http://otleywordfeast.org.uk/events/?detail
The curry vegetables alone could entice me
A great lineup of events - perhaps consider participating
in a workshop evening or the Open Mic Competition.
I'm sure it would be well received.


If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don't
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost certain you won't
If you think you'll lose, you've lost
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellows will
It's all in the state of mind
If you think you're outclassed, you are
You've got to think high to rise
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster person
But sooner or later the person who wins
Is the one who thinks they can

Love Is A Great Thing

Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good.
By itself it makes that which is heavy light;
and it bears evenly all that is uneven.
It carries a burden which is no burden;
it will not be kept back by anything low and mean;
It desires to be free from all wordly affections,
and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity,
or by any adversity subdued.
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble,
attempts what is above its strength,
pleads no excuse of impossibility.
It is therefore able to undertake all things,
and it completes many things and warrants them to take effect,
where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
Though weary, it is not tired;
though pressed it is not straightened;
though alarmed, it is not confounded;
but as a living flame it forces itself upwards and securely passes through all.
Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent, and manly.

by Thomas à Kempis.

I'm well, but slightly frayed around the edges.
Neil

"Love Is A Great Thing" - In it's euphoric state, absolute truth,
unless one considers it an affliction suffering longing and heartache sad


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love


I think the author was using the spiritual form.
nap

Total Eclipse of the Heart

(Turn around)
Every now and then
I get a little bit lonely
And you're never coming round

(Turn around)
Every now and then
I get a little bit tired
Of listening to the sound of my tears

(Turn around)
Every now and then
I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by

(Turn around)
Every now and then I get a little bit terrified
And then I see the look in your eyes
(Turn Around, bright eyes)
Every now and then I fall apart
(Turn Around, bright eyes)
Every now and then
I fall apart

(Turn around)
Every now and then
I get a little bit restless
And I dream of something wild
(Turn around)
Every now and then
I get a little bit helpless
And I'm lying like a child in your arms
(Turn around)
Every now and then
I get a little bit angry
And I know I've got to get out and cry

(Turn around)
Every now and then
I get a little bit terrified
But then I see the look in your eyes
(Turn Around, bright eyes)
Every now and then
I fall apart
Turn around, bright eyes
Every now and then
I fall apart

Once upon a time
I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart

Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart

The Wicked Path of Destiny

More than a little disconcerting albeit well conceived.
Fate is not always fair.
“There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them.
Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely
fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do
a future that is impossible to ignore.”
― Nicholas Sparks
(btw...interesting site - bookmarked)