The memory lives in…

Isaac Asimov painted by Rowena Morrill

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Religion vs. Humanism: Isaac Asimov on Science and Spirituality

 

Cardiograma [7]: Say it out loud

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Little Grey & Mark Sloan (Grey’s Anatomy – Season 8 – Episode 22)

 

I Am Not Yours

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 “Juice Street Wind”  |  Photographer: JAMIE BECK (*)  |  From Me To You

I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.

You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.

Oh plunge me deep in love — put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.

Sara Teasdale

(*) Cinemagraph™ © Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg

 

A beautiful terror

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Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolescence ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite [that] terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid [that] the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror.

Truman Capote

 

Unrequited love

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Shakespeare said “Journeys end in lovers meeting.” What an extraordinary thought. Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. […] It was Shakespeare who also said “love is blind”. Now that is something I know to be true.

For some, quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then, there’s another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert.

Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space!

Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have [un]willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute worst years of my life! The worst Christmas’, the worst Birthday’s, New Years Eve’s brought in by tears and valium. These years that I have been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I’ve been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back.

(from the movie “The Holiday“)