This Is Just To Say

I forgot
the leftovers
that were on
the cafe table

and which
would have been
perfect
for lunch

forgive me
i was distracted
so confused
and yet certain

Yesterday, I made peach crisp to take over to a friends house for dessert. Peaches are just in season here so it turned out beautifully and tasted so good. Here they are before I put the crisp topping on, just sprinkled with some brown sugar and cinnamon:


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Some mind-expanding links for you:

The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher <--read this one even if you read none of the others.

How the public school system crushes souls.

"I'm a Saboteur."

This is why nobody protests, why nobody pays attention. This is why so many people hate themselves, even if only a little. In my opinion, anyway.

The best thing I've seen all day: The Bayeux Tapestry, animated.

(saw this on Neil Gaiman's blog!)

Pay It Forward meme: I will send a handmade gift to the first three people who leave a comment requesting to join this PIF exchange. I don't know what that gift will be yet, but you will receive it within 365 days. The only thing you have to do in return is "pay it forward" by making a similar agreement on your journal ( Read more... )

::shivers::

Okay. There are lots of people out there who have written succinct and often helpful little books about how to write. Some of those books are much better than others, indeed some of them are incredibly helpful ( Read more... )

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The True Cost of Your Stupid Bottled Water Habit.

This song has been stuck in my head all day.... This performance is from the 2005 Junos, she's filling in for Neil Young who was ill.