tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post6586964765714783908..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-40535845709346468552012-09-06T00:20:27.684-04:002012-09-06T00:20:27.684-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Faith https://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-22432092421079724892012-09-04T06:43:20.313-04:002012-09-04T06:43:20.313-04:00Wordsworth -- another understanding friend -- brin...Wordsworth -- another understanding friend -- brings comfort and joy -- at least to me.<br /><br /><i> Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song!<br /> <br /> _____ And let the young lambs bound<br /> <br /> _____ As to the tabor's sound!<br /> <br />We in thought will join your throng,<br /> <br /> _____ Ye that pipe and ye that play,<br /> <br /> _____ Ye that through your hearts to-day<br /> <br /> _____ Feel the gladness of the May!<br /> <br />What though the radiance which was once so bright<br /> <br />Be now for ever taken from my sight,<br /> <br /> _____ Though nothing can bring back the hour<br /> <br />Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;<br /> <br /> _____ We will grieve not, rather find<br /> <br /> _____ Strength in what remains behind;<br /> <br /> _____ In the primal sympathy<br /> <br /> _____ Which having been must ever be;<br /> <br /> _____ In the soothing thoughts that spring<br /> <br /> _____ Out of human suffering;<br /> <br /> _____ In the faith that looks through death,<br /> <br />In years that bring the philosophic mind. ...<br /><br /><br />Thanks to the human heart by which we live,<br /> <br />Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,<br /> <br />To me the meanest flower that blows can give<br /> <br />Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.</i><br /> <br /> <br />~ Wordsworth (1770-1850) - Intimations of Immortality<br /><br /><br />~ FTFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-90578582516628441662012-09-04T06:28:36.969-04:002012-09-04T06:28:36.969-04:00Dear, friends,
There may be no remedy abel to dis...Dear, friends,<br /><br />There may be no remedy abel to dissolve Grief and make it disappear, but Understanding offers consolation, and one can experience great Beauty in both Acceptance and Understanding. That's why I love Emily Dickinson so much. She and many of the other great poets serve as an understanding friend to many.<br /><br /><br /><i>They say that "Time assuages" ––<br />Time never did assuage --<br />An actual suffering strengthens<br />As Sinews do, with age --<br /><br />Time is a Test of Trouble --<br />But not a Remedy --<br />If such it prove, it prove too<br />There was no Malady --</i><br /><br />~ Emily Dickinson<br /><br /><br />~ FTFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-47844411840402399592012-09-04T04:00:02.690-04:002012-09-04T04:00:02.690-04:00Grief -- real grief -- is eternal. Mourning lesse...Grief -- real grief -- is eternal. Mourning lessens, but never disappears.<br /><br />We survivors learn to live with both grief and mourning. But life is never as bright as it once was.<br /><br />I haven't been really happy for nearly three years now. Those here who know me understand why I'm typing this in.<br /><br />Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-28414588378826150372012-09-03T22:24:14.342-04:002012-09-03T22:24:14.342-04:00I wish grief DID imperceptibly lapse away...believ...I wish grief DID imperceptibly lapse away...believe me. I know you feel the same way, FT.<br /><br />Your images are perfect; the one above, lovely...the closed umbrella the perfect indication of summer over without screaming it. Nice.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.com