The Ark2024-03-29T12:04:01ZJimhttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Jimhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2196225669?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/group/hopelessromantics/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=38nuq42uc55f8&feed=yes&xn_auth=no47 Dribbletag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2012-04-18:2426069:Topic:1360212012-04-18T05:51:31.997ZJimhttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Jim
<p>I am hopelessly in love with the world. </p>
<p>I just had a loss in the family from cancer. The end didn't go well, and I'm not on good terms with cancer right now to say the least.</p>
<p>Bad shit happens in this world. Sometimes very bad shit. But the simple fact that I was here to live and be with the people that I care about makes every moment worth fighting through the hard times. I just don't need or want any reassurement about what might happen to them after they die. I was with…</p>
<p>I am hopelessly in love with the world. </p>
<p>I just had a loss in the family from cancer. The end didn't go well, and I'm not on good terms with cancer right now to say the least.</p>
<p>Bad shit happens in this world. Sometimes very bad shit. But the simple fact that I was here to live and be with the people that I care about makes every moment worth fighting through the hard times. I just don't need or want any reassurement about what might happen to them after they die. I was with them, and we lived. That, is much more important. </p>
<p>Sure, I sometimes I wish I could live forever, but I also think that would make the moments I have lived less precious. I want to keep wanting more but if I could never loose my life I think I would feel like my desires would diminish. </p>
<p>Sure, I wish that I didn't have to grow old and live with the pains that I have acquired through the many abuses I have put myself through. I would love to stay young and healthy forever. But maybe not forever. Life is to interesting as it is. For the most part I like not knowing what might happen next. </p>
<p>There might be a day that I can not go on with the pains from my mind or body. But that day has not come today.</p>
<p>And when that day comes that I do die, I hope I still feel that I could use just a little more time to finish thing up. I want to feel like I could always do more. Just a little more. Sadly, it could turn out that I just want my life to be finished, but today I am still hopelessly in love with the world. :-)</p> Hopeless Romantics Is Not Dead, Nor is Romancetag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2012-01-27:2426069:Topic:1327272012-01-27T18:14:38.035ZJimhttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Jim
<p>I have not abandoned this group. I invite you to share <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">here from anywhere along that sacred spectrum of love and hate</span></em>. We all know, like Donnie Darko, there IS really NO black and white, there is only Grey. I tried to say something like that through Chig's character in 925. Good/evil, Love/Hate, are on the the same plane of intensely deep emotions, which people struggle to define and which inspire the greatest works of…</p>
<p>I have not abandoned this group. I invite you to share <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">here from anywhere along that sacred spectrum of love and hate</span></em>. We all know, like Donnie Darko, there IS really NO black and white, there is only Grey. I tried to say something like that through Chig's character in 925. Good/evil, Love/Hate, are on the the same plane of intensely deep emotions, which people struggle to define and which inspire the greatest works of art.</p>
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<p>We started this group discussing whether romance is real, whether we create it, how we each may define it, and places we find what WE call romance.</p>
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<p>I offer you BOTH sides of the coin in the form of a little Tunage. In the spirit of the upcoming <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">"manmade season of love"</span></strong>, the object of doom,that lovely pressure-ridden holiday, despite which end of the spectrum you live on. Dead roses, live ones, candy, diamonds, kicks or kisses, it's coming <strong>whether we LIKE IT or not</strong>. I'll get to singing it out when the body catches up with the mind again.</p>
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<p>I'll tell a romance story if YOU do. Not promising everyone survives. I'm from New York, it's a thing.</p> Catherine & Heathcliff, or Rob and Laura Petrie?tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2010-03-13:2426069:Topic:766302010-03-13T21:11:36.131ZJimhttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Jim
Does romance have to have a throw-caution-to-the-wind quality to it, or is it simply a matter of feeling secure enough to open your heart to love?
Does romance have to have a throw-caution-to-the-wind quality to it, or is it simply a matter of feeling secure enough to open your heart to love? When the Romantic Bubble Bursts (please share your stories)tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2010-03-06:2426069:Topic:760532010-03-06T02:25:38.134ZJimhttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Jim
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<p class="MsoNormal">Romance is a very powerful state. You can get quite swept up by it. Everything around you can contribute to the feeling of romance, making your heart swell and your spirit soar, until...something destroys the mood. Your mother-in-law leaves an audible message on the answering machine about her eczema while you're having passionate sex with your spouse. You're sitting on a sun-warmed…</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Romance is a very powerful state. You can get quite swept up by it. Everything around you can contribute to the feeling of romance, making your heart swell and your spirit soar, until...something destroys the mood. Your mother-in-law leaves an audible message on the answering machine about her eczema while you're having passionate sex with your spouse. You're sitting on a sun-warmed rock feeling the fine spray from the ocean waves on your face when some seagull excrement suddenly appears on your knee. You're deep in the emotion of a Wagnerian opera when an audience member decides to exit and steps on your toe in the process. Does this sound familiar? Has something like this ever happened to you?<br/> <br/>
My son went on his first date with a new girlfriend this afternoon. They walked to a restaurant to have an after-school meal. Lucas had it all planned out to be nice and romantic so that she would be thoroughly won over. Much to his dismay, he forgot to bring his wallet with him! She was cool about it, and paid for both of their meals, but I know he was dying inside.<br/>
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What has burst the romantic bubble for you? Everyone has a story to tell, I'm sure. Does one generally recover from such incidents, and build the romantic feeling back up? Or is it like being awakened from a wonderful dream, such that you can never go back to sleep and continue it from where you left off? Is the feeling of romance a fragile, delicate thing, that can easily be spoiled? Or is it much bigger and more powerful than that? I'll be fascinated to hear everyone's views and stories on this subject.</p> Which is More Romantic to You - Natural Settings, Human Constructs, or a Combination of the Two?tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2009-07-31:2426069:Topic:636192009-07-31T20:05:55.306ZJimhttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Jim
For example, is it more romantic to be on a windy hillside under the stars in summer, to be among the fountains and statues of a majestic building, or to be enjoying a sumptuous meal in a cafe while watching swans glide by on a lake?
For example, is it more romantic to be on a windy hillside under the stars in summer, to be among the fountains and statues of a majestic building, or to be enjoying a sumptuous meal in a cafe while watching swans glide by on a lake? New Picture Prompt Challenge - Have At It, Romantics (and Naysayers, too)!tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2009-07-31:2426069:Topic:636182009-07-31T19:51:00.468ZJimhttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Jim
This isn't the conventional man/woman romantic image, is it?<br />
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This isn't the conventional man/woman romantic image, is it?<br />
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<p style="text-align:left"><img src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2009/2/13/1234526196231/Valentines-Day-art-Fran-o-001.jpg"/></p> Well, We've Discussed a Few Paintings, Now How About a Poem?tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2009-07-18:2426069:Topic:627902009-07-18T23:54:09.253ZJimhttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Jim
NIGHT<br />
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by: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)<br />
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Swiftly walk o'er the western wave,<br />
Spirit of Night!<br />
Out of the misty eastern cave,--<br />
Where, all the long and lone daylight,<br />
Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear<br />
Which make thee terrible and dear,--<br />
Swift be thy flight!<br />
<br />
Wrap thy form in a mantle grey,<br />
Star-inwrought!<br />
Blind with thine hair the eyes of Day;<br />
Kiss her until she be wearied out.<br />
Then wander o'er city and sea and land,<br />
Touching all with thine opiate wand--<br />
Come, long sought!<br />
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When I arose…
NIGHT<br />
<br />
by: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)<br />
<br />
Swiftly walk o'er the western wave,<br />
Spirit of Night!<br />
Out of the misty eastern cave,--<br />
Where, all the long and lone daylight,<br />
Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear<br />
Which make thee terrible and dear,--<br />
Swift be thy flight!<br />
<br />
Wrap thy form in a mantle grey,<br />
Star-inwrought!<br />
Blind with thine hair the eyes of Day;<br />
Kiss her until she be wearied out.<br />
Then wander o'er city and sea and land,<br />
Touching all with thine opiate wand--<br />
Come, long sought!<br />
<br />
When I arose and saw the dawn<br />
I sigh'd for thee;<br />
When light rode high, and the dew was gone,<br />
And noon lay heavy on flower and tree,<br />
And the weary Day turn'd to her rest,<br />
Lingering like an unloved guest,<br />
I sigh'd for thee.<br />
<br />
Thy brother Death came, and cried,<br />
'Wouldst thou me?'<br />
Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed,<br />
Murmur'd like a noontide bee,<br />
'Shall I nestle near thy side?<br />
Wouldst thou me?'--and I replied,<br />
'No, not thee!'<br />
<br />
Death will come when thou art dead,<br />
Soon, too soon--<br />
Sleep will come when thou art fled.<br />
Of neither would I ask the boon<br />
I ask of thee, belovèd Night--<br />
Swift be thine approaching flight,<br />
Come soon, soon!