Crows make black shadows
Laughing together
Enjoying raindrops
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Before a Departure in Spring
W.S. Merwin
Once more it is April with the first light sifting
through the young leaves heavy with dew making the colors
remember who they are the new pink of the cinnamon tree
the gilded lichens of the bamboo the shadowed bronze
of the kamani and the blue day opening
as the sunlight descends through it all like the return
of a spirit touching without touch and unable
to believe it is here and here again and awake
reaching out in silence into the cool breath
of the garden just risen from darkness and days of rain
it is only a moment the birds fly through it calling
to each other and are gone with their few notes and the flash
of their flight that had vanished before we ever knew it
we watch without touching any of it and we
can tell ourselves only that this is April this is the morning
this never happened before and we both remember it
Once more it is April with the first light sifting
through the young leaves heavy with dew making the colors
remember who they are the new pink of the cinnamon tree
the gilded lichens of the bamboo the shadowed bronze
of the kamani and the blue day opening
as the sunlight descends through it all like the return
of a spirit touching without touch and unable
to believe it is here and here again and awake
reaching out in silence into the cool breath
of the garden just risen from darkness and days of rain
it is only a moment the birds fly through it calling
to each other and are gone with their few notes and the flash
of their flight that had vanished before we ever knew it
we watch without touching any of it and we
can tell ourselves only that this is April this is the morning
this never happened before and we both remember it
Monday, April 7, 2008
To Welcome Spring....
From Metamorphisis/ Ovid
So, when the Nile, the stream with seven mouths,
recedes from the soaked fields and carries back
its waters to the bed they had before,
and slime, still fresh, dries underneath the sun,
the farmers, turning over clods, discover
some who are newly born, who’ve just begun
to take their forms, and others who are still
unfinished, incomplete—they’ve not achieved
proportion; and indeed, in one same body,
one part may be alive already, while
another is a lump of shapeless soil.
For, tempering each other, heat and moisture
engender life: the union of these two
produces everything. Though it is true
that fire is the enemy of water,
moist heat is the creator of all things:
discordant concord is the path life needs.
So, when the Nile, the stream with seven mouths,
recedes from the soaked fields and carries back
its waters to the bed they had before,
and slime, still fresh, dries underneath the sun,
the farmers, turning over clods, discover
some who are newly born, who’ve just begun
to take their forms, and others who are still
unfinished, incomplete—they’ve not achieved
proportion; and indeed, in one same body,
one part may be alive already, while
another is a lump of shapeless soil.
For, tempering each other, heat and moisture
engender life: the union of these two
produces everything. Though it is true
that fire is the enemy of water,
moist heat is the creator of all things:
discordant concord is the path life needs.
Friday, April 4, 2008
If Wright killed Obama, then Bill must have killed Hillary
If Wright killed Obama, then Bill must have killed Hillary
Submitted by lgstarn on April 4, 2008 - 3:15pm.
If the comments and actions of other people who one stays with were the sole criteria we used to judge someone, why shouldn't we judge Hillary for staying with Bill, who even his supporters will admit is a lying, cheating philanderer?
Or better yet, since Hillary was a board member of Walmart for 6 years (which she includes in her "35 years" of experience but strangely doesn't list on her website), why don't we judge her by the comments of her fellow Walmart board of directors member John Tate, who repeatedly called labor unions "blood-sucking parasites"? Hillary stood by and did nothing in that case. Please see the following article and video from ABC news and spread it around when hypocrites try to smear Obama for letting someone else say something offensive:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=4218509
Submitted by lgstarn on April 4, 2008 - 3:15pm.
If the comments and actions of other people who one stays with were the sole criteria we used to judge someone, why shouldn't we judge Hillary for staying with Bill, who even his supporters will admit is a lying, cheating philanderer?
Or better yet, since Hillary was a board member of Walmart for 6 years (which she includes in her "35 years" of experience but strangely doesn't list on her website), why don't we judge her by the comments of her fellow Walmart board of directors member John Tate, who repeatedly called labor unions "blood-sucking parasites"? Hillary stood by and did nothing in that case. Please see the following article and video from ABC news and spread it around when hypocrites try to smear Obama for letting someone else say something offensive:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=4218509
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