Normal Sunday
Not much to report today. Worked. Work doesn't really consist of working usually. Mostly standing around . . .
I'm a little sore from yesterday, but my legs aren't in the agony they were in last week. On the down side, my shoulders have decided to join the party. Ah well, it means I'm getting a workout.
I'm going for a little weekend trip on Friday. Met someone on the net and am going to meet her in London. Yes, I'm aware of the precautions to take in these situations before anyone decides to shower me with advice. (:
Wish me luck.
Where we are with quotes (remember that it doesn't HAVE to be quotes):
Joelle wrote:
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erase, the lesson done,
Thee fully force emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the scenes thou lovest best,
Night, sleep, death and the stars.
~Walt Whitman
Kathryn's response:
Every 200,000 years or so, the individual stars within each constellation shift position. That is, they are shifting all the time, but more subtly than any tracker dog of ours can follow. One day, if the earth has not voluntarily opted out of the solar system we will wake up to a new heaven whose dome will again confound us. It will still be home but not a place to take for granted.
- "Orion" by Jeanette Winterson
Joelle's response:
Do you remember still the falling stars
that like swift horses through the heavens raced
and suddenly leaped across the hurdles
of our wishes -- do you recall? And we
did make so many! For there were countless numbers
of stars: each time we looked above we were
astounded by the swiftness of their daring play,
while in our hearts we felt safe and secure
watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,
knowing somehow we had survived their fall.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
So Joelle and I don't just go back and forth, anybody else got anything?
I'm a little sore from yesterday, but my legs aren't in the agony they were in last week. On the down side, my shoulders have decided to join the party. Ah well, it means I'm getting a workout.
I'm going for a little weekend trip on Friday. Met someone on the net and am going to meet her in London. Yes, I'm aware of the precautions to take in these situations before anyone decides to shower me with advice. (:
Wish me luck.
Where we are with quotes (remember that it doesn't HAVE to be quotes):
Joelle wrote:
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erase, the lesson done,
Thee fully force emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the scenes thou lovest best,
Night, sleep, death and the stars.
~Walt Whitman
Kathryn's response:
Every 200,000 years or so, the individual stars within each constellation shift position. That is, they are shifting all the time, but more subtly than any tracker dog of ours can follow. One day, if the earth has not voluntarily opted out of the solar system we will wake up to a new heaven whose dome will again confound us. It will still be home but not a place to take for granted.
- "Orion" by Jeanette Winterson
Joelle's response:
Do you remember still the falling stars
that like swift horses through the heavens raced
and suddenly leaped across the hurdles
of our wishes -- do you recall? And we
did make so many! For there were countless numbers
of stars: each time we looked above we were
astounded by the swiftness of their daring play,
while in our hearts we felt safe and secure
watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,
knowing somehow we had survived their fall.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
So Joelle and I don't just go back and forth, anybody else got anything?