I've been thinking about this poem and Mary Oliver a lot recently
It is one of those poems, like Mark Strand's "Lines for Winter," that truly calms me. Calms my bones and heart in a way I can't particularly describe in any great clarity. There are another few great...
View ArticleMy Motto
I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but this has been my motto for quite some time. And I would like to think I'm sticking with it.Maxine: You know what I read the other day? That Denver,...
View Articlesuck it up.
i'm pretty sure i'm a hardass. yeah, i feel like reed has been less than helpful in that department. it didn't create my perfectionism or even exacerbate it. it just presented it with an opportunity to...
View ArticleYay for Wendy Cope
This kind of expresses and explains my view on things--how I loath parties, love to be at home alone, etc.Being Boring by Wendy CopeIf you ask me 'What's new?', I have nothing to sayExcept that the...
View ArticleSome Matthew Dickman Poems
I took a bit of time for myself this morning. I went to Le Pain Quotidien and read the most recent New Yorker with two excellent articles. One was a medical article about Superbugs--anti-biotic...
View ArticleHappy Birthday!
Happy Birthday to one of my personal idols--STEPHEN FRY!! He's 51 today...and still extremely hot! In that Teddy Bear-esque way.
View ArticleThis weekend
Is something I need to write about. In detail. But not tonight. Because I've realized I can't sleep in, physically, so I had best not stay up.
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I came across the speech that Matthew Shepard's father gave to the court to explain why they accepted a plea bargain preventing the jury from deliberating on whether to give Matthew's murderers the...
View ArticleAn Article that Makes me Feel a Little Better
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/stripped-of-the.html
View ArticleForgiveness
One thing I remember learning early--whether it was from a book or religion classes or simply experience--is that you cannot ask for forgiveness from others unless you forgive yourself. You can't ask...
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