Defining lyrics

2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me,
Threatening the life it belongs to...

Anna Nalick - Breathe (2 a.m.)

It's late and I'm feeling so tired
Having trouble sleeping.
This constant compromise
Between thinking and breathing.

Corrine Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping

Just pieces of lyrics that resonate this week.

Oasis?

Afraid.

Fear of wandering in a

Self-imposed wilderness

Created from dreams

Long laid to rest -

Only to find an oasis,

and wonder -

Is it real or

Will it disappear

in an instant?

Criminal Minds

My favorite crime drama is Criminal Minds. As much as I hate to see great characters leave good T.V. shows - I think the writers did a fantastic job in the very last scene of last week's episode. These next couple of paragraphs were 'JJ's' words to the director of their unit - and they're fantastic.

"I’m thankful for my years spent with this family, for everything we share, every chance we had to grow. I’ll take the best of them with me and lead by their example wherever I go. A friend told me to be honest with you, so here it goes:

This isn’t what I want, but I will take the high road. Maybe it’s because I look at everything as a lesson or because I don’t want to walk around angry; or maybe, it’s because I finally understand. There are things we don’t want to happen, but have to accept; things we don’t want to know, but have to learn; and people we can’t live without, but have to let go."

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau (A.J. Cook - Criminal Minds)

Inadequate

Feeling inadequate
to help,
to lighten or
carry a burden.

Attempting to provide
distraction,
a smile or
just a breath of air.

Striving to
connect,
comfort and
provide refuge

Wondering if my
desire,
yearning or
longing echoes in you.

Distortion

Emotions so surface
that feelings quiver under my skin.
Desire to touch, smell, taste, and speak
becoming passion, dormant before, now active.

Struggling to protect
yet eager to glimpse the future path.
Distance separating what could be
and shielding what cannot.

Striving to allow room to breathe
while contemplating how to cross the void.
Doubts infusing that which appears real,
giving life to distortion within.

Christmas in Disney...

I haven't posted in a long while...and, after today, won't get to until 2010 - so here it is!

Merry Christmas to ALL!

We'll post on FB from Disneyland!

Blessings to you and yours!

The Value of Perspective

I saw a sign on a building in Dundee, Oregon today that made me laugh. It was an obvious protest to the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) and how it uses it's money on road construction and said something to the effect of "Third World Roads, First Class Money."

Really?

Do you think the person who designed this sign has even seen a "third world road?" Even though I am in agreement that certain stretches of the road between Dundee and Newberg need some work - they are terrific roads when compared to roads in less developed countries.

I looked for a picture of one of the many Ugandan roads I have traveled on so that there was a real comparison of what a third world road looked like, but could find the one I wanted, so the photo above will have to do.