When I was a child I wanted to live in trees ( Read more... )

In nature apt to like when I did see ( Read more... )

son, a good woman will ( Read more... )

I went to see macbeth performed outdoors by the baltimore shakespeare festival tonight with melissa tillery and matt. it was absolutely fantastic; they modernized it quite successfully and with a lot of tact. an artist working with the bsf wrote a series of original musical themes for the play which did a fantastic job of drawing the traditional ( Read more... )

"A Dog Untied, a Hawk on Wing"
by Maurice Manning

( poem )

argh. maybe the tempest itself is when you don't know if you want to hate yourself or someone else, to destroy or to mend, to condemn or to pardon, to continue or to give up - when you want to hate, love and flee all at once.

( prospero )

...come, my friends.
'tis not too late to seek a newer world.
push off, and sitting well in order smite
the sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
of all the western stars, until I die
...
to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.-- alfred lord tennyson, "ulysses ( Read more... )

[...]
some do it with a bitter look,
  some with a flattering word,
the coward does it with a kiss,
  the brave man with a sword!
-- "the ballad of reading gaol"
    oscar wilde

our evening here is at an end; the time to part is near ( Read more... )

lately I've been pulled inwards on myself, very much the introspective one. I'm not sure it's getting me anywhere in terms of knowing myself and my life and the world. in a lot of ways it seems like it's taking me backwards. I can't really decipher what my heart's telling me to do ( Read more... )