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Invictus
Invictus
William Ernest Henley - 1849-1903
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of ( Read more... ) -
blessing the boats
BY LUCILLE CLIFTON
(at St. Mary's)
may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back may you
open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to ( Read more... ) -
River
Whole days would go by, and later their years,
while I thought of nothing but its darkness
drifting like a bridge against the sky.
Day after day I dreamily sought its melancholy,
its searchings, its soft banks enfolded me,
and upon my lengthening neck its kiss
was murmuring like a wound. My very life
became the inhalation of its weedy ponderings
and ( Read more... ) -
why things burn
why things burnMy fire-eating career came to an end ( Read more... ) -
What My Lips Have Kissed
What My Lips Have Kissed - St. Vincent Millay ( Read more... ) -
My Mom.
My Mom fell and broke her leg last night in their back yard. Luckily my Dad was there and was able to get her in to the emergency room. The leg was too swollen to cast last night so she spent the night in some pretty crazy pain at home and goes in today to have it re-looked at. They'll decide if they can set it and cast it without surgery this ( Read more... ) -
Physicists! Help me out!
There is a phenomenon in which two entities, traveling in opposite directions, on opposite sides of a fixed, solid object, are blocked from viewing the other entity by the fixed object because their respective traveling speeds are such that the fixed object is always directly in their line of sight ( Read more... ) -
Carrot Lover
I'll just leave this here, without further comment. Except for apologies to Quincy Jones.
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In other news.
Not that anyone has noticed, but I deactivated my Facebook account.
It remains to be seen if I'll actually delete it, but for now, it's totally shuttered. -
Some Updates, Etc.
I feel like this is rapidly becoming the place that I go to write whiny posts, so before I get into all of today's whining, I wanted to say how much everyone's kindness and support has meant to us over the past year. It's been a very, very challenging year and your notes and words of support and encouragement have kept us going. So much so that it ( Read more... )
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