PinkPanthress

“She sees the mountain
upside down.

With her long hair
sweeping the fallen leaves
she swings
like a pendulum.

From the lagoon at sunset
a hundred sparrows fly away.

Wishing them back
she whistles softly.
And downward
she falls into the sky.


-- Chungmi Kim. 'A Girl on a Swing," Copyright © 1995. Originally published in Grand Passion: The Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, Suzanne Loomis and Charles H. Webb, eds. (Red Wind Books, 1995). Reprinted with the permission of the author.”
― Chungmi Kim

“If we hadn't had Atatürk, we would have been an Afghanistan, an Iraq!”
― Özden Toker

“Whenever you feel that someone is angry or someone has collided with you, you always think that he is responsible. This is how ignorance concludes, interprets. Ignorance always says, ”The other is responsible.” Wisdom always says, ”If somebody is responsible, then I am responsible, and the only way not to collide is not to be.”
”I am responsible” doesn’t mean, ”I am doing something, that is why they are angry.” That is not the question. You may not be doing anything, but just your being there is enough for people to get angry. The question is not whether you are doing good or bad. The question is that you are there.”
― Osho

“The two women sat hunched together until Carol let her breath go. She patted the back of Liv's hand. If things are rocky between you and Jake, try to sort them out eh, love? But don't rely on him for your happiness You have to find your own path, too.”
― Phaedra Patrick, The Messy Lives of Book People