it is not just your right to love
where love takes you, it is also your calling;
not only your right but your duty
to call yourself what you want to be called;
not just your right to sleep in a house
you built, but a blessing; not only your right
to speak your heart there, but the only way
the house can stand for more than a lifetime;
not just your right to move, to eat, to have
your body be your body and not a symbol;
to breathe and taste the mountains and the sea,
and not the tang of burning coal, wood, oil, or flesh.
and it is not only your right
to know these things
but to be able to hold them tight against you
when you are cold, hungry, and bleeding,
for they are not just speech.
they are warm as blankets.
they absorb. they wrap the naked,
cradle the dead.
one thing, though: they make terrible flags.
Dark Matter 
March 16th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
Re: Love, hearth and home.
you are very good at what you do. I’m enjoying this series. Look forward to more…*hug*
March 16th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
Re: Love, hearth and home.
you are very good at what you do. I’m enjoying this series. Look forward to more…*hug*
March 16th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
Re: Love, hearth and home.
you are very good at what you do. I’m enjoying this series. Look forward to more…*hug*
March 16th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
Re: Love, hearth and home.
you are very good at what you do. I’m enjoying this series. Look forward to more…*hug*
March 16th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
Re: Love, hearth and home.
you are very good at what you do. I’m enjoying this series. Look forward to more…*hug*
March 16th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
Re: Love, hearth and home.
you are very good at what you do. I’m enjoying this series. Look forward to more…*hug*
March 16th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
Re: Love, hearth and home.
Thank you. That is what I was going for, exactly.
March 16th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
Re: Love, hearth and home.
Thank you. That is what I was going for, exactly.
March 16th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
Re: Love, hearth and home.
Thank you. That is what I was going for, exactly.
March 16th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
Re: Love, hearth and home.
Thank you. That is what I was going for, exactly.
March 16th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
Re: Love, hearth and home.
Thank you. That is what I was going for, exactly.
March 16th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
Re: Love, hearth and home.
Thank you. That is what I was going for, exactly.
March 16th, 2005 at 4:25 pm
Love, hearth and home.
That’s it in a nutshell.
Being in touch with the feminine side has shown you understand the things the gung-ho men-children will never understand – because they want that damn flag. They’re living and dying for a piece of cloth, not those other things behind it, which at one time it represented.
It makes me so warm yet so melancholy at the same time. Thank you.
March 16th, 2005 at 4:25 pm
Love, hearth and home.
That’s it in a nutshell.
Being in touch with the feminine side has shown you understand the things the gung-ho men-children will never understand – because they want that damn flag. They’re living and dying for a piece of cloth, not those other things behind it, which at one time it represented.
It makes me so warm yet so melancholy at the same time. Thank you.
March 16th, 2005 at 4:25 pm
Love, hearth and home.
That’s it in a nutshell.
Being in touch with the feminine side has shown you understand the things the gung-ho men-children will never understand – because they want that damn flag. They’re living and dying for a piece of cloth, not those other things behind it, which at one time it represented.
It makes me so warm yet so melancholy at the same time. Thank you.
March 16th, 2005 at 4:25 pm
Love, hearth and home.
That’s it in a nutshell.
Being in touch with the feminine side has shown you understand the things the gung-ho men-children will never understand – because they want that damn flag. They’re living and dying for a piece of cloth, not those other things behind it, which at one time it represented.
It makes me so warm yet so melancholy at the same time. Thank you.
March 16th, 2005 at 4:25 pm
Love, hearth and home.
That’s it in a nutshell.
Being in touch with the feminine side has shown you understand the things the gung-ho men-children will never understand – because they want that damn flag. They’re living and dying for a piece of cloth, not those other things behind it, which at one time it represented.
It makes me so warm yet so melancholy at the same time. Thank you.
March 16th, 2005 at 4:25 pm
Love, hearth and home.
That’s it in a nutshell.
Being in touch with the feminine side has shown you understand the things the gung-ho men-children will never understand – because they want that damn flag. They’re living and dying for a piece of cloth, not those other things behind it, which at one time it represented.
It makes me so warm yet so melancholy at the same time. Thank you.