The Sparkling Agenda

[Mistermoonlight]

May 7, 2014 13:34:32 GMT -5 Bats said:

Here's what happens when you dance.



Heaven.

[mercurytheatre]

It's not about who hurt you and broke you down, it's about who was always there and made you smile again.

[Mistermoonlight]

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
--Ernest Hemingway

[Mistermoonlight]

Older and younger folks finding joy together:




28 year-old Alex Flores held up a sign at a recent Bruce Springsteen concert in Houston that said he had "busted his 16-year old brother out of class to sing with the Boss. Can we sing?" Springsteen invited them up. They knew every word and killed it like bosses. Talk about unbridled joy.



No Surrender
by Bruce Springsteen

Well, we burst out of class
Had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a 3-minute record, baby
Than we ever learned in school
Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer sound
I can feel my heart begin to pound
You say you're tired and you just want to close your eyes
And follow your dreams down

Chorus:
Well, we made a promise we swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Like soldiers in the winter's night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender

Well, now young faces grow sad and old
And hearts of fire grow cold
We swore blood brothers against the wind
Now I'm ready to grow young again
And hear your sister's voice calling us home
Across the open yards
Well maybe we'll cut someplace of own
With these drums and these guitars

'Cause we made a promise we swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Blood brothers in the stormy night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender

Now on the street tonight the lights grow dim
The walls of my room are closing in
There's a war outside still raging
You say it ain't ours anymore to win
I want to sleep beneath
Peaceful skies in my lover's bed
With a wide open country in my eyes
And these romantic dreams in my head

Once we made a promise we swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Blood brothers in a stormy night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender

Ohhhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhhh
Ohhhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhhh
Ohhhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhhh
Ohhhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhhh

Bless Bruce Springsteen.

Bless rock and roll.

[Mistermoonlight]

[mercurytheatre]

“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage.
Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery.
And I promise you, something great will come of it.”

[mercurytheatre]

"Just because someone stumbles…
and loses their way…
does not mean that they have to be lost forever."

[mercurytheatre]

link

[Mistermoonlight]

Sparkle on.

[Bats]

[Bats]

[Mistermoonlight]

Get your jammies on and find a place to plop down.

[InsertBrainHere]

"Father"

He never made a fortune, or a noise, In the world where men are seeking after fame; But he had a healthy brood of girls and boys, Who loved the very ground on which he trod. They thought him just little short of God; Oh you should have heard the way they said his name — 'Father.'

There seemed to be a loving little prayer, In their voices, even when they called him 'Dad.' Though the man was never heard of anywhere, As a hero, yet somehow understood, He was doing well his part and making good; And you knew it, by the way his children had — of saying 'Father.'

He gave them neither eminence nor wealth, But he gave them blood untainted with a vice, And opulence of undiluted health.
He was honest, and unpurchable and kind; He was clean in heart, and body, and in mind. So he made them heirs to riches without price — This father.

He never preached or scolded; and the rod — Well, he used it as a turning pole in play. But he showed the tender sympathy of God. To his children in their troubles, and their joys. He was always chum and comrade with his boys, And his daughters — oh, you ought to hear them say — 'Father.'

Now I think of all achievements 'tis the least, To perpetuate the species; it is done, By the insect and the serpent, and the beast. But the man who keeps his body, and his thought, Worth bestowing on an offspring love-begot, Then the highest earthly glory he was won, When in pride a grown-up daughter or a son says 'That's Father.'

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)

[mercurytheatre]

" How I wish TRUE LOVE was like a boy playing chess. Always afraid of losing his QUEEN & a girl risking everything just to protect her KING! "
- ☤ ℰgliss†ℭn ☤ -

[AntiArbitrator]

Nov 2, 2014 0:39:21 GMT -5 mercurytheatre said:

" How I wish TRUE LOVE was like a boy playing chess. Always afraid of losing his QUEEN & a girl risking everything just to protect her KING! "
- ☤ ℰgliss†ℭn ☤ -

I have been thinking about this quote for several days. I must say it is (imo) the best description of true love I have heard. Thank you for sharing it.

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[VelvetEars]

Oh, Heavenly Father,

We thank Thee for food and remember the hungry.

We thank Thee for health and remember the sick.

We thank Thee for friends and remember the friendless.

We thank Thee for freedom and remember the enslaved.

May these remembrances stir us to service,

That Thy gifts to us may be used for others.

Amen.

-Pauline Phillips aka Dear Abby

[VelvetEars]

Thanksgiving Prayer (author unknown)

We come to this table today, O Lord, humble and thankful and glad.

We thank Thee first for the great miracle of life, for the exaltation of being

human, for the capacity to love.

We thank Thee for joys both great and simple —

For wonder, dreams and hope;

For the newness of each day;

For laughter and song and a merry heart;

For compassion waiting within to be kindled;

For the forbearance of friends and the smile of a stranger;

For the arching of the earth and trees and heavens and the fruit of all three;

For the wisdom of the old;

For the courage of the young;

For the promise of the child;

For the strength that comes when needed;

For this family united here today.

Of those to whom much is given, much is required. May we and our children remember this. Amen.