Saints & Scott’s

Today my Art History teacher compared Saint Francis to Barack Obama.  I loved it, just wanted to share…
Last week in my Polisci class, while the teacher was  introducing himself to the room of 60, he walked up to me and curiously shook his finger.  He said, “A very famous student sat right in this chair, [...]

Mangia Poco Ma Bene

Since I’ve been feeling down lately, I’ve devised a small plan to help myself get back on track–to get back to my wide grins and hearty laughs.  When I say “small” I mean it because the plan is to focus on the little things.  I made a list of the little things that I do, [...]

What IS it?

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud 
by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. 
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along [...]

Human Dictionaries and Loneliness to Joy

Nothing like a cloudy Friday and the impending Valentines Day to make a single girl feel the pangs of loneliness.  (I HATE to admit this, more than anything.)  
 
Admitting it isn’t making me feel any better.  
And what’s worse?  I’m nursing my single-life fatigue with classical piano and romance movies, which aren’t making me feel [...]

Change Has Come

Be The Change.

From Obama’s amazing speech, these were my favorite parts:
“We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on [...]

Welcome To My Hard Life

 
 I sleep with my breakfast table.  For some reason I don’t venture to that side of the bed.
 
 That triangle window at the top is a spunky little thing.
 I’ve got the Prada (x3), the red hearts, the blue venetian glass heart ties into the blue dots on the cream pitcher that I keep my retainers in, [...]

My Amazing Grandma Connie

On her website she wrote this beautiful piece that I only just discovered:
“Now that I have reached the younger aspect of my old age, I realize that all my life I have known that matter is imbued with spirit. It makes no difference what we call this energy: God, The Implicate Order, or Friend. A [...]

Billy Collins

Quiet
It occurred to me around dusk
after I had lit three candles
and was pouring myself a glass of wine
that I had not uttered a word to a soul all day.
Alone in the house,
I was busy pushing the wheel in a mill of paper
or staring down a dark well of ink-
no callers at the door, no ring [...]

Modesty is Irresistible

First off, I really regret the title of my last post.  It’s so STUPID…  I’m at a loss of things/ideas to write about, and I’m beginning to convince myself that during writers block I need to just NOT write, rather than encourage myself to write. My words just sound absurd.
When I’m distracted with thoughts in [...]

Small Glass Bowl With A Stem Attached.

I couldn’t be more content, this very evening, at this very moment…
It felt like a spring day today, not a cloud in the sky, a soft breeze tossed the dry, winter leaves around… and all of this was preparation for my tranquility.  I consider 2 ideas when wrapping up my day:  sometimes it needs to [...]