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On Parents.

I am of my mother, in my worries, melodramatic reactions & strong headedness. I am my father’s daughter in my lack of will and my unibrow. I give like my mother, I smile like my father. I hug freely and love unabashedly because my father never held himself back in his affection. I am clean of heart because that’s my mother.   My father, the gentleman. My mother the eager learner. Left of brain, right-brained, thoughts, ticks, conscience, conscious. My wit, sarcasm, insecurities, my balance and my being. I am from my parents. I AM them. The terribly wonderful realisation.

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Sole to Soul

Breathless, out of focus, One step, the other. Forward and onward. I breathe.

Dawn breaks, I struggle, Sweat beads and salt patches, The lead that becomes my feet, I breathe.

Existential angst, tasks undone, Meandering mindfulness, Curves and puddles, I breathe.

Rhythms and patterns, Surreal merging into the orange horizon, Sights, smells, sounds unheard, I breathe.

Focus, clarity, thoughts of you. Out of body, out of breath. Life, death, music and other realities.  I smile, I breathe. On repeat. 

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WILD GEESE by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

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Soul food musings.

The National is a band, I recently discovered, and like many other times, I want to kick myself for discovering them so late, a whole 14 years after they came into being. 

But like most things in life, this, now, makes a lot of sense, and I may not have appreciated this music, had I been introduced to it at any other time. 

I am obsessive about music, it helps me think things through, feel things, make decisions. That makes me extremely grateful for talent such as this band, for giving me a means of expression, and a reason worthy enough to make the effort to write on the blog before hitting the bed.

Promise to self: Will watch The National, live before my 35th birthday. :)

Probably, wrong place to have this below mentioned link here, however, this made me smile, this hateful rant about the band. Enjoyable read nonetheless, even though I hate him for hating them. And for using big words, and finding meaning and critically analyzing what Is just 'nice to hear' music. It is probably for the best, that I don't mentally masturbate on things, and dig into the 'semiotics', the whys and the wherefores of good* music and lyrics. 

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2013/05/the_national_s_trouble_will_find_me_reviewed_too_many_crescendos.2.html

*good= not generalizing, but what I FEEL is good. Don't shoot me for it! :P

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That feeling when you want to think, you want to wonder, you want to feel bad, but then you also want to pick up the pieces, and feel the itch. To do something. Anything. To do more. To do better. To dream and to simply do. THAT.

http://mashable.com/2014/03/31/raul-oaida-inventing-inspiration/

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This is a blindingly ordinary piece of work

There is something giddily exciting about discovering gems across the internet that reek of brilliance like the linked video, and that which make you stumble, in turn, upon a treasure trove of more brilliance and wit. Read McSweeney's, and be inspired to write, or not. Whatever rocks your boat. :D 

H/T:

<http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/everything-you-hate-about-advertising-one-fake-video-thats-almost-too-real-156525

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It's how we live, it's simple as that

To have the will to live, and the spirit to match that,

To strive for quality, in life and living.

That's all we need.