A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao Tsu

      
                                                                  - Erin

New Beginnings

I could never promise you on just my strength alone

That all my life I'd care for you, and love you as my own

I've never known the future, I only see today

Words that last a lifetime would be more than I could say

(Chorus)

And so I stand before you now for all to hear and see

I promise you in Jesus' name the love He's given me

And through the years on earth and as eternity goes by

The life and love He's given us are never going to die…

But the love inside my heart today(tonight) is more than mine alone

It never changes, it never fails, never seeks it's own

And by the God who gives it, and who lives in me and you

I know the words I speak today(tonight) are words I'm going to do

The Unveiling

"But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit." 
~2 Cor. 3:16-18

In Memoriam

Up we take
the childhood curriculum of our ancestry
and treasure the way that time has warped its leafy pages
and the marks, made once suddenly on a page,
that last for generations.

I find all children are the same.




ps. Better late then never :)

Spring

May the road rise up to meet you

May the wind be always at your back

May the warm rays of sun fall upon your home

And may the hand of a friend always be near.

May green be the grass you walk on,

May blue be the skies above you,

May pure be the joys that surround you,

May true be the hearts that love you.

Erin Lindsey - "In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own." ~Steven Kloves

  
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.  ~H.F. Hedge

  
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.  ~William Dement

"In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own."  ~Steven Kloves



Sorry this is late. :b
~ Erin

She Walks In Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes:

Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o'er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express

How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent!

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron. 1788–1824

I'm a little hesitant to use this poem, because the pictures are of myself. However, all of my models were sick or other wise occupied. Enjoy!

{The Lady of Shalott}

..."Willows whiten, aspens quiver,

Little breezes dusk and shiver
Thro' the wave that runs for ever
By the island in the river
   Flowing down to Camelot.

Four gray walls, and four gray towers,
Overlook a space of flowers,
And the silent isle imbowers
   The Lady of Shalott...

...All in the blue unclouded weather
Thick-jewell'd shone the saddle-leather,
The helmet and the helmet-feather
Burn'd like one burning flame together,
   As he rode down to Camelot.
As often thro' the purple night,
Below the starry clusters bright,
Some bearded meteor, trailing light,
   Moves over still Shalott...

..In the stormy east-wind straining,
The pale-yellow woods were waning,
The broad stream in his banks complaining,
Heavily the low sky raining
   Over tower'd Camelot;
Down she came and found a boat
Beneath a willow left afloat,
And round about the prow she wrote
   The Lady of Shalott."

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{Excerpts from Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott"}

Erin Lindsey - Reflection

 I'm afraid this an old picture, but today was a busy day in which all photo attempts failed. :b
 Oh well...I figured an old picture was better than none at all. :)
~Erin Lindsey

Rubber Boots

Wishing in the Well

Be it a thousand dreams cast into the well, 

only the Ancient of Days can grant a life more full, 

or a heart more free. 

Erin Lindsey - Snow White

"Magic Mirror on the Wall, who is the Fairest one of all?" - Wicked Queen, Disney's Snow White