poetryofdhiman

I hope you know this: this year wasn't just about the hardships you have faced, the times you fell down or the mistakes you have made.

 

 This year was also about how much you have grown, all the progress you have made and the stronger you have become along the way.

 

 Please don't be hard on yourself just because a year from your life did not turn out exactly the way you had planned. 

 

Trust that maybe through this year of struggle, letting go and change life was teaching you how to believe, how to be strong and brave for the rest of the journey ahead.

 

 - Dhiman 🌻

 

 

 

 

 

When I get confused, annoyed, or disheartened by someone’s behavior I repeat the words of Maya Angelou as my affirmation of truth:

“When people show you who they are believe them.”🌼

Some people will burn the bridge, 

then ask why you don't visit.

-unknown-

 

We were searching for ourselves

 in each other.

- Sergei Parajanov - 

NITCH

 

 

 

Night is purer than day; 

it is better for thinking, loving, and dreaming. 

At night everything is more intense, more true. 

The echo of words

 that have been spoken during the day

 takes on a new and deeper meaning.

- Elie Wiesel -

 

 Opinions divide. Empathy connects. 

Opinions are easy. Empathy is work. 

Opinions keep us stuck. Empathy promotes growth.⁣ 

Leading through hard things with empathy is not easy.

 But I believe it’s the bigger picture of growth and healing.

 If we meet hard things with opinions,

 we have ego work to do. ⁣

 

 

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; 

any situation between people, 

when they are really human with each other, 

produces 'intelligence'.

- Susan Sontag - 

 

 

 

 Hoop heeft 2 prachtige dochters: 

woede en moed. 

Woede over hoe de dingen nu zijn

 en de moed om te geloven

 dat ze niet zullen blijven

 zoals ze nu zijn.

 - St. Augustinus -

 

 

 

NOTHING KILLS YOU 

LIKE YOUR MIND 

 

 

I think if you can take care of yourself,

 and then maybe try to take care of someone else, 

that's sort of how you're supposed to live.

- Bill Murray - 

 NITCH

 

 

We enter that strange period between Christmas and New Year, when time seems to muddle, and we find ourselves asking again and again, What day is it? What date? I always mean to work on these days, or at least to write, but this year, like every other, I find myself unable to gather up the necessary intent. 

 

I used to think that these were wasted days, but I now realise that’s the point.

 

 I am doing nothing very much, not even actively being on holiday.

 

 I clear out my cupboards, ready for another year’s onslaught of cooking and eating.

 

 I take Bert out to play with friends.

 

 I go for cold walks that make my ears ache. 

 

I am not being lazy.

 

 I’m not slacking.

 

 I’m just letting my attention shift for a while, away from the direct ambitions of the rest of my year. 

 

It’s like revving my engines.

 

- Katherine May -

 

 

 May you be surrounded by friends and family,

and if this is not your lot, 

may the blessings find you in your solitude.

- Leonard Cohen -

NITCH

 

 

Labi Siffre - Something Inside So Strong (with lyrics)

In the general uproar of gifts and unwinding of wrappers

 it was always a delight for me to step out on the porch

 or even go out on the street a ways at one o’clock in the morning

 and listen to the silent hum of heaven diamond stars,

 watch the red and green windows of homes, 

consider the trees that seemed frozen in sudden devotion,

 and think over the events of another year passed.

- Jack Kerouac -

NITCH

 

R.I.P. DESMOND TUTU

 

 Do your little bit of good where you are; 

it's those little bits of good put together

 that overwhelm the world.

 
- Desmond Tutu-