Stories Collected While Living in France
Within each of us, there is a dream wanting to wake up and become real, tangible, whole, and complete.
Within each of us, there is a past, present, and future in collaboration with the scribe of our script.
Within each of us, there is a history buried, wanting to be born anew.
Within each of us, we have cells that connect us to the sun, to the bottom of the sea, and through the black hole
Within each of us, we carry the invitation to dream.
Your cousin’s picture caught your “reflection”in two ways: your reflected image and your thought.
Your whole post (words and picture) made me think instantly about Baudelaire’s “L’Invitation au Voyage”:
“Mon enfant, ma soeur,
Songe à la douceur
D’aller là-bas vivre ensemble !
Aimer à loisir,
Aimer et mourir
Au pays qui te ressemble !
Les soleils mouillés
De ces ciels brouillés
Pour mon esprit ont les charmes
Si mystérieux
De tes traîtres yeux,
Brillant à travers leurs larmes.
Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
Des meubles luisants,
Polis par les ans,
Décoreraient notre chambre ;
Les plus rares fleurs
Mêlant leurs odeurs
Aux vagues senteurs de l’ambre,
Les riches plafonds,
Les miroirs profonds,
La splendeur orientale,
Tout y parlerait
À l’âme en secret
Sa douce langue natale.
Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
Vois sur ces canaux
Dormir ces vaisseaux
Dont l’humeur est vagabonde ;
C’est pour assouvir
Ton moindre désir
Qu’ils viennent du bout du monde.
– Les soleils couchants
Revêtent les champs,
Les canaux, la ville entière,
D’hyacinthe et d’or ;
Le monde s’endort
Dans une chaude lumière.
Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.”
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Any thing around can invite me to dream – and to travel through time and space…
How very lovely is everything you post………
Magic just like you!
Love you
Jeanne
How very very timely to remind me (us) of the very core of my (our) potentional.
So beautiful, romantic, inspiring, just lovely 🙂
“Within each of us we carry the invitation to dream.”
I agree. But how do we get others to realize this? Those who will not accept the inviation sadden me.
I love those silouette’s!
What a charming siloeutte. I’m pretty dazzled by the wallpaper too.
Darla
Oh, we do indeed! Beautifully written, Corey.
I always come away from my visits to you thinking about good and important things. Your such a wonderful person. You make me happy.
PS.
Have you seen Shelley? How is she doing? Tell her I said hello, and wish her my best.
It occurs to me sometimes that life is the dream, that beyond this is the bigger reality. That we are connected to the sun, the universe and the bottom of the ocean, is inspiring and encourages me to make the most of every moment.
hugs
xo
What is YOUR dream?
Are you living it?
to dream…to be alive…blessings, rebecca
I’m living the dream. Thanks for the reminder, though.
I have to agree with Sheila!
Beautiful!
and ever so teasingly sometimes you get a bit of that dream and want more!
But how to get them to unite as a whole…?
ooohhh… look how the wallpaper girl with the curls
is staring at the framed silhouettes…
do you think she has a thing for the man
and
is taken back to see them together!
i was just wondering…
🙂
What lovely poetry you offer to us. Thank you!
Sometimes you leave me speechless!
But I do have to tell you that the reflection in the glass is beautiful!
Ha!
I am a dreamer – a dreamy
dreamer:)
You are just a poet .
I’m so happy to have met you.
See you soon xxx
you always seem to make me stop and think, and more importantly, be thankful for what I have.
Lovely!!
Rosemary
Une pièce où l’on rêve est une pièce où on lâche prise et où l’on respire le bonheur de vivre …
Sigh…Corey, you really do have a gift with words.
Corey, how your words ring true…cousin Judy’s bedroom is lovely. I’m in love with that silouette. 🙂
cells connect . . . to the bottom of the sea. Really REALLY felt this line.
Hi Corey:
You weave words the way one makes cloth!!!
Thank you
carole
Be…
Dream…
Play…
today
and…
open the present
xox – eb.
so comforting to know so many of us share a passion for dreaming and knowing no limits…you and your friend’s comments are so sublime. thank you for this beautiful post!
YYYYeeessss!!!!
This is my favorite post yet!!!!
You write about one thing;
our human potential. The seed.
Well done!!!!
xoxo
Blue
Oh Corey this post is so divine just absolutely lovely my friend!
XOX
Kristen
That is so true. It was all inside me and I didn’t know it until I moved to France.
the wall paper is amazing. and the color too. thank you (again, i always do) for this profound message, it’s a wonderful reminder.
dreaming in the middle of the day, a scene from the past never to be washed away. wanting to catch the moments of time to capture them in a box. but they fly by before i’m able to grab them…
lovely silhouette picture, corey! it looks like toile de joy perfectly matching with the black paper siccor cuts of the frame!
I love that silhouette and wallpaper so much! (makes me want to design my room again) I’m digging out my invitation to dream, it’s buried in a golden ticket somewhere.
The silhouette on the wall is so sweet – but your words here, are lovelier still.
They make me feel inspired again – thank you for that.
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