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Fall Thoughts

Yesterday was the first full day of Autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere - my favorite season. End of the miserable summer heat (mostly), cool mornings and evenings, warm afternoons. The sound and smell of leaves crunching beneath your feet when talking a stroll through the woods. Filtered sunlight through the last leaves clinging to their branches. Apple cider, pumpkin pie, soups and stews. Fire crackling in the wood stove or by the campsite. Love it all!

Autumn is a second spring, when every leaf is a flower - Albert Camus

Changes of time

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. 
- Lewis Carroll

Time changes us. Experiences change us. Sometimes, the things you have seen, the ways you have been treated, the things you have done, preclude you from going back to who you once were. You can try, but better to move forward and improve who you are now, instead of going back to who you were then.

The Raven - Friday Poetry

This is just an excerpt, and if you are so inclined, I would definitely recommend reading the whole poem. I can picture the whole scene with Poe's vivid descriptions.  A copy can be found here.

"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting —
"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! – quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
 Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."
-Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven

Back to School edition.....

The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.
 - Albert Einstein

In honor of his 55th birthday, I present Cmdr. Chris Hadfield: Space Oddity

Have a great holiday weekend!

Happy Monday!

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. 
- Lemony Snicket

A Spider's Legend of the Silk and Gold

we shall run among the titans 

while the skies stare, with eyes wide open
remembering the ancient ones
by name
calling upon the thunderous echoes
of an eon's elder
footsteps

tearing down the walls and stars
around our heads
and
walking tall
upon the planetary faces
of the gods
with their ever unsympathetic
and forbidding
frowns

we shall bask in the warm sunlight
of a wonder filled
and smiling
child
as we tell this tale of the final hour
in which we
brought the hypocrisy
of heaven crashing
to the ground

we shall hold before us
a chalice
pouring light upon our darkly, parched
and burning lips
this final kiss shall be our gift
left upon the altars
of all time

once we were
man
we are divine
so we shall leave you
all behind

for you walk like blackness
on the night
and with the widows, you shall feast
on your own shadows
of defeat

by M. Douglas

Thursday thought....

Resist much, obey little. 
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 

Quote of the Day - Tuesday 8/19

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.
 - Marjorie Pay Hinckley

A new day, A new week

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll

Friday Poetry

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Over the hump!

It has been a long week - exhausting, really. Time to slow down and enjoy the fruits of man's labor.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin

Another Loss

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. - Lauren Bacall

Another legend lost yesterday.  I am not old enough to remember her from her prime, but respect her from being from the true Golden Age of Hollywood. Truthfully, when I hear her name, I think of the song "Car Jamming" by The Clash. :)

Joy, and Pain

I listen to the radio on the way in to work in the morning, and they always mention a birthday or other significant event on today's date. When the person is famous, or famously quotable, I try to work it into the daily quote (with a notation as to that person was born or died on this date). For example, on Lou Gehrig's birthday, I used a part of his "Luckiest Man on Earth" speech.

Today is the 50 year anniversary of the death of Ian Fleming - the man who created James Bond. I have always been a Bond fan - he is easily my favorite movie character, so this would be the perfect opportunity to trot out a Bond quote. Except.....

The funniest man ever died yesterday. Any time I tried to be funny, I tried to channel Robin Williams. I have seen all of his movies (even that one about the photo booth) and his stand up. Today, and in the days that follow, he will be eulogized in every media outlet and all over every social media site. I have nothing to add to the conversation. But I still want to say my piece, so here is today's quote. Thank you, Robin Williams.


Nanu Nanu - Robin Williams as Mork from Ork

Life

In keeping with my new theme, today's quote:

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

Have a great vacation, Jackie Boy!

New purpose for the blog

Every day, I am in charge of organizing the daily schedule for our team - mapping out the assignments to make sure the work is covered. A couple of months ago, I started adding a Quote of the Day to the wiki page, and it was received pretty well. A number of people told me that they enjoyed reading them. It was, by all measures, a hit.

Well, yesterday, the characters at work screwed it up. They put up a *borderline* questionable quote. I went back through the revisions and read it, and honestly did not think it was that bad. It spoke more to the conceit of the speaker, and was less of a jab at the other party. Somehow, my manager decided that this was too far across the line, and has put the kibosh on the WHOLE THING.

Sooooooo.......................Here comes the quote of the day blog! It's personal, I will not link to it, but if folks enjoyed the QotD, and want to read my choices, here is the place to go.

Today's quote - and the new feature - Friday Poetry:
I dreamed I spoke in another's language,
I dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I dreamed I was my own beloved,
I dreamed I was a tiger's kin.

I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
And when I breathed a garden came,
I dreamed I knew all of Creation,
I dreamed I knew the Creator's name.

I dreamed--and this dream was the finest--
That all I dreamed was real and true,
And we would live in joy forever,
You in me, and me in you.
- Clive Barker, Days of Magic, Nights of War