the hand of God

"destiny waits in the hand of God,

shaping the still unshapen…"

-t.s. eliot

a push

"sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history.

give fate a push, so to speak."

- sarah dessen

leap of faith

"sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith"

- margaret shepard

i wish i was the moon

"chimney falls and lovers blaze

thought that i was young

now i've freezing hands and bloodless veins

as numb as i've become

i'm so tired

i wish i was the moon tonight

last night i dreamt i had forgotten my name

'cause i had sold my soul but awoke just the same

i'm so lonely

i wish i was the moon tonight"

-from "i wish i was the moon" by neko case

learn love

"no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.  people must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

- nelson mandela

when women were birds

"once upon a time, when women were birds, there was a simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy.  the birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated."

- terry tempest williams

defiance

"i have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness."

- vladimir nabokov

i will meet you there

"out beyond ideas of wrong and right, there is a field.

i will meet you there."

- rumi

dreaming of angels

"and everyday

i'm learning about you

the things that no one else sees

and the end comes too soon

like dreaming of angels

and leaving without them…"

- from "angels" by the xx

fly away

"i'm so tired of feeling so down

well i'm so tired of feeling so down

i just want to fly away

i just want to fly away, away, away

away, away.

will we always be controlled by these demons?

we just wanna fly away…"

- from "fly away" by hurray for the riff raff

little girl blue

"…ah my unhappy, my unlucky

and my little, oh, girl blue.

i know you're unhappy,

ooh ah, honey i know,

baby i know just how you feel."

stuck

"if we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there…"

- anne lamott