“We measure time by its deaths, yes, and by its births. For time is also told by life. As some depart, others come. The hand opened in farewell remains open in welcome. I, who once had grandparents and parents, now have children and grandchildren. Like the flowing river that is yet always present, time [...]

this much for war …
$354,293,271,198
National Priorities Project - Cost of War
so … how much for peace?
whatever … it must be too much …
“war is over … if you want it”

link: here

link: here

Tiny Animals On Fingers - a photoset on Flickr … promoting in this “season of peace” the notion (illusion … delusion) that we humans really are quite gentle creatures …

well … it’s a hope we may harbor for ourselves

Dennis Haller: 1950 - 2006 | Chicago Tribune

saddened to learn the other day of this death … mom was calling out names from the online obituaries and here was this one …
i can’t say i knew dennis haller at all … we wandered the same high school halls, that’s about all … never had [...]

Merry and Blessed Christmas and/or The Best of the Season …
to you, Dear Reader … dear friend … of this sporadic blog …
May we all find some peace in ourselves ..
And act from that goodness …
In our dealings with (and thoughts about) each other .

a thunderstorm right here … while i’m pretending i don’t have too much schoolwork to do … and i’m thinking about wrapping some stuff right now … and about how i should just turn everything off … or i should mix some new tunes for the trip …
the flight that was to arrive at 1:40 [...]

stung myself on the pre-christmas paper glut … and chocolate … i just say “give me more paper to read, to grade, to pile up up” … more chocolate … and more words …
pedagogically & institutionally speaking … one must sometimes stop uncovering just to cover … so that one might remain on good terms [...]

recent contradicta that speak (bof uv em) to my moment …
To embrace a truth at the price of one’s vanity repays the cost in the coin of equanimity. (for Jordan Davis)
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Thrive on beginnings, endure endings.

(but, of course, it’s middles i like the most … just humming along with the window open) thanks, nick …
and [...]

things will be (as they have been) kind of sparse here on the blog … as we head into the end of first semester … it’s a big pile of paper has descended …

Andy Catlett: Early Travels by Wendell Berry

see my lists at Wordie … what are the possibilities?

waykool: lyrikline - Lyrik International, Poetry international … via International Exchange for Poetic Invention