If it had just fallen on my toe Things might have been better But I dropped it square on my head The idea of Change Now I have a date with a dreaded destiny Now I have a hope for an infinite future Now I have to do something about it (this ridiculous idea)
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Archive > October 2007
Dreaded Hope
Poetic Offerings
“Try to raise up the sunken feelings of [your] enormous past… And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
I haven’t been as consistent with my [...]
1 degree
The global average temperature is about 1° Fahrenheit higher than it was a century ago. This one degree has caused a lot of fuss, including one of my least favorite vice presidents, Al Gore, winning a share of the Nobel Peace Prize.
The fuss isn’t all bad. I may disagree with the way that [...]
Quiet is for Listening
You may have been to one before: a men’s retreat. They exist only for one purpose and that is to make sure we never attend another one.
That’s what I thought, anyway. My church recently claimed that theirs was a men’s retreat for men who didn’t like men’s retreats. They had my number. [...]
Jason Barmer
