Turning over a new leaf

"The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul’s worth.”
―Shannon L. Alder

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul’s worth.”
―Shannon L. Alder

"time, however, wounds all heels
time is the ultimate scorekeeper"

How's your heels nowadays; better?
Maybe tall boots will help? 😀

The Silken Tent

She is as in a field a silken tent
At midday when the sunny summer breeze
Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent,
So that in guys it gently sways at ease,
And its supporting central cedar pole,
That is its pinnacle to heavenward
And signifies the sureness of the soul,
Seems to owe naught to any single cord,
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound
By countless silken ties of love and thought
To every thing on earth the compass round,
And only by one's going slightly taut
In the capriciousness of summer air
Is of the slightlest bondage made aware.

Robert Frost
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Comment: This is one of a very few poems by famous poets which I actually adore
(for reasons which though on topic would be inappropriate for disclosure here).

Originally posted by coquette
I take back what I said about you before
even though you did deserve it
and it was true
and everyone knows it

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
You seriously underestimate coquette.
Please respect her new thread by focusing on its topic rather than on other people.
Thank you.

Originally posted by rookie54
blow me...

Here's another of a very few poems by famous poets which I adore. Its title is such an understated misnomer;
I've thought of these last few lines about this beautiful lady, apropos of this thread's original post,
since first reading them decades ago. Enjoy...

Poem In Prose

This poem is for my wife.
I have made it plainly and honestly:
The mark is on it
Like the burl on the knife.

I have not made it for praise.
She has no more need for praise
Than summer has
Or the bright days.

In all that becomes a woman
Her words and her ways are beautiful:
Love's lovely duty,
the well-swept room.

Wherever she is there is sun
And time and a sweet air:
Peace is there,
Work done.

There are always curtains and flowers
And candles and baked bread
And a cloth spread
And a clean house.

Her voice when she sings is a voice
At dawn by a freshening spring
Where the wave leaps in the wind
And rejoices.

Wherever she is it is now.
It is here where the apples are:
Here in the stars,
In the quick hour.

The greatest and richest good,
My own life to live in,
This she has given me --

If giver could.

By Archibald MacLeish

Originally posted by moonbus
Dear Sir/Madam,

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Your new leaf will be in very safe hands.

Yours,
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PS we would be happy to send you a free leaflet.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Dear Sir,

It has come to our attention that you have been giving out free leaflets but have neglected to pay the annual 'free leaflet tax.' Please pay £1200 at your earliest convenience.

Yours sincerely,

Chief Tax Officer

“Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.” ―Shannon L. Alder

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Dear Sir,

It has come to our attention that you have been giving out free leaflets but have neglected to pay the annual 'free leaflet tax.' Please pay £1200 at your earliest convenience.

Yours sincerely,

Chief Tax Officer

Originally posted by moonbus
free flealets?

Originally posted by coquette
I am no longer going to be doing that other thing

I will no longer give in to you know what

I will be better than I was

I will be more like I know that I can be

I take back what I said about you before
even though you did deserve it
and it was true
and everyone knows it
and you did annoy everyone when you did and said those things
and you real ...[text shortened]... orekeeper

you are headed where you are headed

as for me, i am here, at peace, with my new leaf

Amazingly successful thread
Yet so short lived
Is there a next show
A page 2
An encore?