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During last holiday season, I see a lot of my friend try to find a lot of ways to entertain their kids during the holiday time, and I see them stumble along the way It is not always easy you know to entertain kids today, you know ! Some of my friend sends their kids to their hometown, trying to reconnect them the big families. While other try to fulfill their kids time with many various exercise and events. Send their kids to music concert of their favorite artist or sports game is one of their option.

But it turns out that finding tickets for those events is sometimes is difficult. Looks like all other parents are trying to do the very same thing. Luckily for us for live in the internet era, the ticket hunt experience is now really easy. Now we can always turn to internet to find the best ticket and most importantly cheap tickets for our kids needs

For example if you need to find the Michael Buble Tickets, a New York Knicks Tickets or Disney On Ice Tickets, you can just type it into your favorite search site and the job to find tickets for our love one can then be solved by few clicks away ! It is very easy and convenient

Then Almitra spoke again and said, ‘And what of Marriage, master?’

And he answered saying:

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.

You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.

Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness,

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together, yet not too near together:

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, ‘Speak to us of Children.’

And he said:

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts.

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;

For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.

But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.”
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

For all that you have given me,
I can return but love. For you
Bound up the wounds I did not see
And gave me hopes and passions new.

I can return but love for you,
Whose unmoved faith my heart did move,
And gave me hopes and passions new,
And loved me till I turned to love.

Whose unmoved faith did my heart move?
The mother of my heart, not blood,
Who loved me till I turned to love.
And I became the soul I would.

The mother of my heart, not blood,
Bound up the wounds I did not see.
And I became the soul I would
For all that you have given me.

by Nicholas Gordon

A mother casts her dreams into the sea;
We, the words sent bobbing towards the sun,
The eggs of stone, the shards of prophesy.

Because she must conclude her melody
And fall back to the sweet dark hush of One,
A mother casts her dreams into the sea,

Hoping to cross that wild infinity
And on some infant shore again to run,
The eggs of stone, the shards of prophesy

Outside the fiery circle of memory,
The howling surf, the incessant years undone �
A mother casts her dreams into the sea

And then dissolves into a tapestry,
Her rolling, helpless drift again begun,
The eggs of stone, the shards of prophesy

Afloat once more upon eternity,
Once more the alien fury, never done �
Again, again, her dreams into the sea,
The eggs of stone, the shards of prophesy!

by Nicholas Gordon

Nyanyian Sukma
oleh Kahlil Gibran
…..
Di dasar relung jiwaku Bergema nyanyian tanpa kata;
sebuah laguyang bernafas di dalam benih hatiku,
Yang tiada dicairkan oleh tinta di atas lembar kulit ;
ia meneguk rasa kasihku dalam jubah yg nipis kainnya,
dan mengalirkan sayang, Namun bukan menyentuh bibirku.
Betapa dapat aku mendesahkannya?
Aku bimbang dia mungkin berbaur dengan kerajaan fana
Kepada siapa aku akan menyanyikannya?
Dia tersimpan dalam relung sukmaku
Kerna aku risau, dia akan terhempas
Di telinga pendengaran yang keras.
Pabila kutatap penglihatan batinku
Nampak di dalamnya bayangan dari bayangannya,
Dan pabila kusentuh hujung jemariku
Terasa getaran kehadirannya.
Perilaku tanganku saksi bisu kehadirannya,
Bagai danau tenang yang memantulkan cahaya bintang-bintang bergemerlapan.
Air mataku menandai sendu
Bagai titik-titik embun syahdu
Yang membongkarkan rahsia mawar layu.
Lagu itu digubah oleh renungan,
Dan dikumandangkan oleh kesunyian,
Dan disingkiri oleh kebisingan,Dan dilipat oleh kebenaran,
Dan diulang-ulang oleh mimpi dan bayangan,
Dan difahami oleh cinta,
Dan disembunyikan oleh kesedaran siang
Dan dinyanyikan oleh sukma malam.
Lagu itu lagu kasih-sayang,
Gerangan ‘Cain’ atau ‘Esau’ manakahYang mampu membawakannya berkumandang?
Nyanyian itu lebih semerbak wangi daripada melati:
Suara manakah yang dapat menangkapnya?
Kidung itu tersembunyi bagai rahsia perawan suci,
Getar nada mana yang mampu menggoyahnya?
Siapa berani menyatukan debur ombak samudra dengan kicau bening burung malam?
Siapa yang berani membandingkan deru alam, Dengan desah bayi yang nyenyak di buaian?
Siapa berani memecah sunyi
Dan lantang menuturkan bisikan sanubari
Yang hanya terungkap oleh hati?
Insan mana yang berani melagukan kidung suci Tuhan?
(Dari Kahlil Gibran - ‘Dam’ah Wa Ibtisamah’ -Setitis Air Mata Seulas Senyuman)

Cinta yang Agung
Adalah ketika kamu menitikkan air mata
dan masih peduli terhadapnya..
Adalah ketika dia tidak mempedulikanmu dan kamu masih
menunggunya dengan setia..
Adalah ketika dia mulai mencintai orang lain
dan kamu masih bisa tersenyum sembari berkata ‘Aku
turut berbahagia untukmu’

Apabila cinta tidak berhasil
…Bebaskan dirimu…
Biarkan hatimu kembali melebarkan sayapnya
dan terbang ke alam bebas lagi..
Ingatlah…bahwa kamu mungkin menemukan cinta dan
kehilangannya..
tapi..ketika cinta itu mati..kamu tidak perlu mati
bersamanya

Orang terkuat BUKAN mereka yang selalu
menang..MELAINKAN mereka yang tetap tegar ketika
mereka jatuh..

Di kala resah ini kian mendesah dan menggalaukan jiwaku
Kau ada di sana …
Di saat aku terluka
hingga akhirnya…tercabik-cabiklah keteguhan hatiku
Kau masih ada di sana…

Ketika aku lelah dan semangatku patah untuk meneruskan perjuangan,
terhenti oleh kerikil –kerikil yang kurasa terlampau tajam
hingga akhirnya aku pun memilih jeda!!!
Kau tetap ada di sana…
memberiku isyarat untuk tetap bertahan

Ibu…kau basuh kesedihanku, kehampaanku dan ketidakberdayaanku
“Tiada lain kita hanya insan Sang Kuasa,
Memiliki tugas di bumi tuk menegakkan kalimatNya
Kita adalah jasad, jiwa, dan ruh yang terpadu
Untuk memberi arti bagi diri dan yang lain”
Kata-katamu laksana embun di padang gersang nuraniku
memberiku setitik cahaya dalam kekalutan berfikirku
Kau labuhkan hatimu untukku, dengan tulus tak berpamrih

Kusandarkan diriku di bahumu
Terasa…kelembutanmu menembus dinding-dinding kalbuku
Menghancurleburkan segala keangkuhan diri
Meluluhkan semua kelelahan dan beban dunia
Dan membiarkannya tenang terhanyut bersama kedalaman hatimu

Kutatap perlahan…
matamu yang membiaskan ketegaran dan perlindungan
Kristal-kristal lembut yang sedang bermain di bola matamu,
jatuh…setetes demi setetes
Kau biarkan ia menari di atas kain kerudungmu
Laksana oase di terik panasnya gurun sahara

Ibu…
Nasihatmu memberi kekuatan untukku
rangkulanmu menjadi penyangga kerapuhanku
untuk ,menapaki hari-hari penuh liku
…semoga semua itu tak akan pernah layu!

Ibu…
Dalam kelembutan cintamu, kulihat kekuatan
dalam tangis air matamu, kulihat semangat menggelora
dalam dirimu, terkumpul seluruh daya dunia!

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