Politics

It seems everywhere you go, everywhere you turn, there it is - politics. There are no politically correct answers, refreshingly, perhaps - because we are now re-defining the correct answers. I'm very tired of the bashing that is going on, the anti-insert Party rhetoric. Let's try and speak in positive formulations instead. Don't tell me how much insert Party sucks, tell me what you believe in, tell me what you want Singapore to be.

This makes me cry a little

I want you and you are not here. I pause
in this garden, breathing the colour thought is
before language into still air. Even your name
is a pale ghost and, though I exhale it again
and again, it will not stay with me. Tonight
I make you up, imagine you, your movements clearer
than the words I have you say you said before.

Whereever you are now, inside my head you fix me
with a look, standing here whilst cool late light
dissolves into the earth. I have got your mouth wrong,
but still it smiles. I hold you closer, miles away,
inventing love, until the calls of nightjars
interrupt and turn what was to come, was certain,
into memory. The stars are filming us for no one.

- Miles Away, Carol Ann Duffy

Still naive and innocent

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” – Anais Nin

From G's blog

I love you

...All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase- 'I love you.'

-The Offshore Pirate, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Strength

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

- John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Sometimes All I See is Nothing But Stars

Human beings are good at understanding the world. We always have been. We were able to hunt game or build fires only because we had figured something out. There was a time before television, before motion pictures, before radio, before books. The greatest part of human existence was spent in such a time. Over the dying embers of the campfire, on a moonless night, we watched the stars.

- Carl Sandburg, Cosmo

I go cuckoo for you.

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