One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore. ~André Gide

still

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope for hope
would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.


T.S. Eliot

VFF 2009

VFF

WFG

I got off that boat with nothing but my dancer's belt and a tube of chapstick!
~waiting for guffman

what a wonder, my baby Gigi

I believe
fate smiled and destiny
laughed as she came to my cradle
"know this child will be able"
laughed as my body she lifted
"know this child will be gifted
with love, with patience
and with faith
she'll make her way"


Natalie Merchant