the re-volving door

                 
                     life and death, breathing in, breathing out, creation, birth, lust and pain,
                     joy and sadness, vulva or flower, all is change,
                     all happens through eros,  all is one breath:
                    we are being breathed, this is the secret.
                    we 'do' not breathe and our breath is never alone....
                   

Eros, Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sense of the world is short, -
Long and various the report, -
To love and be beloved;
Men and gods have not outlearned it;
And, how oft soe'er they've turned it,
'Tis not to be improved. 

Eros

Terracotta statuette of Eros flying circa 200-150 B.C. Greek

(fb post, Antonis Kalantzis)