Dream Place

maridini mosque, Cairo google image

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain


Have you ever been haunted by a place? This is my place. My city of a thousand fantasies--Cairo. One day.

CCTV Ink from Troublemakers.tv on Vimeo.

Her t-shirt reads, "Full of Love" and that is what my girl is, pure love.

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family." ~Anthony Brandt

Give a damn campaign

The Give A Damn Campaign is a project of the True Colors Fund, founded by Cyndi Lauper. The True Colors Fund works to inspire and engage everyone, especially the straight community, to get involved in the advancement of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality. Here is the YouTube version without that insulting tag that read underneath, which I had not noticed (until now)had come with the previous link.My deepest apologies for the original post.:

Spring

Asbury Park Circa 1914, image source Shorpy

Three Spring Notations on Bipeds

by Carl Sandburg (1920)

The down drop of the blackbird,
The wing catch of arrested flight,
The stop midway and then off: off for triangles, circles, loops of new hieroglyphs—
This is April’s way: a woman:
“O yes, I’m here again and your heart
knows I was coming.”

White pigeons rush at the sun,
A marathon of wing feats is on:
“Who most loves danger? Who most loves wings? Who somersaults for God’s sake in the name of wing power in the sun and blue on an April Thursday.”
So ten winged heads, ten winged feet, race their white forms over Elmhurst.
They go fast: once the ten together were a feather of foam bubble, a chrysanthemum whirl speaking to silver and azure.

The child is on my shoulders.
In the prairie moonlight the child’s legs hang over my shoulders.
She sits on my neck and I hear her calling me a good horse.
She slides down—and into the moon silver of a prairie stream
She throws a stone and laughs at the clug-clug.

Renewing

Wedding dress from Etsy

If you were going to renew your wedding vows, where would it be? What would you wear?