“…to defend and conserve oneself as a human being in the fullest, truest sense, one must defend and conserve many others and much else. What would be the hope of being personally whole in a dis-membered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, scraped, eroded, and poisoned, or personally free in a land entirely controlled by the government, or personally enlightened in an age illuminated only by TV?” — Wendell Berry

and, one of my late father’s favorite songs:

“…once my heart was filled with the love of a girl/
I held her close, but she faded in the night/
Like a poem I meant to write/
And the leaves that are green turn to brown…”

Everybody out there, i hope you have a great weekend.

xo

wm

Eggnog, fudge, chocolate crinkles, appetizer platters. Uh, yeah.

So MyFood-a-pedia is my new best friend.

How about this one, too? justrun.org

Happy noshing and stretching.

— wm

“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.” — Ross Macdonald, novelist (1915-1983)

what’s up with you, Internets?

xo

wm

when i was 12, my aunt’s boyfriend bought her a Corvette. she picked me up and we cruised and cruised all over the neighborhood in the sunshine. we stopped by my friends’ houses and they were all, WOW COOL CAR and this song came on and she sang to it really loud (guess which lines?) and that, my friends, was a perfect afternoon. you just rarely achieve that sort of nirvana, people, so when you do, grab it up with both hands.

peace and happy holidays,

wm

…drop-out. George Fox University is a no-go.

harry potter harry potter harry potter

also? general hospital, on a tear. chewing up the scenery. And Adrienne Barbeau, and Brenda crying out for Dante, “…and that reminded me of when you were in the hospital, delirious, calling out his name…” (Adrienne Barbeau, as Suzanne, on GH.)

“Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom.”

–James Wright

“Why worry when you can obsess?”

and

“The hardest year of marriage is the one you’re currently in.”

Have truer words ever been spoken?

Also, homework should be outlawed.

buh-bye.

— wm