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Welcome to my VT page!

Have a great day!
Alex

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there within me lay an invincible summer.” Albert Camus

A Blessing That You Are

"It is an occurrence of my being:
and then, the happiness within my core
is stronger than me, more powerful than my bones,
which you will grind and crush in an embrace
so painful ever, so wonderful evermore.

Let’s speak to each other, let’s talk, let words flow
long, glossy ones, like chisels that cut apart
the river cold from the delta in a glow,
the day from the night, basalt post from basalt.

Take me, happiness, high up, and touch
my temples of stars, until
my protracted world in its endlessness
is turned into a column or something
far much more, and much sooner still.

A blessing that you are, a marvel I exist!
Two different songs, colliding, commingling,
two colours that have never met before,
one from very low, facing the ground amidst,
one from very high, and almost broken
of the fierce, incomparable struggle a token
of the wonder you are, of the chance that I exist."

Now I am in a foreign land, away from home

"Me trob lonh en un regne estranh;
N’ai nien mai m’abit et mon cor.
Le ciel ne.m done mai planh:
Mas me mantene en route m’amor.
Com rennemb printems can en pre
Nos paissem et nos plazem ben.
I’err en une riba fere, sans fe;
Me mirara, volerai pen!
Bel crei que ton gentil baizer
Qu’esper a rendre gai a te.
Preg que me pensaras en ser;
Me visitaras en reve."

Translation:
Now I am in a foreign land, away from home;
I have no possessions but the coat I wear and the heart within.
The stars above offer me no guidance, but rather lament:
Yet my beloved keeps me upon the road.
How I recall the warm spring, when on the grass
Well did we have our fill of food and pleasure.
Now I am cast onto a distant shore, despairing;
Had I your eye upon me, love, how I would want for nothing!
Fondly do I think upon your gentle kiss,
Which I hope to return joyfully to you.
I pray you think of me in the evening
And visit me in a dream.

"Somehow there's no more darkness left at all.
I've soaked up sunlight through a thousand wounds,
and now this whiteness that I cloak you in
you won't find even in the Alps: this wind
whirls also there on high and stains the snow.
Even white roses bear a hint of dust.
The ultimate miracle is in ourselves:
these white expanses genuinely aglow
against the universe. The purest thing
in all creation then is not the twilight,
nor the sky when it's reflected off the river,
nor the sun on the apple blossoms. It is love."

Intro Updated Mar 27, 2012
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sayedaburas Apr 6, 2012 at 2:31 AM Report Abuse

Thank you Dear so much indeed, how sweet and kind of you Sweetie (~_~)
breughel Dec 23, 2011 at 11:13 AM Report Abuse

Dear Alexa, I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Waalewiener Oct 21, 2011 at 6:06 PM Report Abuse

Hi Alexa Thank you
hunterV Sep 28, 2011 at 11:26 PM Report Abuse

Happy birthday, Alexa! ><><><><><><>< Take care!~
furioso Apr 4, 2011 at 7:39 AM Report Abuse

Yes I had a great birthday....I hope you are very well and enjoy your days;-) take care...
Swades Jan 2, 2011 at 9:48 PM Report Abuse

Happy New year!! Wish your dream come true.. smile..vivek
Pavlik_NL Sep 29, 2010 at 6:39 AM Report Abuse

Many wonderful birthday wishes for you, Alexa, from Holland! Hope you will have a wonderful day in which you are the center of all attention. Gefeliciteerd!!! Paul
Jerelis Sep 29, 2010 at 6:13 AM Report Abuse

Happy birtday Alexa! I hope you have a great day!!!
cachaseiro Jan 2, 2010 at 7:36 PM Report Abuse

i´d love some pancakes in utah :O) and happy new year to you too.
balhannah Jan 2, 2010 at 6:37 PM Report Abuse

Your opening photo is a lovely subject, something I will not see around where I live!