My morning started with a migraine threat. sambear drugged me, though, and left me in the nice dark room. That beat back the migraine. When I got up again a couple of hours later, Katie was up and eating, having…
Quote for HopeEvey
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. –Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883–1931)
Poetry: Ice Storm
Ice Storm –Jane Kenyon From Otherwise: New and Selected Poems For the hemlocks and broad-leafed evergreens a beautiful and precarious state of being… Here in the suburbs of New Haven nature, unrestrained, lops the weaker limbs of shrubs and trees with a sense of…
Katie Photos!
Hmmm
We acquired an HP 5510 OfficeJet All-in-One printer/fax/copier/scanner this past weekend. It uses a USB interface. I’m really wanting to try a USB wireless print server on this thing. I don’t like having to be wired to anything. It seems…
Any of You Have Access to This Article?
Elizabeth F. Emens, Monogamy’s Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence in the current issue of New York University Review of Law and Social Change Stanley Kurtz at the National Review is foaming at the mouth about it. It sounds very…
Jewish Kids at Easter
I don’t remember if I posted this before or not, but I left it in a comment in ginamariewade’s journal and remembered that y’all might enjoy the story. A former Girl Scout co-leader and her very Jewish family happened to be…
Poetry: Landscape
Landscape –Mary Oliver From Dream Work Isn’t it plain the sheets of moss, except that they have no tongues, could lecture all day if they wanted about spiritual patience? Isn’t it clear the black oaks along the path are standing as though…
QOTD: Charles Caleb Colton
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. –Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780–1832)
Ack! The Pain!
From vilious in qow by way of metaquotes: On the Web we are made out of sentences, and some people insist on showing up hideously deformed. Current Mood: 🙂amused