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If they're gonna show our stats, then let's be thorough about it.

Favorites (211), you're on 675)  

Look at my various lists below; I've got hundreds of favorites,

yet had to wean some off of the "official list", since many are such prolific writers. 

Their new posts were keeping me from seeing too many others, yet they do remain

some of my favorite writers & I still comment on them all as time permits.

Until recently, I had 10 people on my ignore list, some of them being the same

people, under different accounts. They're STILL obnoxious.  

www.allpoetry.com/column/306041  * super*

emoticons. Big people crayons. All 96 colors.

Ancient Chinese curse: "May you live an interesting life."   

"Among the Haida Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the verb for "making poetry"

is the same as the verb "to breathe".

~ Tom Robbins, from "Another Roadside Attraction"

"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: 'Sing for us soon again;' that is as much as to say, 'May new sufferings torment your soul.'".

- Soren Kierkegaard 

“When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly” - Patrick Overton

Our Greatest Fear

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.  

—Marianne Williamson

My book ~

www.publishamerica.com/shopping/shopreviewlist.asp?id=13874 

Never be fooled by tenderness...or take it for granted. 

Baaad idea.  Woof.

Finally, Diogenes can rest...

Exceedingly brilliant, exceptionally handsome,

infinitely adorable...my Husband. 

http://allpoetry.com/Danny%20Beatty

G'head. We double-dog dare ya.