January 2012
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let's misbehave.
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Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
-Mary Oliver, “Sometimes”
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Farther Down That Road
I heard of a fellow named Frost
Who came to two paths where they crossed.
So he wrote a short ode
To the less-traveled road,
And he still wanders down it, quite lost!
today, this poem won mary titus’s interim 2012 limerick contest, as judged by the mayor of northfield, mary rossing. the prize: a collection of poems by mary oliver :)
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A thought
I woke up this am and was thinking about your often stated concern that you state; ” I just don’t know what I am going to do when I am an adult !!!”, or some such version. Part of the fun of life is NOT knowing what is coming and who you will become! What you think you want is analogous to waking up everyday the month before Christmas, as a young child, and walking past the...
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In Sadness
Yesterday you cried about
A boy for the first time
A rite of passage
A high school experience
Classic, really
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I wished I could find
The piece of brain he
Seemed to be missing
To replace it, nonchalantly
He’d never know
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But, alas, it’s lost
And, as with everything
You can do it all right
And still be wronged
This is planet Earth
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I’m...
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Claire
Her blue eyes
Pop
Out of her head
When words of
Tweedledum reach
Those pierced-but-still-
Sensitive ears.
The same eyes
Squint
Huddled to make
More space
For the smile spreading
Over her face
When Tweedledee did
Just as she
Expected.
With boxes sketched
Around them,
Painted a vivid red
Like Christmas,
They are always, unmistakeably
hers.
my interim class is intro to poetry.
my sister made me promise to write her a poem a week. I’ve written a couple so far. she hasn’t seen them yet, and she doesn’t have a tumblr. but I thought maybe I’d post them on tumblr for fun anyway.
integrals-for-dummies asked: Thank you for following me, it made me smile. :)
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“When you found out how to take it, life wasn’t half bad.”
– Willa Cather
December 2011
22 posts
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The Station
Tucked away in our subconscious is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent. Out the windows we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn and what, of flatlands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hillsides, of...
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When there's nothing to be done, keep it positive.
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there’s nothing better than being able to wake up in the morning and go hug my daddy.
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Good luck honey and try to have Fun with all of ‘“it”. Love Dad
I got a card from my family yesterday, and this was my dad’s little piece of the letter. Though I might personally have made some different punctuation and capitalization decisions, I think this is the best advice he could have given me.
Life is short— too short! Let’s stop worrying so much...
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winter wonderland
I sledded down the biggest hill!
We made a train and tumbled all over each other.
I was dragged across an entire basketball court.
My clothes are soaking wet.
My body is in extreme pain.
I can’t remember the last time I was so happy.
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“When I hear the words ‘strategic plan,’ it makes me want to throw up. You can worry about a pension when you’re 55. But if you worry about that now, you won’t have anything to look back on when you’re 55. Right now, do something crazy. Do something crazy so you have something to remember. You don’t choose love, you know. Love chooses you. Follow your...
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November 2011
11 posts
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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders...”
– ralph waldo emerson
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