Saturday Slight

 Keep your face always toward the sunshine

—and shadows will fall behind you.  

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

It's a beautiful summer day in the neighborhood.

Birds are singing.

The sun is shining.

It's a day filled with hope.

Smell the flowers.

Breathe in the beauty.

Have some fun.

Make YOUR day!

Happy Saturday. 

The Rose

Bette Midler

Some say love, it is a river, that drowns the tender reed

Some say love, it is a razor, that leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need

I say love, it is a flower, and you, its only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance

It's the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance

It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give

And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long

And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong

Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snows

Lies the seed, that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose