I’ve added another cool blog feed to LJ: sepstatesuperst (Separation of Superstition and State). BTW—y’all do know that free users can subscribe to as many feeds as they like now, right? Paid users are the only ones who can create…
Sunday Poetry Fix
The Day You Were The Whole World By John Isbell As you worked in the garden, You expanded to become the entire planet. My breath stopped. You touched the earth around the crocuses From the other side of the world.…
Questions
Do you know the various question memes that are going around? I’m pretty much willing to answer just about any question at any time. If I answer, my answer will be the absolute truth—so don’t ask anything unless you DO…
Poetry Fix
Wedding –Alice Oswald from The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile From time to time our love is like a sail and when the sail begins to alternate from tack to tack, it’s like a swallowtail and when the swallow…
Nice, Relaxing Morning and Randomness
shadowkatt is laying in the floor of the sitting room, petting Shelley and exhorting Wizard to watch his language (he hisses every time he sees Shelley). Actually, she just bit him (after he bit her). He’s not used to humans…
Birthday Girl!
Happy Birthday, patgreene!
Hmph
I was writing an entry earlier. I had to restart the PC because of Comcast being silly, and now I can’t find the file OR remember what was in it. Obviously, it was terribly important stuff. I’ve finished three loads…
Two Poems
a song in the front yard by Gwendolyn Brooks I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back Where it’s rough and untended and hungry weed grows. A girl gets sick of a…
Not Exactly Surprising
10 percent of women raped, or nearly raped in first year of college When parents send their daughters off to college, few think they may return home as victims. Yet roughly 10 percent of women have experienced an attempted or…
Bracelets!
As sambear mentioned in a post today, we got our commitment bracelets yesterday! They’re sterling silver chains of triskeles. We’d been looking for some sort of commitment jewelry for a while, and didn’t find anything affordable that we both liked…