Tuesday, July 31, 2012
.Thursday, July 26, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
.Friday, July 20, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
KEEPING
The Promise
by Jane Hirshfield
Stay, I said
to the cut flowers.
They bowed
their heads lower.
Stay, I said to the spider,
who fled.
Stay, leaf.
It reddened,
embarrassed for me and itself.
Stay, I said to my body.
It sat as a dog does,
obedient for a moment,
soon starting to tremble.
Stay, to the earth
of riverine valley meadows,
of fossiled escarpments,
of limestone and sandstone.
It looked back
with a changing expression, in silence.
Stay, I said to my loves.
Each answered,
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012
THE HORSECAT
I posted this photograph of a window with a horse statue behind the curtain,
Deanna saw a cat...so she made this charming line drawing over a print of it!
I just love it.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Friday, July 6, 2012
Thursday, July 5, 2012
ECCENTRIC
Today is the aphelion--the point in the year when the Earth is at its farthest distance from the Sun. The Earth and all the other planets have orbits that are "eccentric," a slightly squashed circle, and the Sun is slightly closer to one end of the ellipse. The perihelion--the point in the orbit when we're closest to the Sun, occurs in January, and at that time we're about 5 million kilometers closer than we are at aphelion in July.
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