Yesterday, via twitter, I stumbled upon an amazing project, The World Needs More Love Letters, which invites people to write anonymous love letters and leave them in public spaces, hopefully to be found and read by a stranger.

So I did it.


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(cross posted from here, with apologies to people seeing it in multiple places ( Read more... )

Hitherto, when this university town and seat of state government applauded itself as "the Athens of the Midwest," the sobriquet suggested kinship with the cultural glories of ancient Greece. Now, however, Madison resembles contemporary Athens.

- George F. Will in today's PostI rarely - if ever! - agree with George Will, but that's a fine paragraph ( Read more... )

I have been thinking for the last month or so about a buddhist koan. A koan is a made-up story meant to teach a lesson or impart wisdom or demonstrate a principle. one of my favorites is about a guy who is being chased by lions and he comes to a cliff, which he dangles off of only to see that there are lions below, too. so lions above, lions below ( Read more... )

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.

Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly ( Read more... )

My mom died tonight at 6:15 from adenocarcinoma.

When I left work today, I looked over at the capitol and saw the light above the dome was burning brightly, which means they are in session. Unusual, though not unheard of, at that hour. Senator Bernie Sanders is filibustering* on the tax cut proposal agreed to by President Obama and the republicans ( Read more... )

I said to Poetry: "I'm finished
with you."
Having to almost die
before some weird light
comes creeping through
is no fun.
"No thank you, Creation,
no muse need apply.
Im out for good times--
at the very least,
some painless convention."

Poetry laid back
and played dead
until this morning.
I wasn't sad or anything,
only restless.

Poetry said: "You ( Read more... )

I've fallen in with foodies. They had me at truffle butter ( Read more... )