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The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke
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Joy's Updates - Straight from the Horse's Mouth.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2003
Not My Favorite Day
April Fools Day never affected me that much one way or the other until I started teaching. Then students played jokes that were sometimes funny and sometimes silly and often annoying. I don't miss that so much. Sure, I can take a joke and have a laugh at my own expense. Practical jokes, however, have never appealed to me even when they were on someone else. Sometimes watching Candid Camera on TV made me uncomfortable. I tried to pull some when I was in college but my heart wasn't in them,so they never really worked out. At the core, practical jokes seem mean, and I can't really understand what motivates people to do them since they make the recipient of the "joke" look foolish and sometimes embarrass them. It's not that I'm always nice to people, but I try not to hurt their feelings intentionally. It takes a lot of time and effort to pull off an effective practical joke, and anyway, why are they called practical jokes? I've never understood that either.
There are levels and degrees of April Fools jokes and some are funny. I like the ones that have us going for a while until it dawns on us that it's just a joke. Those are like riddles and jokes that keep us on our toes. Friendly joking competition can be fun, too. I come from a family who does that at times and doesn't mind kidding each other. Sometimes that can become a routine that gets old though. I know because I've run some of those jokes in the ground. So anyway, hope you have fun and enjoy the day. Just no practical jokes for me, please! You're safe from me on this front, too.
I do play tricks as I was recently reminded since I even wrote about one on Around the Bend. It's the post about HRT that's titled "Testosterone Causes Brian Damage." My doctor got more mileage out of that one than I did, I think!
8:59:00 AM
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