In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take, relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.
_anonymous_

Lupe.Fiasco. Streets. On. Fire.


this barrage of .......talented men...that I've been sharing on these few days.....is a lead up to something...

when i get there..I hope I can share....

I had Dwele on constant play this weekeend. Renaissance Men.

This kinda love has to exist somewhere right? cause they sing about it.!! Teddy's sexxyyy....lol. I think my mother colored my perception of Sexy men. This was the era of men that my mom and aunts would be gushing over. I may not have known exactly what there were talking about then....but it stuck. Chocolate man, goatee, bright smile... AUTOMATIC CRUSH!
hahah Worse if he's talented. Teddy was alll those things. I feel like that lady in the audience who does that little Happy DANCE.
Renaissance men ROCK!

Street Lights - Kanye

I love this song.
I love it because its the same lyrics over and over and over.
I've been there.
A train of thought ..that remains the same..but through the nuance of emphasis..and intent..and delivery - the CONTENT can change.
I'm a Kanye Stan.
I think I am cause i can relate to the tortured artist aspect. An overfilled brain...spewing content to avoid exploding. Lyrics after the jump

let me know, do i still got time to grow
things aint always set in stone
with that being, let me know
let me

seems like
streetlights
glowing
happened to be
just like moments
passing,
in front of me

so i hopped in,
the cab and
i paid my fare, see
i know my, destination
but im just not there

all seems like
streetlights
glowing
happened to be
just like moments
passing,
in front of me

so i hopped in,
the cab and
i paid my fare, see
i know my, destination
but im just not there

seems like
streetlights
glowing
happened to be
just like moments
passing,
in front of me

so i hopped in,
the cab and
i paid my fare, see
i know my, destination
but im just not there

life's just not fair

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is of little love.

~ Erich Fromm

"I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously hating somebody I wasn't." -Marilyn Monroe

After a While

After a while you learn
The subtle difference between
Holding a hand and chaining a soul
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And company doesn't always mean security.

And you begin to learn
That kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes ahead
With the grace of a woman
Not the grief of a child

And you learn
To build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow's ground is
Too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way
Of falling down in mid flight

After a while you learn
That even sunshine burns if you get too much
So you plant your own garden
And decorate your own soul
Instead of waiting
For someone to bring you flowers

And you learn
That you really can endure
That you are really strong
And you really do have worth
And you learn and you learn
With every good bye you learn.

Veronica A. Shoffstall

Courage is fear that has said its prayers & decided to go forward anyway: Joyce Meyer

In my sky at twilight you are like a cloud
and your form and colour are the way I love them.
You are mine, mine, woman with sweet lips
and in your life my infinite dreams live.

The lamp of my soul dyes your feet,
the sour wine is sweeter on your lips,
oh reaper of my evening song,
how solitary dreams believe you to be mine!

You are mine, mine, I go shouting it to the afternoon's
wind, and the wind hauls on my widowed voice.
Huntress of the depth of my eyes, your plunder
stills your nocturnal regard as though it were water.

You are taken in the net of my music, my love,
and my nets of music are wide as the sky.
My soul is born on the shore of your eyes of mourning.
In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begin.

Pablo Neruda

“There’s always something to suggest that you’ll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.”

Phylicia Rashad

“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder…”– Thoreau

The Noisettes are in charge of my life this month. Constant repeat!!
Their Lead singer is a chocolate sister [yay!], a bass player and writer for the band. Her style is ecclectic and amazing. I love them.

Each song on their album "Wild Young Hearts" resonates with me. Its music I would share. The imagery is so amazing...and the melody completely captures the melancholy of the lyrics. This Is Poetry..floating on a melody. I'm Inspired. I love it.

Press play to listen....

"and that's why i have to go back
to so many places
there to find myself
and constantly examine myself
with no witness but the moon
and then whistle with joy,
ambling over rocks and clods of earth,
with no task but to live,
with no family but the road."
— Pablo Neruda

someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is... Amid his shadows, he builds a new world with words... To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy."

-- Orhan Pamuk's 2006 Nobel Lecture: My Father's Suitcase

Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.

Jean Luc Picard
Best CAPTAIN EVER!! [well after Kirk..Jane Way SUCKS]
"Star Trek: Generations"



yeah im a Trekkie...
and yes i know its a Fictional character and his name is Really Patrick Stewart.. and no I dont go to the conventions....but i'd like to ..at lease once..

AND WHAT????

haha=]

The Queen
by Neruda

I have named you queen.
There are taller ones than you, taller.
There are purer ones than you, purer.
There are lovelier ones than you, lovelier.

But you are the queen.

When you go through the streets
no one recognizes you.
No one sees your crystal crown , no one looks
at the carpet of red gold
that you tread as you pass,
the nonexistant carpet.

And when you appear
all the rivers sound
in my body, bells
shake the sky,
and a hymn fills the world.

Only you and I,
only you and I, my love,
listen to it.

Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it, because action has magic, grace and power in it -
Goethe

The power behind the machine is far greater than the machine itself.