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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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Sunday, June 13, 2004
Quiz Again
As a tribute to Seabiscuit which I rented and enjoyed last night on DVD, there are horse race questions in the sports section.
1. People and Places - What rock formation on Salisbury Plain was used by the Druids to predict celestial events?
2. P&P - Who was Anna's lover in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina?
3. Arts & Entertainment - How many cavalrymen were in the "Charge of the Light Brigade"? (I taught that first term)
4. A&E - What art movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s drew from cartoons, the cinema, and fast food advertising? (I went to a couple of art history classes at the University of South Carolina with Paige when I visited her several years ago and learned more about this from that professor than I ever had before - very interesting.)
5. History - Which of the original thirteen colonies was first known as "New Sweden"?
6. HIS - What European country did Hannibal's elephants embark from as they were led to conquer Rome?
7. Science & Nature - What two animals provide us with angora? (those sweaters marked our territory at dances when they would shed on the guys' jackets)
8. S&N - What structure in the body includes the nuclear envelope? (what kind of stamp is needed?)
9. Sports & Leisure - Who was the only jockey to win the Triple Crown twice?
10. S&L - What horse came in second to Affirmed in three Triple Crown races?
11. Wild Card - What cartoon character is considered the "World's Richest Duck"? (is he related to Scary?)
12. WC - What word comes from the Greek "magein" meaning "the great science and religion"? (more Greek!)
12:30:00 PM
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