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What do you see?
Is it what I see?
We look at the same thing
So why is it so different for me?
I wish you could use my eyes
and I yours.
But would that be enough?
We see not with our eyes.
How do we share our hearts?
How do we share our minds?
How do we share our souls?
Are we truly islands,
An endless archipelago of lonely beings?
Or is there a path to mutual understanding -
A place where we can share as equals
Someplace where we can see
And know our vision is one.
(C) Copyright 2007 Janet L. Nolan
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One island to another
In the gulf of misunderstanding, I know where you're coming from.
-- Donna Lamb, Flack
-- Donna Lamb, ex-Flack
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What was that
The old John Donne thing...No 'man' is an Island... well he might have been a sexist swine but, hey, times afore or something. Not sure he was too worried about perception. Probably just Soooo sure eveyone would just get it... ya know. Sorry...riffin' on the blonde thing.
Nice Janet, elegant and simple. Um..or was that Tracy...you schizoid types are a worry.
Kristina
YOU schizoid types?
Kristina,
Please be nice to Janet. She is proofing stuff for me and I need her in a good mood. Mind you as a blonde,...
No, Sis, I was not about to make a blonde joke. You can put down that cast-iron skillet.
Nice piece, Janet. Great to see one of the selfless helpers of us writing impared put some of their own work out here.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Oh John
You know...it's that two name thing. I didn't mean nuthin'. Just wasn't sure who I wuz talkin' too. I'm sure Janet, um, Tracy, um...is, um, are lovely people.
Kristina (aka dopey*).
* is that how ya spell that?
Sweet
Sigh, if only we could just agree to get along, if not agree with each other. Simply said Janet.
Hugs!
grover
Merry Minuet
They’re rioting in Africa (whistling)
They’re starving in Spain (whistling)
There’s hurricanes in Flo-ri-da (whistling)
And Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls
The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch
AND I DON’T LIKE ANYBODY VERY MUCH!!
But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud
For man’s been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud
And we know for certain that some lovely day Someone will set the spark off
AND WE WILL ALL BE BLOWN AWAY!!
They’re rioting in Africa (whistling)
There’s strife in Iran
What nature doesn’t so to us
Will be done by our fellow "man"
The Kingston Trio 1959
"He was a wise man who invented beer."
Plato
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi