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This treacherous, beautiful river-like journey of life defines who we are. We are fish leaving the safety of our shells to live life for what it is now. Every one of us, like shining fish, collectively make a beautifully unique school, none quite like the other. Some more black, some more white, some with spots and some with stripes, but it takes every last one to make life beautiful. But, within the perfection of the fins, lies a bottom feeder. An ugly truth that reveals they’re only flawed animals and just the same as everyone else. Seasons come and change and with each change something new is forgotten. Live for you, for this life now! Do it not for the sake of pleasing others or for the sake of being remembered, but live for the sake of living and love for the sake of loving. It’s this season that matters. I have left my shell and wiggled my fins to venture out on my own unique journey to be beautifully different because I am.

 ~ “If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my // journey // ends, it simply means the // river //bends”~

 Rivers move in majesty It’s the journey of a life time I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty

 Lo, there I stand Treasuring the secret of my sin Evil; the nature of mankind Evil; my only happiness

 The journey of a life time Is so unfair  My dearest faith, If you’re cheating And advancing on Chaos and the Dark Why don’t you train the enemy to cheat intelligently?

 You will learn to defeat the enemy Speak what I think in hard words  Understand our quest for harmony   Be a brother to the insensible rock

 I am a part or particle of God  Man is God in ruins  Thou didst create all things And God said, let there be light Be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets Blossom, trees; ripen, fields media type="youtube" key="Eqyx_v48VXk?fs=1" height="385" width="480" align="center"

 <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">~“The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart” ~

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #365f91; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 137.4pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> In the greenest of the valleys, By good angels tenanted <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #365f91; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 137.4pt;"> My love and my faith, Speak a various language, A voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in;"> Imperfection is beauty I conceiv'd the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection But, all my talk of taking action, these words were never true On the whole, I never arrived at the perfection <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #365f91; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.5in;"> In the end, it doesn’t even matter Because you’re beautiful, every little piece Beautiful in your own nature It’s not what you do, it’s why

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 2.5in;"> Why are you alive? You live to be the ruler of life A tool to mankind You’re really going to be someone

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: normal; margin-left: 3in;"> <span style="color: #365f91; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Be a soloist over a harmonic structure ; // Every instrument // <span style="color: #365f91; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">has its own // unique // <span style="color: #365f91; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">'envelope'; Together with its // unique // <span style="color: #365f91; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">set of harmonics , <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #365f91; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 3in;"> Music is what life sounds like

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #548dd4; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> Music is the speech of angels <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #548dd4; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">a discordant melody  <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #548dd4; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">a heavenly heart  <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #548dd4; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">a silent lute  <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #548dd4; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">pictures on silence  <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #548dd4; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">poetry of the air   it resonates and sounds media type="youtube" key="GOEBVAzJ_-s?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #365f91; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> ~“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today”~

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look They light the universe with their admonishing smile They say you ought to seriously re-examine your life, To live deliberately Not discover that you had not lived

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #365f91; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in;"> Yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery, Today? Today’s a gift and not a given right I'm quite aware we're dying

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.5in;"> If you look you will see, By God's grace, the shining sun is up; This world is a beautiful accident, Don't waste it away; Most people spend their time just floating

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #365f91; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Enjoy the little things in life, For one day you may look back and realize they were the big things <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: normal;"> media type="youtube" key="maINUv2H8A0?fs=1" height="385" width="480" <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">~“The journey is the reward” ~

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #365f91; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1in;"> The power to be strong, the wisdom to be wise Will come to you in time So, tell everybody I'm on my way And I’m loving every step I take!

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #548dd4; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> The blue skies ahead, With earth and her waters, and the depths of air We are secured under the spirit of times! The tide rises, the tide falls

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #365f91; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.5in;"> Nothing is said in stone, Tomorrow is a new day,

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 3.5in;"> In the end, How little there was to remember! We ask only this, That you remember us not as enemies

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #365f91; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: right;"> My evil destiny pursued me, I hid my face for sorrow Hiding from the truth!

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 3.5in;"> Dying sinners cried aloud for me My lies are more dependable than the truth Let there be light! Even God cannot change the truth

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-collapse: collapse; color: #365f91; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"> I don't have murder in my heart <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #365f91; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">I will tell the truth Always doing what I’m afraid to do, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Learning to defeat the enemy, Treasuring the secret of my sin, The lover of uncontained and immortal beauty, It’s the journey of a life time

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #365f91; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.5in;"> I stand! I’m a part of God!

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #548dd4; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: right;"> A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river, How lovely the river is! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its voice. . . Forever changing, forever growing, forever dying media type="youtube" key="XoXeM22x-Hc?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

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