New Year Weekender 28 Dec 2017 - 02 Jan 2018
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MB, for what it is worth, that feeling of groundlessness
is happening to me now as I move towards a lifechange I hadn't even
realized was coming as soon as it is. . .
Maybe you were using geography for a fixed point on your compass.
You know the compass I mean--the kind used for navigation--
For me, it has been that and my vocation.
Both will be changing in the next few years and I too feel rather lost.
Speaking of fixed points
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:
So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did, and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.
But we by a love so much refined,
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.
---John Donne
is happening to me now as I move towards a lifechange I hadn't even
realized was coming as soon as it is. . .
Maybe you were using geography for a fixed point on your compass.
You know the compass I mean--the kind used for navigation--
For me, it has been that and my vocation.
Both will be changing in the next few years and I too feel rather lost.
Speaking of fixed points
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:
So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did, and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.
But we by a love so much refined,
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.
---John Donne
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Originally Posted by saoutchik 
The Weekender thread does run all week as in this day and age many people do not work a standard 9-5 Monday to Friday and well... just because
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Location: Manitoba
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Originally Posted by saoutchik
Good post LBrain, I am very much looking forward to Spring.
I have finally got a new desk at work, my old one was borderline antique. I am easy pleased.
I have finally got a new desk at work, my old one was borderline antique. I am easy pleased.
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I was waiting for someone to offer but...
lol
new thread here
https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...ry-2018-a.html (Weekender 04-08 January 2018)
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lolnew thread here
https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...ry-2018-a.html (Weekender 04-08 January 2018)
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