“When children who differ widely in age and ability play together, the older ones,by necessity, boost the younger ones up to higher levels of activity. […] Older children also learn crucial lessons through playing with younger ones. They gain a sense of their own maturity as they practice caring, protecting, and leading. ” – Peter Gray on Intergenerational Play
No Contact
It had been years.
Long years.
So I wont lie.
I swear,
in that final moment we shared:
I lived a thousand lives,
a hundred thousand,
a hundred, hundred thousand.
And there,
I knew all the faces and forms
of what our love could have been–
powerful love
whole love
infinite love.
But the moment ended
And the path was set
where I would not see you,
nor know our love
in any other shape but
sorrow
-Cpontrella 2017
Smorgasbord
That night,
I remember it so clearly.
our appetites were enormous
Creamy words, earthy laughter,
Sweet, small glances
stolen when no one was looking
for our own
private delight.
It was a smorgasbord
and I felt bottomless.
Insatiable.
then, the Lovemaking.
A final course, the night-cap.
phenomenal.
How else could I describe it?
Intoxicating.
Lyrical.
Animal.
Raw.
Sublime.
There are no words.
I have been hungry every since.
-Cpontrella 2017
“If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.” -Robert Greene
How much?
How much do you miss
By paying attention
How much do you lose
By finding what you are looking for?
-C. Pontrella
2017.06.01
“While investing deeply in one person, one place, one job, one activity might deny us the breadth of experience we’d like, pursuing a breadth of experience denies us the opportunity to experience the rewards of depth of experience. There are some experiences that you can have only when you’ve lived in the same place for five years, when you’ve been with the same person for over a decade, when you’ve been working on the same skill or craft for half your lifetime. Now that I’m in my thirties, I can finally recognize that commitment, in its own way, offers a wealth of opportunity and experiences that would otherwise never be available to me, no matter where I went or what I did.” – Mark Mason
“You are all afraid of being intimate with yourselves – of being alone with the self. Once you develop an intimacy, a silence, a self-love, and a containment of your energy, then you will want to make that aspect of intimacy your standard of intimacy with someone else.”
Barbara Marciniak – Bringers of the Dawn