Shadows -Las Sombras

Cuando tu te hayas ido mi amor,

me envolveran las sombras,

cuando tu te hayas ido,

con mi dolor a solas,

Evocare este idilio
de las azules horas...

Cuando tu te hayas ido amor
me envolveran las sombras.

Y en la penunbra vagade
la pequeña alcobadonde
una tibia tardete acariciaba toda.
Te buscaran mis manos
te buscara mi boca...
y aspirare en el aire
como un olor a rosas...

Cuando tu te hayas ido mi amor
me envolveran las sombras.

Cuando tu te hayas ido

mi verso se hara prosa,
cuando llegue el olvido
marchitaran las rosas.
No besare tus manos,
ni besare tu boca.

Cuando tu te hayas ido
mi verso se hara prosa.
Y en la penunbra vagade
la pequeña alcobadonde
una tibia tardete acariciaba toda...
te buscaran mis manos
te buscara mi boca
y aspirare en el aire
como un olor a rosas...

Cuando tu te hayas ido
me envolveran las sombras.

The Gorgeous Bride

and with her dad

And her friends before the bar opened......

Given the recent days of tension and conflict in the world, I found this poem so fitting:

Only Breath

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu,

Buddist,sufi, or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the east

or the West, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, nor natural or ethereal, not

composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or the next,

did not descend from Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace

of the traceless. Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two

worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that

breath breathing human being.

- From the Essential Rumi

You Are Likely a First Born At your darkest moments, you feel guilty.At work and school, you do best when you're researching.When you love someone, you tend to agree with them often. In friendship, you are considerate and compromising.Your ideal careers are: business, research, counseling, promotion, and speaking.You will leave your mark on the world with discoveries, new information, and teaching people to dream.

The Birth Order Predictor

I don't know how they did this but it's true.

There's nothing like sitting on a grassy hill, wind blowing fast in my face and through my hair, the stars shining bright, illuminated by the moon, and dancing to the healing bittersweet sounds of Santana's guitar. Pure Magic.



"I'm in the business of putting people in a trance. Take them outside their doldrums existence where they can also dream and aspire to touch their own light.

When you touch your own light you listen to the voice in your heart, the real you. There's layers like an artichoke of who you are, you're black or being American, being this or being that. But when you strip yourself of all that, you're just this shining, radiant light. One positive thought creates millions of positive vibrations. Those are the languages of light". - Carlos Santana

Living in the capitol of the most influential state of the most influential country freaks me out.
As things seem to be continually growing worse in the world and desperation seems commanplace, I fear the worst. Explosions here on our soil that not only kill many, but leave the rest of us to endure the slow body-invading effects.

I have just begun to live.

Living in the US, our dreams are only occasionally interrupted by natural or unnatural disasters. We have the priveledge of enjoying our precious "long term" goals. And I have many.

I pray, I beg.........that I am able to continue dreaming without interuption. For in this dreaming I am blessed.