she feels a cold gust of wind
sweep across her face
and she cries
not for sadness, not for pain
but for her foolishness
in that she is able to see
a source of heat
but feel it not on her skin
"cold, cold."
she cries
but no one hears her
everyone sees the heat
none understand
that above all
it's more than sight alone
so cold it is she retreats
back behind her wall
the cold still pierces
there is no heat there
but there is no false flame
and there is no wind
Entry @ 10:50 PM;
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Eleanor Roosevelt
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAnna Eleanor Roosevelt (
IPA: /ˈɛlɪnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt/;
October 11,
1884 –
November 7,
1962) was
First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the
New Deal policies of her husband, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as an advocate for
civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker for the
New Deal coalition. She was a suffragist who worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the
Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women. In the 1940s, she was one of the co-founders of
Freedom House and supported the formation of the
United Nations. Eleanor Roosevelt founded the
UN Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the UN. She was a delegate to the
UN General Assembly from 1945 and 1952, a job for which she was appointed by President
Harry S. Truman and confirmed by the
United States Senate. During her time at the United Nations she chaired the committee that drafted and approved the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her
human rights achievements. Active in politics for the rest of her life, she chaired the
John F. Kennedy administration's ground-breaking committee which help start
second-wave feminism, the
Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.
She was one of the most admired persons of the 20th century, according to
Gallup's List of Widely Admired People.
I've always loved this quote by Eleanor Rooservelt
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."Respect yo ^-^
Entry @ 5:20 PM;
at 320 am i felt inspired to write.. so here it is.. hopefully it makes sense.. cause i know im insanely tired at the moment.. but the words just popped into my head.. SO here it is...
And as she climbs the last steps of the never ending ladder she takes in one last breath.She closes her eyes and grabs on to the bar tied to a pole on her right. "You don't have to do this" they say. But she knows she must. She knows she must let go, and look beyond the surface, to remember that everyone has his or her own issues to grapple with. And this is one she has to be rid of. "This fear must stop plauging me", she thinks as she closes her eyes, ready to move on. Her feet inch closer to the nothingness and as she holds onto the bar, she feels free, flying, without a care in the world. And she lands safely. And she feels good. And she walks out of there feeling cleansed, a new person, ready to see things in a new light. But as she walks further and further away from the tent, the colours start to change and the feeling becomes all too familiar. The cold, the pain, the loneliness. And she can't go back to the tent. Not yet. It's all too soon. And like a drug, she knows the exhiliration of the experience will pull her further and further away from the world. But she can't go on like this. The cold, the pain, the loneliness. There has to be a cure for such fear. Though she does not know what. And till then, she will run to the tent, once in awhile to play with the props. And she will have a safety net. So that she can fly and fall and fly and fall over and over again to convince herself that she does not fear anymore for those brief moments in time.
Entry @ 3:20 AM;
Friday, March 14, 2008
Conquer the angry by love.
Conquer the ill-natured by goodness.
Conquer the miser with generosity.
Conquer the liar with truth.
- The Buddha (Dhammapada)
Entry @ 11:07 PM;
Thursday, March 13, 2008
former or latter?
Entry @ 3:57 PM;
Sunday, March 09, 2008