It is not enough to be just two ways:
Humanity means striving for too much.
I won't give up complexity, won't laze
About in Simple's hallways all my days
Because I want to know what I can touch.
How can I reach, how can I know what's real
Unless choice changes me? I can't just watch
Others have holds on life and reach and clutch
At ev'ry straw that they ( Read more... )

It's been too long, flist. Let us meme together!

You know the rules.

When you see this, post a poem.

High FlightOh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth ( Read more... )

I have weather veins.
They are especially sensitive
to dust storms and hurricanes.
When I am nervous my teeth chatter
like a wheelbarrow collecting rain.
I am rusty when I talk.
It’s the storm in me. - - Andrea Gibson ( Read more... )

When you see this, post a poemEvery morning the maple leaves ( Read more... )

There's a fandom meme going around, and like a sheep I am going with my fleecy, adorable herd. In no particular order except when I came up with them ( Read more... )

I'M IN UR LOUIZIANA, WATCHN UR OKE TREEZ GROW ( Read more... )

Buddha's DogsI'm at a day-long meditation retreat, eight hours of watching ( Read more... )

It must be time to post more links!

News, Science, and Items of Interest:

How to Destroy the Book, by Cory Doctorow
"It’s basically a way of saying that copyright is nonsense, and that readers should stop paying attention to it, and only agree to these crazy, abusive licenses."

Celebrity Impact Rankings "Justin Timberlake’s support for his ( Read more... )

Do anything to keep each other safe:
We'll sing better; we'll make sound hum like light.
And if you get lost in the lonely dark
Then I'll sing you a starry, starry night.

Happy Friday the 13th.

Realize that when I say I love you, I am always speaking in the plural. I love all of the you's that you are and have been and will be. All rens_sanctuary's, allultimatebryan's, all elucreh's that say the wrong thing, or the right thing, or don't know where to start and say nothing are loved by me.

Edna St. Vincent Millay. 1892-
God's WorldO WORLD, I cannot hold thee close ( Read more... )