There's thunder clouds
Round the hometown bay
As I walk out in the rain
Through the sepia showers
And the photoflood days

I caught a fleeting glimpse of life
And though the water's
Black as night
The colours of [home]
Leave you young inside

There must be a place
Under the sun
Where hearts of olden glory
Grow young

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Stories and memories have power. This entry is my own deeply personal musing about that, and a major reason why, in large part, this journal exists and why I write in it.

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Written on October 26th, 2004; but perhaps the best forward to my diary as any entry I've composed, on the lens through which this diary is written...

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This might not be my absolute final LiveJournal entry. There's never such a thing as absolutes in life. But it seemed like an appropriate time and place for a valedictory entry, of sorts ( Read more... )

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Book of golden stories
Days of olden notes
Now the autumn leaves are falling

We'll meet on the edges
Memories, no regrets
Now the minstrel boy is calling...

Music and laughter and friends: such were the days of high summer that were gifted to elzkitten and I. :-)

As always, click thumbnails for expanded photos.


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Cast we off the cloaks of winter
Worn through Springtime's sudden chill
Warm in silence, cool light banter
Bring me 'round your cup to fill...

Now the time for long walk meadows
Now the summer, now the song
Borne from dawn 'til evening shadows
Sweetening scents grow lush and strong...



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There were eleven physicians around his bed today as he breathed his last, after almost half a decade of valiant battle against cancer. Some who had rushed in from other states to be there for that last watch. From the fellow (now professor) who had first diagnosed him, to me, his final pediatric oncology attending; the eleven of us quietly stood ( Read more... )

Many states in the Northeast never had laws banning "colored" men - Americans of African, Asian, Latin, or Native American ancestry - from marrying white women, or laws banning non-white women from marrying Caucasian men. The Northern Union states that had voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, had legalized inter-racial marriage well before the 20th ( Read more... )