Dear Phoenix, I saw you! Freed of your cage and burning brightly across the sky! I can't imagine the price you had to pay... And I hope you didn't pay it for me... Please...Endure! Learning by Example! The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.-- Thomas …
Tag: hope
Taking Care of Business
Dear Asterion, You languish in a labyrinth built of deception... Betrayals...lies... Your tomb. Icarus has taken flight... Now. My eyes watch Theseus... All of them. Signed "Argus Panoptes" Sometimes... you have to let go. Lady Jane knows that lesson. Can the Valkyrie learn...?-- Heimdall (earth-616)
Time
I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!-- Rorschach (The Watchmen) I remember a time; not so long ago...minutes dragged on like years... I was mired in muck...slogging... But always forward. Now... Like the faded light of a long dead star; forgotten by time itself... Cold, dead, empty... I forget …
I woke up this morning
Dear Phoenix, Rise from the ashes and soar! And may your flames scorch the earth and cleanse your demons! Let your enemies feast upon their own charred flesh... And remember... If ever your path should falter... Just ask... I know a thing or two about moving mountains... Signed "WorldBreaker" Learning By Example I didn't come …
Tin Man
Dear Black-bolt, I didn't come here to hear you whisper... I remember when running the 100 meter felt like an up-hill marathon... Slow off the line...struggling for every breath...grateful for every step forward... thankful for being alive...enjoying the freedom of my solitude! Learning. Growing stronger with every step that I took!!! Every challenge that I …
Blind man in the Dark
I bring eyes of truth. What do you bring? Nothing. Learning by example! I remember reading the book in high school and always thinking of Gatsby as this strong, stoic, suave, mysterious man who had everything under control. But when I read it as an adult, I realised he is a hollow man, a shell …
Demon’s Eye
You wear their lives like a skin...stretched thinly across your grotesquely bulbous form. I question...do they wither still? Learning By Example The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. -- Kim Il-sung
Here Comes The Sun…
Dear Wounded Beast, Is the Grammar new? The logic foreign? Your rhetoric fails to inspire. Learning by Example Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. -- Norman Cousins
Fully Completely
Dear Son, I honestly and truly hope that you are happy; unfortunately, I can no longer afford the price you demand for my attention. I will no longer fight or perform for your pleasure or amusement. Not with you. Not with The Wretched Thing. Not with myself. It is time for you to deal with …
Psalm 69
There are nights like these... Necessity dictates my actions this night... Now if you'll excuse me...I'll be in the gym... ...Learning by Example! Save me, O God!For the waters have come up to my[b]neck.2 I sink in deep mire,Where there is no standing;I have come into deep waters,Where the floods overflow me.(Psalm 69:1-2)
The Eclectic Family 