#havens

@tolkienwomensweek day six | heartbreak ✦ longing ✦ determination ✦ reunite | celebrían

I have decided to go Where the cold will never find me, To seek a land still green and unstained. I have decided to go  Though my feet give out beneath me, And parting is no solace for my pain. I know it's hard to understand, But don't you ever doubt my love for you. Oh, one day you'll come sailing after When your time has come. I have decided to go Where my heart has gone before me, To travel where the skyline meets the sea. And when I get there I'll know peace, Peace that passes understanding. Oh, I'll know peace that's long eluded me. I know it's hard to understand, But don't you ever doubt my love for you. Oh, one day you'll come sailing after When your time has come.

* no matter what occupies our normal doings,

no matter the bleed into our lives, …the news from distant places;

no matter the stance taken on hot-button issues of the day

as well as

the relatively cooler but more certain core of what we hold near & dear;

we all crave our havens:

some safe space where we rest - literally & figuratively;

a place our soul knows as home & so acts - in its full expression

however similar or contrary to our public manners & mores.

like a venn diagram

our haven within often intersects with others', but

sometimes it may not as well, which is okay too,

it's just another venn, friend…

the art of living populates the world

with havens here, there, everywhere when not scurrying & scrambling

to maintain a pace & place dictated by corporate types exerting,

making their own profitable havens -

& employees' welfare only secondarily, tertiarily, or not at all.

the yin i'm in leads me to nudge my venn

a mite closer to your'n, if'n you too are so disposed & my accent affectation * is not too off-puttin' this stanza; once linked,

The Oracles use their blood, prayers and the ambient magic to make Havens. Their blood makes sure the havens keep the daemons away and the ambient magic keeps the Havens going. The prayers are to direct the intent to protect.

William G. Linen, Havens, c. 1891, Smithsonian: National Portrait Gallery

Size: Image: 9.3 × 7.6 cm (3 11/16 × 3") Medium: Albumen silver print