Love after Love
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
-Derek Walcott
Excuse me while I kiss the sky. -Jimi Hendrix
Make the process of sewing a pleasure for yourself, so that you hum and smile to yourself as you sew. --Nancy Zieman, The Busy Woman's Sewing Book
The death-bed of a day, how beautiful! -Philip James Bailey
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. -Heraclitus
Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. -Lillie Langtry
For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. -Bible, Isaiah 55:12
Love is... getting on the floor and drawing with your little one. -Me
Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold. -Olney
Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.
-William Butler Yeats
