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This Being Human
Jun 20, 2006

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

 
~ Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi ~
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Posted: Jun 20, 2006 12:24pm
Wage Peace
Jun 14, 2006

WAGE PEACE


Wage peace with your breath.

Breathe in firemen and rubble,
breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.

Breathe in terrorists
and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.

Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.

Breathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.

Wage peace with your listening: hearing sirens, pray loud.

Remember your tools: flower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers.

Make soup.

Play music, memorize the words for thank you in three languages.

Learn to knit, and make a hat.

Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,
imagine grief
as the outbreath of beauty
or the gesture of fish.

Swim for the other side.

Wage peace.

Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious:

Have a cup of tea and rejoice.

Act as if armistice has already arrived.
Celebrate today.

Judyth Hill - September 12, 2001
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When I grow old I still want to have wrinkles
May 13, 2006
Hi everybody,


we need more active members in the "when I grow old I want to have wrinkles" group. So please, no matter young or old or somewhere in the happy area in between, stop by to say hi, discuss the sunny and not so sunny sides of aging, read and share jokes and other fun stuff, and most of all get to know some great folks!  Both old and new members welcome:
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/theoldandthebeautiful
Be there or be square!
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Moments
Nov 26, 2005
Little moments, each unique in its very own way

 
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Let's get wrinkled again...
Oct 22, 2005
Hi dear ones,

the group "When I grow old I want to have wrinkles, has been mostly hibernating for some time, but I hope you are still out there... so, let's get the group back alive again. Both old and new members are more than welcome to the merry Getting Old & Wrinkled:

http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/theoldandthebeautiful

Love & Starlight,

~Virva~
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Posted: Oct 22, 2005 7:53pm
Life is what you make it
Oct 20, 2005
Hi to everyone who cares 2 care... here are some photos to share... have a wonderful life!

~ Virva ~
 
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