Saturday, February 21, 2009

we all should listen quietly


To my New Bloggery Pals Herrad and Richie @ Access Denied - Living With MS &
A Place to Scream - Richie's Blog


I don't know if any of this will makes sense or have the least bit of value. But it is from me to both of you.
I Know Not

I truly wish I had the words that could bring comfort to both of you in these trying times of trial beyond measure within a painstaking journey that life, fate, destiny, or something else far outside my understanding or fathoming has been brought upon you as possibly both burden or riddling gift.
I am comforted in mind, if not also in this soul of sorts by this fact of a soothing bond of love and connection you share with one another. I hope with ardent prayers heard hither that this is the purest substance and makeup of the strength that will carry you both through and unto another journey saved for an unmarked day.
This which I can only imagine will bring with it a measure of darkness and sorrow, but also a cup brimming over with brilliance in cherished memories that will live on in all of our breaths, of those beating chest and yet one of stillness, a taste of bitter honey here on this inhabited finite place we dwell.
I am usually not one to be short on words or lack the verboseness to describe the rainbow of emotions presented in splendor before me through each of my hotwired and tuned senses. Yet I cannot express this of what I see before me with clarity or bantered rant.
I guess in some rational place I can wrap around the concept, and find the stark black and white of it all.
But this is the farthest in all my reach, reckoning, or scope of black and white that much of its substance or experience is amassed in a blur of neither. It all is such a confused maze swirling off this master painter’s finely mixed pallet, emotional rhymes from a poets spoken tears and mumbling reddened lips, as a distant melody of a wood full of wild fowl chirping and cawing in perfection and harmony.

It is of course all that and so much more; yet I write about this before my eyes in vain, making pointless references in an expression of my futile reality, as for I would know what this really is or means is affirmed a not.
I know only this with some level certainty; It is less and more sweet beauty entwined in a snarling wake; as pounding waves break upon a windswept beach, together thoroughly shared if not fully treasured; but also so alone in temperate embrace of now, and this uncomprehending embrace all the tomorrows yet unknown.
Stan
Posted by Stan at 3:19 PM
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6 comments:

Ana said...

Stan,
Your intention is already a great help.
This is amazing how hard it is to write something to cheer we up when we are in pain.
You did something good here.
At least for me.
Love,
Ana

February 22, 2009 6:41 AM
Stephany said...

You reminded me of one of my favorite phrases: "there is always music amongst the trees in the forest; you just have to be quiet to hear it."

I think this is a wonderful tribute to life. Embracing it while we have it, yet reminding us again, that it is the living in the moment, and treasuring each day as a new possibility that matters the most.

It's like walking in the woods and really hearing the birds sing, the song in the heart.

Thank you ((hugs))
steph

February 22, 2009 11:04 AM
Richie said...

You are an absolute diamond Stan.

February 25, 2009 1:18 AM
herrad said...

Hi Stan,

Through tears in my eyes from reading your words thanks.
Love,
Herrad

February 25, 2009 4:44 AM
herrad said...

You are a sweet man Stan.
Keep warm and yourself.
Love,
Herrad

February 25, 2009 6:23 AM
LISA EMRICH said...

This is beautiful and powerful. Thank you for sharing it with so many.

(btw, I'm a friend of Herrad and Richie.)

February 25, 2009 9:35 AM

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