Fluorite helps with focus, intuition and clarity. Some people believe it wards off negative energy, stress and chaos. But hey, the octahedron specimen is just fascinating and beautiful – wear one to celebrate intuitive energies and introspective moments.

Magic surrounds the great caravan of this world,
Some of us seekers and some of us found.

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Things We Make To Get Our Minds Off This Thing Called Life

Wait Mister. Which way is home?

They turned the light out

and the dark is moving in the corner.

There are no sign posts in this room,

four ladies, over eighty,

in diapers every one of them.

La la la, Oh music swims back to me

and I can feel the tune they played

the night they left me

in this private institution on a hill.

 

Imagine it. A radio playing

and everyone here was crazy.

I liked it and danced in a circle.

Music pours over the sense

and in a funny way

music sees more than I.

I mean it remembers better;

remembers the first night here.

It was the strangled cold of November;

even the stars were strapped in the sky

and that moon too bright

forking through the bars to stick me

with a singing in the head.

I have forgotten all the rest.

 

They lock me in this chair at eight a.m.

and there are no signs to tell the way,

just the radio beating to itself

and the song that remembers

more than I. Oh, la la la,

this music swims back to me.

The night I came I danced a circle

and was not afraid.

Mister?

 
 

Music Swims Back To Me
Anne Sexton

I put the first line on a bangle, so

Wait Mister. Which way is home?

Hope is my girl’s name. If I ever have one.

Good morning, strange world.
Why are you sometimes, like the center of a flower, landing me there -
And why are you others
Absence, more than presence -
Unearthing roots beneath my shoes
Showing me?

Sex. Madness. Spirituality. Politics. All in these humble tags.

American poets for courtship. American poets for failure of courtship.

Mexican poets for politics. Mexican poets for more politics.

That’s my rough guide.

***

It rained madly today. Mad enough for me to catch hold of its puddibilities, while my two babies watched.

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You can look at the moon on flat ground or you can look at the moon
From under a roof.
You can dream about a hot air balloon
Or you can be aloof about having once been. You can sit behind a screen
Ignore last night’s dream and even lose
The words within.

I find myself asking:
What kind of poet
Loses and beams
As bright as this moon?

The one same
As all the others
Who lived on, and on
The heart as observatory.

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The even littler books are under 1 inch and are photographed beside the miniature books for an idea of how very fine these tiny books are. Our miniature library is growing, and maybe yours too.

The chance, to let ourselves, and others, be
This being, of me, in them
In this,
If that.

The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you kept shouting
their bad advice -
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late enough,
and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world, determined to do
the only thing you could do -
determined to save
the only life you could save.

Mary Oliver