John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ..."
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"...here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...if you don't regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...when people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"... I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"... I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"... I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...what is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...the monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what is pleasing to the eye - he wasn't..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"..snow gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...and not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"... Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
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