chaand ka tika, mathe pe lagake, raat din taaro pe jeena veena easy nahi.

my name is alice ayres.

nice to see that i still have a few loyal readers. some amusing search terms of my fav. readers: "disarming euphemism," "euphemism disarming,"
and this:
"our life is a fire dampened, or a fire shut up in stone."
how appropriately poetic.

from my beautiful friend and w.r.f shelly. have i ever told you how dearly i love my friends???


"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it."

- Rabindranath Tagore, was a poet, novelist & Asia's first Nobel laureate.


"Every desire you have at its core exists because you think attaining it will make you happy; but happiness can only be attained in the present moment. Therefore any desire you have to be happy in the future is blocking your ability to be happy now. Only when you are at peace with what is now, will you ever find happiness now."

- Jackson Kiddard


"And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place thing or situation-some fact of my life - unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God's world by mistake... unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes."

- The Big Book by Bill W, the Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

the beauty and light of this universe constantly overwhelm me. we are magic. we can't help the actions or changing feelings around us. we just have our own love to interpret and demonstrate.
our love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love.
love, love, love.
love, love, love.
love, love, love.

"Nino is late. She can only see two explanations. 1 - he didn't get the photo. 2 - before he could assemble it, a gang of bank robbers took him hostage. The cops gave chase. They got away... but he caused a crash. When he came to, he'd lost his memory. An ex-con picked him up, mistook him for a fugitive, and shipped him to Istanbul. There he met some Afghan raiders who took him to steal some Russian warheads. But their truck hit a mine in Tajikistan. He survived, took to the hills, and became a Mujaheddin. She refuses to get upset for a guy who'll eat borscht all his life in a hat like a tea cozy. "

-le fabuleux destin d'amelie poulain

NOT EASILY

When we get beyond beauty and pleasure,
to the other side of the heart (but short
of the spirit), we are confused about waht
to do next. It is too easy to say arriving
is enough. To pretend the music
of the mountain needs only to be heard.
That the dance is known by the dancing,
and the lasagne is realized by eating it.
Not in this place on the other side
of desire. We can swim in the Aegean,
but we can't take it home. A man finds
a melon by the road and continues up
the hill thinking it is the warm melon
that will remain after her has forgotten
the ruins and sea of the summer. He tells
himself this even as the idea of the taste
is replacing what the melon tasted like.

-Jack Gilbert