December 2009
40 posts
Be with me, words, a little longer; you have given me my quitclaim in the sun, sealed shut my adolescent wounds, made light of grownup troubles, turned to my advantage what in most lives would be pure deficit, and formed, of those I loved, more solid ghosts.
John Updike, excerpted from Spirit of ‘76
Black And Blue - Counting Crows
Fading everything...
Yellow
My friend Brenna’s dad wrote this, and it’s on Oprah’s website. Despite my [mostly unfounded] skepticism of anything Oprah-y, I can’t deny that it’s a fine poem.
Yellow by Brian Daldorph
You were into your Black Period, as you called it, saying, If Picasso could have a Blue one, then why can’t I have black? You said it made dressing easy for you: black...
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (quote-book)
“It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be...”
– Herbert H. Paper (Cincinnati Enquirer)
“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
But...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings) (via quote-book)
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