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Stumbling Block

It seems I have always been stumbling, tripping over the unintended in a fog of wandering wonder.

The mist has been ever around me, my cloud by day. I am enveloped by mystery.

You do indeed love to surprise me, O God;

two girls find shiny stones in a fountain and their joy chases away the despair at not finding a loved one,

the hospitality of friends lightens the weight upon a heavy chest from a returning to what was and the traveler can breathe again into what will be,

a mother’s words and the night breeze dries a daughter’s tears and she can smile at the deep thrum of a bullfrog,

lovers lie for a moment in the morning and the frustrations of yesterday fade into the quiet beginnings of another day.

It is time then.

I rise up into the bone crackling morning, my body protesting, my spirit already stretching out along the places I will see.

Inside, I find I am ready for more stumbling.

July 29, 2022

Stumbling Block

It seems I have always been stumbling, tripping over the unintended in a fog of wandering wonder.

The mist has been ever around me, my cloud by day. I am enveloped by mystery.

You do indeed love to surprise me, O God;

two girls find shiny stones in a fountain and their joy chases away the despair at not finding a loved one,

the hospitality of friends lightens the weight upon a heavy chest from a returning to what was and the traveler can breathe again into what will be,

a mother’s words and the night breeze dries a daughter’s tears and she can smile at the deep thrum of a bullfrog,

lovers lie for a moment in the morning and the frustrations of yesterday fade into the quiet beginnings of another day.

It is time then.

I rise up into the bone crackling morning, my body protesting, my spirit already stretching out along the places I will see.

Inside, I find I am ready for more stumbling.

July 29, 2022

Broken Chair

I rescued the chair from outside someone’s apartment with the hope of fixing it and having it become a welcome member of our family.

But, as often happens, it sat around in various places waiting for me to find the time to repair it.

Finally, I decided it was one more project I did not have time for, and so yesterday I put it out on the sidewalk in the hopes that someone would take it home.

It sat out there all through yesterday in the rain and the sun, lonely, awaiting a new friend. A few people paused to look but then drove away. Periodically I would look out my window to see it still sitting forlornly there.

Then this morning I noticed an older gentleman walking past who began to inspect the chair. He picked it up, put it on his back and walked away.

It is a beautiful chair. It just needs to be repaired, and I am sure its new owner will do just that.

I don’t know about you, but I feel a lot like that broken chair, waiting for the gentle hands of someone to put me back together again.

I wait, broken, with the hope that those hands will touch me, I will be healed, and I can have a purpose again.

July 10, 2015

Broken Chair

I rescued the chair from outside someone’s apartment with the hope of fixing it and having it become a welcome member of our family.

But, as often happens, it sat around in various places waiting for me to find the time to repair it.

Finally, I decided it was one more project I did not have time for, and so yesterday I put it out on the sidewalk in the hopes that someone would take it home.

It sat out there all through yesterday in the rain and the sun, lonely, awaiting a new friend. A few people paused to look but then drove away. Periodically I would look out my window to see it still sitting forlornly there.

Then this morning I noticed an older gentleman walking past who began to inspect the chair. He picked it up, put it on his back and walked away.

It is a beautiful chair. It just needs to be repaired, and I am sure its new owner will do just that.

I don’t know about you, but I feel a lot like that broken chair, waiting for the gentle hands of someone to put me back together again.

I wait, broken, with the hope that those hands will touch me, I will be healed, and I can have a purpose again.

July 10, 2015

Restlessness

A Monday Monday Song

I’ve been thinking lately about what I need.
There’s so much wrapped up in me.
I’m tired of being split in two.
Has the dye been caste or can
I melt into someone new?

I need to simplify find some order to this mess
but there’s no cure for my restlessness.

The taste of my life is bittersweet
like this wine-soaked rag they force on me.
I’m caught between earth and sky
I can’t connect to either.
Eloi. Eloi. Why?

I need to simplify find some order to this mess
but there’s no cure for my restlessness.

It seems I am always cleaning my temple.
I’m always cleaning house,
trying to throw the money hangers out . . .

An Iaonus Production 8.26.24

Lyrics August, 19, 1996

Restlessness

A Monday Monday Song

I’ve been thinking lately about what I need.
There’s so much wrapped up in me.
I’m tired of being split in two.
Has the dye been caste or can
I melt into someone new?

I need to simplify find some order to this mess
but there’s no cure for my restlessness.

The taste of my life is bittersweet
like this wine-soaked rag they force on me.
I’m caught between earth and sky
I can’t connect to either.
Eloi. Eloi. Why?

I need to simplify find some order to this mess
but there’s no cure for my restlessness.

It seems I am always cleaning my temple.
I’m always cleaning house,
trying to throw the money hangers out . . .

An Iaonus Production 8.26.24

Lyrics August, 19, 1996

https://medium.com/the-story-well/the-psychology-of-endings-and-beginnings-3e3537bf5bef

The Psychology of Endings and Beginnings

#collapse #beginnings #endings #renewal #medium #storytelling #fiction #life #lifelessons

https://medium.com/the-story-well/the-psychology-of-endings-and-beginnings-3e3537bf5bef

The Psychology of Endings and Beginnings

#collapse #beginnings #endings #renewal #medium #storytelling #fiction #life #lifelessons

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Storm Surge

In the end,
will you be faithful?
That is question.

When the storm has come and gone,
when what you thought was precious has been stripped away,
when you sleep in darkness wondering if the lights will ever come back on,
when your life in the flash of lightning reverts back to the everyday of your sisters and brothers in the warzone,
when your plane to those destinations is grounded by the thunder’s roar?

Will you awake to new resolve for justice?
Will you spend less time before the screen and more time present to loved ones and those in need of it?
Will you leave the ground to alight among the troubled?
Will you listen to them?

Will the power that comes on be in you,
through you,
glowing out through your eyes,
electrifying,
filling you with a compassion so compelling
you become a wire
among many
channeling
love and peace
to the world?

June 2, 2015

Storm Surge

In the end,
will you be faithful?
That is question.

When the storm has come and gone,
when what you thought was precious has been stripped away,
when you sleep in darkness wondering if the lights will ever come back on,
when your life in the flash of lightning reverts back to the everyday of your sisters and brothers in the warzone,
when your plane to those destinations is grounded by the thunder’s roar?

Will you awake to new resolve for justice?
Will you spend less time before the screen and more time present to loved ones and those in need of it?
Will you leave the ground to alight among the troubled?
Will you listen to them?

Will the power that comes on be in you,
through you,
glowing out through your eyes,
electrifying,
filling you with a compassion so compelling
you become a wire
among many
channeling
love and peace
to the world?

June 2, 2015

A quotation from Twain

I followed their eyes, as sure as guns, there was my eclipse beginning! The life went boiling through my veins; I was a new man! The rim of black spread slowly into the sun’s disk, my heart beat higher and higher, and still the assemblage and the priest stared into the sky, motionless. I knew that this gaze would be turned upon me, next. When it was, I was ready. I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 6 “The Eclipse”

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84647/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #aconnecticutyankee #pose #relief #renewal #triumph #eclipse

A quotation from Twain

I followed their eyes, as sure as guns, there was my eclipse beginning! The life went boiling through my veins; I was a new man! The rim of black spread slowly into the sun’s disk, my heart beat higher and higher, and still the assemblage and the priest stared into the sky, motionless. I knew that this gaze would be turned upon me, next. When it was, I was ready. I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 6 “The Eclipse”

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84647/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #aconnecticutyankee #pose #relief #renewal #triumph #eclipse

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https://www.dw.com/en/us-iran-hezbollah-spar-over-murky-terms-of-ceasefire-deal/live-77573728. Not so much a #Memorandum of #Understanding - more a Memorandum of MISUNDERSTANDING, which will prove rather less than convenient, & lead to a #renewal of #war.

https://www.dw.com/en/us-iran-hezbollah-spar-over-murky-terms-of-ceasefire-deal/live-77573728. Not so much a #Memorandum of #Understanding - more a Memorandum of MISUNDERSTANDING, which will prove rather less than convenient, & lead to a #renewal of #war.

Duran Duran - Paper Gods

I share it again with love:

https://gnulinux.studio/app/#/playlist/G8u06fUHtV6PtfJEkCRDQa/show

User: pubglug
Pass: musicisawesome

It's legit solid top to bottom.

I had vinyl of Rio as a kid ... this album tho, it is so consistent and rhythmic.

#music #postpunk #newwave #renewal #music #duranduran #navidrome #jam #sysadmin #selfhosted #selfhost

@bobdobberson 👀 lol

Duran Duran - Paper Gods

I share it again with love:

https://gnulinux.studio/app/#/playlist/G8u06fUHtV6PtfJEkCRDQa/show

User: pubglug
Pass: musicisawesome

It's legit solid top to bottom.

I had vinyl of Rio as a kid ... this album tho, it is so consistent and rhythmic.

#music #postpunk #newwave #renewal #music #duranduran #navidrome #jam #sysadmin #selfhosted #selfhost

@bobdobberson 👀 lol

再生　Регенерації
生命の風を司る神
Бог вітру життя

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n665717279a24

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#god #control #wind #life #dance #shining #white #earth #Crystal #drop #flow #breath #sprout #warm #wave #spread #out #colorful #jewels #bloom #sweet #fragrance #lures #fairies #announcing #arrival #season #renewal

Nietzsche and Nick Cave

From Mari Ruti’s Reinventing the Soul loc 4470:

At the same time, I feel that Nietzsche explores quite compellingly the enigmatic relationship that at times exists between destruction and resurrection, for he recognizes that for new forms of life to emerge, something within the subject’s inner life must be shaken to the core so as to shatter the well-established structures that hold it immersed in, and therefore confined to, outmoded psychic conditions and conventions.

From Nick Cave’s Faith, Hope and Carnage.

But what I want to say is this: this will happen to everybody at some point – a deconstruction of the known self. It may not necessarily be a death, but there will be some kind of devastation. We see it happen to people all the time: a marriage breakdown, or a transgression that has a devastating effect on a person’s life, or health issues, or a betrayal, or a public shaming, or a separation where someone loses their kids, or whatever it is. And it shatters them completely, into a million pieces, and it seems like there is no coming back. It’s over. But in time they put themselves together piece by piece. And the thing is, when they do that, they often find that they are a different person, a changed, more complete, more realised, more clearly drawn person. I think that’s what it is to live, really – to die in a way and to be reborn. And sometimes it can happen many times over, that complex reordering of ourselves.Cave, Nick; O’Hagan, Seán. Faith, Hope and Carnage (p. 107). Canongate Books. Kindle Edition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfKYImFP_Pw&list=OLAK5uy_mKzBStg8ZwVFvvXwvegykcI66kS17he9U&index=2

And everyone has a heart, and it's calling for something
We're all so sick and tired and seeing things as they are
The horses are just horses and their maines ain't full of fire
And the fields are just fields and there ain't no law

And everything is hidden, everyone is cruel
There's no shortage of tyrants and no shortage of fools
And the little white shape dancing at the end of the hall
It's just a wish that time can't dissolve at all

"When you send your Spirit,
they are created,
and you renew the face of the ground."

Psalm 104:30 #Bible #HolySpirit #renewal

On Whit Monday, may the blessings of renewal and hope fill your heart. If you are celebrating, call us when you are done. #justcalldrpam #WhitMonday #Renewal #Hope

### 🌟 #Pop version
A #nostalgic pop #interpretation #emphasising #emotional #renewal, #melodic #warmth and #reflective #memory.

#Memory #lane – #AI Pop #Song | #My #Original #Lyrics, My #Voice ( #Suno AI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qL3IEWwSWs

### 🌟 #Pop version
A #nostalgic pop #interpretation #emphasising #emotional #renewal, #melodic #warmth and #reflective #memory.

#Memory #lane – #AI Pop #Song | #My #Original #Lyrics, My #Voice ( #Suno AI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qL3IEWwSWs

### 🌟 #Pop version
A #nostalgic pop #interpretation #emphasising #emotional #renewal, #melodic #warmth and #reflective #memory.

#Slow #down – #AI Pop #Song | #My #Original #Lyrics, My #Voice ( #Suno AI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ6foPmWTZY

### 🌟 #Pop version
A #nostalgic pop #interpretation #emphasising #emotional #renewal, #melodic #warmth and #reflective #memory.

#Slow #down – #AI Pop #Song | #My #Original #Lyrics, My #Voice ( #Suno AI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ6foPmWTZY

### ⚡ #EDM version
An EDM #interpretation #emphasising #rhythmic #intensity, #emotional #release and the #transformative #energy of #memory and #renewal.

#Slow #down – #AI EDM #Song | #My #Original #Lyrics, My #Voice ( #Suno AI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqaLWGqPyQ

### ⚡ #EDM version
An EDM #interpretation #emphasising #rhythmic #intensity, #emotional #release and the #transformative #energy of #memory and #renewal.

#Slow #down – #AI EDM #Song | #My #Original #Lyrics, My #Voice ( #Suno AI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqaLWGqPyQ

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‘Reacher’ Receives Early Season 5 Renewal At Prime Video
#CancellationsandRenewals #News #PrimeVideo #Reacher #Renewal

https://deadline.com/2026/05/reacher-season-5-renewal-prime-video-1236890046/

‘Reacher’ Receives Early Season 5 Renewal At Prime Video
#CancellationsandRenewals #News #PrimeVideo #Reacher #Renewal

https://deadline.com/2026/05/reacher-season-5-renewal-prime-video-1236890046/

Forest floor renewed
Life returns in greens and golds
Sol comes through again

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Spring #Forest #Renewal #Green #Gold #Yellow #Flowers #Sol #Sun #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

May 4, 2026

Forest floor renewed
Life returns in greens and golds
Sol comes through again

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Spring #Forest #Renewal #Green #Gold #Yellow #Flowers #Sol #Sun #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

May 4, 2026

Rise & Shine (Christian Music) = New Christian music to share God's love 💫 - #God #Jesus #TheLord #Praise #ChristianMusic #Bible #Music #Song #Faith #Hope #SpiritualJourney #Connection #BibleStudy #Prayerful #Grace #Devotion #Inspiration #YouthMinistry #Renewal #Worship #Community #Uplifting #PositiveVibes #YoungBelievers #ModernWorship #GospelMessage #TrueCalling #Praise #Commitment #Trust #SpiritualStrength #DivineLight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

It's done. I've entered my activities from last year. Just in the nick of time. 2 days left!
#Microsoft #MVP #Renewal #MVPBuzz

For Now and Forever (The Inn at Sunset Harbor) "It felt like she was driving through space, heading into infinity. Heading toward the beginning of the rest of her life" Sale: $2.99 to FREE by Sophie Love Rating: 4.2/5 (8,694 Reviews) #Romance #SmallTown #BeachRead #Contemporary #Renewal #BookSky

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Shining Light of Love (Christian Music) = New Christian song 🎵 to inspire believers! - #God #Jesus #TheLord #Praise #ChristianMusic #Bible #Music #Song #SpiritualGrowth #Transformation #Worship #Faith #Hope #Purpose #Love #Praise #Community #Service #YouthGroup #Inspiration #Devotion #Fellowship #Prayer #Guidance #Jesus #Church #Renewal #Salvation #Grace #Redemption #Soul #Strength #Trust - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTT5_bORvmY

You don’t fall behind when you rest. You return better.

There’s a quiet pressure to always be moving, always doing, always making progress. But there’s another side to that rhythm.

Rest isn’t falling behind. It’s part of moving forward well.

Sometimes the best thing you can do is step back just long enough to come back with clarity.

#Rest #Renewal #Restore #SlowDown #IntentionalLiving #Sabbath

Guide My Soul (Christian Music) = Just dropped a spirit-filled song 🙌 for Jesus! - #God #Jesus #TheLord #Praise #ChristianMusic #Bible #Music #Song #Faith #Hope #Love #Light #Savior #Journey #Prayer #Community #Worship #Grace #Redemption #Salvation #Gospel #Praise #Fellowship #Spiritual #Devotion #Inspiration #Faithfulness #Trust #Scripture #Purpose #Sacrifice #Renewal #Service - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=