On this, your happy day of Graduation, I’d like you to take a moment to consider a present you are likely to receive in preparation of your college life: not the alarm clock from an Auntie, nor the six-pack of beer from your cousin Mike, but The Dictionary. It is a bit of an old fashion present, but one that still holds— when a young man is becoming learned, expanding his horizons, he needs to improve himself and expand his vocabulary. That is why dictionary sales often go up during this time of year.
Now, what I am about to say might be surprising. Maybe you should sit down. Let me think of how to put this
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Q: Where have all the cowboys gone?
A:i dunno.
Q:Where have you been?
Q:Where are you now?
Q:When will I be there too?
Q:Where have you been?
Q:Where are you now?
Q:When will I be there too?
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Many things to do.
I have started to hoard. My words. I found out the blogging is = to getting published. (not really, but I "can't" submit a poem to a magazine if I have published in on blogger. In a move towards not clinging to material or word wealth... here is an undone poem, I am having a lot of trouble with. Does it want to rhyme? It's changed so much since its inception.
Unsteady me—like saplings in spring
When branches ache and divide in green.
Carve me out of stone—an indoor creature
Emerged, prowling for home.
With a photographer’s skill, trace gradients
Of shadow, shape, and empty space.
See me shift from hip to hip like a kite
Wading through the salted sunlight. Am I
A piece of glassy Atlantic—do you see the comet trails,
the feathery scars of the sailboats on the surface .
The wake of failed arrow shot not through me
But my through my feather pillow
In other news. Rhyme is new and exciting. I kind of like it, sometimes. I even recently wrote a sonnet with a traditional rhyme scheme. I have been writing poetry since 6th grade and never have done this before. Maybe grad school is paying off. Who knows. It's hard to quanitify.
In still other news. It rains and sun-shines here with out much warning. Or actually there is warning (weather.com) but not alot of time for adjustment from one to the other. I found an umbrella on the bench the other day when it was raining and I was without one and walking to classes on campus. I thought it would be broken, but tried it anyway and it worked. it was nice and said IU and was pretty and new. I loved this umbrella and kind of felt like a lucky person/thief. Then a few days later it was raining again. I had this, my new umbrella, used instead of my old umbrella that sat at home. Then I heard this lady on the bus say she didn't have an umbrella, and she had to walk to the Ford dealership to pick up her car. I thought i should give her my umbrella. Oh! the pains! the agony! I had this umbrella for only a few days and yet I wanted it. I hadn't even paid for it. I tried to come up with justifications to keep the umbrella. Some reason why having two umbrellas was okay. None of them sufficed and I begrudgingly (on the inside) happily on the outside, gave her my umbrella. (No one would take an umbrella from a grump). She was quite happy. I think she had been having a bad day. I'd like to think of myself as a generous person, but how painful it was to give up my umbrella showed me I have work to do! Get to it. or as they say here Gid-R-dun.
Unsteady me—like saplings in spring
When branches ache and divide in green.
Carve me out of stone—an indoor creature
Emerged, prowling for home.
With a photographer’s skill, trace gradients
Of shadow, shape, and empty space.
See me shift from hip to hip like a kite
Wading through the salted sunlight. Am I
A piece of glassy Atlantic—do you see the comet trails,
the feathery scars of the sailboats on the surface .
The wake of failed arrow shot not through me
But my through my feather pillow
In other news. Rhyme is new and exciting. I kind of like it, sometimes. I even recently wrote a sonnet with a traditional rhyme scheme. I have been writing poetry since 6th grade and never have done this before. Maybe grad school is paying off. Who knows. It's hard to quanitify.
In still other news. It rains and sun-shines here with out much warning. Or actually there is warning (weather.com) but not alot of time for adjustment from one to the other. I found an umbrella on the bench the other day when it was raining and I was without one and walking to classes on campus. I thought it would be broken, but tried it anyway and it worked. it was nice and said IU and was pretty and new. I loved this umbrella and kind of felt like a lucky person/thief. Then a few days later it was raining again. I had this, my new umbrella, used instead of my old umbrella that sat at home. Then I heard this lady on the bus say she didn't have an umbrella, and she had to walk to the Ford dealership to pick up her car. I thought i should give her my umbrella. Oh! the pains! the agony! I had this umbrella for only a few days and yet I wanted it. I hadn't even paid for it. I tried to come up with justifications to keep the umbrella. Some reason why having two umbrellas was okay. None of them sufficed and I begrudgingly (on the inside) happily on the outside, gave her my umbrella. (No one would take an umbrella from a grump). She was quite happy. I think she had been having a bad day. I'd like to think of myself as a generous person, but how painful it was to give up my umbrella showed me I have work to do! Get to it. or as they say here Gid-R-dun.
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
food for thought
I searched the bible for the word devil (thank you biblegatway.com) and then i replaced that word with the word 'television' (thank you control + f) what do you think?
1. Matthew 4:1
[ The Temptation of Jesus ] Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the television.
2. Matthew 4:5
Then the television took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple.
3. Matthew 4:8
Again, the television took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
4. Matthew 4:11
Then the television left him, and angels came and attended him.
5. Matthew 13:39
and the enemy who sows them is the television. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
6. Matthew 25:41
"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the television and his angels.
7. Luke 4:13
When the television had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.
8. Luke 8:12
Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the television comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.
9. John 6:70
Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a television!"
10. John 8:42
[ The Children of the Television ] Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me.
11. John 8:44
You belong to your father, the television, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
12. John 13:2
The evening meal was being served, and the television had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus.
13. Acts 10:38
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the television, because God was with him.
14. Acts 13:10
"You are a child of the television and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?
15. Ephesians 4:27
and do not give the television a foothold.
16. Ephesians 6:11
Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the television's schemes.
17. 1 Timothy 3:6
He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the television.
18. 1 Timothy 3:7
He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the television's trap.
19. 2 Timothy 2:26
and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the television, who has taken them captive to do his will.
20. Hebrews 2:14
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the television—
21. James 3:15
Such "wisdom" does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the television.
1. Matthew 4:1
[ The Temptation of Jesus ] Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the television.
2. Matthew 4:5
Then the television took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple.
3. Matthew 4:8
Again, the television took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
4. Matthew 4:11
Then the television left him, and angels came and attended him.
5. Matthew 13:39
and the enemy who sows them is the television. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
6. Matthew 25:41
"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the television and his angels.
7. Luke 4:13
When the television had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.
8. Luke 8:12
Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the television comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.
9. John 6:70
Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a television!"
10. John 8:42
[ The Children of the Television ] Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me.
11. John 8:44
You belong to your father, the television, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
12. John 13:2
The evening meal was being served, and the television had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus.
13. Acts 10:38
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the television, because God was with him.
14. Acts 13:10
"You are a child of the television and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?
15. Ephesians 4:27
and do not give the television a foothold.
16. Ephesians 6:11
Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the television's schemes.
17. 1 Timothy 3:6
He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the television.
18. 1 Timothy 3:7
He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the television's trap.
19. 2 Timothy 2:26
and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the television, who has taken them captive to do his will.
20. Hebrews 2:14
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the television—
21. James 3:15
Such "wisdom" does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the television.
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