RIP V
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Ah, September First, the sweetest of days! The two worst months of the year are behind us, and the two best are just beginning. Among autumn’s many pleasures, I count the Readers Imbibing Peril Challenge very highly. Hosted once again by Carl V., proprietor of Stainless Steel Droppings (and a man of admirable taste in [...]
Walk With Me
Sunday, October 14th, 2007I love the neighborhood we live in. I’ve been taking daily walks in it through three seasons now, and although the spring flowers and lush summer gardens were pretty, the turning leaves of fall best them easily. Every day, there’s some bit of beauty I wish I could share with you; yesterday, on possibly the [...]
School Days
Monday, September 17th, 2007Ah, Fall. Season of new beginnings, of pristine notebooks and sharpened pencils. I know we’re supposed to feel freshly reborn in Spring, but for me, it’s Fall: seventeen years of new outfits, new supplies, and new classrooms has oriented me so that I’m at my most optimistic when the leaves start changing. I loved school, [...]
Hallowed Falls
Thursday, September 7th, 2006My love’s a quarter-million miles away And she’s seven thousand miles around. When I’m walking on her surface, Gravity’s one-sixth of normal So my feet don’t hardly touch the ground. From her mares to her uplands, from her faces to her craters, She’s the shining sphere that dominates my dreams. We’re orbiting together “˜round our [...]