Togetherness- Khalil Gibran

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”

– Khalil Gibran,

The Prophet

[Image: Romeo and Juliet on the Balcony (1886) by Swedish painter Julius Kronberg (1850–1921).]

The Smart Witch by Elizabeth

Dandelion

In the heart of a white dandelion lies an ingenious blueprint, whispered in silent geometry, spun with intent. A sphere of symmetry, radiant, intricate, and pure, as if each filament were laced by a measured, unseen hand.

Each seed—a delicate orb—cradled in radial embrace, perfectly spaced in Fibonacci’s rhythm, a dance of grace. They cling like thoughts to their center, aligned, precise, until the wind calls and scatters them, yet even in chaos, they abide.

Here lies evidence of intelligent design’s hand:

the dandelion’s geometry, unerringly planned.

A masterpiece woven in nature’s finest threads,

its beauty a proof, as if the universe knew