Saturday, 11 December 2010

... late night piccadilly pondering ...


"The singer is old and has forgotten
Her girlhood's grief for the young soldier
Who sailed away across the ocean,
Love's brief joy and lonely sorrow:
The song is older than the singer.

The song is older than the singer.
Shaped by love and the long waiting
of women dead and long forgotten
Who sang before remembered time
To teach the unbroken heart it's sorrow.

The girl who waits for her young soldier
learns from the cadence of a song
How deep her love, how long the waiting
Sorrow is older than the heart,
Already old when love is young:
The song is older than the sorrow."
Piccadilly line, June 2010

THE KILLERS - romeo & juliet (dire straits cover)
image: http://weheartit.com/entry/335144

Sunday, 5 December 2010

... stars when you shine ...












Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but by how we react to what happens to us - Not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life.

... this universal feeling ...















"A champion shows who they are by what they do when they're tested.  When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it,' - they're a champion" 
- Evander Holyfield