THE GEM 18 OCTOBER 2017 : Anne Sexton : the ditch where I left you once, like an old root that wouldn’t take hold, that ditch where I left you while I sailed off in madness over the buildings and under my umbrella .

MY UMBRELLA

September 20,1983

In the midst of falling rain,

I find I’m not falling.

Cats and dogs don’t hound me.

Rain clouds roll by.

Storm clouds piled high.

My umbrella, keeps the falling rain from drowning me.

Albert Ralph

Source: Anne Sexton : the ditch where I left you once, like an old root that wouldn’t take hold, that ditch where I left you while I sailed off in madness over the buildings and under my umbrella . | THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY

THE GEM 7 SEP 2018 : “BY LOVING THEM FOR MORE THAN THEIR ABILITIES WE SHOW OUR CHILDREN THAT THEY ARE MUCH MORE THAN THE SUM OF THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS.”

Striking out To reach you I can’t get through To the other side When you’re racing In the rapids There’s only one way That’s to ride

GENESIS

THE GEM 8 AUGUST 2015 : Because all little girls deserve to be protected. Even the daughters of douche bags.”

THE GEM 8 AUGUST 2015

THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY

― Kimberly Wollenburg, Crystal Clean: A mother’s struggle with meth addiction and recovery

A girl without a mother is like a mountain with no paths; a girl without a father is like a mountain with no streams. 

Kurdish Proverb

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THE GEM 3 DEC 2014 : I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower’s stem.

THE GEM 3 DEC 2014

THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY

― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? …We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.”

― Diane Ackerman

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From his brimstone bed at break of dayA walking the Devil is gone,To visit his snug little farm the earth,And see how his stock goes on.SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, The Devil’s Thought

THE GEM 7 SEP 2014

THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY

Ageni eri na karirui kao

Two guests love a different song.

When you receive two visitors at the same time, you cannot treat them in the same manner, because they have different tastes.

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