Thought for the Day

"It is better to love, than be right."

Giftedness Defined

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this:
A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
To him...
a touch is a blow,
a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an ecstasy,
a friend is a lover,
a lover is a god,
and failure is death.
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - - - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating." -Pearl Buck-

Shades of Gray

A fusion of black and white-
Readily accessible to the masses,
Yet elusive to intellectual thought.
To be forced to ponder its various shades of ordinary,
It's bland and murky state of existence,
Is a painful conformity.
So we, with minds disquiet,
Separate the whole of the matter into its parts.
To attempt to be passionately accurate about it.
And expose it for what it really is...
Black and White.
A gift, not a curse.
Nothing in between.

~rk