I will be 24 soon and I want to do something different for myself.

I want it to be MY year.

the past silhouettes everywhere

every place has a story

its own heroes and villains

wars, woes

discoveries, triumphs

for every inch of every place that we step on,

it bleeds history, stories of past

that lays in the grave

yet defines the present

P is for thoughts...

penser: think - in French

pensare: ponder - in Latin

solitude conceives

thoughts...

distance deepens

thoughts...

love reasons

thoughts...

the best surprise ever.

Amanda came down -- and is staying til 15th. I was absolutely clueless and had no idea this would happen. Bam, I was just surprised right there.

Life has an uncanny knack of how to bring a sunshine in one's life. Out of all days, last Friday, I was miserable. Out of all times, Amanda surprised me that day. :)

Letter To My Unborn Child by Young Dawkins

Someday you will want to know
and I might not be here,
so this is how you were made.

It was a soft night
near the back of June,
clear, for a change, no rain.

Old women were out
gathering healing herbs,
fennel, dog rose and rhu.

Bonfires burned on all seven hills,
drunken young men
leapt through the flames.

Down in the bogsthe fox
fire glowed,
will o' the wisps edged the meadows.

In our bed my wife laughed out loud
at the loving pleasure
of being a woman.

Like any man, I suppose,
I was proud,
and we fell to our sleep both smiling.

You were created
of passion and magic,
in Scotland, on Mid-Summer's Eve.

Here in the North,
that augers you special,
your mother and I believe.

love is made of many little things.

all the big things are found in little things
i remember my teacher once said that
only little things are important because
they create big things

one of the biggest things known to the mankind
and most of all, to myself
...is LOVE;
a creation out of many beautiful little things

It's the little things like

the giggles between you two before taking pictures

and a kiss right after taking pictures

that you know is true love.

It's the little things like

a small but eternal promise that arguments

won't stop you from holding each other to sleep

that you know is true love.

baby

my baby, jem
my baby sister, amanda
my baby brother, andrew
baby, i love you, jem

baby that and baby this
people use that word all the time
to romanticize
to soften

i don't baby that or this,
nor will i baby anyone that comes by my heart
this word is somehow a sacred one
it comes naturally, right out of my mouth

without any intention to
romanticize anyone or soften anyone
but to express a deep & sincere love for one
like my sister, brother, or my dog

baby, one of most common words,
but one will know how much i mean
when i just blurt out of my mouth,
"baby, i love you."

a common sense

Nil Magnum Nisi Bonum

no greatness without goodness.