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| Main Entry: | lift |
| Part of Speech: | noun 2 |
| Definition: | help |
| Synonyms: | aid, assist, assistance, boost, comfort, encouragement, hand, leg, leg up, pick-me-up, reassurance, relief, secours, succor, support |
| Source: | Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1) Copyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved. |
| Main Entry: | lift |
| Part of Speech: | verb 1 |
| Definition: | move up |
| Synonyms: | arise, ascend, aspire, bear aloft, boost, bring up, build up, buoy up, climb, come up, disappear, disperse, dissipate, draw up, elevate, erect, goose, heft, hike, hike up, hoist, jack up, jump up, mount, move up, pick up, put up, raise, raise high, rear, rise, soar, take up, up, upheave, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, vanish |
| Antonyms: | push down |
| Source: | Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1) Copyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved. |
I've been thinking about this, having been visited lately by uplifting friends, and being more structured than usual in my introversion due to the Artist's Way exercises.
I know I am not alone in my history of relationships that push down. When you hear that voice on your answering machine, does your heart lift, or does it clench with dreadful love? Is that pleasure, or anxiety? Duty, or anticipation?
Not, mind you, that I think duty is a bad thing. There is satisfaction in doing one's duty; it is a good thing to meet obligations with a full heart. But there is also a time that the heart drains -- notice that. Rectify it.
I speak to myself, here.
Why do I -- why do we? -- deny ourselves that which lifts us up? For me, on that very long list, is:
- music
- swimming
- being outside
- reading poems
- long baths
- massage ($)
- silence
- drawing
- people
And it goes on. Some, of course, illness discourages -- but does not deny.
What is it, asks one friend, that makes some connections so unique, so deep, so -- soulful? It is these that make me wonder, perhaps there is something more than we can see; something beyond measurement. Something that brings this person into my life, and keeps him here, despite long absences. Something that brings me into her life, and keeps me there, despite long distances.
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Your blog--lifting me. Thanks
Posted by: Critter | 22 January 2006 at 05:27 AM