I've been playing poker so long, I'm going to need another drink.

"...the powers that be send their love
in the middle of the night.
I'm gonna stand up
and let myself be counted for
Stand up now
I've got my one life
and what's it to amount to
if I don't learn how
to love you and love myself beside you
mix the gentle and proud
I want to love life,
The vision in the window told me ---
Stand up."

• Ferron - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“Let us dream, as a single human family, as fellow travelers sharing the same flesh, as children of the same earth which is our common home, each of us bringing the richness of his or her beliefs and convictions, each of us with his or her own voice, brothers and sisters all.”

-The Space Pope-