Soulfood

The soul would have no rainbow

had the eyes no tears.

~John Vance Cheney

~*~

Even as the stone of the fruit must break,

that its heart may stand in the sun,

so must you know pain....

Accept the seasons of your heart,

even as you have always accepted the seasons

that pass over your fields....

~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

~*~

Adversity is like a strong wind.

It tears away from us

all but the things that cannot be torn,

so that we see ourselves as we really are.

~Arthur Golden,

Memoirs of a Geisha

~*~