I AM

" I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart.  I am.  I am.  I am." 

 Sylvia Plath

I am the things I never allowed
and everything I ever allowed

I am the things I never breathed
and everything I ever breathed

I am the things I never considered
and everything I ever considered

I am the things I never dreamed
and everything I ever dreamed

I am the things I never expected
and everything I ever expected

I am the things I never feared
and everything I ever feared

I am the things I never guessed
and everything I ever guessed

I am the things I never heard
and everything I ever heard

I am the things I never imagined
and everything I ever imagined

I am the things I never judged
and everything I ever judged

I am the things I never killed
and everything I ever killed

I am the things I never loved
and everything I ever loved

I am the things I never missed
and everything I ever missed

I am the things I never noticed
and everything I ever noticed

I am the things I never opened
and everything I ever opened

I am the things I never pondered
and everything I ever pondered

I am the things I never questioned
and everything I ever questioned

I am the things I never remember
and everything I ever remember

I am the things I never said
and everything I ever said

I am the things I never touched
and everything I ever touched

I am the things I never understood
and everything I ever understood

I am the things I never valued
and everything I ever valued

I am the things I never wanted
and everything I ever wanted

I am the things I never xeroxed
and everything I ever xeroxed

I am the things I never yelled
and everything I ever yelled

I am the things I never zipped
and everything I ever zipped

Linking up with dVerse where the theme this week is quotations.

Bugging Out

Ravyn, our black lab, was intrigued with this praying mantis.  She was desperately trying to eat it but thankfully it was hiding under an ornament in the bottom of a large empty flower pot.  I'm sure she would have received a nasty bite had she been successful in reaching it.

I try to appreciate the beauty all around me but no matter how I look at them, spiders always freak me out . . .  especially up close through my macro lens. 

 

Now that I've finished creeping myself out (maybe you too), I'll leave you with a quote from Pablo Picasso . . . . .

 

"The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

Summer's Ghost

"We know that in September, we will wander through warm winds of summer's wreckage.  We will welcome summer's ghost".  Henry Rollins

Silence

From A Display At The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati

"Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.  The silent bear no witness against themselves."

A Huxley

Every Time

“If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.”

Anon