to the control of the desires, it is the seal of an unshakeable friendship, it is a drink from a hidden spring - strangers cannot taste it. It bubbles up yet cannot be drawn from outside. Those who are united in the flesh form one soul and purify their religion by their reciprocal love.”
—St. Gregory of Nazianzus
“Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.”
—Sir Winston Churchill
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else.”
—Sir Winston Churchill
Questions for Coffee Cups
You inspire in me a curiosity of adventure,
How you lifted your long, red hair
And smelled it by the cafe window, the inked handwriting
On your yellow Converse sneakers
Which reads, I Love Life,
And your marble notebook full of mysterious writing.
Are you planning a roadtrip?
Romance novel recapturing Monte Cristo?
Or with your hands on your head
Do you imagine lives for folks crossing the library toward the post office?
I don’t know.
What do you imagine? Have your frequented airports
In Latin America or Seattle?
What does it say about a woman when she runs her hands
Through her hair in a cafe in Ellensburg? Do you read poetry?
Have you ever climbed a tree?
In your yellow shoes, Time stands still on a coastline
And whispers through a conch shell.
I wonder if you wander the hills and mountains. If you explore beaches,
Combing with your hair
The patterns of wind in the sand –
What is in your notebook? From one writer to another,
Within this realm of silence, you inspire me
To write and dream of yellow shoes.
~ Joseph Magnus Frangipani
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