C.P. Cavafy

At the St. Demetrios festival yesterday, I picked up The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy . I've been curious about his writing since being introduced to it by brisingamen 's posts on same. And I've been off-handedly wanting to read more poetry in the hopes that it could build my concentration. Impulse and opportunity aligned last night. There was a book of four Greek poets, one of whom ...

as a newcomer to the community, I can definitely see this becoming a new obsession. :)

David

I  stopped myself  from becoming a   Monster  

This Just Inch: Newspapers Finish, Expectant Moms Told to Keep off Street Corners

... jazzed about that solution. ) So I got to inquire. All this clip, we in the Praseodymium and media industries hold been center determing what our futurity will keep with print mediums becominga dying stock - we were losing primal ground why this will hold such a ravaging outcome on future contemporarieses. The epidemic we are confronting - one where women will be abruptly giving birth ...

Afrin and Strip Clubs and Jeff Buckley, Ohio My!

...'s Awards Shortlist . '' ) and Bacillus ) I 'm trusting to snag me a hippy beau one of these years. I 'm sure you 'll all concord that these are both rattlingly baronial grounds for becominga skilled music slut , and I 've negociated to hold upwardly this yr to a certain grade. My only dissapointment is that I 'm not yet able to get the complete experience as it was intended to be holded ...

Relieving the Gop

... with lucidity the ground why I went a Republican as a immature man, and the ground why as Republicans we demand desperately to return to our nucleus values. Right nowthe European way of socialism is becominga popular thought in our commonwealth. Cypher could be farther from the vision of our founding begetters. US was thought to be the land of the free, and there ca n't be freedom when the ...

NEW YEAR'S POEMS (2009)

NEW YEAR’S POEM The orange band bends our flight Quickly, and the day will be bright. Racing down the runway, Leaving the headquarters, In an airplane in the dawn… Lifting off, we have had our fun; I am still looking At the lights of last night. The orange band bends our flight To its unearthly, early stripe. Down there are the grid of residence, And loops of commercial business, Our private ...

"Are you a woodworker?" "No." (laughs)

That was the response I gave when I went to Walmart on Friday afternoon as I wore my "I Got Wood" shirt (illustriously seen on one Nick Frost from Shawn of the Dead ). I'm sometimes afraid of the reaction that people have to the shirt, which can be anything from curious (which is what happened on Friday when some middle-aged Caucasian married woman inquired about my profession) to its intended ...

Vainglory or ego-inflation

"In Evagrius's view, ego-inflation also makes the monk dream of becominga priest. While perhaps surprising today, at that time the priesthood was vested with such dignity that any monk would deem himself unworthy of such a grace. To desire ordination was the height of presumption. The antidote, according to Evagrius-we could still find this shocking-is knowledge. There is nothing like self-...

[fic recs] Yuletide

But I'm a Cheerleader + "Becoming a Lesbian: Megan BLoomfield's Guide for Cheerleaders" is adorable, sweet, funny, and absolutely the story I wanted to see after the movie. Calvin and Hobbes + "the sandwich story" is a heart breaking tale of change - and it is absolutely wonderful. Commercials + "Five Missions Erin Esurance Failed to Complete" is hilarious and completely, deeply ...