Wordgrove Post & Review

Newly returned from Colombia, belatedly from Oregon, this week’s

The BRIDGE Issue

Quoted in The Grove:
People who have lost relationships often wonder why they can’t just let it be “water under the bridge.” It is water under the bridge — the trouble is we do not live on the bridge but in the river of life with its many twists and turns.
~Grant Fairley

The fate of the bridges is to be lonely; because bridges are to cross not to stay!
~Mehmet Murat İldan

Walls turned sideways are bridges.
~Angela Davis

EndQuote:
He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between — and while he’s had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he’ll never reach.
~Neal Shusterman

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Prewritten Prompt for 11/30:  question

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Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.
~Ivo Andric

The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!
~Mehmet Murat İldan

A bridge has no allegiance to either side.
~Les Coleman

Bridges are happy, because they do not judge those who come to them…
Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don’t judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge!
~Mehmet Murat İldan

Golden bridge, silver bridge or diamond bridge; it doesn’t matter! As long as the bridge takes you across the other side, it is a good bridge!
~Mehmet Murat İldan

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Posted From The Grove

The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.
~Kenneth E Boulding

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
~Earl Nightingale

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
~Jim Rohn

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You don’t want to burn bridges or make people angry. Building a career is all about creating relationships.
~Ricki Frankel

Never burn bridges. Today’s junior jerk, tomorrow’s senior partner.
~Sigourney Weaver

Burning a bridge, for example, does not just impact the situation at hand. It can impact opportunities you may never be aware of.
~Valorie Burton

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
~Barack Obama

You never know when a relationship will come in handy, so be cautious about burning bridges.
~John Michael Morgan

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In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.
~Catherynne M Valente

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
~James Madison

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The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.
~Henry A Kissinger

Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world’s indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.
~William J Clinton

Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.
~Israelmore Ayivor

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The act of burning one’s bridges is historically an expression used to signify staking everything on the success of one venture or another, usually battle.
~Jerald Ford

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me — I never retreat.
~Fiorello LaGuardia

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It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.
~Dale Carnegie

I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
~Seth Godin

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
~Sun Tzu

We have to build bridges of peace instead of building walls of wars.
~Widad Akrawi

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~beeware42:  After the lunch (on Waterloo Bridge) by Wendy Cope (0:46)   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iXVoGalzrE

After the lunch

On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes,
the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes.
I wipe them away with a black woolly glove
And try not to notice I’ve fallen in love

On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think:
This is nothing. you’re high on the charm and the drink.
But the juke-box inside me is playing a song
That says something different. And when was it wrong?

On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair
I am tempted to skip. You’re a fool. I don’t care.
The head does its best but the heart is the boss-
I admit it before I am halfway across
~Wendy Cope

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~High Altitude Films:  The Bridge   (8:28)   Suicide Bridge (Archway Rd, London) speaks; a poem
https://vimeo.com/107823460

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~hh1edits:  Burning Bridges   (1:37)   burning, exploding, rising and falling, filmdom’s storied bridge demolitions to rousing music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Olo49ATSMg

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If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
~Peter Marshall

Throughout history, religious differences have divided men and women from their neighbors and have served as justification for some of humankind’s bloodiest conflicts. In the modern world, it has become clear that people of all religions must bridge these differences and work together, to ensure our survival and realize the vision of peace that all faiths share.
~Prince Hassan bin Talal

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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
~Ann Voskamp

The Devil sends the precipices; God sends the bridges! When you come across a precipice, look for the bridge; it is somewhere there!
~Mehmet Murat İldan

Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.
~Jerry Bridges

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Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.
~Rachel Naomi Remen

I really believe that God builds all the bridges, writes all the books, and delivers all the speeches. When I say God, again, I mean that source we all come from, we all are pieces of, and we all are connected to.
~Wayne Dyer

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VIDEO:

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.
~Richard L Evans

My father used to tell me, never burn your bridges, all of the time, but I never understood it until I burned a bridge.
~Eric Stanberry Jr

I wish someone had told me about ‘burning bridges.’ I have burned loads of bridges in my life and I just had to move forward
~Natalie Bandlow

Don’t burn bridges. You’ll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.
~H Jackson Brown Jr

The only bad thing about burning your bridges behind you is that the world is round.
~unknown

Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It’s the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.
~Anthony Liccione

Never burn bridges. If it’s a faulty bridge then close it off and let it fall on its own.
~Gregor Collins

Unless you work in demolition, don’t burn bridges.
~Harvey Mackay

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When you’ve burned the bridges behind you, don’t go starting a fire on the one in front of you.
~Steven Erikson

I’ve been burning bridges all day, I think I’ll just knock this one down.
~Chris Soares

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And we’re burning all the bridges now
Watching it go up in flames
And then we’d build it up again
~Casey Michael Laforet

You know, the thing about burned bridges is, they can be rebuilt.
~Tim Kring

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Stop telling me not to burn bridges. Some bridges are meant to be burned; some roads are never meant to be traveled again.
~Dr Steve Maraboli

Burning Bridges
In order to escape.
~James Pesutich

Any bridge to the past that refuses to burn just gives the enemy an invitation and an entry point back into your life.
~Femi Olorunnisola

Bridges are meant for burning, when the people and memories they join aren’t the same.
~Jim Croce

My land is bare of chattering folk;
the clouds are low along the ridges,
and sweet’s the air with curly smoke
from all my burning bridges.
~Dorothy Parker

With every bridge that burns a new path is opened for the way your destiny is to be shaped. If you believe in destiny then you must believe that the bridge was burned so you can find a new way to go to find the destiny that you were meant to follow.
~Terry Perkins

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The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
~David Russell

When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way.
~Abbi Glines

Once you cross,
Accept the loss.
~James Pesutich

I’m grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned
~Carrie Underwood

You don’t have to worry about burning bridges, if you’re building your own.
~Kerry E Wagner

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“And then what?”
“I’ll burn that bridge when I cross it.
~Ilona Andrews

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I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.
~Dinah Shore

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
~Tom Stoppard

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~Danny Dwyer:  Bridge   (13:54)   Charon’s other
https://vimeo.com/153922218

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~Omeleto:  The Moped Diaries   (10:56)   when the end becomes a beginning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD5od4GTZJA

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~Omeleto:  In Passing   (5:03)   they jump to fall … in love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TuOe4Slpxc

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~Ting:  Bridge   (2:46)   animated parable
https://vimeo.com/27299211

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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
~Adam Carolla

In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself from a bridge, then surely the prostitute, who has shown the most tenacious instinct for self-preservation, should be considered stronger and saner than her frailer and no longer living sisters. One couldn’t have it both ways, he’d pointed out: if women are seduced and abandoned they’re supposed to go mad, but if they survive, and seduce in their turn, then they were mad to begin with.
~Margaret Atwood

Feminism — the word — can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
~Betty Buckley

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.
~Robert James Waller

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No matter where I go, I always make friends at the bridge table
~Martina Navratilova

People don’t realize that I’m really funny and I’m an excellent bridge player.
~Sheryl Crow

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MUSIC:

Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.
~Eckhart Tolle

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.
~Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Some of their best songs don’t have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn’t need to change anything.
~Lucinda Williams

It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable… Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass… Music should never be harmless.
~Robbie Robertson

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.
~Sean Lennon

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It’s like this when you fall hard for a musician. It’s a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend the shows and this is the liturgy. You’re interested in relics — guitar picks, set lists, the sweaty napkin applied to His brow. You set up shrines in your room. It’s not just about the music. It’s about who you are when you listen to the music and who you wish to be and the way a particular song can bridge that gap, can make you feel the abrupt thrill of absolute faith.
~Steve Almond

Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
~Warren G Bennis

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.
~Ricky Martin

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~Paul Simon:  Bridge Over Troubled Waters    (pick one)

~John Legend    (3:44)   working it with soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnCHCqYRQFs

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~Puddles Pity Party   (4:23)   Dedication: COVID’s frontline heroes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAt8Sbf08-o

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~Artists for Grenfell   (4:00)   tears, and a song for healing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O1CcwYf79I

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~Korean (KBS Kpop)   (5:03)   passionate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6iHh4yBxCo

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I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don’t think I’ve written any great songs.
~Paul Simon
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~Neil Diamond:  Remembering   (4:09)   from:  Bridges of Madison County
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gigCQkSon2s

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~Leon Bridges:  Beyond   (4:09)   thinking it might be love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELPOCJvDz3w

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~Status Quo:  Burning Bridges   (3:50)   bouncy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCswMbmEpgQ

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~Garth:  Burning Bridges   (3:26)   a country goodbye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVKRXNVQ6G0

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~Brooks & Dunn:  Building Bridges (3:52)   w/ Sheryl Crow/Vince Gill contributing voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy4TwbdqV08

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~The Wandering Hearts:  Burning Bridges   (3:56)   tight harmonies/dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIy2PysYWu0

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~Bobby Gentry:  Ode to Billy Joe   (4:51)   unanswered questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv33eaygVDQ

~harleygal420:  If you remember this song, you are not old. You are high, quality vintage

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I’m saying your name in the grocery store, I’m saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music that’s been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull.
~Richard Siken

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.
~Maya Angelou

He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.
~Susan Vreeland

There are certain bridges that are not worth crossing, no matter what others think. Loyalty and relationships are important.
~Tony Dungy

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Male makeup is men’s titles, status and paying for dates. Makeup is what both sexes use to bridge the gap between the power they have and the power they’d like to have. Both male and female makeup are compensations for feelings of powerlessness.
~Warren Farrell

You don’t want any woman to look under the carpet because there’s lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, “Mr. and Mrs. Bridge” comes closest to who I really am. I personally don’t think there’s one character who comes close … but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don’t have a solid opinion about.
~Paul Newman

I don’t know what it is to love the way they love — they would jump off a bridge for me. I can’t do that. I can only say, I owe you.
~Bobby Darin

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Burning bridges behind me
It’s too late to turn back now
Burning bridges behind me
All I want is to forget you somehow
~Remy David Shand

When all your love is lost
And burning bridges can’t be crossed
Lord won’t you let me know
Or give me one more reason to go
~Christopher Bridges

I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.
~Neil Gaiman

Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge
~J R Ward

For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.
~Miranda July

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Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn’t bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.
~Neal Shusterman

Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.
~Paulo Coelho

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Any husband who says, “My wife and I are completely equal partners,” is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge.
~Bill Cosby

Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.
~George Burns

Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.
~Woody Allen

My wife made me join a bridge club… I jump off next Tuesday.
~Rodney Dangerfield

Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.
~Terry Pratchett

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It’s just the wrong Queens that’s all. It’s over the 59th Street Bridge. It’s not over the Atlantic Ocean.
~Cyndi Lauper

I’m learning English at the moment. I can say ‘Big Ben’, ‘Hello Rodney’, ‘Tower Bridge’ and ‘Loo’.
~Cher

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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
~Oscar Levant

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even where there are no rivers.
~Nikita Khrushchev

Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence
and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like
a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter
is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are
free.
~Ted Loder

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                           Rakotzbrücke Devil's Bridge – Gablenz, Germany 

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…for the modern soul, for which it is mere child’s play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.
~Robert Musil

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time… It’s another way to bridge the gaps between us.
~Sarah Ruhl

I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is a bridge that allows different cultures to connect. You may not understand your neighbour’s way of seeing life, but you sure understand your neighbour’s joy in painting or dancing.
~Paulo Coelho

True art means if it helps you to become silent, still, joyous; if it gives you a celebration, if it makes you dance, whether anybody participates with you or not is irrelevant. If it becomes a bridge between you and God, that is true art. If it becomes a meditation, that is true art. If you become absorbed in it, so utterly absorbed that the ego disappears, that is true art.
~Rajneesh

After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
~A R Rahman

Social media is so powerful now, and with all these blog sites and YouTube channels and videos, it makes it more and more relevant to bridge artists together.
~Tyga

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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
~H G Wells

Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
~unknown

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
~Eugene Delacroix

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@Writers Platform

There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul that is not reserved only for gods, heroes, and saints. Story is one bridge between the human realm and the divine.
~Deena Metzger

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?
~Nietzsche

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.
~Wes Nisker

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.
~Adolf Hitler

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence.
~Max Beckmann

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Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn’t a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
~Fernando Pessoa

Good composition is like a suspension bridge — each line adds strength and takes none away.
~Robert Henri

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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
~Audre Lorde

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear.
~Charles Bukowski

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She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.
~Vladimir Nabokov

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.
~Jim Rohn

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Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
~Don Henley

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
~Richard Peck

He asked, “what makes a man a writer?” “well,” I said, “it’s simple, it’s either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.”
~Charles Bukowski

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
~Marguerite Young

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The Glass Table:

~bckpackr:  excerpt • Trip to Greece

Once, when I went looking for my brother, it took me those 3 days to get there, and I realized I had just one loaf of bread in my backpack and only enough money to buy a one-way ticket to Greece, but not enough to return.

What would you do? Did I turn back? I had nowhere to return to!

On the other hand I would be arriving in Greece with NO money – I didn’t speak a WORD of Greek – and I hoped and somehow thought it entirely possible that amid the ENTIRE country to search through, I would just happen to find my brother!

Naturally, I considered the odds were in my favor (I swear, I didn’t drink for this to seem logical!) and proceeded to go ahead and buy the ticket!

(to be cont.)

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Other peoples’ words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you’re going.
~Zadie Smith

In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become a creator, imagining the setting of the story, visualizing the characters, seeing facial expressions, hearing the inflection of voices. The author and the reader “know” each other; they meet on the bridge of words.
~Madeleine L’Engle

Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.
~Guy Gavriel Kay

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Prewritten Prompt:  bridge

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Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.
~Anthony Storr

Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once. ‘There is a bridge that links what I do with what I would like to do,’ he thinks. Slowly, his dreams take over his everyday life, and then he realises that he is ready for the thing he always wanted. Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.
~Paulo Coelho

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
~Alice Munro

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The Exercise:

After All

To walk is a controlled fall
To fly a controlled fall
To jump the most willing fall
To die away and escape it all
Mortal, fatal the bridge’s call
Or instinct copes, chose life
… after all

Of those who lived
Survived the fall
Wished they hadn’t
Jumped at all
The instant after
They joined The Fall

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Linking

These are those that shine for you
They the ones that align, and true
Acts of kindness a binding glue

Struts for building o’er the rift below
A bridge of deeds that trust might grow
Make or break, the choice is now

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Toll Bridge

‘Twas my yearly vacation time
escaping ads, noise and crime
When a wounded, yearning soul
seeks nature’s way becoming whole

A long, slow, meditative walk
free of all intrusive talk
When sighted near a rocky ridge
‘neath verdant emerald foliage

A secret cloistered garden park
charming in the forest dark
O’er a plashing tumbling brook
as from a vintage picture book

An image of stardust heritage
there crossed a spellbound bridge
Try imagine my shocked surprise
a girlish gnome of human size

Cherished prize her sky blue eyes
probing eyes, kind and wise
Silv’ry complexion, pale and fair
sage green lips, Spanish moss for hair

Banished here in the role of troll
waiting magic while collecting toll
A comely lass, a forlorn miss
awaiting love, a human kiss

Tho most peculiar, and decidedly rare
I bent to honor her requested fare
It took no courage, our recent marriage
trading desk for woodland village

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5-7-5

diplomats and airlines
non-adhesive by design
bridging distances

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caught between two sides
spanning sides crossing borders
the listening bridge

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holding not squeezing
bridging the distance to trust
sweet gift of a hug

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Last Quotes:

A bridge has almost forever been a metaphor for transition.
~John H Hayes

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
~Jeanette Winterson

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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
~Nietzsche

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.
~James Dean

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Oh, burning bridges behind me
You can follow me down but it’s plain to see
I’m a victim of the burn and it’s third degree
~Remy David Shand

Why’d we want to burn those bridges
Why’d we want to light such a flame
Ain’t no way to stay warm at the fire
Of burning bridges
~Daniel Smith Chauncey

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During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain’s chair.
~Patrick Stewart (of Star Trek)

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True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
~Nikos Kazantzakis

Education is all a matter of building bridges.
~Ralph Ellison

Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‘satisfactory,’ I would have no hope of ever getting better.
~Bill Gates

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Hope meets you halfway on a bridge called faith.
~Bryant H McGill

Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.
~Neil Young

Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go — it is a substance.
~T D Jakes

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The grave itself is but a covered bridge,
Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is fighting. In life, it’s the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.
~John Knowles

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