Five days!  Woo!  In honor of that, here are a painting and a poem that I've always liked.


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Yesterday and today I've spent a lot of time reading up on the tradition of nonviolence in American literature. Thus far I've mostly been reading fairly contemporary poets who write about nonviolence or about resisting violence. Here are a few short poems I like:

Learning--William StaffordA piccolo played, then a drum ( Read more... )

I am happy today and it's beautiful outside--sunny, warm, with a slight breeze. It's a fantastically lovely day for Christies and for weather.

"And then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils."
     --William Wordsworth, "Daffodils"

If there were daffodils in fall, this is SO how I would spend my day.

Matt Groening's take on grad school (he's right on, btw): http://www.math.unm.edu/~tmarquez/gradschool.gif.

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Kevin M. Derrig's take on school in general:

First Periodhalf way through first period ( Read more... )

I was flipping through an old book of poetry and found this one. I remember reading it as a child and never questioning it, but now...

To a Fat Lady Seen from the Trainby Frances Cornford ( Read more... )

As I have nothing substantive to say about my life today (except that I feel much better than yesterday, thank you), here are some short poems I quite like.

Not Waving But DrowningStevie Smith (1957 ( Read more... )