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Thursday Sep 22, 2011
Sonnet Thirty-two by William Shakespeare
Thursday Sep 22, 2011
Thursday Sep 22, 2011
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Sonnet XXXII
by William Shakespeare
If thou survive my well-contented day,
When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover,
And shalt by fortune once more re-survey
These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover,
Compare them with the bettering of the time,
And though they be outstripp'd by every pen,
Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,
Exceeded by the height of happier men.
O, then vouchsafe me but this loving thought:
'Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age,
A dearer birth than this his love had brought,
To march in ranks of better equipage:
But since he died and poets better prove,
Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love.'
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Sonnet 32
Wednesday Sep 21, 2011
Sonnet Thirty-one by William Shakespeare
Wednesday Sep 21, 2011
Wednesday Sep 21, 2011
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Tuesday Sep 20, 2011
Head Over Heels
Tuesday Sep 20, 2011
Tuesday Sep 20, 2011
In my junior year at Jordan High School I trained myself to be a yell leader - a male cheerleader. We were supposed to do acrobatics and gymnastics, but I had never had any training. So I practiced by jumping off inner tubes. Trying to do back flips meant landing on my head several times. There never seemed to be any damage, except I felt the strange desire after that to write radio episodes.
I've even fallen backward down stairs in front of an entire cast of one of my musicals. Backing up on the stage one foot too far, I tumbled backwards doing a reverse somersault and then quickly jumping to my feet and proclaiming, "I'm all right!" Then we went back to rehearsing.
Trying to combine both of these events into one disaster, I took the cast to the stage during an intermission of a Shakespeare production. One of my students did a back flip on the stage and I confidently proclaimed, "I can do that!" Taking off my glasses and removing my cell phone from my belt (don't want those things to get damaged!), I ran and did my round-off into a back handspring. Failing to gain much height and having little muscle tone anymore, my head made it all the way around from the floor to the floor. My face thumped first onto the stage, followed by my crumpling body. I had actually hit my right cheekbone first - and in front of all the students. I slowly stood and put my hand to my cheek, which immediately began swelling up.
I declared "Intermission's over," and we went back to the performance. I was running the lights and stopped on the way to buy a cold drink in an aluminum can. The swelling on my cheekbone was now the size of a golf ball, but rolling the cold aluminum can on the swollen flesh seemed to help. I left later that night looking like Quasimodo's brother.
I've had other incidents at my high school which involve inflicting pain on others. I seem to have a charmed life when it comes to injuries, and so at times I'm not as careful as I should be.
Scott was helping me in my Technical Theatre class. We were trying to staple a side curtain up as a leg to block sightlines backstage. Up on the ladder I was confidently stapling away 17 feet off the ground, as most of the students have enough brains to be afraid of heights.
I have even had my technical theatre classes raise me up the entire 40 feet to the top of the fly system so I could replace lights on the ceiling. I don't know what I would have done if they had decided not to let me back down.
But on this day Scott was attentively waiting for the stapler. I decided to toss it down to him so he could take it to the other side of the stage for use there. As Scott was looking up I told him to get ready for the stapler. He was looking right at me, and so I tossed it down.
This was a Stanley Stapler, the solid metal kind which must have reached terminal velocity by the time it reached him. He chose at this particular moment to be distracted by one of his classmates, and as he looked away at them, the stapler hit him right on top of his head and made a huge gash.
I hurried down the ladder and we went to the office and filed an accident report. I haven't thrown down a stapler since. Scott went off to the hospital to have stitches put in his head, and I resolved not to endanger any other students just because I seem to have a charmed existence. I am a danger to other people.
I’m also dangerous to my own cars. Once when I had a television repaired for three hundred dollars, I plopped it down on the front seat and didn’t think what would happen with a quick stop -- which cracked the windshield -- which added another one hundred dollars to the repair bill.
When that same television went on the fritz again later, I drove it to the local charity and dumped it off.
Imagine my surprise, after I had bought a new television for several hundred dollars, when I went to the shop at the charity store and saw my old television back in working order and priced at only one hundred dollars.
It made me want to bash my windshield. But I had already learned that lesson.
Learning is one of the greatest things about getting to live longer. I can’t wait to find out what I will be blessed to learn next.
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Abundance Strength Sept 4
Sunday Sep 11, 2011
Sunday Sep 11, 2011
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Sonnet Thirty by William Shakespeare
Saturday Sep 10, 2011
Saturday Sep 10, 2011
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Sonnet XXX
by William Shakespeare
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
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Sonnet 30
Saturday Sep 10, 2011
Sonnet Twenty-nine by William Shakespeare
Saturday Sep 10, 2011
Saturday Sep 10, 2011
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Saturday Sep 10, 2011
Sonnet Twenty-eight by William Shakespeare
Saturday Sep 10, 2011
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Sonnet XXVIII
by William Shakespeare
How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?
When day's oppression is not eased by night,
But day by night, and night by day, oppress'd?
And each, though enemies to either's reign,
Do in consent shake hands to torture me;
The one by toil, the other to complain
How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
I tell the day, to please them thou art bright
And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:
So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,
When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even.
But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer
And night doth nightly make grief's strength seem stronger.
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Sonnet 28
Friday Sep 09, 2011
Sonnet Twenty-seven by William Shakespeare
Friday Sep 09, 2011
Friday Sep 09, 2011
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Sonnet XXVII
by William Shakespeare
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head,
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts, from far where I abide,
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,
Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.
Lo! Thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee and for myself no quiet find.
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Sonnet 27
Friday Sep 09, 2011
Sonnet Twenty-six by William Shakespeare
Friday Sep 09, 2011
Friday Sep 09, 2011
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Thursday Sep 08, 2011
Strength
Thursday Sep 08, 2011
Thursday Sep 08, 2011
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Strength
by Dane Allred
What does it mean to be strong?
Are the strongest among us those who endure the most pain,
And those who are weakest are those who inflict pain on others?
We are told to be strong,
Face our fears,
Conquer our doubts,
Struggle through those difficult times
So we can find our strength on the other side of this problem or that.
There may be times when we are sure we have
No more strength to bear one more moment of
Challenge,
Heart-break,
Disappointment,
Discouragement,
Or pain.
But then we do survive that moment,
And we do emerge on the other side of that struggle
Stronger than we were before.
When we see then someone else struggling with those same problems,
We become their bridge to the other side.
We are here to help each other learn all we can
About this struggle called daily life.
You were put here for a purpose.
Perhaps to endure the pain
To help others on another day.
Perhaps to help others in another way
Unknown to you or anyone else
Until that moment appears.
We are learning all there is to know about
Pain,
Challenges,
Discouragement,
Disappointment,
And heart-break.
We are learning what it is to live in a world of
Happiness,
Joy,
Fulfillment,
Ecstasy,
Love,
Hope,
Inspiration
And astonishment.
We are the universe
Learning all there is to learn,
Sent here from the Bright Space
Where we once were all together,
Knowing all there was to know.
We knew coming here would involve
A separation,
The distinctness of being one,
Instead of feeling as one.
But as we learn of heartache and hope,
We expand the knowledge of the universe
Finding what it truly means to strive to
Become one
Even when we are many.
Thank you for the life you are living.
Through your experience,
When you reach out to me in a similar moment
And share your strength
We are one step closer
To being together again
In the brightness of being one.
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