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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.
 
Saturday, February 05, 2005  
Quiz

Many thanks to all the regulars and new participants who answered the trivia quiz. C'mon, be brave! Join in the fun!

from the Pop Culture Edition of Trivial Pursuit ...

1. MOVIE - What was the first full-length animated feature to be created entirely by artists using computer tools and technology? [Michelle will know this for sure since her husband is in the business]
2. TV - What did E-Trade show in their Super Bowl ad before saying, "Well, we just wasted 2 million bucks"?
3. MUSIC - Which Van Halen singer lasted the least amount of albums? [must have been brief ... I've never heard of him]
4. SPORTS & GAMES - Whose record did Cal Ripkin break when he appeared in his 2,131st straight game?
5. BUZZ - How did Harrison Ford get the distinctive scar on his chin?
6. FAD - What was the most popular name for baby girls in 2001? [funny how that happens ... Brian said he thought every third boy born in 1969 was named Brian since there were so many of them at Boy's State when he went ... it was a name my husband and I could both decide on and one we liked ... wonder how many parents of Brians are divorced?]

from the "Know-It-All" Edition ...

7. PEOPLE & PLACES - What late jazz trumpeteer was rarely called by his real first name "John"? [I didn't know that was his name]
8. ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT - Who were the fairy tale brothers Jacob and Wilhelm? [they were gay?]
9. HISTORY - What country would have designed the milled silver dollar that George Washington might have thrown across the Potomac? [hedging their bets here, aren't they? "would have" and "might"]
10. SCIENCE & NATURE - What term describes the bleak, treeless plains of the Arctic?
11. SPORTS & LEISURE - What sport first leaped into the American leisure scene in 1844 in Hoboken, New Jersey? [this should elicit some interesting responses]
12. WILD CARD - What new system was promoted by a campaign that included Ethel Merman singing "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-day"?

2:19:00 PM



 
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