Exam Time

We are all discerners of spirits. That diagnosis lies aloft in our life or unconscious power. The intercourse of society, -- its trade, its religion, its friendships, its quarrels,--- is one wide, judicial investigation of character. In full court, or in small committee, or confronted face to face, accuser and accused, men offer themselves to be judged. Against their will they exhibit those decisive trifles by which character is read. But who judges? and what? Not our understanding. We do not read them by learning or craft. No; the wisdom of the wise man consists herein, that he does not judge them; he lets them judge themselves, and merely reads and records their own verdict. ~Emerson

Not yet complete

Something I'd like to say dissolved
just now into the atmosphere;
Into the sphere of atoms.
It poured out of my soul and into the
green automobile waiting at my
door step, and just drove away
Across America.
Before I could grasp it
and hurl it at you, lovingly of course.

But here's what remains tonight to be said
To the faces unrepresented by Time
but bound by Eternity;

To the Homesick Transcendentalists,
emerging from the subway at
Farragot Square, dreaming of
blades of grass, consecutive or pooled together;
arriving only to find megaphone wielding anarchists
preaching scripture and apocalypse...

My Latest Embarrassment

Read about it here: http://suburbanskies.blogspot.com/2006/08/sometimes-you-wanna-go.html

Could it get any better?

The Beatles perform "Pyramus and Thisbe"

If He Could Only Speak English

I'm sure he'd be saying something like, "Seriously, another picture, it's a hundred freak'n degrees out here! Why don't you go in the barn and fix my dinner?!"

What I Did on My Summer Vacation, by Aunt Lizzy

For my summer vacation I drove up to visit my nephew Jack in Michigan. We played hard for a whole week and had so much fun! Here are the highlights.

First we played with cement mixers and diggers... Then we walked around the lake to the local ice cream shop... Jack really, really liked his chocolate cone...Luckily he decided to share some with Aunt Lizzy... Then we were so tired we read a few stories before going off to bed.

This will be me on Saturday

My new motto, "If you're going to hell anyway, you might as well dress nice"