1) The Return of the King - This was at least my third time through this book, though I read more of the appendix than ever before. I hadn’t known that Sam gets to follow Frodo after Rosie dies! Tolkien said he wanted to “try his hand at a really [...]
Organization without accessibility is practically worthless.
I attempted to re-organize our linen/personal items/medicine closet today. There are a number of smaller items that have a tendency to get disorganized. I thought that a good solution would be a set of plastic drawers that I had purchased. I was very pleased [...]
Ah! you want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you.
A widow’s lament: The first singleness is anticipatory, the second a shoreless wasteland. — Andree Seu, World Magazine
The cathedral arches high—
dominating grandly,
ornate in stony magnificence,
tremendous.
People mill about—
chattering happying,
[...]
Polaroid pictures left the camera as a pale green quickly covered with faint dark patches. After a time the subject was discernable. Later still, the picture would be completely developed in full-color detail.
Pale green would perhaps best describe the color our our nervous systems when the restaurant we entered last [...]
I know exactly where I am, yet find myself bewildered.
I understand the language, yet cannot comprehend my environment.
I am surrounded by that which used to have meaning but does so no longer. Brand names, names of places and streets, wordless road signs clearly intended to communicate important information — all [...]
Honks — pleasure honks — must satisfy some deep auditory need in the heart of mankind, particularly children. A little effort may reward you with deep, resonating sounds that thrill right through you and ring in the air about you. For a moment there is nothing but the delight of the [...]
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