You Will Hear Thunder by Anna Akhmatova — You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire. That day in Moscow, it will all come true, when, for the last time, I take my leave, And hasten to the heights that I have longed for, Leaving my shadow still to be with you. Continue reading Poem | You Will Hear Thunder
Every so often I stumble across this image online (if you know the source, let me know please!!) and every time I take a deep breathe and remember why I am here. My purpose and worth is so much greater … Continue reading You are more…
This week I have been sharing the three parts of the poem Ode and Burgeonings by Pablo Neruda with you. As I mentioned on Monday this is a favorite of his poems, one that I have read time and time again and get caught up in every time. Enjoy. Read Part I, click here and to read Part II click here. Ode and Burgeonings – Pablo Neruda III My wild girl, we have had to regain time and march backward, in the distance of our lives, kiss after kiss gathering from one place what we gave without joy, discovering in … Continue reading Neruda III
This is beautiful and it speaks so close to my heart. Continue reading I Know Why I Write
On Monday, I shared with you the first part of Ode and Burgeonings, one of my favorite poems, and today I want to share the second part with you. To read part I, click here. Ode and Burgeonings II Years of yours that I should have felt growing near me like clusters until you had seen how the sun and the earth had destined you for my hands of stone, until grape by grape you had made the wine sing in my veins. The wind or the horse swerving were able to make me pass through your childhood, you have … Continue reading Naruda II
Can I share with you one of my favorite poems of life? A love poem that I have loved since the first time I read it, partially for the words and partially for the little girl I used to be, pretending she didn’t secretly wish for a love story… Pablo Neruda is one of my favorite poets, there is no doubt about that. He was a Chilean man, born in Parral in 1904 who one the Nobel Prize for literature in 1973. The poem I am so incredibly enamored by is a three part poem called “Ode and Burgeonings”. Today … Continue reading Neruda
Loving this. ___________________________________ I found this photo on Pinterest, with no link or credit to owner. If you know who’s it is, please let me know. … Continue reading Do you remember?
Yesterday, was a bad day. I’m talking; started late, running behind, came into a coffeepot with yesterdays no longer liquid coffee burnt into the bottom, exhausted, not prepared for anything, didn’t end until 3am this morning kind of bad day. It was long, and miserable, and more often then not I felt like locking my usually wide open office door and bawling. Except I couldn’t. For a few reasons; 1) There was work to be done, which required seeing people and 2) the heat was turned up to help dry out Monday’s surprise flood in the basement (yea, its been that kind … Continue reading So you had a bad day…
“Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” ~Arnold H. Glasow I’ve been thinking a lot about success, lately, and how it is that we make it to this illusive state of successful. I don’t have all the answers, but I do know that in order to get there we must define for ourselves what success means. Once we have a picture of what success will look like in our individual life, we are then able to work towards it…but it isn’t going to be something that is handed to you. It will take work, … Continue reading Afire
Kristi Rydmark 