:D Life is good!

Thanks, Charlie! Crossroads moments leave me reflective and wanting to express the internal landscapes somehow.

No bravery needed, Charles! Just a small dose of insanity! :-) I figure it'll be a big, bad, beautiful weekend - and one not likely to be repeated so to hell with the torpedoes, I'm diving in!

Huh... and the timestamp on this post's timing could be no more perfect. (to which I say thanks, dear Universe, for whatever it is you're up to and about...)

Thanks, Charlie -- yes, agreed. There is a whisper of *something* inbetween what is and what isn't. And we fall out of one and into the other before we even realise it's happened. I hope to one day recognise - maybe even relish - that inbetween whisper... And! That link was beautiful... a serene slice of grace.

Bravo! You did that with ease and aplomb! Isn't writing in senyru (and haiku) a wonderful pursuit - I love the required simplicities...

Go, EB! Nice cyber digs you've got going on here... liking the vibe! Sounds like a crashing start to the year, yes. Pardon the pun, baha... enjoy the blogger's life, it's fun once you've got a good groove laid down. Ain't nothing as freeing as putting the proverbial pen to paper. Cheers to 2011 - may it be a fabulous journey ahead.

DK, you did *awesome* at the challenge this month - blew me out of the water! I think you should keep going -- you have definitely tapped into a very prolific and creative personal vein that is rich with depth and emotion. You have a talent with words - you could take it somewhere. For serious. KEEP WRITING!

Rilke was most wise. I do believe that we live our way into the answers we seek, yes. Having patience to do that? Ha, easy said!

Is true - has become about the expectations. And in some cases for some folks, it's become about the entitlements. I do wonder, though, if we don't set ourselves up for disappointments in a self-fulfilling prophetic frenzy of "what ifs" around our assumption about others' expectations. With kids it's more cut'n'dry, of course. They are coached by the materialism to feel the need for this gadget or that toy, with no comprehension of cost or consequence - they just want it because the consumerist flavor says they 'need' it. I like your idea of just spreading the love all the time instead of trying to package up in a box some thing that doesn't give. It's a thing, not a state of being (which is what we all really want, down under it all... a state of being appreciated, enjoyed, loved...). We've lost our way in the sea of goods that has become our world. Sad, innit? Not too cynical at all. I think more need to realize the illusion for what it is. And, my, aren't we a maudlin philosophical pair, eh? ;-D