Basics with Brooke

I apologize for posting twice in a row. AND for my jumbled/depressing previous post.


Yesterday I spent a good 30 (actually more like 40...I epitomize procrastination) minutes making a new playlist with a number of velvety voices guiding me on the journey of love. The ups and downs of life's greatest rollercoaster following the slight shifts in tone or pitch or tempo or crescendo and the poem in every girl's heart expressed in the lovely lyrics. After listening to my latest theme songs for the umpteenth time, "The Thief" (Brooke Fraser) or "Realize" (Colbie), I adopted a more forgiving, optimistic theme song, "Love is Waiting" (Brooke again.) I pronounced my playlist "BASICS WITH BROOKE."
On that same theme...Here are a couple of the requested quotes (Martha, I hope these are what you wanted) on love:

“There is no risk-free way to love. The possibility of being devastated is always there, but the possibility of joy exists only when you put your battered heart right on the table by trusting that you’re lovable.” Martha Beck

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit." ee cummings

And finally...(drumroll)..for some reason this one always unearths a (predictable) small spring of tears in my eye. Perhaps it is because I often play the role in romance of a useless armored-knight tightly bound up in duct tape and sheltered by a barbed-wire or electric fence (depends on the day) rather than the cliche--yet enviable--role of the brave warrior saving another's soul or even the princess swooning in vulnerablity.

“She would give him all the armour she had hitherto used to keep herself safe…She loved him.” Peter Carey