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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, August 15, 2004
Olympic Events
Given the ability to do it, which event would you enter? I don't think I'd like to be in the water as much as the swimmers are even though that's something a person can always do long afterwards and might choose that. I don't know how any two people do the synchronized diving. That has to be unbelievably hard to be a mirror image of someone else during all those dives, and the Chinese divers were perfection. Their athletes are all so well-trained. I'm looking forward to seeing Phelps and Thorpe swim against each other. They are both so tall and talented and ready. It was touching how emotional Thorpe was after his win last night.
The US basketball team is sucking right now. Puerto Rico is beating them big time. Argentina and Serbia's game was exciting until the last seconds. Iraq managed to get a soccer team there even though their practice field was destroyed (destructed as the announcer said ... it wasn't Bob Costas obviously). Since NBC owns so many other stations, the Olympics is availabe on NBC, Bravo, CNBC, USA, and MSNBC. I'll be retired during the next Winter Games in 2006 and can watch it all the time. I'm in the must-watch-cannot-miss mode now but will have to do other things part of the time, like work, grade papers, type tests, and other such interruptions.
During the Summer Olympics, I think I'd choose rowing. It's good exercise for the whole body and appeals to me. No weight lifting, boxing, judo, or gymnastics.
In the Winter Olympics, I'd like to do figure skating or the ski jump.! They are flying there for a while. Not the luge - how scary!
What about you?
1:09:00 PM
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