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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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Saturday, January 22, 2005
Words
Some of these we can start using as soon as possible. I especially like bozone, foreploy, sarchasm, glibido, ignoranus, and decafalon. Any words you can alter we might enjoy? This could be fun.
The Washington Post's Style Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners -
Intaxication - Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
Reintarnation - Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
Bozone - The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
Foreploy - Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
Cashtration - The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
Giraffiti - Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
Sarchasm - The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Inoculatte - To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
Hipatitis - Terminal coolness.
Osteopornosis - A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
Karmageddon - It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
Decafalon - The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
Glibido - All talk and no action.
Dopeler Effect - The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Arachnoleptic Fit - The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
Beelzebug - Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
Caterpallor - The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.
And the pick of the literature...
Ignoranus - A person who's both stupid and an asshole
1:47:00 PM
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