LONGING
I long to return where my heart’s song began
The quaint city by the ocean I once knew so well
How I long to play along her sugar white shore
Swim in her ocean as deep and as blue as my longing
I long to jump up and down amidst her ocean floor with it’s scattered sea shells that tumble and stumble, all the while, tickling the tips of my toes
Crash about in her ocean waves as if I were a discarded cork, bobbing freely, just me…
©2011 Angela C. Soelzer Ragosa
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairing, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
-Agatha Christie, An Autobiography
“I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!
I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.
Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, ridin the wave, dodgin the bullet and pushin the envelope. I’m on-point, on-task, on-message and off drugs. I’ve got no need for coke and speed. I’ve got no urge to binge and purge. I’m in-the-moment, on-the-edge, over-the-top and under-the-radar. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic missionary. A street-wise smart bomb. A top-gun bottom feeder. I wear power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps and run victory laps. I’m a totally ongoing big-foot, slam-dunk, rainmaker with a pro-active outreach. A raging workaholic. A working rageaholic. Out of rehab and in denial!
“I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.”
― Christine Marrero
1. Some of the best inner journeys start with the passport – stamped kind. (Pass the in-flight peanuts.)
2. When our life stories start to sound predictable, it’s time for a re-write.
3. Overrated: multitasking…Underrated: unitasking.
4. Summer tomatoes: the universe’s way of reminding us the good-for-you food tends to be delicious.
5. Midwives—of babies; ideas, peace—do amazing stuff.
6. Expanding the mind: always a cool thing—so what if it sounds a little too ‘60s-trippy.
7. Perpetually good advice from James Brown: “Get up offa that thing-and dance ‘til you feel better.”
8. Running on the beach beats trudging on a treadmill every time. (Just sayin’.)
9. Ever notice how people brighten up when you recognize their efforts?
10. There’s a reason why nature is sometimes called vitamin N.
From Whole Living Magazine
Today, many will awaken with a fresh sense of inspiration. Why not you?
Today, many will open their eyes to the beauty that surrounds them. Why not you?
Today, many will choose to leave the ghost of yesterday behind and seize the immeasurable power of today. Why not you?
Today, many will break through the barriers of the past by looking at the blessings of the present. Why not you?
Today, for many the burden of self doubt and insecurity will be lifted by the security and confidence of empowerment. Why not you?
Today, many will rise above their believed limitations and make contact with their powerful innate strength. Why not you?
You said, “I will go to another land, I will go to another sea.
Another city will be found, better than this.
Every effort of mine is condemned by fate;
and my heart is — like a corpse — buried.
How long in this wasteland will my mind remain.
Wherever I turn my eyes, wherever I may look
I see the black ruins of my life here,
where I spent so many years, and ruined and wasted.”
New lands you will not find, you will not find other seas.
The city will follow you. You will roam the same
streets. And you will age in the same neighborhoods;
in these same houses you will grow gray.
Always you will arrive in this city. To another land — do not hope –
there is no ship for you, there is no road.
As you have ruined your life here
in this little corner, you have destroyed it in the whole world.
“I am not eccentric.
It’s just that I am more alive than most people.
I am an unpopular electric eel
set in a pond of goldfish.”
― Edith Sitwell
Today, I decided to take that dreaded step up onto the scale expecting to see the number higher than the last time I weighed myself and to my surprise I lost 4lbs! The past week and a half I’ve logged 27 miles of walking which I’m extremely proud of. I also started cooking each and every night, healthy, low calorie meals choc-full of flavor thanks to fresh herbs. I’ve sort-of reintroduced myself to my kitchen during this process because to be totally honest, I haven’t been cooking dinner for years. My husband has been the chef in the family and a fine chef he is, but I could see where we could tweak our diet here and there, cutting calories and enhancing the flavor of the food. It’s all coming together nicely and most importantly, it’s WORKING! I would like to close with leaving a picture of myself but I’m still not that brave, maybe next week…
“If you seek creative ideas go walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for
a walk.”
― Raymond I. Myers
