Today's Feelings.

I decided to add this page to my site. Let's consider this as therapy for the mind. These have an impact on my day to day existence. . .  can u feel a sista?

may 11 - i've been putting this off like the plague.... i'll be back!

What Is Real? 
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A beautiful conversation between two stuffed animals in a playroom, 
taken from the lovely little story "The Velveteen Rabbit", by Margery 
Williams... 

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side 
by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. 
"Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out 
handle?" 

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing 
that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, 
not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." 

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. 

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When 
you are Real you don't mind being hurt." 

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or 
bit by bit?" 

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. 
It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people 
who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully 
kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has 
been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your 
joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, 
because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who 
don't understand." 


Copyright Margery Williams (1881-1944) 
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