Music
“Things! Burn them, burn them! Make a beautiful fire! More room in your heart for love, for the trees! For the birds who own nothing—the reason they can fly.”
― Mary Oliver
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes
“Like a bird on a wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free…”
Leonard Cohen
“Thou hast spoken right, ’tis true;
The wheel is come full circle: I am here.” — William Shakespeare
“How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”
― Matt Haig
“Sleeping Atlantis
Silent cool waters
dancing upon her skin ~
silent cool water
ushering dreams within…”
― Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale ❄
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay — Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses. — Charles Kingsley, Saint’s Tragedy
Maverick Mist 