A genuine work of art must mean many things.
The truer its art, the more things it will mean.
-George MacDonald

This afternoon I stood in the yard in the rain ( Read more... )

Have you heard of "conjugating adjectives" in English?

I'm thrifty; you're frugal; he's cheap.
I'm assertive; you're aggressive; she's pushy.

This postholder is possibly about declining nouns.

One person's rescue is another person's escape.
Someone's dream job may be someone else's nightmare.Sometimes, you do the right thing -- and it doesn't ( Read more... )

3 is not the same as double ( Read more... )

A rendered transliteration of the Middle English original.
For those of you not conversant with ME, þ ~= some kind of th.

Sumer is icumen in ( Read more... )

Go, PowerCat, go!

Walking home from work last evening,
I walked into the wind.

Walking to work this morning,
I walked into the wind.

I feel on the verge of uplift --
but the wind is always in front,
and I don't know how to sail.
Or remember, yet, how to fly.

A man traveling through the darkness ( Read more... )

The lone and level sands stretch far away.
-Shelley

Lives are changing all around me. Marriages ( Read more... )

Shucks, folks, I'm speechless.
-Lion

For those of you whom I haven't had
much chance to talk to very recently,
and even for many of those I have:

As of Nov. 28, 2005, I enter a new world.

I will be an independent contractor
in my chosen field of user-centered
analysis, design, and testing. I have
a chance to operate as a consultant
with Human ( Read more... )

[in telling how the wildlife
are coming back to his family's
farm, now returned to nature]
The pumas are back! You know,
one puma tells another.
Sebastiao Salgado

I see the future ( Read more... )

These days I'm happy to say
I'm amazed that I'm still around
And the weight of the world is off my back
When we fell, we got up
And crawled out the cracks
Excuse me if I take some comfort in that
Happy today, happy to play
With the weight of the world off of my back
-Elton John, "Weight of the World"

Note to self:


1. Write it down.
2. Send it to ( Read more... )

Open eye, see clock, shut eye, sleep in ( Read more... )