"The way to woo a woman is to give her what she needs before she knows she needs it, or to give her what she needs before she asks....[Love]'s still the honey to end all honeys. It is not for sale, this strange, rare happiness, but if it is, the coin of the realm is imagination"

ellen gilchrist.

yes.

posted by testimonies 4:38 PM

. . .

likewise, the slam poet lemon once observed:

God may not
         always come exactly when you call Him...

but He is always on time.

powerful.

posted by testimonies 10:44 AM

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i love this verse:
he has made everything beautiful in its time
ecclesiastes 3:11a

posted by testimonies 4:59 PM

. . .

the cords of my discman lay entangled on the keypad, and i have pulled my hood over my head.
sitting underneath a very cold vent sucks =(

posted by testimonies 10:34 AM

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my cup filled two days ago; the drink? sweet, bitter, grey. it permeates me, like college co-eds singing acapella on a starry night. i can't wash it off, what i feel, but i can lay in bed with luxurious 300 count egyptian woven cotton sheets and rub my cheeks and eyelashes in pillowy softness. it's hard to move. the light is streaming in, despite my plastic blinds which i wish were covered with curtains. thick, grandiose curtains, colored deep red perhaps- the dark iron taste of metal, strong and authoritative, framing halo-ed light glowing as hope penetrates the room and warms me to my core.

posted by testimonies 10:23 AM

. . .

surrounded (a story told using schematic diagrams):

act 1. lunch

1:45 pm

water with nice view
---------------BIRD--------------- (wall)
walkway for pedestrians
------BIRD---me---BIRD--------- (concrete which i sit on)

1:50 pm

water with nice view
-BIRD-----------------------------
pedestrian walking
----------------me---------BIRD

1:55 pm

water with not so nice view (i am distracted)
---------BIRD-------------------------
BIRD BIRD BIRD
----------------me----BIRD--BIRD-

2:00 pm

water with a somewhat view but it's really hot and my freckles hurt
-----BIRD--------------------------
pedestrian walking
----------------me--shameless BIRD----------BIRD

2:15 pm

what view?
----------------BIRD----------------
BIRD BIRD
-----BIRD---me----2 shameless BIRDS

2:30 pm

enough with this ish
----------------------------------------
walkway for pedestrians
----------------------------------------
me walking back to work...

the end.

i guess that teaches me to think twice about sitting outside when taking a late lunch (thus being the lone victim available to birds to torture...)

posted by testimonies 3:57 PM

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words that never fail to lift me:

When we've been there ten thousand years,
bright shining as the sun,
we've no less days to sing God's praise
than when we'd first begun.

the soaring "bright shining as the sun" warms and excites me every time, it is the perfect way to end such a wondrous song =)

posted by testimonies 4:59 PM

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is this page dead? nay sayest i; i shall update upon my return to the land of the free =)

posted by testimonies 10:10 PM

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