ROOM ON THE LEFT: nine eleven...

Sunday, September 11, 2011

I found this on

she is known for finding wonderful meaningful quotes

I thought this was

appropriate

for today

The moment we choose to love

we begin to move against domination,

against oppression.

The moment we choose to love

we begin to move towards freedom,

to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom.

Bell Hooks

here she comes...

I am standing by the seashore.

A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze

and starts for the blue ocean.

She is an object of beauty and strength,

and I stand and watch

until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud

just where the sun and sky come down to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says, ‘There she goes!

Gone where? Gone from my sight – that is all.

She is just as large in mast and hull and spar

as she was when she left my side

and just as able to bear her load of living freight

to the places of destination.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her.

And just at the moment when someone at my side says,

‘There she goes! ‘ ,

there are other eyes watching her coming,

and other voices ready to take up the glad shout :

‘Here she comes!’

Henry Van Dyke, 19th century

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