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Elm - Sylvia Plath
I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.
Is it the sea you hear in me,
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?
Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it
Listen: these are its hooves: it has gone off, like a horse.
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"No Second Troy" - W.B. Yeats
Why should I blame her that she filled my days ( Read more... ) -
Pancha Journal Day 1 (Wednesday)
Coffee: 1
Alcohol: 1
Food: Mantra: 10 minutes
Exercise: nil
Day 1 of Retreat
1. chanted in the car on the way to school
2. only had one coffee
3. No alcohol was derailed by free alcohol at Secret Cinema. Then I went to Green Room and drank cranberry juice.
4. No casual hookups
Oh yeah "Be kind", yeah, I did that part.
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Pancha Journal Week 12
So, last night I started a 6 week retreat.
I'm supposed to:
1) meditate
2) give up alcohol, coffee, junk food, drugs
3) not start any new relationships for 6 weeks
This should be interesting.
Considering giving up Facebook (or trying to reduce the amount of time I spend on it), not sure if I could give it up for 6 hours, let alone 6 weeks. -
Goldenrod and the 4H Stone
"Goldenrod and the 4H Stone, The things I brought you when I found out, You had cancer of the bone, Your father cried on the telephone, And he drove his car into the Navy yard, Just to prove that he was sorry..." -
should have stayed in bed today
I didn't get any sleep last night as my flatmate's brother's family were camped out in my living room and the three year old has asthma or bronchitis and woke up screaming every hour ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
There is the thrill of loving for a little while-a night, a week, a month, even a year-and then loving stops, just like that, in the coldest, blankest way, a screen going snowy at the end of a movie. There is no yelling, only silence-the kind in a Carole King song: the phone that doesn’t ring, or the words you didn’t say that you think of on the ( Read more... ) -
To Do List
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Kids say the darndest things...
Supervising the Year 12 English Exam on Tuesday.
Kid writing an essay on "The Crucible" "Miss, is it 'Adultery' or 'Idolatry'?"
Kid reading a Creative Writing prompt which reads "I long to...", "Miss, is it supposed to be 'belong'?" -
strange dream #1
Just woke up from a strange dream. I woke up in an apartment which was like my flat in camperdown only it had 2 levels and there was an old water tower in the courtyard. There was also an upstairs. There was a dachshund and a rabbit running around but neither were mine. A told me that they belonged to her sister C who was sleeping upstairs. The ( Read more... )
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