Time for your dose of Wallace Stevens!

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It is possible to seem- it is to be,
As the sun is something seeming and it is.

The sun is an example. What it seems
It is and in such seeming all things are.

Thus things are like a seeming of the sun
Or like a seeming of the moon or night

Or sleep. It was queen that made it seem
By the illustrious nothing of her name.

Her green mind made the world around her green.
The queen is an example . . . This green queen

In the seeming of the summer of her sun
By her own seeming made the summer change.

In the golden vacancy she came, and comes,
And seems to be on the saying of her name.

Her time becomes again, as it became,
The crown and week-day coronal of her fame.

Tennyson's 'Lady of Shalott' to be the subject of a short film

Not only is it about Tennyson, but they are basing the designs on Waterhouse's paintings of the Lady. Head on over here and check it out. They've paid Pre-Raphaelite worthy attention to detail from the looks of things.

The Stinky Cheese Man

Read it.

I want to be real. Sometimes I think of Pinocchio with his desire to be a "real-boy" and I realize that I want that too. I mean, obviously not the boy part, but I want to feel real. Lately I have felt like I'm just watching my life slip by, observing it through a window, but not quite experiencing it. Its like I'm waiting for something to break the window and wake me up. Maybe I'm just tired. Maybe two undergraduate degrees in four years is wearing on me. Maybe I am lingering. Maybe I'm hesitant about this next section of my life. Maybe I need to have more trust. Maybe its ok if I don't know.


In this quest, I will need these things:

1. The realization that a plan has been set in motion for my life

2. The the knowlegde that the orchestration of such a plan is magnificent and not easily understood

3. Sleep

4. My friends

5. Rainfall

6. Faith and Trust (and pixie-dust)

7. Afore mentioned plan is specific to my life only. No one else can tell me what that plan is, other than the One who painted it out, so I should seek Him to know it.

8. My family's love and support

9. A potted plant

10. Music

11. The pictures of the generations of my family that I am too young to know

12. Pineapples, green apples, chocolate, sweetened tea, and scallops

13. The ocean

14. Canvases

15. A gentle breeze at night

16. Bird songs

17. A piano

18. Poetry

19. The ability to communicate in multi-faceted ways

20. The imagination of a child

21. Starlight

22. Skirts

23. Storms

24. Clovers

25. Raspberries

26. A garden

27. Love

28. A beautiful umbrella

29. Memories

30. Thistles and Dandelions

31. The smell of honeysuckles and pomegranates and orange blossoms

32. Naps in the sun

33. The books of Psalms, Lamentations, and Isaiah

34. A cape

35. My bicycle Peter

36. A new place

37. Empty pages

38. Honesty and Hope

39. My memories

Ents in the mists.

On the way to breaklefast

I am so excited!

I am heading to a place that has palm trees

. . . so here is a picture of my Great-Grandfather in a place that also has palm trees. He was a pretty silly guy, I think we would have gotten along quite well.