My eclectic lamp collection grew today. I bought a small globe lamp. I just might be my favorite lamp yet. This one has a purpose ( Read more... )

So many questions, yet unanswered
I did not know I was so overwhelmed
I much prefer that sweet ignorance

How can I go from
Being so sure
To completely displaced
In only a few months to
A few moments?

....signing off

How timeless
Yet how swift
These summers come and go
Its hard to know
How to cherish them

Everyday bright and promising
Full of adventure
Draped in a backdrop of
A beautiful creation
Picture perfect in everyway

As swiftly as dawn changes to twilight
These summers wax and wan
Bringing joy and bringing rain
Love mixed with pain

So long sweet

"Frodo, Mr. Frodo!", he called. "Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo! O, wake up, Frodo, me dear, me dear. Wake up ( Read more... )

Note to Self ( Read more... )

Oh yeah,

"I was born this Thursday twenty two years ago."

Name that song/band.

I have waited a year to post this.

...signing off

Another week has flown by. Here are the highlights ( Read more... )

So as I was walking to the Ox today I saw two guys playing with sticks. Well, trying to play with sticks. They were at the point of practice the bowstaff toss from one person to the other. They needed the practice...I smiled to myself, all I could think was....
ameteurs!

...signing off

So yesterday, I was sick and laid around most of the day. Finally, I decided to sit outside because it was a beautiful day. As I was sitting on our "yard" I couldn't help but wonder why a guy was painting what looked like a terribly small rowboat next to the picnic table in our "bog." And why he seems to have a rock collection on top of the boat ( Read more... )

So in the office one of the other grad students has taken it upon himself to teach me music history. I have become quite a disappointment apparently. He is always shocked at what I do not know. Is is really my fault all we listened to in the house growing up was Steve Green and Nat King Cole's Christmas record during the holidays? And then ( Read more... )