~ we known they won’t win ~

There is freedom within, there is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There’s a battle ahead, many battles are lost
But you’ll never see the end of the road
While you’re traveling with me

Hey now, hey now, don’t dream it’s over
Hey now, hey now, when the world comes in
They come, they come to build a wall between us
We know they won’t win

Now I’m towing my car, there’s a hole in the roof
My possessions are causing me suspicion but there’s no proof
In the paper today tales of war and of waste
But you turn right over to the T.V. page

Hey now, hey now, don’t dream it’s over
Hey now, hey now, when the world comes in
They come, they come to build a wall between us
We know they won’t win

Now I’m walking again to the beat of a drum
And I’m counting the steps to the door of your heart
Only the shadows ahead barely clearing the roof
Get to know the feeling of liberation and relief

Hey now, hey now, don’t dream it’s over
Hey now, hey now, when the world comes in
They come, they come to build a wall between us
We know they won’t win

Don’t let them win
Hey now, hey now
Hey now
Hey now, hey now
Don’t let them win
Hey now, hey now
Don’t let them win
Hey now, hey now

Photographs by Ricky Flores
Lyrics from Don’t Dream It’s Over by Crowded House

take care of the luxuries

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch it, and it darts away.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe
because nobody looks for them.

Artwork by Diego Rivera
Quotes by Dorothy Parker

three sugars please ~

be with those that help your being

Be with those who help your being.
Don’t sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.

Not these visible forms, your work is deeper.

A chunk of dirt thrown in the air breaks to pieces.
If you don’t try to fly,
and so break yourself apart,
you will be broken open by death,
when it’s too late for all you could become.
—Rumi

i sit quietly like the earth

The very center of your Heart is where Life begins,
the most beautiful place on earth.
—Rumi

the space between us

The most alive moment comes when those
who love each other, meet each others eyes
and in what flows between them.
—Rumi

the secret jewel

only great minds can afford a simple style

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Photographs by Roberto Badin
Quotes by Stendhal

flowww ~

I borrow nothing.
I don’t want anything from anybody.
I flow through human beings.
Love is my only companion.
—Rumi

it was not my lips that you kissed, but my soul

I love you
and because I love you
I would sooner have you hate me
for telling the truth
than adore me
for telling you lies.
—Pietro Aretino

let me live, love and say it well in good sentences

And by the way, everything in life is writable about
if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
― Sylvia Plath

the entire universe is inside you

Lovers feel a truth that rational people keep denying.
—Rumi

what power has love but forgiveness

Life is valuable—when completed by the imagination. And then only.

Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through hell.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.

Quotes by William Carlos Williams

it is by art that we live, if we do

watch with glittering eyes the whole world

Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl