I greeted a friend on IM today and she panicked. She had to eat, the taxi was on its way, she had a meeting to get ready for, she didn't have time to chat. I responded with this :--Calm down. Think soothing thoughts ( Read more... )

The sun was shining on the green
Shining bright and warm and keen
Bright and strong the shining hours
Singing out the sun bright flowers
Clouds around, silver shining
Gray and light the cloud-dark lining
But no lie and no denying
Sunshine now on green is lying.

I am still not yet reconciled to the stupidity of Windows 7 - or rather, to changes it has imposed on my netbook - but the Norton security suite has been activated so I feel it is safe to use. It still feels awkward and the mouse activates random spots on the screen -wherever the mouse-cursor may be resting. I deeply resent that I have to contort ( Read more... )

An e an fhìrinn?
No às an sìthichinn?
An sàs san leum-creag
de beò-shlaint àbhaisteach.

Fosgail d' shuilean.
Coimhead a-nìos san speur.
'S e balach bochd. chan fheum m' iochd
Airson tha mi furast a-muigh, furast' a-staigh
Uasal beagan, ìosal beagan
Gaoth gun dìreadh, 's coma leam. 's coma leam.

The sun rose bloomed in the sky above the wine dark sea ( Read more... )

to tune of "Inchworm" from Danny Kaye movie "Hans Christian Andersen")earworm, earworm, measuring my sanity ( Read more... )

Chill breeze,
Autumn leaves,
Crisp carpeting the ground

Shuffle walk
Black cats stalk
Dead leaves skitter all around.

Croaking crow
Year grows old
Winter chill creeping in

Ghostly roams
Visit homes
Leafy crackle din.

@2012 (15 Oct.)
K. Wolfe

A Gaelic counting rhyme - much like "1, 2, buckle my shoe" in English ( Read more... )

Thachair mi air cearc bheag ri taobh geat' a' ghàrradh ( Read more... )

(These verses are being used in a Facebook game and to help me learn animal names, the gender of the words and the sounds that they make in Gaelic ( Read more... )