Category Archives: LIFE

FOLLY, LIFE, OLD YEAR, NEW YEAR - REFLECTIONS., REMORSE, STEP 8, STEP 9

After a foolish deed comes remorse. Kenya.

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A WASTED LIFE

A wasted life! This sad refrain

Comes surging through my ears again;

There’s no escape from thee, though fiend;

Thou art borne to me on every wind –

A wasted life! A wasted life!

By day or night, no peace for me;

Still, still before me I can see

The fragments of the dear dead past,

Which I (Oh! fool) from me have cast

A wasted life! A wasted life!

I’ve tried to drown in lethean drain

This ruthless voice; but all in vain;

It comes with ten-fold force again,

And brings remorse to swell and strain

A wasted life! A wasted life!

From out this deep dark Stygian sea,

While vainly struggling to be free,

I look above, and pray that I

No more may hear that awful cry

A wasted life! A wasted life!

MELINDA KENDALL.

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sites 2c – http://www.special-dictionary.com/proverbs/source/k/kenya_proverb/

foto – izzy foreal at moody foods urunga

ASSETS, CHANGE, DEFECTS, INVENTORY, LIFE, OLD YEAR, NEW YEAR - REFLECTIONS., STEP 10, STEP 4

Ellen Goodman We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives, not looking for flaws, but for potential.

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We love and burn
just for a year or so, then take those photos
and lose a precious ability and a sweetheart
and nothing seems the same, ever again.

JOHN TRANTER THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION

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sites 2c http://quotations.about.com/od/specialdays/a/newyear1.htm

Australia – Poetry International Web

fotos – retravision grafton dec 09 week before xmas

A WAY OF LIFE, ACCEPTANCE, ACTION, CHANGE, CHRISTMAS, COURAGE, DREAMING, GROWTH, HAPPINESS, JOY, CONTENTMENT, HOPE, LIFE, ONE DAY AT A TIME, POWER, PRAYER, REALITY, SERENITY, SUMMERTIME SECRETS, TODAY, VISION, WISDOM, YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can;and wisdom to know the difference.

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Sanskrit

Look to this day,

The very life of life,

In its brief course lies all

The realities and varieties of existence,

The bliss of growth,

The splendour of action,

The glory of power.

For yesterday is but a dream,

And tomorrow is only a vision.

But today well lived,

Makes every yesterday

A dream of happiness

And every tomorrow

A vision of hope.

Look well, therefore,

To this day.

foto – bilambil dec 2008

AGE AND YOUTH, LIFE, STEP 4, TRUTH, WISDOM

I might have done better had I been wise, but now old age prevents me.

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"An Old English Miscellany Containing a Bestiary, Kentish Sermons, Proverbs …"

JABIRUSP

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange – my youth.
Sara Teasdale

ty http://www.quotegarden.com/age.html

foto – jabiru from susan pomroy