A little romanticism, surreptitiously posted from work: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 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…

Sometime between lunch and 5:00, I fell into a hole of despair. Perhaps I was walking backwards, talking and gesticulating (as I am wont to do). However it happened, here I am. It must have been on the horizon the whole time and I just didn’t see it. It’s the usual stuff–work crap. I don’t…

I haven’t seen any of these out there. Emperor of Ice Cream Call the roller of big cigars,The muscular one, and bid him whipIn kitchen cups concupiscent curds.Let the wenches dawdle in such dressAs they are used to wear, and let the boysBring flowers in last month’s newspapers.Let be be finale of seem.The only emperor…

Lisa writes about her neglected garden patch. My whole yard is neglected. The person who owned our house before we bought it died of AIDs, so the yard had fallen into decay. Then it was trampled on by construction workers while the house was remodelled. Last year, I made attempts to dig out the weeds…

Today’s poem, another sonnet by a former teacher. There’s a story behind this former teacher, which he probably doesn’t know–and probably won’t since the likelihood of him finding it here is zilch. My junior year in college, Richard Cecil came to my school as a visiting professor to fill in for my regular professor, John…

For some reason, I was thinking about kairos and blogging as I drifted off to sleep last night. Given that I have only taken one rhetoric class in my life, I don’t have as much expertise as many out there do, but I’ve been thinking that perhaps kairos might be the most important element of…

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Profgrrrl was talking about purging 1 the other day and it got me to thinking about my own purging. This weekend we began the process of swapping out winter clothes for spring clothes. I usually get rid of a few things in this process–from both seasons–and the kids’ stuff gets purged too. Mr. Geeky is…

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,Asleep on the black trunk,Blowing like a leaf in green shadow.Down the ravine behind the empty house,The cowbells follow one anotherInto the distances of the afternoon.To my right,In a field of sunlight between two pines,The droppings…

How do we navigate this precarious time, a time when they are pushing and we are pulling? How do we explain that we have mapped out a road but we want them to find their own way? How do we help them when we haven’t even cleared out the brush from our own path yet?…