Creatures of the Fire

Posted on 06/08/2011 by

Creatures of the Fire

We swan-dive into the volcano, burning;
We’re creatures of the fire,
Mingled male and female, yearning
For the heat, the sweet explosion of desire.

I splash into the pleasure, all consuming;
I’m joyfully insane,
My passion for you deep, and fully blooming;
Long after, sweet warm flickers still remain.

You make my body sizzle with your kisses,
And yet there’s so much more;
My heart is kindled, too; It knows what bliss is,
This closeness that I’ve never felt before.

My body and my heart belong to you;
I’m peaceful and complete.
I see more adventures coming for we two,
We creatures of the tender fire and heat.

By Joanna Fuchs

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A letter from Elizabeth…

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Reflexions
By Elizabeth Marie Albert on Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 6:05pm
On September 3, 2009 my husband of 39 years passed away. I have been trying to understand this event and its greater meaning in my life.
To say this is a profound loss says nothing at all, for how does one say goodbye to someone they loved for so long? It is said that the first year is the hardest; well I pray that is true because another year like this would not be optimal. I learned to question everything I said and did over the long years of our marriage, felt anger, sadness, bitterness, and I don’t want to say anything about how useless I have felt. I suppose when your mate dies in your arms it should shake you, remake you, break you, but I feel so tired of the pain. Am I unkind or disrespectful to his memory because I don’t want to hurt anymore? I hope you all know me well enough to say for certain that I am not an unkind person or a selfish one either, but maybe I am because I want to be able to breathe without this pain in my heart, to dream of love and find it again.

Burt told me for years that when he died I should find a really nice man because I deserved to be happy…I thought he was joking because I thought we would die on the same day at the age of 100…point being who thinks about the after…the now is what we have. So my friends, some of you I have met and some I haven’t but who knows maybe someday I will, this is my daily struggle, I try to be worthy of this gift of life, to be a positive force in the lives of all I meet, (cyber or otherwise) and never to forget the blessings I still have in my life. I have had dark nights and dark days and some of you have shone a light into my heart and brought me back to the journey toward life, for this I am grateful, each of you who receives this note has awakened some part of me over the year past year and I will never be able to thank you all enough.

So I close now with a grateful heart and renewed faith in the possibilities of life, and for all of you, my better angels, I wish you love and light, blessings and joy as we continue on together until we become remembered and missed ourselves.

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The Premise of the Naked Philosopher

Posted on 05/08/2011 by

The premise of this yet to be finished book is to search all human philosophy for our roots, the basis of human thinking. An ambitious task certainly, the sub goal of which is to assemble an overview of our collected reasoning, belief systems, schools of thought and  religions available to every person who cares to investigate our philosophical roots.

Philosophers….. great thinkers—Socrates, Aristotle, Xenophanes of Colophon, Philo of Alexandria, St. Anselmus, Thomas More, Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Jean-Jaques Rousseau, George Hegel, Thomas Paine, Ernst Mach, Carl Jung,Simone de Beauvoir, Bertrand Russell, Michel Foucault, Karl Popper…giants in the schools of philosophical thought. I don’t pretend to make a claim to be anywhere close in their league. I am however, a seeker, a believer in both a universal ether and man ascending. Human history is drenched in blood, the blood of believers shed by others who believe just as strongly that their position is the only viable option for man’s ultimate ascendance—whether that journey owes its quest to the belief in God or Man. Please journey with me, as a fellow “seeker” hoping to find a path through the madness and moral certainty that has led so many to their ultimate demise, a profound and tragic ending found long before any answers to the questions we all ask at many junctures in our lives. My planned co-author, Elizabeth Albert, a fellow seeker who passed from this earthly realm much too early…leaves me to continue on a solitary path of seeking a truth which allows man to believe in a future which is inclusionary. In 2010,, we found one man of God burning the Quran to make a statement about the tragedy surrounding September 11th, and the terrorist attacks on America. In 2011, the world still languishes in the throes of stunted belief systems and half-formed thoughts, leading us to the question—“where is progress?”

The human mind must seek truth even if it is never found, and the journey will be long. Please read my thoughts here and know that I will always search on with each of you wishing only to find a philosophy that brings each of us a tool to travel with.

Truth is what we all seek, let us learn also to see one another’s truth—to interact on a different level, one borne of shared humanity and spirit–equal force and equal value surrendered to each. Let us begin………………..

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