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Interests:	ethics,history, peace
Signature:	We don't always get answers to the utmost satisfaction but we somehow learn the truth of it all;"life is a mystery qualifying our worth and essence"
Biography:	Wish I could tell all about myself without tiring or boring those inquisitive eyes, but I'll tell you that I'm just like any air-lung creature although full of years like a tall palm tree in a tropical dark earthed path of the world, of which I've grown to care and love however rough or calm the wind may blow. I've toured the sun for the 29th time and acquired loving skills and survival wits yet my strength depends on the one I call "Ancient of Days" and He alone can tell you where I come from, where I go and all that I am. There are so many great and small history has taught me to learn from and see the meaning of life, in those persons I've seen a vision for the living and known the dreams of the dead. Their lives tell me what we owe each other to live out our purpose on earth. Suppose....you said to me;"Socrates, we shall disregard Anytus and acquit you, but only on the condition, that you give up..... philosophizing. If we catch you going on in the same way, you shall be put to death......." I should reply."Gentlemen.....I owe a greater obedience to God than to you; and so long as I I draw breath and have my faculties, I shall go on saying.... My very good friend you are an Athenian and belong to a city which is the greatest and most famous in the world for its wisdom and strength. Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible,.....and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of soul?...Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing both to the individual and to the state."Now if I corrupt the young by this message, the message would seem to be harmful..........And so, gentlemen, I would say " You can please yourselves.....whether you acquit me or not; you know that I am not going to alter my conduct, not even if I have to die a hundred deaths".....Excerpts from The Apology:The Trials of Socrates. ......"open your mind and embrace a world that so longs for your love." Ossy Richards ......."there's something more to be said in fiction than had been said about the shaded side of a well-known catastrophe." Ossy Richards ......."if an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than the truth be concealed." Thomas Hardy ......"as flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport." Glo'ster in Leah ......"poor wounded name! My bosom as a bed shall lodge thee". W. Shakespeare. ....."a leader is like a shepherd, he stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind." Nelson Mandela ......"with women I found I could let my hair down and confess to weaknesses and fears I would never reveal to another man." Nelson Mandela ......"these are times that try the souls of men. The rainy soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country. But he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." Thomas Paine ....."longing for fulfillment and satisfaction is the hunger to feed the soul." Ossy Richards ......"life has taught me to always be ready to confront obstacles, for the obstacles I meet in life are always the steps to greater achievements." Ossy Richards ....."master obstacles and enjoy a smooth ride through the paths of life." Ossy Richards ....."with words we sing and dance, our readers watch and listen, marveling at the music of language." Ossy Richards Fiction best pours out the sweet savored blood of an epidermic-stricken heart in a phenomenal world of impressions. Such heart that bears thus, only nourish to fight the distinctive inference of the morals of mortals regarding to a perfect perfunctory expectation of existence. It is therefore, a poet's euphemistic satire of encumbrance ideas that satisfies all but own selfish perceptions. All I'm saying is simply this, that all life is interrelated, that somehow we're caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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A Tree under the Snow

Life has caught me at a stand still;
Waiting, waiting...
Waiting for a hot wind to save me this chill.
As I sit, drenched to the skin,
Tendons of my bones disembark from each other,
They give way to the cold taking hold of them.
This season dawdles like no other,
Not even a snail will know such blame
That I now hurl at this lazy one
Yet to carry my lame limbs away from now.
The worst keeps coming on and on
And I, a tree under the snow
Can neither turn left nor right
For what stands at both sides, is but the tall night.

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Very, very intilectual. You seem to be a very wise person and have appreciation for the blind side of life. Take care friend.

• Re: May I find love, ever, in you and me. by maryanns on Wednesday, September 05