Life Doesn't Frighten Me

Life Doesn't Frighten Me

Shadows on the wall

Noises down the hall

Life doesn't frighten me at all

Bad dogs barking loud

Big ghosts in a cloud

Life doesn't frighten me at all.

Mean old Mother Goose

Lions on the loose

They don't frighten me at all

Dragons Breathing flame

On my counterpane

That doesn't frighten me at all.

I go boo

Make them shoo

I make fun

Way they run

I won't cry

So they fly

I just smile

They go wild

Life doesn't frighten me at all.

Tough guys in a fight

all alone at night

Life doesn't frighten me at all.

Pathers in the park

Strangers in the dark

No, they don't frighten me at all.

That new classroom where

Boys all pull my hair

(Kissy little girls

With their hair in curls)

They don't frighten me at all.

Don't show me frogs and snakes

and listen for my scream,

If I'm afraid at all

It's only in my dreams.

I've got a magic charm

That I keep up my sleeve,

I can walk the ocean floor

And never have to breathe.

Life doesn't frighten me at all

Not at all

Not at all.

Life doesn't frighten me at all.

I've been reading some of Maya Angelou's poems and I fell in LOVE with this one.  When I start reading the poem, I'm empowered, chest puffed out and confidently sure that Life Doesn't Frighten Me.  It seems that with every life lesson learned, a bit of fear subsides.  As if you have seen the fear behind the curtain and it's not as scary as you thought it would be.  Then as I read on, I found myself sensing the vulnerability in her words...the fear.  For me, dreams can be scary...or even more so Faith is scary.  Faith that I'll accomplish the dreams I've set for myself.  I wonder how one would interpret the magic charm though...thoughts?

Above all Others...Love

In an interview with Maya Angelou, Ann Curry asked, "What's the lesson above all others, that you wish to teach?"


Maya Angelou said, "That you have been loved. The truth is, to exist at all, you have been loved. Whether the ancestors came from Eastern Europe, trying to escape the pogroms and little and large murders or whether they came from Africa, unwillingly, lying spoon fashion in the filthy hatches of slave ships. They have paid for each one of us. If you can just ingest that little piece of truth, suddenly some part of you is liberated. I have been loved. That is one of the great lessons to me."

*Picture was taken of the beautiful bleeding hearts in our front yard.

The Rational Soul

From the meditations of Marcus Aurelius. He is thinking about what he calls the rational soul, listing

“Affection for its neighbors. Truthfulness. Humility. Human beings were made to help each other. Nothing is good except what leads to fairness, and self control and courage and free will. And nothing bad except what does the opposite. We are not to go expecting Plato’s Republic, but to work in a principled way, with diligence, energy and patience. If you can embrace this work without fear or expectation, if you can find fulfillment in what you are doing now, as Nature intended, and in superhuman truthfulness (every word, every utterance) –then your life will be happy.”

Linda, thank you for sharing this beautiful thought with me!  Also, a shout out to the amazing Clark Little!  Your work inspires me!