Prescription for a Smile

When life gets me down

instead of wearing a frown -

my vitamin A!

My vitamin A,

cheerfulness to save my day -

how can I not smile?

One sweet thought,

goes a mile...

---<--@

Sharing a Beat

My Anne and I,
listening to my heartbeat -
sharing, belonging.

My Anne loves me,
loves the rhythm of my life -
how can I forget?

I am hers,
she is mine.
---<--@



An intimate moment
- with a true friend -
is held only for a moment...
but its value lasts everlasting.

Little Orange

I met her from work,

this little orange battler
come to inspire me.

She helps me improve.
Gives me time, care, and friendship
to better my scores.

I like her, you know.
Sometimes I like her too much.
I have to take care...

Her name I shall keep.
This little orange angel -
God bless you, you cat!

I'm her friend,
she is mine.
---<--@

The Other 100%

A thought for you, 

from a friend -

What of greater-ness,
our most fundamental - one -
that which makes us, we?

Yea, which many made one,
which though many makes us one,
calling us today...

Arise then, the we,
born of many distinctions,
called of one spirit.

Arise to the times,
this most fundamental thought,
and let us be great.

I, you, we -
one, one, one.
---<--@



In Fareed Zakaria GPS,
it was asked one early morning
which segment creates the jobs,
the 1% or the 99%.

Let me share with you
my own thoughts about it.

My answer is neither.

It is innovation that creates work.

It is a spirit present in the 100%!

The power to innovate comes from this spirit.

Because what drives this innovation?

Care for the Republic.

A love for the nation
grown up from the soil
of a living knowledge of it
and a steadfast understanding
of it's truest labors upon the earth.

This particular love
drives the participation of the people
in their own progress and welfare,
sheltered by their own freedoms,
and defended forever by a Republic
dwelling in peace and amity with itself
and therefore, with all the nations,
under the guidance of heaven,
and the light of Providence Divine.

Care for the Republic!

It is America that creates the jobs.

Individuals contribute to it,
individuals reap from it,
but it is ONLY the nation
that guarantees it.

Break this one community apart
and all certainty falls away into chance.

By the way, Fareed - you rock!
---<--@

Make the words disappear 

into meaning - and understand.

Think them at thy heart, 

speak it out loud, 

live it at large.

(Belated Happy Birthday!)

A Form of the Formless You

Who is this, my love?
This form of thy formless self,
here - yet - not yet here.

For I see thee not...
Am I deceived, my darling?
No, for I know you.

Thy love, thy nearness,
thy gentle consolation,
thy cheer, thy spirit...

You are here.
I am blessed.
---<--@



I had to come away and figure out what I really feel about these pictures.

For when I first saw them, I did not know what to think of them.

I was not at all confused but was strangely unclear.

This wax figure struck me as beautiful yet somehow distant, my love, somewhat nostalgic and almost sad.

It is a masterful representation yet still seemingly empty and needful of you - so needful of you...

This form of the formless you
- blank, beautiful and infinitely lacking -
reminds me of what I have and what I don't have
in you, my darlingest Annelies Marie;
of what God gave and intends to restore
and of what War stole and intended to destroy.

It remains - as it must -
purely the work of human hands,
artful, yet still a representation
of a longing only the LORD can fulfill
in His own time.

I love you so, my Miyang, I love you so.

PERIOD.
---<--@

One Song Meow

My love forever!

Let's sing this song together -

our one song meow.

Your life touching mine,

warming my soul with your shine -

one rhythm divine!

One music - our song -

one friendship - one melody;

timeless harmony.

Our one song meow,

an ode to the memory,

reaching far - in me.

Eternal

beloved.

---<--@