american indian prayer


O' Great Spirit:

Let me always remember,

how soft and damp the grass feels beneath my feet.

Let me greet with respect the elder when we meet.

Let me see you in the things I find wrong.

Let me hear you in the chant of the warrior's song.

Let my touch be gentle when I strike out.

Let my voice be a whisper when I really want to shout.

Let me step lightly when the going is tough.

Let me ride the waves when the water is rough.

Let me remember you are always there.

Then, Great Spirit, I will not despair.



Alberta Marie Gurno Downwind

Hi ((((Artgurl))))

To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell


Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Should'st rubies find: I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood:
And you should if you please refuse
Until the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze.
Two hundred to adore each breast:
But thirty thousand to the rest.
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For Lady you deserve this state,
Now would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Time's wingéd chariot hurrying near:
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast Eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found
Nor in thy marble vault shall sound
My echoing song: then worms shall try
that long preserved virginity:
And your quaint honour turn to dust
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place
But none I think do there embrace.

Now, therefore, while the youthful hew
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chap pow'r.
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball:
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Through the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Awesome ... thank you all for your contributions...

Each note adds to the symphony and I love the music!











Hi Noden!!!! Great to see you

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. SENECA

Life is a Gift,,,One must remember,,, tomorrow
is not promised to us,,, Live life knowing today
may be the day you truely will make a difference
in someone's life,,, Pay it forward,, Kindness
goes along way

Me

so true (((LaMom)))

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. J. Krishnamurti

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. Henry David Thoreau

What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now

Buddha

"But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise. Of these, I mention two only.

A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or, indeed, by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations.

Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual --is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central, it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system – ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.

Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow."

Dwight D. Eisenhower
excerpt from Farewell Address

********** Confucious Says
He who throw dirt is losing ground.

Writer's Quote of the Day

"It is better to write for yourself and have no public than it is to write for the public and have no self" - Cyril Connolly

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Needing a moment to breathe,, Yessssssssssssssssssssss here is the Calm in all the Craziness of Life

Tu viens de louper une bonne occasion de te taire.

(french colloquialism)

You’ve just passed up a golden opportunity to say nothing.

i think this is my favorite so far, Thank you ArtGurl! I haven't seen you and your boyfriend around i thought you both left. Good to see you too, hope life is treating you both well

Wow thank you i never read that before, he was a great man

AMEN

Oh, you lil angel you, come 'ere and get a Wizzie squeeze!!