Clouds are very cool.

A Prayer

Bless me to...
Always be able to see the other person's point of view.

Bless me to...
Never be afraid.

Bless me to...
Be strong and courageous.

Bless me to...
Love everyone, even Judge Dee Benson.

Bless me to...
Be able to get through this world without losing everything.

Bless this anger to become something even more powerful,
Bless this anger to help me make a difference.

Bless the One who went first,
The One we will never forget.

Rainbow

Have you ever witnessed a pink rainbow? I'm looking at one right now, it's the second one I've ever seen, and it's fading fast.

Of Webs and the Reason Not to Spin Them

I do not believe in keeping secrets;
I fear that the world already has too many.
I do not want to weigh my home down any further,
I do not wish to help spin this whirling web,
threatening to entangle me and all who come into contact with It.

I will hold a copy of Frodo's Sting close to my heart,
warning me when I come close to doing the thing which is not,
the thing that threatens to pull this world down,
crashing hard as a mountain obliterated from the inside.

I will use my eleven sword,
-held close to my heart, my elven heart-
to slash at the webs around,
and the webs already
-or just beginning-
within.

Back in Orange and black, silent as the raven

My muse is back, if'n you wanted to know.

24th of July (Pioneer day)

Parades are just a good way to show off and guzzle gas. I want to change that.

I don't know, maybe it can help in some way.

Subject: Tough decisions

In two weeks, the House will start deciding where and how much to cut in the 2012 budget.

We know that tough decisions need to be made, but now is not the time to cut poverty-fighting programs that we know work--programs that fight the root causes of chronic hunger, have helped put more than 6 million people on AIDS drugs since 2002 and have helped avert 5.4 million child deaths due to vaccines--all for less than 1% of the budget.

I just signed this petition asking the House to protect these programs. Will you sign it, too?

http://act.one.org/sign/protect_fy2012/?source=protectfy2012tafem&referring_akid=2302.2170473.G1N911

Together as ONE we can make a difference.

Thanks!

Ender's Game

For anyone who's interested, I finished a certain book yesterday...
Also for anyone who might be very particularly interested, I loved it :)

I might have read it just a tad too quickly, but I plan to read it again and again :] Which reminds me, I think I feel like reading Treason again. (Another very good Orson Scott Card book.)

Mosquiter Eater

Apparently mosquitoes do like me... All of my sibs now say I look like I have the plague. Spots away!!! (Thank heavens for isopropyl alcohol and lavender essential oil.)

Who's to say what's impossible?

The clouds are magical. Maybe someday I will be able to paint an draw them in all they infinite glory.

Elizabeth West and the Davega Bicycle (still remember that one?)

"When man invented the bicycle, he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle."
~Elizabeth West

I agree and disagree with this quote in many ways, it is long-ish, after all. I also really wish I had a bike again. 

(Why all the quotes recently? I went through some scratch paper yesterday, and I found quite a few. So that should explain it.) 

Do what you want to do. Ageless.

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."
~Christopher Morley (1890-1957)

Good advice. I wore a cape yesterday, it brought joy to my heart, and maybe a few smiles to other people's faces.

LALALALAL

I have an idea for a post, it's just that I'm not quite sure the world's ready for it *grins*
Ehh.
What to say?... It's awfully pretty outside right now, the sun's shining just so, and the power and phone lines look like they're on fire. But still, everything looks cloudy, as if we lived inside a box in which the light only shone through one side. It's a strange feeling, like when I try to plumb the depths of the universe. A feeling of forever and a blue bowl.

Mahna mahna

I'll bet there are a lot of people who have no idea who Eddie Izzard is...

Who is this Henry James person?

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
— Henry James

Save the words!!

 This site is awesome :) So far today I have adopted nepheliad, pocket handkerchief, and vampirarchy.

Currently (and during a visit from a very dear and fun cousin)

We are playing a game of spoons on the outdoor picnic table in the warm sun. Birdsong drifts down from the sunburst tree above us. Cards are passed around the table, and every once in awhile someone mutters about their hand. 
Spoons lay in a pinwheel, aiming in seven points of direction from the middle of our game. 
People begin to surreptitiously take spoons, it is not clear who took the very first. Very soon all of the spoons are gone.
Almost everyone lays their cards down as we ask who doesn't have a spoon.
Hy looks up from his hand of cards and  says with an out of place smile, 
"what are you talking about? You guys are gumming the whole thing uu -oh..." his head thunks on the table and everyone bursts out laughing. Hy is without a spoon.