Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to Dance in the Rain!!: 2010

Monday, September 13, 2010

9-13-2010

Scott,

What is love, really? What does it mean to you? Does it even really exist? We've all been burned a time or two. Some more than others. If you find it, will you know that you've found it? Will you be too afraid of the possibility of loss to see it? Will you let memories of the past guide your hand in today's situation? Will you be too afraid to take the next step? Will you let it pass you by? Will you waste the day? Will you see the beauty and honesty of the moment, when it presents itself? Or will you be blinded by the past? Will you spend your days hoping for the best, but expecting the worst? Will you see things that are not there because you're blinded by the deeds of others? Do you see what is right in front of you? Does it even matter? Can you see past the faces of the traitors? Can you look beyond them? Can you see ME? I'm standing right in front of you. I'm open. I'm bearing my soul. It's yours, you just have to take it. Open your eyes. Open your heart. Reach out and take it... I'm right here! 9/13/2010 MRW

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

I can feel you savoring, every second of me! I am time, you control how fast or
s l o w, and....how far we will travel.

I don't have to speak words, you hear my soul and give me life! I am yours
unconditionally and always!

MRW
5-25-10

Friday, April 30, 2010

Dragonfly Symbolism

The meaning of a dragonfly changes with each culture. The main symbolism of the dragonfly are renewal, positive force and the power of life in general. Dragonflies can also be a symbol of the sense of self that comes with maturity. Also, as a creature of the wind, the dragonfly frequently represents change. And as a dragonfly lives a short life, it knows it must live its life to the fullest with the short time it has – which is a lesson for all of us. There are many different representations of the dragonfly; it all comes down to which culture you happen to be in. For instance, if you are in Japan, the dragonfly symbolizes a new light and joy. Some animal symbolism has the dragonfly representing good luck, prosperity, swiftness, purity, harmony and strength. Some Native Americans believe dragonflies are the souls of the dead. There are also many cultures that believe that the meaning of a dragonfly is happiness, courage and subconscious thoughts. It is also believed that if you see two dragonflies paired together that they represent love and maturity. The dragonfly has been a symbol of happiness, new beginnings and change for many centuries and even though the representation of the dragonfly seems to change throughout the cultures, there are still a few things that are similar; the dragonfly means hope, change and love. Since cultures vary, others may see the dragonfly as a symbol of financial wealth like savings. With the constant changing of the world, it is no wonder that more and more people are adopting the dragonfly as their totem and admiring this beautiful insect.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

April 29, 2010

There are amazing wonders all around us... If you spent your days looking through a camera lense, you would't be as blind as you truly are!

MRW

April 28, 2010

You can't let fear make your decisions. Let your heart lead the way, it's very rarely wrong if you're truly listening! MRW

April 23, 2010

The hampster in my head is on crack! If I can't put it to sleep soon, I'm going to lose all amounts of sanity... It's extremely difficult to think about regular day to day life when you feel like your entire future hinges on one moment that hasn't happened yet and you have no idea if or when it will happen... My brain needs a vacation from all things I think I know. MRW

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Greater Still

To My Scott: I love you with all my heart and soul. =) A vast ocean, blue as far as the eye can see... The emptiness of my heart without you... The bright blue sky, serene...as the breath you give... Colors of the rainbow surround... A myriad, the many hues of Love... All this and more...you bring forth... My Friend, My Love, My Lover...and Greater Still.... MRW 3/14/2010

Pieces of Me

I am the soft breeze blowing on a Spring day, sunshine seen through the clouds, a rainbow of color on a sprinkled day. I am quiet and reserved, wild rarely seen. My eyes and smile seen on my boys. Modest me, simple inconspicuous Melissa, unnoticed by most. Beautiful Native, tattooed Hippy, hidden away, graceful and fancy saved for a special day. A Dragon Fly wafting along, predator, water searcher, and day lover. I am Athena, goddess of art and war. Heed my warnings, listen closely, I only speak when needed. Passionate, emotional, fiery, and fierce, girlfriend and mother. The many pieces of me.

MRW
03/03/2008

from "I Sing the Body Electric"

The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account, that of the male is perfect, and that of the female is perfect. The expression of the face balks account, but the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face, it is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists, it is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist and knees, dress does not hide him, the strong sweet quality he has strikes through the cotton and broadcloth, to see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more, you linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side.

Walt Whitman

The Presence of Love

And in Life's noisiest hour, there whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, the heart's self-solace and soliloquy. You mold my hopes, you fashion me within; and to the leading love-throb in the heart through' all my being, through' my pulse's beat; you lie in all my many thoughts, like light, like the fair light of Dawn, or summer eve on rippling stream, or cloud-reflecting lake and looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, how oft! I bless the lot that made me love you.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth; then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear; though as for that, the passing there had worn them really about the same, and both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Eulalie

I dwelt alone in a world of man, and my soul was a stagnant tide, till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride—till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride.

Ah, less—less bright the stars of the night than the eyes of the radiant girl! That the vapor can make with the moon-tints of purple and pearl, can vie with the modest Eulalie’s most

un-regarded curl—can compare with the bright-eyed Eulalie’s most humble and careless curl.

Now Doubt—now pain come never again, for her soul gives me sigh for sigh, and all day long shines, bright and strong, a star within the sky, while ever to her dear Eulalie upturns her matron eye—while ever to her young Eulalie upturns her violet eye.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments; love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ ring bark, whose worth's unknown,
although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

William Shakespeare

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to Dance in the Rain!!