tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84635583448281377372024-03-13T07:51:30.399-06:00The Sight of Stars"I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream." --Van GoghStephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-84530322127223366582014-04-09T09:52:00.001-06:002014-04-09T09:52:21.072-06:00The Everyday Enchantment of Music <br />Mark Strand<br /><br />A rough sound was polished until it became a smoother sound, which was polished until it became music. Then the music was polished until it became the memory of a night in Venice when tears of the sea fell from the Bridge of Sighs, which in turn was polished until it ceased to be and in its place stood the empty home of a heart in trouble. Then suddenly there was sun and the music came back and traffic was moving and off in the distance, at the edge of the city, a long line of clouds appeared, and there was thunder, which, however menacing, would become music, and the memory of what happened after Venice would begin, and what happened after the home of the troubled heart broke in two would also begin.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-84106194022969992122014-04-08T09:34:00.001-06:002014-04-08T09:34:43.075-06:00What Things Want<br /> Robert Bly<br />
<br />
You have to let things<br /> Occupy their own space.<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> This room is small,<br /> But the green settee</span><br />
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<br />
Likes to be here.<br /> The big marsh reeds,<br /> Crowding out the slough,<br /> Find the world good.<br />
<br />
You have to let things<br /> Be as they are.<br /> Who knows which of us<br /> Deserves the world more?</div>
Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-1797294898064129522014-04-07T10:43:00.001-06:002014-04-07T10:43:25.694-06:00<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">
<b>So Much Happiness</b>
<br />
It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness.<br />
With sadness there is something to rub against, <br />
a wound to tend with lotion and cloth.<br />
When the world falls in around you, you have pieces to pick up,<br />
something to hold in your hands, like ticket stubs or change.
<br />
But happiness floats.<br />
It doesn't need you to hold it down.<br />
It doesn't need anything.<br />
Happiness lands on the roof of the next house, singing,<br />
and disappears when it wants to.<br />
You are happy either way.<br />
Even the fact that you once lived in a peaceful tree house<br />
and now live over a quarry of noise and dust<br />
cannot make you unhappy.<br />
Everything has a life of its own,<br />
it too could wake up filled with possibilities<br />
of coffee cake and ripe peaches,<br />
and love even the floor which needs to be swept,<br />
the soiled linens and scratched records…..
</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Since there is no place large enough<br />
to contain so much happiness,<br />
you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you<br />
into everything you touch. You are not responsible.<br />
You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit<br />
for the moon, but continues to hold it, and share it,<br />
and in that way, be known.
</span></blockquote>
Naomi Shihab Nye Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-25594924924684296682014-04-06T08:47:00.001-06:002014-04-06T08:47:02.720-06:00<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sonnet 29</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">William Shakespeare </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I all alone beweep my outcast state,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And look upon myself and curse my fate,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">With what I most enjoy contented least;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Haply I think on thee, and then my state,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Like to the lark at break of day arising</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">That when I scorn to change my state with kings. </span></div>
Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-60411361977639847332014-04-05T12:41:00.000-06:002014-04-05T12:41:15.048-06:00Invitation<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh do you have time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">to linger</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">for just a little while</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">out of your busy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and very important day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">for the goldfinches</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">that have gathered</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">in a field of thistles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">for a musical battle,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">to see who can sing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the highest note,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">or the lowest,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">or the most expressive of mirth,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">or the most tender?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Their strong, blunt beaks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">drink the air</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">as they strive</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">melodiously</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">not for your sake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and not for mine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and not for the sake of winning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">but for sheer delight and gratitude--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">believe us, they say,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">it is a serious thing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">just to be alive </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">on this fresh morning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">in the broken world. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I beg of you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">do not walk by</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">without pausing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">to attend to this</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">rather ridiculous performance. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It could mean something. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It could mean everything. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It could be what Rilke meant, when he said:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You must change your life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">--Mary Oliver</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-33946511869392616922014-04-04T10:12:00.001-06:002014-04-04T10:12:30.159-06:00The Man Who Has Many Answers<br /><br />The man who has many answers<br />is often found<br />in the theaters of information<br />where he offers, graciously,<br />his deep findings.<br /><br />While the man who has only questions,<br />to comfort himself, makes music.<br /><br />--Mary OliverStephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-51561630336476882932014-04-03T10:09:00.002-06:002014-04-03T10:09:17.899-06:00TavernTavern<br /> By Edna St. Vincent Millay<br />
<br />
I'll keep a little tavern<br /> Below the high hill's crest,<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Wherein all grey-eyed people<br /> May set them down and rest.</span><br />
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There shall be plates a-plenty,<br /> And mugs to melt the chill<br /> Of all the grey-eyed people<br /> Who happen up the hill.<br />
There sound will sleep the traveller,<br /> And dream his journey's end,<br /> But I will rouse at midnight<br /> The falling fire to tend.<br />
Aye, 'tis a curious fancy --<br /> But all the good I know<br /> Was taught me out of two grey eyes<br /> A long time ago.</div>
Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-52022527981903632902014-04-02T09:49:00.000-06:002014-04-02T09:49:07.325-06:00YellowYellow Bowl<br /><br />If light pours like water<br />into the kitchen where I sway<br />with my tired children,<br /><br />if the rug beneath us<br />is woven with tough flowers,<br />and the yellow bowl on the table<br /><br />rests with the sweet heft<br />of fruit, the sun-warmed plums,<br />if my body curves over the babies,<br /><br />and if I am singing,<br />then loneliness has lost its shape,<br />and this quiet is only quiet.<br /><br /> --Rachel Contreni Flynn
Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-85688105279137817312014-04-01T09:46:00.004-06:002014-04-01T09:46:32.430-06:00National Poetry Month 2014Sonnet<br />
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<pre style="vertical-align: baseline;">Astonished at you</pre>
<pre style="vertical-align: baseline;">It doesn’t blink a leaf</pre>
<pre style="vertical-align: baseline;">When we step from the house</pre>
<pre style="vertical-align: baseline;">Leads me to think</pre>
<pre style="vertical-align: baseline;">That beauty is natural, unremarkable</pre>
<pre style="vertical-align: baseline;">And not to be spoken of</pre>
<pre style="vertical-align: baseline;">Except in the course of things</pre>
<pre style="vertical-align: baseline;">The course of singing and worksharing</pre>
<pre style="vertical-align: baseline;">The course of squeezes and neighbors</pre>
<pre style="vertical-align: baseline;">The course of you tying back your raving hair to go out</pre>
<pre style="vertical-align: baseline;">And the course of course of me</pre>
<pre style="vertical-align: baseline;">Astonished at you</pre>
<pre style="vertical-align: baseline;">The way the world is not</pre>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-15863363196780593522013-04-30T09:00:00.000-06:002013-04-30T09:00:02.187-06:00Ars Poetica<span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"><div class="KonaBody">
A poem should be palpable and mute<br />As a globed fruit<br /><br />Dumb<br />As old medallions to the thumb<br /><br />Silent as the sleeve-worn stone<br />Of casement ledges where the moss has grown -<br /><br />A poem should be wordless<br />As the flight of birds<br /><br />A poem should be motionless in time<br />As the moon climbs<br /><br />Leaving, as the moon releases<br />Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,<br /><br />Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,<br />Memory by memory the mind -<br /><br />A poem should be motionless in time<br />As the moon climbs<br /><br />A poem should be equal to:<br />Not true<br /><br />For all the history of grief<br />An empty doorway and a maple leaf<br /><br />For love<br />The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea -<br /><br />A poem should not mean<br />But be
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Thanks for joining me on this journey! Until next year. </div>
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A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,
Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb,
Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown—
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.
*
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs,
Leaving, as the moon releases
Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,
Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
Memory by memory the mind—
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs.
*
A poem should be equal to:
Not true.
For all the history of grief
An empty doorway and a maple leaf.
For love
The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea—
A poem should not mean
But be. - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15222#sthash.v3GK3Rny.dpuf<div style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,
Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb,
Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown—
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.
*
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs,
Leaving, as the moon releases
Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,
Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
Memory by memory the mind—
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs.
*
A poem should be equal to:
Not true.
For all the history of grief
An empty doorway and a maple leaf.
For love
The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea—
A poem should not mean
But be. - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15222#sthash.v3GK3Rny.dpuf</div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-51082754516201149162013-04-29T09:00:00.000-06:002013-04-29T09:00:09.557-06:00Sometimes poems are short...I'll love you with words<br />
and kiss you in sentences.<br />
Our love will write us.<br />
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--Tyler Knott GregsonStephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-19940322604271338482013-04-28T09:00:00.000-06:002013-04-28T09:00:08.827-06:00Sunday Song<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The lovely Ella Fitzgerald singing the alliterative ditty, "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered."Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-79560809807270817332013-04-27T09:00:00.000-06:002013-04-27T09:00:00.673-06:00ee cummings“i love you much (most beautiful darling)<br />
more than anyone on the earth and i<br />like you better than everything in the sky<br />
—sunlight and singing welcome your coming<br />
although winter may be everywhere<br /> with such a silence and such a darkness<br />noone can quite begin to guess<br />
(except my life) the true time of year—<br />
and if what calls itself a world should have<br /> the luck to hear such singing (or glimpse such<br /> sunlight as will leap higher than high<br />through gayer than gayest someone’s heart at your each<br />
nearness) everyone certainly would (my<br /> most beautiful darling) believe in nothing but love”<br />
<br />--ee cummingsStephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-23123746598741402662013-04-26T12:06:00.002-06:002013-04-26T12:06:18.355-06:00Spent<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Late August morning I go out to cut<br />
spent and faded hydrangeas--washed <br />
greens, russets, troubled little auras <br />
<br />
of sky as if these were the very silks <br />
of Versailles, mottled by rain and ruin<br />
then half-restored, after all this time...<br />
<br />
When I come back with my handful <br />
I realize I've accidentally locked the door,<br />
and can't get back into the house.<br />
<br />
The dining room window's easiest;<br />
crawl through beauty bush and spirea, <br />
push aside some errant maples, take down <br />
<br />
the wood-framed screen, hoist myself up. <br />
But how, exactly, to clamber across the sill <br />
and the radiator down to the tile?<br />
<br />
I try bending one leg in, but I don't fold <br />
readily; I push myself up so that my waist <br />
rests against the sill, and lean forward, <br />
<br />
place my hands on the floor and begin to slide <br />
down into the room, which makes me think <br />
this was what it was like to be born: <br />
<br />
awkward, too big for the passageway...<br />
Negotiate, submit? <br />
When I give myself<br />
to gravity there I am, inside, no harm,<br />
<br />
the dazzling splotchy flowerheads<br />
scattered around me on the floor.<br />
Will leaving the world be the same<br />
<br />
--uncertainty as to how to proceed, <br />
some discomfort, and suddenly you're <br />
--where? I am so involved with this idea <br />
<br />
I forget to unlock the door, <br />
so when I go to fetch the mail, I'm locked out <br />
again. Am I at home in this house, <br />
<br />
would I prefer to be out here, <br />
where I could be almost anyone? <br />
This time it's simpler: the window-frame, <br />
<br />
the radiator, my descent. Born twice <br />
in one day! <br />
In their silvered jug,<br />
these bruise-blessed flowers: <br />
<br />
how hard I had to work to bring them <br />
into this room. When I say <em><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">spent</span></em>,
<br />
I don't mean they have no further coin.<br />
<br />
If there are lives to come, I think<br />
they might be a littler easier than this one.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">--Mark Doty </span></div>
Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-5801561281873855892013-04-26T12:03:00.002-06:002013-04-26T12:03:56.116-06:00The Patience of Ordinary ThingsIt is a kind of love, is it not?<br />How the cup holds the tea,<br />How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,<br />How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes<br />Or toes. How soles of feet know<br />Where they’re supposed to be.<br />I’ve been thinking about the patience<br />Of ordinary things, how clothes<br />Wait respectfully in closets<br />And soap dries quietly in the dish,<br />And towels drink the wet<br />From the skin of the back.<br />And the lovely repetition of stairs.<br />And what is more generous than a window?<br /><br />by <i><span>Pat Schneider</span></i><br />
<br />
<span>Poached this from Jeremiah; thanks!</span><i><span> </span></i>Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-35367524817418471182013-04-24T09:53:00.002-06:002013-04-24T09:53:12.792-06:00Poetry and ArtThis is beautiful. Watch <a href="http://www.upworthy.com/bullies-called-him-pork-chop-he-took-that-pain-with-him-and-then-cooked-it-into?g=2">here</a>. Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-3850736746341723872013-04-23T16:05:00.002-06:002013-04-23T16:05:08.203-06:00Blackout Poem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tIx8R5aC7wA/UXcFfjA7mnI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/VOTjzk6FTJE/s1600/neekaisweird.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tIx8R5aC7wA/UXcFfjA7mnI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/VOTjzk6FTJE/s640/neekaisweird.jpg" width="406" /></a></div>
from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/neekaisweird/" id="yui_3_7_3_3_1366754605179_309">neekaisweird</a>Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-50638392349299758492013-04-22T11:23:00.002-06:002013-04-22T11:23:11.141-06:00Because I CanClick <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_NWthuUPo&list=PL8BC4CEF1441B7771&index=5">here</a> to listen to David Tennant (the sexiest Scot alive) recite Shakespeare's Sonnet 18. You won't regret it...Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-11704514636027717722013-04-19T11:23:00.002-06:002013-04-19T11:23:13.570-06:00Living in Numbers<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Sunday, August 22, 2010:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of times I've woken up after</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">oversleeping and sprung out of bed like a ninja: 959</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of broken bones: 3</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of scars, physical: 4; emotional: 947</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of funerals attended: 7</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of friends, Facebook: 744, real: 9</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of cavities filled: 0</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Percentage of people I can stand in the world: 3.5</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of times I've laughed so hard my sides would bruise: 2,972</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of times I've wanted to bawl my eyes out: 320</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of things I regret: 11</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of things I know: 918,394</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Monday, August 23, 2010:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of times I've woken up after oversleeping and sprung out
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> of bed like a ninja: 960</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of broken bones: 3</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of scars, physical: 4; emotional: 1,293</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of funerals attended: 7</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of friends, Facebook: 800, real: 7</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of cavities filled: 0</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Percentage of people I can stand in the world: 3.4</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of times I've laughed so hard my sides would bruise: 2,973</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of times I've wanted to bawl my eyes out: 321</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Number of things I regret: 13</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Number
of things I know: 918,390</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">--Claire Lee </span>Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-30592361148860971992013-04-18T15:08:00.001-06:002013-04-18T15:08:37.429-06:00Poem in Your Pocket Day<h1>
</h1>
<h1>
The Summer Day</h1>
<h1>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Who made the world?<br />
Who made the swan, and the black bear?<br />
Who made the grasshopper?<br />
This grasshopper, I mean-<br />
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,<br />
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,<br />
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-<br />
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.<br />
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.<br />
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.<br />
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.<br />
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down<br />
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,<br />
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,<br />
which is what I have been doing all day.<br />
Tell me, what else should I have done?<br />
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?<br />
Tell me, what is it you plan to do<br />
with your one wild and precious life?</span></span></h1>
<h1>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">--Mary Oliver</span></span></h1>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-12888418361107456842013-04-17T12:25:00.001-06:002013-04-17T12:25:17.630-06:00I Hear America Singing I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
<br /> Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe
<br /> and strong,
<br /> The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
<br /> The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off
<br /> work,
<br /> The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deck-
<br /> hand singing on the steamboat deck,
<br /> The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing
<br /> as he stands,
<br /> The woodcutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morn-
<br /> ing, or at noon intermission or at sundown,
<br /> The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work,
<br /> or of the girl sewing or washing,
<br /> Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
<br /> The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young
<br /> fellows, robust, friendly,
<br /> Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.<br />
<br />
--Walt Whitman <br />
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I hear
America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and
strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand
singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he
stands,
The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or
at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of
the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows,
robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs. - See more at:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15752#sthash.MDlSTXHC.dpuf<div style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
I hear
America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and
strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand
singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he
stands,
The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or
at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of
the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows,
robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs. - See more at:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15752#sthash.MDlSTXHC.dpuf</div>
</div>
Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-14362471123232070972013-04-16T15:45:00.002-06:002013-04-17T12:25:47.079-06:00Only until this cigarette is endedI know I've posted this before, but today I feel the need for the comfortable and familiar, and I love this poem.<br />
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Only until this cigarette is ended, <br />
A little moment at the end of all, <br />
While on the floor the quiet ashes fall, <br />
And in the firelight to a lance extended, <br />
Bizarrely with the jazzing music blended, <br />
The broken shadow dances on the wall, <br />
I will permit my memory to recall <br />
The vision of you, by all my dreams attended. <br />
And then adieu,--farewell!--the dream is done. <br />
Yours is a face of which I can forget <br />
The colour and the features, every one, <br />
The words not ever, and the smiles not yet; <br />
But in your day this moment is the sun <br />
Upon a hill, after the sun has set.
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--Edna St. Vincent Millay</div>
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Watch Tyne Daly recite the poem <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOpgpEHNkn4">here</a>; it's lovely.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-17409805495492326382013-04-15T10:02:00.002-06:002013-04-15T10:02:28.400-06:00From 'If There is Something to Desire"9.<br />
I broke your heart.<br />
Now barefoot I tread<br />
on shards.<br />
<br />
17.<br />
Why is the word yes so brief?<br />
It should be<br />
the longest,<br />
the hardest,<br />
so that you could not decide in an instant to say it,<br />
so that upon reflection you could stop<br />
in the middle of saying it.<br />
<br />
18.<br />
-Sing me The Song of Songs.<br />
-Don't know the words.<br />
-Then sing the notes.<br />
-Don't know the notes.<br />
-Then simply hum.<br />
-Forgot the tune.<br />
-Then press my ear<br />
to your ear<br />
and sing what you hear.<br />
<br />
Vera PavlovaStephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-69841260148767398872013-04-14T09:00:00.000-06:002013-04-14T09:00:07.887-06:00Sunday Song<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Love this song.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708461988375098218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463558344828137737.post-11276823913475737732013-04-13T09:00:00.000-06:002013-04-13T09:00:09.654-06:00[love is more thicker than forget]<div class="poem">
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love is more thicker than forget</div>
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more thinner than recall</div>
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more seldom than a wave is wet</div>
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more frequent than to fail</div>
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it is most mad and moonly</div>
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and less it shall unbe</div>
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than all the sea which only</div>
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is deeper than the sea</div>
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love is less always than to win</div>
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less never than alive</div>
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less bigger than the least begin</div>
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less littler than forgive</div>
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it is most sane and sunly</div>
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and more it cannot die</div>
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than all the sky which only</div>
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is higher than the sky</div>
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ee cummings </div>
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