Unable Are The Loved To Die…
Posted by Joni in About Him, Love, Quotes, Widda Hood
Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality,
Nay, it is Deity —
Unable they that love — to die
For Love reforms Vitality
Into Divinity.
Who Does She Think She Is?
Love
For Roberto…
Posted by Joni in About Him, Love, Quotes, Widda Hood
The Call
Out of the nothingness of sleep,
The slow dreams of Eternity,
There was a thunder on the deep:
I came, because you called to me.
A Quote For Roberto
“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never loses. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
~ Jeanette Winterson (Written on the Body)
Some Girls…
I admit it. Sometimes we women can be pains in men’s asses. Just ask this guy …
… whose only crime was go to Europe on a backpacking vacation and turn his cell phone off. Nevermind that he TOLD his girlfriend this several times before he left. She wasn’t listening.
And just ask Kyle. His crime? Forgetting to get his girlfriend a gift for Valentine’s day one year.
One True Love
Posted by Joni in About Him, Love, Widda Hood
Someone asked me a question the other day that kind of pissed me off and certainly offended me. She asked me when I was going to start “dating.” Dating? Good grief. The answer is a resounding NEVER. Why? I’ll tell you why. I spent the better part of my adult life chasing after men whose only flaw, as it would turn out, was that they were NOT Roberto. My mother said you only ever have one true love in life. I firmly believe Roberto was that one true love. He certainly was my soul mate.
Over the past 30 years, Robert has always been there for me. He “got me” the way no one else ever has or ever will. He was my intellectual equal, we shared the same twisted sense of humor, we loved the same things. Most importantly, we traveled well together. (How many couples can truly say THAT?!)
Simply put, there isn’t a man out there who can hold a candle to Robert so why bother looking? I’ve known unconditional love, selfless love. And I have memories of that and those, my friends, those memories, are all I need. So sorry, guys out there, breathe a sigh of relief. You’ve been spared.
You Are…
You are the spring to my step You are the star in my sky You are the reason to be You are ice cream You are birthday cake You are coffee You are tea You are a spring shower You are a mountain rain You are my gentle breeze You are the air I breathe You are the one I need You are my love.
The One
I want to be the one who makes you smile I want to be the one you turn to when you are happy when you are sad when you are upset when you want to laugh I am not the one I want to be the one you think of when you go to sleep at night want need miss You are that to me but I am not the one I want to be the one who makes a difference to you the way you do for me I am not the one but if you ask anyone who lays awake at night thinking about you dreaming about you when she's asleep tormenting herself when she's awake listening to silly songs looking for meaningful references listening to your words reading between the lines looking for permission to love waiting in vain for a train that won't come I am the one.
Love Is in the Air, Day 7
Still stuck in the 70s, but going back even further, is today’s love song, Tupelo Honey [link to MP3 removed by request] by Van Morrison. There are some interesting hidden or lost lyrics noted below.
Advice for the Lovelorn?
Posted by Joni in Love
Though I’m happy to say I no longer need this advice, having settled down happily with my soulmate since 1980 (we rediscovered one another in 1997 after a three-year separation), I found these to be mildly amusing and possibly somewhat applicable.
Read Each One Carefully and Think About It a Second or Two
1. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
2. No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won’t make you cry.
3. Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.
4. A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
5. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can’t have them.
6. Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
7. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
8. Don’t waste your time on a man/woman, who isn’t willing to waste their time on you.
9. Maybe the Fates want us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful. (A new spin on the old “You gotta kiss a lotta frogs before you meet a prince” cliche?)
10. Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
11. There’s always going to be people that hurt you so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around.
12. Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you.
13. Don’t try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.