[venusss]

just something i wrote for my blog.... in a moment when I was actually very very deep down in the dark.

1. Taking off my shoes to walk on cobblestones and feeling history with my bare feet.
2. Interesting looking people. People who bring Harajuku to central Europe, 50 something women with long purple hair, men with style (but not too much style). If I was a dictator, I would make random dress codes. Life would be much cooler if it looked like Lady Gaga’s video.
3. Travelling by train on moonlit nights.
4. Contemporary Russian music…. Russian language amplifies moods and feelings. Forget about French being language of love. Russian sounds much more softer and sensual. But they can make angsty songs that are yelled on top of the lungs… and you believe they really really are angry as hell.
5. People with a story. People who make me think. Who make me laugh… about wrong things.
6. First step on foreign ground after long exhausting travel. The foreign air is almost intoxicating. It is not just the sleep deprivation. It is magic in happening.
7. Cats. Despite all their cuteness and cuddliness you still know you are holding a beast of prey in your hands. And you know why Egyptian worshipped them.
8. Sun on my skin in summer, when I can almost feel as being charged with cosmic energy.
9. Metropoles… with their crowds of people, each of them a story. Where you can be wonderfully anonymous. Life is fast, almost too fast and intense. Energies are materialized. One can feed for them.
10. Dancing to forget… like nobody is watching… getting lost in the beats and hearing the music through my skin… In fact, I only dance to forget. Rembember it when you see in me in a club.
11. Seeing the stars when away from the “civilization”. I am a city girl, and at times I tend to forget how sky with stars looks like. So to be somewhere away from burning city lights and see the starlit sky is always a wow moment.
12. The flash of inspiration when all of sudden things make sense… and I feel like a creator of the meaning.
13. Capturing a perfect picture with my camera. It almost feels like I preserved bit of every passing time. The moment is there. I can always go back to it… and feel almost the same intensity as I felt in the moment.
14. Good food. Does not matter if it is sushi or hungarian sausage at some street festival. Healthy or not, has to be enjoyable and enjoyed.
15. The sea with all it’s moods. Body surfing in waves. Storms while you are on ferry somewhere in northern Norway. Bluest shade and calm in mediterrean (to turn wild and unpredictable next day, waves crushing on the cliffs widly…). Life came from the sea… so I guess I feel like I was just born when I thrust myself into its arms.

(more to be added later)

^^^^^^^^^^^How lovely!!ooo I have one, and a thousand! (spin off "creator of meaning!"-You've inspired me!!!--Venus! a quote...I love this...great idea for a thread!!)

I love when I question the "status quo"__ha hahahahahah

"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying,
or else you say something true

and it will sound like it is from Neptune" ~~~~~~~~~Chomsky

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[Elysium]

Thanks for this Venus!!

I'm so glad you were able to hold the light during your down time, and I appreciate you sharing with us. It's nice to read posts that let in the light. You helped me remember good things in my life...I'm sure others who read it feel the same.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to not only help yourself, but help others find light in the darkness.

I saw a quote on a fake tombstone once...during Halloween time in the USA. It said "Blessed are the Cracked, for they let in the light". That's how I think of some of us. We may have some minor cracks, or some deep fissures, but some, if not most, bring such light to PC, and it just radiates through their darkness. Sometimes they can't see it, but it's there.

Thank you for sharing your light!!

[Travelinglady]

What an uplifting thread! Thanks!

Okay my reasons: (tough, yours are so wonderful, Venus!--tough to follow!)

1. Times when I've been completely enthralled in the realm of my grandson's "Imagination Game" he plays with me over the phone...(his panda bear told me his household chores: 1.to clean the catbox 2.to unclog the toilet 3.to turn on the lights to the stars everynight and drag out the moon...) precious moments!

2.Whenever someone is very silly (often, I am...alone, by myself..I crack me up with my own thoughts!) and makes me laugh so hard tears run down my face.

I may add more? at another time? I look forward to more of yours!!! Wonderful thread Venus!!!

3.This opportunity to thank all on PC who've given me the gift of laughter..I truly appreciate that.....so needed, and possibly my favorite thing in life...thank you all!
Much needed at this time of year...not my favorite time...but you make it bearable!

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[madisgram]

great thread venus!
i love life even when there are down times. i feel alive!
my incredibly special granddaughter madison. too many wonderful things to mention.
feeling the love of my son. he's always there to be the "wind beneath my wings."
breezy day at the beach
my son's and my star that we talked to when he was in iraq x5. it was like we were communicating with each other.
unconditional love by my dog of 13 years.
having a higher power who reminds i'm not ever alone and loves me.
serenity, most of the time
rain
my friends
laughter

oh so many things i could write here but don't want to hog the thread.