Month: January 2026
Yeah – No
Trying To Avoid Social Interactions
They Have
“No Idea.”
You Look So Cute
Reclaimed Lineage
What she learned from life was that Love is the key to everything.
Pride & Prejudice By Jane Austin, Excerpt
Bingley felt his anger rise at Caroline’s manipulations. If she had been in the room, she would have seen a storm of fury quite out of the ordinary for her easy going brother. However, he let go his anger (for the moment) for the need to know Jane’s response to his proposal was more important.
“Jane, despite all lies that my sister told you, you are the only woman I have ever considered marrying. And you will marry me, won’t you?”
Jane had barely whispered “yes” before Bingley kissed her, somewhat chastely at first, but with increasing ardor when she returned his kiss. Both were startled by the intensity of their emotions. When the kiss was finally over, there were no longer any doubts on either side.
Bingley brushed back a wayward curl that had fallen upon her cheek. “I love you, very much, and nothing anybody does or says will ever make me change my mind.” It was a promise from his heart. “I shan’t let you get away from me now,” he said in a lighter, teasing manner.
Jane smiled shyly at him, “I have no desire to get away, for I love you.”
“Jane, I believe you have made me the happiest man alive,” Bingley positively beamed at Jane. Jane return his smile, and when he began to lower his head to kiss her again, she was waiting with much anticipation.
Good Will
Her passengers were still looking for ways to help salvage the ship and have them all get safely to shore together, but the captain also understood the immense pressures of being a family’s leader.
(Magic – Queen)
Wild Magic, Baby
“Like calls to like.”
When I See Your Face,
I see someone who means more to me in ways that I can’t explain, and want to know better.
Some Enchanted Evening
She could tell that he was under some kind of a spell, just as she was.
And she knew that if they worked on the pieces together, they could transcend.
(The Sweetest Perfection – Depeche Mode)
The Hidden Path
It is easier to keep distance
To not face truth and learn
When one faces their mirror
Thusly ensue growing pains
But from “trials by fire”
Balance can be obtained
Love,
You know that I can be trusted.
And stay safe in your journeys.
Coffee Or “Tea?”
Give me the time and the place
Where we can have safe space
Let me know that it’s you
In a way that I can’t refute
And we don’t have to
Involve any one else
Come Here,
And find out.
It’s Ok,
I have worries and fears, too.
But when has anything truly worth investment been always easy?
My Love,
We need to be brave
Not underestimate
Give us a chance
To figure it out
Movie: Moonstruck
“You can’t see what you are, and I see everything. You’re a wolf.”
Dearest,
Let me know.
Hon,
Is it you?
Cups Half Full
Many people do not realize
They have abilities to shine
In ways taken from others
The Proposal
He showed up at last, and asked if she’d marry him.
“Of course I will,” she replied.
“You are properly insane – and I love you.”
What More
Could a mother wish for?
Gratitude
“Thank you to the elements involved for helping me to make it to my family in time to help catch their fall, and for helping me to be a launching support for them to seek new horizons.”
Something Neat
Somehow, the new curtains completed her bedroom in such a way, that it felt like a captain’s cabin on a ship would.
Sun Set
As she took on the news that they would be leaving her behind to abandon ship, she watched the sea birds circling far out over the dappling, rainbow-lit waves and listened for signs of guidance in the wind.
I’m Not Freaking Out
“Are you freaking out?
‘Cause I’m not freaking out regarding today’s deadline at all…
Oh, noo-oooo…”
“I Wanna Be With You” (Folk Song)
By Athena Stairs, January 20, 2026
(Intro guitar)
I can’t stand the distance
Been too far away from you
There’s lot’s that we are missin’
I know you know it’s true
And every day I’m wishin’
We could start over again
But the world just keeps on spinnin’
And I’m here without my friend
(Guitar with beat, light banjo, and open folk violin)
And every day’s a highway
Where I long to see your face
I’m hopin’ you’ll come my way
And the world will fill with grace
Weather rain or sunshine
All I need is your embrace
The mountains high to valleys low
You’re the memory I trace
(Big bass and open folk violin carry with guitar and occasional deep blow jar)
So if your happy or your sad
Hon I’ll be the one for you
You know that together
Well there’s nothin’ we can’t do
The sun will rise the stars will fall
And the heavens shine brand new
Our lovin’ is the gold mine
So I sing this song for you
(Outro all instruments filling to the end’s fade)
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I caught a passing snippet of a dream interaction as I was waking this morning, where a young folk singin’ man like John Denver played on a big wooden guitar and was slow-roll pick-strummin’ his strings smoothly. I added in an open tic-a-tac beat sometimes joining at transitional points and other instruments. He started the song for me to carry on through to here and add my own lyrics, as well as gentle shifts and the above. Thanks friendly folk singer for giving me a start to another sweet song for the man I love.
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Antennae
Extending trust
Is difficult
Past, Tense
“I used to think that there was a reason for things.
Now I think more that one can find reason in things.”
Shifting Perspective
A way to suspend one’s self over the maw.
(A Thousand Years – Sting)
(Need You Tonight – INXS)
“I Did It!”
“Manifestation”
(Babydoll – Laurie Anderson)
(I Don’t Mind Being Your Place To Rest At All – Jinx The Shimmer Goddess)
How To Live
Once they were reunited, she would not want to part from him, again.
What Can’t Be Bought
What she really wanted was Love.
An Injury’s Illness
If she allowed herself to trace back to its origins, the rage would ignite and inflame, attempting to possess her as a self defense mechanism.
Because ever since The Fall , it seemed that she had never been able to fully succeed and thrive, again.
How in the Hell does one, then, recover?
A Mother’s Plight
Crying and rocking herself quietly to avoid alarming the others, she scanned her mind’s maps carefully around the building migraine, trying to fashion the next step in her survival strategy so that they would not lose their housing.
Bearing Down
‘I need you to help me – NOW!”
She wanted to scream it – to tear apart the silence with it – but hated that she needed.
So she didn’t.
She wouldn’t even speak it.
She didn’t feel that she had the right to.
She couldn’t even whisper it to anyone or anything as tears slowly traced her frustration.
Eternal Flame
Transforms darkness
Calling forth the light
Keeping souls strong
Who’d fall to the night
“Eternal Flame”
(Promise – HAEVN, Symphonic Version)
(What We Changed In Each Other – Jinx The Shimmer Goddess)
Glowing Flying Squirrels!
The Pulse Of Love
They were traveling together for the first time while it was unfolding, and a younger assistant showed her all of the lyrics written out, published in a journal’s paper.
And as she continued listening to it playing while she read how they were printed, she realized that each small grouping of words lasted for quite a few minutes of experience.
Therefore, the song was a very long one – longer, perhaps, than many before.
As their air car landed and she got out with her guy, she wrapped her arms around him from behind as he sat down breifly on a bench, then nuzzled her nose and face into the nape of his neck, breathing in his scent and glorying in the way his warmth and hair felt against her skin.
“It’s perfect, don’t you think?” she murmured as she kissed just below his ear, feeling the heat of his pulse quicken against her lips.
“A real love song should be long and stretch out in a kind of forever so that lovers can expand into and have their joys and hopes supported as they are mirrored by it.”
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