what the day brings…

Do rainy days make you sleepy?  Thoughtful?  Or long to be wrapped in the arms of the one you love?  Me too.  Sigh

Today in my endless search for quotes to inspire me, I’ve come across some real gems. They are sourced from many places, too many to mention but I’m a fan of the endless wordsmiths that share their hearts in cyberspace. It makes me feel like I’m one of the cool kids. Anyhoo, enjoy!

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The very impulse to write, I think, springs from an inner chaos crying for order, for meaning, and that meaning must be discovered in the process of writing or the work lies dead as it is finished. – Arthur Miller

Go ahead… eat that slice of chocolate cake, splash in those muddy puddles after a rainstorm, tell someone you love them, draw a picture with crayons like you’re still 6 years old and then give it to someone who is very important to you. Do something selfless everyday. Volunteer at a soup kitchen, go on a mission trip, fill up someone’s meter, take a homeless person to dinner, make a difference in the life of a child. Take a nap, go on vacation, do a cartwheel, make up your own recipe, dance like no one sees you, paint each nail a different color, take a bubble bath, laugh with your friends. Run a marathon, plant a garden, learn a new language, write a song, go on a picnic, relax in the sun, sing in your car out loud with the windows down, hug the unhugged, love the unloved and praise and thank God everyday. Live your life so that when you’re standing in front of heaven’s gate that chosen day, you’ll have no regrets, no sorrows and no disappointments. – unknown

One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. – James Baldwin

“Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you’ll never look at your life or your journey the same way again.  – Maria Shriver

If your presence doesn’t make an impact, your absence won’t make a difference – unknown

I would be elated if I could write half as eloquently as James Baldwin.

I’m not single, and I’m not taken. I’m simply on reserve for the one who deserves my heart. Cause they say good things take time. -

All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours. – james Baldwin

To be your best, most inspiring and most authentic self, you have the responsibility to do what you love every day and share it with the world. – unknown

Communication. It’s the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words and really start talking, the harder it becomes to know what to say. Or how to ask for what we really need. – Meredith Grey

Never stop being kind. Never. Never ever. I don’t care if someone is being or has been unkind to you, you do not have to stoop to their level. So often people become “mean people” in the first place because they’ve been treated so horribly their whole lives that they have no choice but to treat others that way. Start a revolution. Be kind to everyone, with absolutely no exceptions. Show people that there is kindness left in the world. Show people that they can do the same. Treat others the way you would like to be treated, regardless if that’s the way they’re treating you or not. Every single person deserves to be treated with the utmost kindness and respect. – People should smile more

Since it’s Valentine’s Day I guess it would be unpoetic (is that a word? LOL! ) not to offer something on the topic. So here goes…

OMGoodness Mister please stop!!!
Your verbal assault is causing complete havoc on my heart – but in the best way
This latest attack made me leave my desk and run for cover
I was shook – CODE 10! MAN DOWN!
*Note to self – order combat boots
MISTER!!!
PLEEEAAAASSSEEEEEE!!!!!
You’re killing me softly like Roberta on wax
Blue lights in the basement burning low
Can’t wait to slow dance with you
But until then
Mister!!!!!
C’mon!!!
Stoooopppppp!!!
(don’t stop)
Stoooopppppp!!!
(please don’t ever stop)
Sir…you’re slaying me in such a way
All my defenses are down – shot to the earth and made dust
Each wall I try to hide behind you blow to bits with your vocab
I taught you my language and now you’re fluent
Did you just speak in tongues? Like really?
Mister pleeeeeaaassseeee! I’m begging you!
Honestly I don’t know how much longer I can stand this before…
Keep this up and I’ll be forced to do what I never thought I could, what I never thought I would
love you