I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to 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, [...]
Archive for February, 2008
The Waking (Theodore Roethke)
Posted in Personal, Poetry on 28 February 2008 | 2 Comments »
Favorite Birthday Sentiment so far:
Posted in Uncategorized on 27 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Connie gave me a card that said: “Do angels in heaven have birthdays? Who knows — but obviously angels on earth do. Hope you have a happy one!” And her note said: “Caitlin — You are a beautiful angel… That is, when you’re not being a cute little devil!”
On dinner and the relation of the body to the soul
Posted in Food and Wine, Literary, Philosophy and Theology on 27 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The human frame being what it is, heart, body, brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. The [...]
Happy Birthday to Caitlin and Katie!
Posted in Personal, tagged birthdays on 27 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 27th is a good day.
Only 22 for 3 more hours
Posted in Personal on 26 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, [...]
Eliot the Confessor
Posted in Personal, Poetry, tagged east coker on 26 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for [...]
March/April– theory and various moderns
Posted in Literary, Philosophy and Theology, Poetry on 24 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Zizek)
Selected Essays (Eliot)
A Room of One’s Own (Woolf)
Desire and Domestic Fiction (Armstrong)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
Wise Blood (Flannery O’Connor)
Room With a View (E.M. Foster)
Tender is the Night (Fitzgerald)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Twice Told Tales (Hawthorne)
Parenting Insights from a Non-Mother (Who Owns a Cat)
Posted in Personal, Philosophy and Theology, Teaching, tagged cats and teenagers, motherhood, parenting insights, raising kittens on 23 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
English has no word for a woman who is not a mother, that doesn’t first refer to her married state. Cows do. They’re called heifers. Horses do. They’re called fillys. The closest humans come is “maiden” but that brings to mind her virginal state, with the necessary implication that she does not have a child [...]
Why relationships are difficult …
Posted in Literary, Philosophy and Theology on 23 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When a subject is confronted with an enigmatic, impenetrable Other, the thing he has to grasp is that his question to the Other is already the question of the Other itself– the impenetrability of the substantial Other, the hindrance which is preventing the subject from penetrating the heart of the Other, is immediately an index [...]
6:04 am
Posted in Personal, Poetry on 22 February 2008 | 5 Comments »
this morning is me reading Eliot’s preludes to you while we are curled under a blanket drinking fresh coffee and eating warm scones with cream. it is the fog whirling around our toes giving an excuse to move closer. it is leaning back into the pillow, feeling in our still muscles the movement [...]
