best amigo cookies *

my pace of life//

is fast. and furious. please keep up! or stay behind /and out of my blind spot. i will let you ride until you know the way/ then it's up to you. next to you i'll stay /if you wish. if you don't -keep up- then we will not sing in harmony. if you can't keep up! let's try walking for awhile. smile. smile. let's try walking for awhile. // my pace of life is lightening-like. a rod of bright. inflicting fear, full of might. uncontainable yet dependent on a force: thunder. be my thunder? step forward if you're brave. i believe in you. THUNDER! clap loudly once. you keep up. you precede the shock of my bolt. roar again /i am ready too. for you. me. you. me. we* we continue to sing. singing, we sing - our pace quickening. we together; you and me. our essences together sing! clap+flash, roar+zing. our pace deafening--our pace of life threatening--our pace of life is mind-blowing./

12/9/2010

“There must always be remaining in everyone’s life some place for the singing of angels.” –Howard Thurman.

the pages in my journal are frozen, scribble easy now // ill show you how.

pumpkin seeds and mini masterpieces

"the sturdy oak" ---

http://www.youtube.com/user/LauraCathCecily

"Seduced by the luck of butterflies//How they glimmer how they shimmer//Those butterflies" Lemonade by Cocorosie

//So glide away on soapy heels//And promise not to promise anymore//And if you come around again//Then I will take the chain from off the door

the chain//
ingrid michaelson//

whisps of roses dance on the petals of air...

""" In a dream I was a werewolf My soul was filled with crystal light Lavender ribbons of rain sang Ridding my heart of mortal fight """

---Cocorosie, "Werewolf"

"...and She’ll say, yeah, Well I feel, oh pretty happy too, And I’m always pretty happy when I’m just kicking back with you."

Noah and the Whale - 5 Years Time - - - - -

Oh well,
In 5 years’ time we could be walking around a zoo
With the sun shining down over me and you
and there’ll be love in the bodies of the elephants too
and I’ll put my hands over your eyes, but you’ll peek through.

And there’ll be,
Sun Sun Sun,
All over our bodies,
and Sun Sun Sun,
All down our necks,
and there’ll be,
Sun Sun Sun,
All over our faces,
and Sun Sun Sun.

So what the heck,
Cuz’ I’ll be laughing at all your silly little jokes,
And we’ll be laughing about how we used to smoke.
All those stupid little cigarettes and drink stupid wine,
Cuz’ it was what we needed to have a good time.

And it was,
Fun Fun Fun
When we were drinking
It was,
Fun Fun Fun
When we were drunk
And it was,
Fun Fun Fun
When we were laughing,
It was,
Fun Fun Fun,
Oh it was fun.

Oh well I look at you and say it’s the happiest that I’ve ever been
and I’ll say I no longer feel I have to be James Dean,
and She’ll say,
yeah, Well I feel, oh pretty happy too,
And I’m always pretty happy when I’m just kicking back with you.

and it will
Love Love Love
All through our bodies
Love Love Love
All through our minds
and it’d be
Love love Love
All over her face
and Love Love Love
All over mine.

And though a million of these moments are just in my head
I’ll be thinking about families an’ lying in bed
And ya know that I believe it might not even come true
But in my mind I’m having a pretty good time with you.

Oh, Five years time
I might not know you,
In Five Years Time
We might not speak at all and
In Five Years Time
We might not get along
In Five Years Time
You might just prove me wrong.

Oh there’ll be,
Love Love Love
Wherever you go, There’ll be
Love Love Love
Wherever you go, There’ll be
Love Love Love
Wherever you go, There’ll be
Love Love Love
Wherever you go, There’ll be
Love Love Love
Wherever you go, There’ll be
Love Love Love
Wherever you go, There’ll be
Love Love Love
Wherever you go, There’ll be
Love Love Love
Wherever you go, There’ll be
Love.

Don't let your mind get weary and confused Your will be still, don't try Don't let your heart get heavy child Inside you there's a strength that lies

Don't let your soul get lonely child
It's only time, it will go by
Don't look for love in faces, places
It's in you, that's where you'll find kindness

Be here now, here now
Be here now, here now

Don't lose your faith in me
And I will try not to lose faith in you
Don't put your trust in walls
'Cause walls will only crush you when they fall

Be here now, here now
Be here now, here now

Ray LaMontagne

otoño

es mi favorita.

disfruta el cambio de los arboles y el huele del aire fresco.

besos.

chasing pavements

ive made up my mind, dont need to think it over
if im wrong i am right, dont need to look no further
this aint lust, i know this is love

but if i tell the world, ill never say enough
cause it was not said to you
and thats exactly what i need to do if im in love with you


--adele--

it's - all - about - the - LIGHTING - - - - - -

innocence

()()()()()()

i'm 6'5", 220 pounds and there are TWO OF ME!

-the social network

harvest moon

strand of hair

sliding cross my cheek

blue - ~~~ - ~~~ - ~~~ -

the
most
human
color

~regina spektor~

Lord

thank you for another day above ground

El Shaddai, El Shaddai, Erkamka na Adonai, I will praise and lift You high, El Shaddai.

---*---*---*---*---*---*---*---*---*---
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Though Your Word contained the plan,
They just could not understand
Your most awesome work was done
Through the frailty of Your Son.
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the tragedy is how you're gonna spend

the rest of your nights with the light on
so shine the light on all of your friends
when it all amounts to nothing in the end

jason mraz - the remedy

L I V E

what does a performer listen to on the way to her own performance...

---->><<----

you want me?
well come on and break the door down
you want me?

Talk Show Host ---->> Radiohead

ready

ready to feel the increase

ready
the increase near dizzying

love expands.

"Ciao Bella"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpouPeUw7GQ

my arms get cold

in february air
please dont lose hold of me out there

-lights-
"february air"

pretend!

pretend we are together
at least then our imaginations will be
never apart

"Rosie"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNdwngZO94

spain's hug

the kind of touch
that crumbles
the wall
i labor
to hold
together.

bee on flower. flower holding bee.

f o r g e t n o t

that the earth ---delights--- to feel your bare feet
and the wind *longs* to play with your hair

)(kahil gibrar)(

now we're connected - - -

working on us,
toward a love perfected!

madrid d d

feliz fin de semana!

don't worry about people stealing your ideas. if your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

"leaving expectations"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNvY5WrAVCk

it's not that life is perfect

it's that i -
in my selfishness,
in my sinfulness,
in my humanness
stop
expecting
it
to
be.

it ()will() never be.
it -can never- be.

"leaving expectations" july 10, 2010

"i don't care if we don't sleep at all tonight. let's just fix this whole thing now."

~john mayer

teach music to the child

and you give the SOUL a V*O*I*C*E

ROMA, ro-ma-ma!

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world

usually do.

"home is . . ."

http://www.youtube.com/user/LauraCathCecily#p/a/u/0/eJ01MAaewg8

the sky, they sky - same as it always was

water for elephants
by sara gruen

no matter what perfection you predicate of Him

you have to add that your concept is only a pale analogy of the perfection that is in God, and that He is not literally what you conceive by that term.

from New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton

aesthetically pleasing

IA from the air =

one of my most favorite things!

algunos días - * - - * - * - - * -

miercoles:

"how many are my foes, Lord! how many rise against me! how many say of me, 'God will not save that one.' but you, Lord, are a shield around me; my glory, you keep my head high." psalm 3: 2-4



jueves:

i only wish you could see what i see when i look at you.
you are amazing.
-kobi yamada


viernes:

maybe i know, somewhere
deep in my soul
that love never lasts
and we've got to find other ways
to make it alone
keep a straight face

and i've always lived like this
keeping a comfortable, distance
and up until now

i had sworn to myself that i'm
content with loneliness

because none of it was ever worth the risk

well, You, are, the only exception

*p*a*r*a*m*o*r*e*



sabado:

-make
--me
---a
----channel
-----of
------your
-------peace

prayer of saint francis



domingo:

flirting with disaster
pushing up on the wrong
placing faith in the bad
slinking round and round and round till your heads dizzy

april 30, 2010

"once upon a time --"

"when was that?"

"all time is at once. a long time ago and right now."

"both?"

"yes, always both."

"how can it be both?"

"do you want me to tell this story or not?"

"yeah..."


from The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger

you know the Wright boys designed planes - must have been a long time between trains

i'm waitin' at the station
i can choose my destination
i'm a free soul, i got no chains
but it's a long time between trains


SUSAN WERNER "time between trains"

we can travel to Spain where the rain falls...

While everybody else is getting out of bed
I’m usually getting in it
I’m not in it to win it
And there’s a thousand ways you can skin it
My feet have been on the floor
Flat like an idle singer
Remember winger
I digress

***I confess you are the best thing in my life***

But I’m afraid when I hear stories
About a --->>husband and wife<<---
There’s no happy endings
No Henry Lee

!!!But you are the greatest thing about me!!!


If it’s love
And we decide that it’s forever
No one else could do it better
If it’s love
And we’re two birds of a feather
Then the rest is just whenever
And if I’m addicted to loving you
And you’re addicted to my love too
We can be them two birds of a feather
That flock together
Love, love
Got to have something to keep us together
Love, Love
That’s enough for me


Took a loan on a house I own
Can’t be a queen bee without a bee throne
I wanna buy ya everything
Except cologne
’cause it’s poison

~.~.~We can travel to Spain where the rain falls~.~.~

Mainly on the plain side and sing
’cause it is we can laugh we can sing

Have ten kids and give them everything __!__!__!__

Hold our cell phones up in the air
And just be glad we made it here alive
On a spinning ball in the middle of space
I love you from your toes to your face


You can move in
I won’t ask where you’ve been
’cause everybody has a past
When we’re older
We’ll do it all over again
When everybody else is getting out of bed
I’m usually getting in it
I’m not in it to win it
I’m in it for you


If it’s love
And we’re two birds of a feather
Then the rest is just whenever
Then the rest is just whenever


If it’s love
And we decide that it’s forever
No one else could do it better
And if I’m addicted to loving you
And you’re addicted to my love too
We can be them two birds of a feather
That flock together
Love, love
Got to have something to keep us together
Love, love
Got to have something to keep us together
Love, love
That’s enough for me


Train: "If It's Love"

. . . f . . . a . . . i . . . t . . . h . . .

faith is not blind conformity to a prejudice - a "pre-judgement." it is a decision, a judgement that is fully and deliberately taken in the light of a truth that cannot be proven.

ireland.

you've gotta swim

you've gotta swim
swim for your life
swim for the music
that saves you
when you're not so sure you'll survive
you gotta swim
and swim when it hurts
the whole world is watching
you haven't come this far
to fall off the earth
the currents will pull you
away from your love
just keep your head above

i found a tidal wave
begging to tear down the dawn
memories like bullets
they fired at me from a gun
a crack in the armor
i swim to brighter days
despite the absence of sun
choking on salt water
i'm not giving in
i swim


jack's mannequin - "swim"

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be

and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

d - e - l - i - v - e - r me from ___pride___

which is the heaviest of burdens.

And posess my whole heart and soul

with the simplicity of

*love*





~new seeds of contemplation

dark blue dark blue

have you ever been alone in a crowded room

"dark blue" jack's mannequin

the sturdy oak

listens as i whisper to the ground
and the air collects the sound
of emotion pouring out of my soul

"the sturdy oak" july 2009

be anything but bland.

if you meet a loner

no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. it's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

my sister's keeper by jodi picoult

this earthly life is a battle

...if it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another...the sooner you make your mind up about that, the better off you are.

-Ma, "Little Town on the Prairie"

as long as we are on earth

the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another because this love is the resetting of a Body of broken bones.

we are born from the darkness

and poured into life

"after all...

to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. you know, the Stone was really not such a wonderful thing. as much money and life as you could want! the two things most human beings would choose above all -- the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."

-albus dumbledore

it's not hard for us to say what we should not

if just for tonight darling, let's get lost
if just for tonight darling, let's get lost


Beck and Bat For Lashes- - - - - >Let's Get Lost

who is the betrayer

who's the killer in the crowd
the one who creeps in corridors
and doesnt make a sound

my love has concrete feet
my love's an iron ball
wrapped around your ankles
over the waterfall

i'm so heavy, heavy
heavy in your arms
i'm so heavy, heavy
so heavy in your arms


"Heavy In Your Arms"
Florence + The Machine

but he is in heaven

i know that for a fact.

from 'remember' by eight-year-old me.

this burning that envelops me

i know not what it means...

am i cold and must stay close for warmth or



am i suffocating?

a word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it

sun hot as noon ~ ~ ~

~ ~ ~ in late july

be proud of your blessings.

how are you today?

blessed.

- - the hub - -

life is a *j*o*u*r*n*e*y*

not a destination.

sit with me.

ah, music

a magic beyond all we do here!

-albus dumbledore

one short day in the emerald city

the little yellow flowers

that nobody notices on the edge of that road are saints looking up into the face of God.

thomas merton.

amor.

found even amidst the remains of the berlin wall...

it's friday.

rejoice and be merry.

.

sometimes words get stuck on the way to my mouth

O beautiful for patriot dream

That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!

identity.

a tree gives glory to God by being a tree.

adorableness.

painted on the exterior of a building in munich, germany.

up . .

growing up requires a lot of deflation.

home again home again

jiggity jig.

www.hapulobo.blogspot.com

lift your voices

^high^

s - - h - - a - - d - - e:

distracts from the Son's light.

black light

goodness piercing through the darkness

hay que sacar el niño que llevas dentro.

l.o.v.e...

...does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward in the same direction

.saint exupery.

l i m i t l e s s forgiveness.

* * * * * *

try with all your might

- try again if necessary -

rosie.

soaring wings speed us home;
we pass in the space between heaven and earth.

silence: when the heart hears the most - - -

st. stephen the witness

+

you want a feeling? carry His cross.

* beauty grows from within *

university of northern iowa