Percy Bysshe Shelley: Music, when soft voices die
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for … Continue reading
Shane Koyczan: To This Day…For the Bullied and Beautiful
This is a stunning, beautiful, love-filled, upsetting, funny, inspiring and wonderful talk. I urge you to watch and be inspired! By turn hilarious and haunting, poet Shane Koyczan puts his … Continue reading
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How do I love thee?
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For … Continue reading
Cameron Russell: Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model
This is an incredibly engaging, honest and thought-provoking talk from Cameron Russell. She has worked as a model since a young age and gives a very witty yet powerful talk … Continue reading
Meditate On Beauty
We are bombarded with images of what a few in the higher echelons of big business say beauty is, on a daily basis. They feed the lie that if you … Continue reading
Margaret Atwood, Variations on the Word Love
This is a word we use to plug holes with. It’s the right size for those warm blanks in speech, for those red heart- shaped vacancies on the page that … Continue reading
SoulPancake: Heart Attack
“We all need love in our lives but sometimes it can be really hard to find. So, Soul Pancake set up a mysterious white box on a busy boardwalk to … Continue reading
Allow Love and Beauty to Shine in June!
It is challenging to be a sensitive, loving being in the current climate. There are so many people feeling lost and angry, who lash out at those who do not … Continue reading
Lord George Gordon Byron, She walks in Beauty
She walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed … Continue reading
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” Thomas Stephen Szasz
Forgiveness of the past is vital to living contentedly in the present and to moving brightly into the future with clarity. I see time and again people want to blame … Continue reading
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