Like a Leaf

This is how I feel today.

Off the Shelf

Some of what I'm reading:

Ethics. Vision. Courage. Reality.

Greatness

Short teaches at Ole Miss. Love the poem about brothers.

Moon Fishing

I love to make books. This one showcases Lisel Mueller's poem titled Moon Fishing. I love the poem.

Quotes on Yellow Sticky

A large yellow Post-It curls at the edges. It has been on my desk for a long, long time. Waiting to have something done with it. Well, here goes:

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
     -- John Barth

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
     -- ee cummings

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
     -- Aulus Persius Flaccus

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
     -- Richard Le Gallienne

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
     -- Nikki Giovanni

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
     -- Nikki Giovanni

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
     -- Niccki Giovanni (wise dude)

He only profits from praise who values criticism.
     -- Heinrich Heine

So there you have it...

Ah, the French...

Courtesy of Victoria, and glad she shared...

Butterflies and Colored Pencils

How I occupied my time while others slept on the journey to France.
Or, how to decorate an envelope with colored pencils and butterflies.
And a few birds at the end.

So They Will Come --

From Cavafy:
So They Will Come --

One candle is enough.    Its dim light
is more apt,        more genial
when Love comes,      when its Shadows come.

One candle is enough.        Tonight the room
should not have much light.         Fully inside the dream,
evocative,     in the low light --
inside the dream like this,          I will have visions
so Love will come,      so its Shadows will come.

(1920)
Translated by Aliki Barnstone