An extension of my soul

As a voracious reader I believe I have made it blatantly clear that I appreciate the written word is all it's splendor and glory. There is nothing I enjoy more than a good book, a good dear book that, I will by the time I read it in it's entirety, become good friends with. Now there are two quotes that I believe epitomize what a good book or story is all about.....

 "Literature duplicates the experience of living in such  a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget that you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up, in bed til dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack simply to find out what happens to some people who---you know perfectly well--are made up."               
-Barbara Kingsolver-

"Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, that has improved on a good story that begins, "Once upon a time......."            
-William J. Bennett-

And it is my deep love affair with books that has fed my insatiable hunger for words all these wonderful years of my life here on this fine Earth. There is something so fulfilling about writing. It's like an extension of my soul. Like when I sit down to write there is no complication, no hesitation or confusion. The words pour fourth from my fingertips like there has always been a purpose for them.  My respect for the written word and all the power that it possesses I believe is what fuels my facility and ease with words and weaving them together to create what my thoughts and spirit have conjured and now desire to express. And in doing so there is a sensation comparable to my entire soul being ignited from the inside out..
I love running in the heat of Texas summers .....when the sun is at it's most cantankerous stage....like noonish...running long and running hard and then finding the oasis that is a water fountain or a water bottle ....there is a moment when you take your first sip that it feels as though you can feel the water travel from your mouth to your stomach and it cools your entire body. When I write it's water for my soul cooling every crevice of my being and I can feel it's yumminess from my head to my toes.  There is no greater sense of accomplishment or greater compliment for that matter than when someone says to me that they are moved, touched, or impacted in any way by my compilation of words. It makes me feel connected to so many people, my ability to express myself in the written form. And here are just a few words about words;

"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."        
                -Jorge Luis Borges-                                  
                                                                             
"It is in the margins that poems are found."               
                  -Osip Mandelstam-                                               

"We stayed at home to write,                                  
to consolidate our outstretched selves."                      
                   -Sylvia Plath-                                       
                                                                                           
"Writing is busy idleness."                                     
             -Goethe-

"Nulla dies sinea linea"
              -Plinius-

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power
as a word. Sometimes I write one and I look at it
until it begins to shine."
               -Emily Dickinson-

 "Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face
but black words on a white page are the soul laid bare."
                  -Guy de Maupassant-

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the
hands of fools. Let's start with the typewriters!"
            -Frank Lloyd Wright-

I hope writing serendipitously happens into your life and that you find an extension of your soul dancing amongst words manipulated into an awesome concoction of exquisite expression. Here's hoping you have your own infinite paeans to the wonderful world of words and that I am present to witness them all and be enthralled by them. I love you my beautiful warrior goddess.

Walt Disney had something....

It's been far too long since I've written to you here my little Athena and in the days since I've last left some words of wisdom to you much has transpired. You have two beautiful little teeth poking up from your bottom gums. That is monumental. It really is. I never thought I could get so incredibly exuberant about something of the sort. I try to get a glance at them every chance I get. And since you are always SCREAMING, SINGING, OR TALKING it isn't hard to do.
So today's quote come to us from a man named Walt Disney...and by the time you read this, I am most certain you will know him quite well. I think it really encapsulates very succinctly just who he was and what he stood for. And it's quite simple. Walt said;

"The BEST way to make your dreams come true......

is to WAKE UP!"

Now it isn't hard to decipher the meaning of his words for I think they are as clear as day. It's a great thing to dream Athena it truly is. When you dream about the things you want, the life you desire, the adventures you'd like to participate in you are giving power to your thoughts so that they may become a reality. Our thoughts create what we see before us and in order to obtain the dreams we spend countless days and nights playing out in our heads we must begin to take steps so that Jehovah and the universe can help the path we seek take shape right beneath our feet. The moves we make, the actions we put forth to achieve our dreams is the waking up part and when you wake up and start the wheels then slowly but surely you will see that soon life presents you with situations and people that will help you become who you dream of becoming. Sometimes it hard to cling to your highest right and follow your dreams, because it singles you out, makes you different and sometimes you just plain want to give up because it seems the end is nowhere near in sight. But if you run from safety into the world of your dreams then you take flight in a most delicious manner. I sometimes forget this or don't practice what I preach but I try everyday. And I promise to try harder for you. And Walt really did have something spectacular in mind when he said this and I hope that you're constantly waking up and making YOUR dreams a reality and know that I will always be here to stand beside you and help in any way I can to build paths beneath your feet.

Little Piglets

"I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them anymore. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live."
-Confucius-

I am absolutely in love with this quote Athena. And the only reason I believe I can empathize and so totally comprehend this little collection of words is because I had a set of parents that instilled in me such a profound, ravenous and insatiable hunger for ....hmmmm...how do I put this? Well, I guess I can sum it up in one word, if I must, a hunger for skin. My papi is a huge boxing fan, has been all his life, and when we were little papi use to lay in bed and invite us all in for what he called "rounds". Like in boxing they were three to four minute bouts of legs entwined and arms pretzeled and above all else rubbing and kissing and hugging. And they were never complete unless he asked one of us to rub his head or give him a massage. And within seconds LITERALLY he'd be knocked out. Mami followed suit with the rounds, only hers were always much much longer. And mami would inhale us, literally. Like stick her face in our necks and inhale as though her life depended on capturing every last whiff of our very essence. Like in order for her life to proceed she needed to suck our souls out through our pores. Most kids, mind you, hate this. They hate for their parents to kiss all over them and ask for affection constantly. And I believe that the kids that are this way, unfortunately it's because they weren't loved on like we were to the point of complete and utter exaggeration. We have always loved it because it's all we've ever known. And I wouldn't trade it for all the riches in the world. I will still lay in bed and cuddle with my parents until they day I am no longer able to I don't care how old I am. You see the reason papi would knock out, why mami would inhale us, and why I can never get enough of their skin is because when our skin touches I feel these sensationally brilliant magnificent electrical impulses all over my body and I feel safe and I feel at home. And it is the exquisite soul that skin encapsulates that makes it that way.  And I know they feel that too. It doesn't matter what is going on in the world or even at home within our family when we make that physical contact it's like on Avatar with the tails.....like we cuddle, we hug, we kiss and all is right in the world because we are where we belong. I tell you, it's not anything material  or tangible that connects us so strongly and keeps us together but the delicious energy we transfer to one another when we touch. I am grateful to my parents for having taught me how important the human touch is, how necessary it is to our existence, our well rounded existence. This has made it's infinitely impacting mark in my life and has poured out in everything I do. I touch EVERYONE. Not just my family. I speak through my hands and absorb life through my pores. There is nothing and I mean nothing more beautiful than the human touch and had we not been mami and papi's little piglets we would've never known that. Now you're my little piglet and I will teach you the same.