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Vistaprint
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Heat wave!
What's your favorite thing about summer? -
Oh, world
I was going to post something cute about maypoles and how Rites of Spring is eating my brain, but it turns out that Osama bin Ladin is dead and my corner of the social media universe seems torn between rejoicing (a minority position, I think) and telling other people to stop rejoicing.
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Stephen's villanelle
From James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManAre you not weary of ardent ways ( Read more... ) -
How to be a Poet (Wendell Berry)
(to remind myself ( Read more... ) -
Bolivian "Law of Mother Earth"
Below the cut is a start on an English translation of Bolivia's proposed "law of Mother Earth". Note that Bolivia is officially "the Plurinational State of Bolivia," which is why all the references to plurinationality!
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Oh, Rumi
Come, come, whoever you are,
Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow
a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, come. -
Poetry!
Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? I know, me either, which explains how it got to be April 4 without me posting any poetry ( Read more... ) -
Questions?
Apparently March is question-asking month. Or at least, LJ thinks it is. So ask me questions! Comments screened. -
Tell me stuff!
regyt asks (and lots of people repost) why the world doesn't have a meme where everyone leaves screened comments with what they want to say to to the poster but haven't yet for whatever reason -- and I say, indeed, why not? So! Tell me anything you want me to know - about me, about you, about your mom, whatever you like ( Read more... )