The Importance of Elsewhere ( Read more... )

My keywords for this icon are 'A Dream of Happiness.'  Partly because of the scene in canon that the icon is from, and partly because that really is the dream.

Thank you for all your birthday wishes today.  <3  I really appreciate them all.  I had a very quiet but relaxing birthday.  Went out to dinner at Mitchell's Fish Market with my mother and ( Read more... )

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school ( Read more... )

I'm in all kinds of love with this poem.  I'm actually in all kinds of love with this poet, but this poem is getting posted because it's a poem.  About the Incredible Hulk.

What I Learned From the Incredible Hulk
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

When it comes to clothes, make
an allowance for the unexpected.
Be sure the spare in the trunk
of your station wagon ( Read more... )

This poem never fails to make me cry.  It's just - yes, that's it exactly ( Read more... )

This isn't precisely a poem, but I can't quite find one I like for today, so you get St Francis' Prayer.  Which isn't actually St. Francis' prayer because it can't be traced back farther than 1912, but it's still a lovely prayer full of beautiful language and sentiments.
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;where there is hatred, let me sow love ( Read more... )

Some People ( Read more... )

A Newborn Girl at Passover ( Read more... )

For a Daughter Who Leaves ( Read more... )

On the Disadvantages of Central Heating ( Read more... )