Resilient

"The world is a tough place. No matter how tough you think you are, it will always bring you to your knees and keep you there...permanently, if you let it. You and nobody are ever going to hit as hard as life. But it isn't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward - how much you can take and keep moving forward."

With the grace of a woman

Inception

Flexible Force

Caught, captured within the grasp of an unknown,
captivating force as it cries, screams, whispers
quietly uttering its concealed mourning, its vehement
joy, this powerful display shaking, soaking,
overwhelming with persistent consistency, steadily
dripping, constant taunt, enraging reminder of such
small force, drenching, hiding within a clouded
mist as step by step it spreads across, throughout,
underneath, within, heating chilled skin with lost
sunbeams shining through trembling rainbows,
forgotten writing of a foreign language, spoken
by the clouds, the sun, the drip, drip, dripping.

Empty

Writing

“That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't know what you think until it dribbles from your brain down your arm and into your hand and out through your fingers and shows up on the computer screen, and you read it and realize: That's really true; I believe that.” 

- Ellen Wittlinger, Hard Love

Dreamers

"All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act 
their dream with open eyes to make it possible." 

- T.E. Lawrence

Strength in Whispers

"Sometimes we lack the strength to communicate the things that matter and we end up whispering the things we want to shout."

Climber

Silent Whispers

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."

The White Album by Joan Didion