Books Of The Ivory Fractures = Strengths, Weaknesses, and Wisdom

Tak ada gading yang tak retak.
Namun keretakan gading itulah justru yang memperindah citranya.
Bagaikan sidik jari, retak gading tak satupun yang sama.
Menjadikannya ciri tersendiri bagi setiap gading.

Sebagai manusia, seperti gading retak, pasti memiliki kekurangan dan kelemahan.
Dan untuk dapat tumbuh dan berubah menjadi manusia yang bijaksana, dibutuhkan ketetapan hati, untuk dapat menerima kelebihan dan kekurangan diri sendiri, dan juga untuk dapat menerima "retak-gading" setiap orang yang pernah mewarnai hidupmu....
Terutama orang-orang yang kau cintai...
Jadikan "retak-gading" mereka menjadi penguat hidupmu....
I love you babe.... let's grow old together, through  bad n good times.....


Ever Change In Times (Taken from Aretha Franklin's Album, "What You See Is What You Sweat")

These are ever changing times...

I see the clock upon the wall
But it don't bother me at all
These are ever changing times...

And we, ever changing times,
Everything is going so much faster
It seems like I'm Watching my life, and everything I do
WONDERING IF THE DREAMS THAT I BELIEVED IN CAN STILL COME TRUE

Caught in between, it comes back to you and me running out of time,
I'VE GOTTA FIND ME A BETTER UNDERSTANDING...
Everyday keeps forgetting whats mine,
I'VE GOTTA FIND ME A WAY LESS-DEMANDING...
And we're holding on so tight, together, all of our lives.

And I, I had some big idea...
SO MUCH OF MY LIFE , STILL NOT COMPLETED,
Hopes and fears, watching them change, into something new
WONDERING IF I'M GONNA FIND THE ANSWER, LOVING YOU....

All of my life, it comes back to you and me running out of time,
I'VE GOTTA FIND ME A BETTER UNDERSTANDING...
Everyday keep forgetting whats mine,
I'VE GOTTA FIND ME A WAY LESS-DEMANDING...
And we're holding on so tight, together, all of our lives.

I see the clock upon the wall, but it dont bother me at all
These are ever changing times

And we're holding on so tight, together
AND WE'RE GONNA BE ALRIGHT, TOGETHER, ALL OF OUR LIVES...

I see the clock upon the wall, but it dont bother me at all
These are ever changing times...