Brieven aan Doornroosje - Toon Tellegen - 31 december

encore un pas...

     Ce qui sauve, c'est de faire un pas. 
          Encore un pas. 
               C'est toujours le même pas que l'on recommence...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Terre des hommes

balia di sehu...

koor alfabet (klik)

my favorite things

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things...

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad

zààaaaalige kerstdagen !!!

iedereen leest

iedereen leest

iedereen leest

painted from memory...

in vain...

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. 

My feelings will not be repressed. 

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. 

Jane Austen

The author of Pride and Prejudice was born on this day in 1775.

perhaps...

     Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses
          who are only waiting to see us act, just once,
              with beauty and courage.


     Perhaps everything that frightens us is, 

         in its deepest essence,
              something helpless that wants our love.

 Rainer Maria Rilke

The Language of Letting Go

Stop trying so hard to make it happen.
Stop doing so much, if doing so much is wearing you out or not achieving the desired results.
Stop thinking so much and so hard about it. Stop worrying so about it.
Stop trying to force, to manipulate, to coerce, or to make it happen.



Making things happen is controlling. We can take positive action to help things happen.
We can do our part. But many of us do much more than our part.
We overstep the boundaries from caring and doing our part into controlling, caretaking and coercing.


Controlling is self-defeating. It doesn't work.
By over-extending ourselves to make something happen, we may actually be stopping it from happening.


Do your part in relaxed, peaceful harmony.
Then let it go.
Just let it go.
Force yourself to let it go, if necessary. "Act as if."
Put as much energy into letting go as you have into trying to control. You'll get much better results.


It may not happen. It may not happen the way we wanted it to and hoped it would.
But our controlling wouldn't have made it happen either.


Learn to let things happen because that's what they'll do anyway.
And while we're waiting to see what happens, we'll be happier and so will those around us.

Taken from "The Language of Letting Go" by Melody Beattie

Sorrow is how we learn to love...

         Sorrow is how we learn to love. 

   

                Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger.

                       The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

Rita Mae Brown

losweg

losweg

www.kooralfabet.be

fields of gold...

nacht

           Nacht

Soms, als ik sluimerloos de maanden,
De jaren tel, die ik op haar wacht,
Hoor ik veel verre, doffe stemmen,
Die tot mij komen door de nacht.

Dan meen ik vaak haar naam te horen.
Ik luister,- ging een geest voorbij,
Die honend lachte om mijn verlangen?
Sprak mijn bedrogen hart tot mij?



J. H. Leopold 
Uit 'Vroege gedichten'