Magnetic Poetry
are the only ones we must voice
a fool will ask less than he could
and so learn only that which he knows
It’s half-heartedly snowing outside again. The sky is silver, the air is so cold it cuts at the back of your nose like a knife, and the lighting is too bright for a day with no sun. The snow isn’t coming down in proper flakes, but instead in little shards and slivers, like tiny little…
Candle asks if I believed in what the religion quiz handed back to me. My initial answer? “Hell, no.” If it assigned me any religion at all, it had to be wrong. I am not a believer in any God, gods or goddesses, mystical powers, or energy crystals. I just don’t have it in me….
I just finished making two dozen cupcakes (from a box mix) to take with me on my triumphant return to the workforce tomorrow. Baking is not my forte, but how wrong can you go with mix, one cup water, half a cup of oil and three eggs? The cupcakes came out really nice looking, and…
Take the Which Star Wars Character are you mostly likely to get it on with? quiz, by ProtocolDroid. Hell, I really wanted Qui Gon. Except he’s dead now, isn’t he? Not fair … sexiest guy to hit Star Wars since Harrison Ford, and they kill him off after one movie. And he didn’t even get…
In the lunchroom today: ⢠A conversation revolved around one of the members of the Dixie Chicks, who evidently said that she was ashamed to be a Texan (I assume because of Bush’s current political stance). The group was cackling because country-western stations are boycotting their songs and some of the Dixie Chicks’ concert engagements…
Years ago I read “Tuesdays with Morrie”, Mitch Albom’s small book recording his final conversations with his old teacher and mentor, Morrie Schwartz, who was dying slowly from ALS. I later purchased “Morrie: In His Own Words” from a bargain book table, which contained Morrie’s own observations about the process of dying and how he…
I like your poem
In order to learn something new,
we have to be prepared to put aside that which we already ‘know’.
_|m/ ADM
That’s a terrific poem! Sounds like Lao Tze. Thanks for the tip on honey/pollen. My introduction to the world of herbs/supplements some 25 years ago was Royal Jelly. Can’t remember what it was supposed to do, though. 😉
xo
Boo
Did your layout change? I feel so lost!
hehe 🙂
who’s on sal’s bad side?