Quote of the day...just in time for Valentine's Day

Why do certain people get attracted to one another? How can this attraction get sustained? Trust which is an ability to tolerate the unknown is a big ingredient to a healthy relationship,along with security,safety, predictability but just as important is an element of surprise, the unexpected, the novelty, the mystery. These are the contradictions, the opposites that make this world such a dynamic and interesting place...

Here is an example extracted from an interview with Barack and Michelle Obama for a French newspaper Le Monde:

"If you look deep into her eyes, there’s a certain vulnerability. In any case, I see it even if most don’t realize it: she goes through life tall, beautiful, confident, very able…There’s a part of her that is fragile, young, sometimes scared, and I think these are contradictions that attracted me to her. And she makes me very happy. She is very familiar to me and so I can be myself around her, she knows me well, I completely trust her, but at the same time in certain respects she remains a mystery to me."

"Sometimes, when we’re lying together,I look at her and I feel dizzy with the realization that here is another distinct person from me, who has memories, origins, thoughts, feelings that are different from my own. That tension between familiarity and mystery meshes something strong between us. Even if one builds a life together based on trust, attentiveness and mutual support, I think that’s it’s important that a partner continues to surprise."

-Barack Obama about his wife Michelle.

Her Lips and Him

Her Lips

Him

the quiver comes first then the parting to reveal its inner sanctuary softly bending her lower lip with prodding from what at first appears a stranger she allows its pink interior to be exposed ready to receive my urgent mouth no longer the stranger we meet halfway but there is no halfway only full swollen thrusts of tongue and soul that bend and move to the rhythm of our hearts reaching out for each other as though we cannot live without the breath of the other so it is we cannot we won't those lips are mine are hers are ours

goodness!  he amazes me,  he touches me  as if eternal ethereal  moves me  higher  than the skies but keeps grounded on top  of  right here inside of right now again and again every  moment every breath every touch joyous unbearable lightness of being with him in his arms on his lips inside his soul i lose control and let it be just you and me as i am floating away in a sweet haze of ecstasy...

 

Waltz Boston

It is almost Fall in the air...

Photo by Philip Greenspun

I.
On a leafy yellow carpet outside back street,

Draped in airy silky tunic gifted by the wind

Fall was dancing while the day was winding down its heat

And the sax sang the song- 

Waltz boston.

All the neighbors gathered here to watch her dance all day

Birds flew from across the town and sat on rooftops,  

Clapping their wings to golden dancer move and sway.

The old house  - long ago here music was played.

Refrain: 

I often see this one dream, 

My unbelievable dream

Where Fall is dancing just for You and just for Me,

Where leaves keep on falling down,

The record spins round and round

Oh, please do not leave, please stay with me

My little whim! 

I often see this one dream

My unbelievable dream 

Where fall keeps dancing

To the waltzing boston theme...

II. 
Getting drunk with pure pleasure, shedding off the years

Good old house fell in love with golden dancer

Windows open wide and swung his walls to waltz boston 

Sharing joys of his soul

With the ones who knew him whole.

And when all the sounds faded in the cool street air 

Everything that has a start must have an ending,

Having waited for a moment, fall cried out her last rain. 

Oh, I will miss this one dream.

It was so good to be in.

Refrain:

I often see this one dream, 
My unbelievable dream

Where Fall is dancing just for You and just for Me,
Where leaves keep on falling down,

The record spins round and round
Oh, please do not leave, please stay with me

My little whim!
I often see this one dream

My unbelievable dream Where Fall keeps dancing

To the waltzing boston theme...

- My Original English translation of existing song by Alexander Rozenbaum

Soulmate

A soulmate is a person with whom you can talk for hours, even when there is not anything in particular to talk about. A soulmate is a person with whom it is pleasant to stay quiet and listen to silence. It is someone whose company you long for and you don't want to miss out on a day in their life.

Happiness Quotes

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions- the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or a heartfelt compliment.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

-Ariel Gore

A Soul Connection

Positive feelings between people translate in connections. How deep a connection can be? American psychotherapist J. Welwood integrates psychological concepts from the West with Eastern spiritual philosophy. His answer for a deep connection is a soul connection.  

     A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other’s individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level. This kind of mutual recognition provides the catalyst for a potent alchemy. It is a sacred alliance whose purpose is to help both partners discover and realize their deepest potentials. 

     While a heart connection lets us appreciate those we love just as they are, a soul connection opens up a further dimension… seeing and loving them for who they could be, and for who we could become under their influence.

     This means recognizing that we both have an important part to play in helping each other become more fully who we are. A soul connection not only inspires us to expand, but also forces us to confront whatever stands in the way of that expansion.

- J. Welwood

Present

Walking down the path of every day occurrences...one can recognize little moments that sparkle especially bright whether it rains or shines:

I close my eyes and the words come right out of nowhere

Like drops of spring rain, like the breath of a cool morning haze

I am a free bird flying proudly high in the air

Who looks at this world and can’t find a happier place

Time stands still, the earth rocks slowly under your feet

Here you come, making story complete

Look at you, straight to your soul so true

Worlds in your eyes of blue

All of my dreams, all of my hopes come true

One more breath, taking my breath away

Only to count the days

Till I can see your face

Into this world, 

Into your arms I’ll fall

One more touch, goosebumps run down the spine

Close the eyes and smile

Letting you near,

Staying right here for a while.

Feeling free, what does it really mean

Being alive, into the wild to fly...

2013