Amazing what you can find in the world around you once you have the eyes to see ( Read more... )

I woke at 4 and decided to take a shower. I was afraid that if I went back to bed I would sleep until 8:30 or 9 and be hyper-late for work. I've been skirting the edge of doing that lately. (Yes, I have "wakefulness equipment", and no, it's not always enough to get me permanently OUT of the bed ( Read more... )

I was on a country highway today, just ahead of a downpour, scanning through radio stations, when a country song came on.  The chorus had something to do with "the Playboy of the South-Western World".

I'd been reading Yeats all morning for a project and thinking that life was lately devoid of grace.  That one line made me so happy.