This has been flying around the web for the last year, and even more in the last week when Randy Pausch died from cancer. This isn’t quite “Tuesdays with Morrie” inspiration- it’s about achieving- and identifying your childhood dreams. As I consider my last year; leaving the city I love and my friends and family [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2008’
My gorgeous puppy has a girlfriend
SIghtings…
The Fire of Avocado (for TheCoPo)
The Fire in an Avocado Vine tomatoes look ripeBetween the hard avocadosThe ones I rock under a window In the Port-au-Prince marketI reach to lay-in farmer’s bulbsThemselves searching out of pliant tree In their arms the burn of feastPress after the gallon of gasolineStripes of grass for avocados I offer a mother lunch of shady [...]
A birdy told me to CoPo
Hands dance out of love.She strings talk like spells over birds. * * * Another CoPo, this time using Slynne‘s words. I came up with a half dozen plus arragements of a dozen words. It was a joyful experiment. Joy. Truly. It was full of joy. I sighed with joy. Short, but sweet, her words [...]
Places I’ve been
I’ve been fortunate in my life to do a lot of travel- both professionally and for fun. I still consider travel- travel that requires personal and psychological risk of some sort- to be one my guiding forces. I haven’t left the country since the spring of 07, and that is one the greatest losses of [...]
A Census petition
I don’t normally post things like this here, but this seems like an important petition for anyone who is interested in maintaining the integrity of the data coming out of the census bureau. Census data is not only important (VERY important) to sociologists and other academic researchers, but it is equally important for federal funding [...]
Theseus: Another Part
Theseus, have your colors bled? Black or white, your father says, let the wordspell in color: victory or defeat. How can these tell us of a single frame? Depth detained by parody. I, too, am a disappointment to my father.I forget to do as he says. I am distracted. I can’ttell what is right or [...]
Stuff
My ‘net connection is down at home. Crap. I should get some good hubby, cat, gardening, puppy, hiking, reading time in. * * * I couldn’t stand the blog look. This is boring as hell, but at least it is clean. * * * WP is coming. It is. Kate! We must get together. <3 [...]
100% honest day
I will be 100% honest today. My internet connection is down at home. But I will still be honest tonight. At home. With hubby. Who is honest. And my cats and puppy are honest. Honest. Ask me anything, until Saturday at noon, and I will answer. Honestly. I am away from a computer and connection [...]
Transformations
The editors of Qaartsiluni let me know last week that the poem I had submitted for the upcoming “Transformation” edition didn’t actually fit within the subject of “transformation”. I guess it’s all open to interpretation, but I was disappointed they didn’t see the poem as a transformation poem. In other transformation news, I got this [...]
