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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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Monday, November 20, 2006
Fruitcake Lady RIP
Marie Rudisill died November 3, 2006. She was the Fruitcake Lady who appeared on Leno's show. What I didn't know was that she was Truman Capote's aunt who helped raise him and that she's written several books herself, among them Fruitcake: Memories of Truman Capote & Sook. She was hilarious in those "Ask the Fruitcake Lady" segments, and that explains something about Truman Capote, doesn't it? She was 95 when she died.
11:31:00 AM
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