April Foiles

Put Your Whole Heart into Your Life Today. Commit and Be Bold!

January 11, 2012 by April

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back-- Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Inspiration Tagged With: Goethe, poetry

Throw Yourself Like Seed

January 11, 2012 by April

Throw Yourself Like Seed Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate that brushes your heel as it turns going by, the one who wants to live is the one in whom life is abundant. Now you are … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Inspiration Tagged With: Miguel De Unamuno, poetry, Robert Bly

You Are Being Carried on Great Winds across the Sky

January 11, 2012 by April

Sometimes I Go About Pitying Myself Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky. Chippewa music adapted from a translation by Frances Densmore … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Inspiration Tagged With: poetry

You Can Trust Even Your Extravagant Desires

January 11, 2012 by April

You can trust your wants; even when their gratification seems farthest off, the uneasiness they occasion is still the best guide of your life, and will lead you to issues entirely beyond your present powers of reckoning. From a speech called Reflex … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Inspiration

Give clear signals

January 11, 2012 by April

A Ritual To Read To Each Other If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. For there is many … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Inspiration Tagged With: poem, William Stafford

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