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'But if the moon's still shining there,
look close underneath and you'll get,
a clear look at me in the sky swinging free...
With a star in my moon-catching net'
--Shel Silverstein, Moon-Catching Net

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'Each time I see the upside down girl standing in the water, I look at her and start to laugh, although I shouldn't oughter... For maybe in another world, another time, another town... Maybe she is right side up, and I am upside down'
--Shel Silverstein, Reflection

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"'Don't wait for it,' I said. 'Create a world, your world.  Alone.  Stand alone.  Create.  And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you.  It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened up to me."
--Anaïs Nin, 1933

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"The ‘unsayable’ thing at the center of the poem becomes visible to the poet and reader in the same way that dark matter becomes visible to the astrophysicist. You can’t see it, but by measure of its effect on the visible, it can become so precise a silhouette you can almost know it."

--Rebecca Lindenberg, interview for McSweeney's Books

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"A poem needs understanding through the senses.  The point of diving into a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore but to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water.  You do not work the lake out, it is an experience beyond thought.  

Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept the mystery."

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I didn't
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in the picture.

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I cannot get out,"
said the starling.
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'Inescapable' by Andrew P Gibson
with Miss Leanna Banana

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What use are words when you are poetry incarnate

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"You are becoming aware of your secrets through hidden talents.  
An unknown aspect of yourself will be revealed to you in time.  
Something beyond your expectations;
a mysterious gift you hadn't anticipated at all."

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a window to a memory I've all but completely forgotten about.  "An example of the power of growth, which has the ability to happen anywhere."
 
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“If you know the orishas, you know everything.  The earth teaches you everything, but you must pay your respects to her always, so she will give you all her secrets.  And always remember, the secrets of the earth are the secrets of the orishas.”
-- Migene González-Wippler
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Full Moon during the evening of January 23 will illuminate the night sky with a spectacular celestial show in which five of our planets will align... An event that hasn't occurred in over ten years.  Tonight Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn will line up along with the Full Moon for a beautiful planetary parade that will continue until the first week in February.  

January's Wolf Moon in Leo reminds us to crown ourselves with our truth, and be fearless when doing so.  Deep down, you know the life you are meant to live.  Take the reigns and feel the power within you.  Open your heart and feel your dreams manifested as if they are happening right now.  Intuitions are becoming stronger and more vibrant... Celebrate the new year royally, and you will bring abundance to you.  

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" It
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thinking
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Current work in progress with BT Borchard

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" As in sea, the inner energies, rising within.  A seal is a trust, a security or promise, a sign of integrity, which we can abuse or use as a power.  It depicts the emergence into your conscious life of your deepest instincts and life energies – the Kundalini.  As the seal can emerge from the water entirely and live on land, the seal is sometimes used to represent the emergence from the womb and the pleasures or difficulties of life as a ‘land animal’ physically independent of our mother. "

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"Rose garden in my tea."
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'The Evening Gown' by Rene Magritte, 1954

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