"His best. Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us, I mean his and my contemporaries. This time, he discovered God, a Creator. Until now, his men and women had made themselves, shaped themselves out of their own clay; their victories and defeats were at the hands of each other, just to prove to themselves or one another how tough ( Read more... )

Walt Whitman ( Read more... )

...Look around, step out into the night ( Read more... )

Moving soon so spending a lot of time packing. Work gets busier and busier. RENT draws closer and closer. Trying to manage time and space. Hopefully I will get through and can start ticking things off and be able to think about something new as I discussed in my last post.

Just so dang busy.

P

"The notion of the social contract is that individuals unite into a society by a process of mutual consent, agreeing to abide by certain rules and to accept duties to protect one another from violence, fraud, or negligence ( Read more... )

2011 so far ( Read more... )

Full leisurely we glide ( Read more... )

...by Mamma, who told me the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham were here and wished to see me. I got out of bed and went into my sitting-room (only in my dressing gown) and alone, and saw them. Lord Conyngham then acquainted me that my poor Uncle, the King, was no more, and had expired at 12 minutes past 2 this morning, and consequently ( Read more... )

"The die is cast"

Julius Caesar, crossing the Rubicon

...is showing up."

Woody Allen