18 October 2007 Thursday
I've decided/I believe...
...ice cream sundae parties should be a weekly thing.
...I’m terrible at thinking astrology at 2-3am.
“Men are like solar panels, women are like the sun.”
Excuse me, are you lost? Perhaps you would care to visit the site map
...ice cream sundae parties should be a weekly thing.
...I’m terrible at thinking astrology at 2-3am.
bits / praises … words and phrases (…)
Time without action is empty space / vacuum.
Time is a canvas.
Context matters.
Intent trumps result but intent without action,
like knowledge without action
is an unread, unwritten book,
the sound a falling tree makes
when there’s no one to hear it.
“Wisdom is knowledge applied.”
I still don’t know why we cry.
But it’s the things we cry for,
and the feelings that accompany the tears..
and our capacity of recognizing and feeling those things that might invoke tears
The darker the black, the starker the white
How did September come upon me so quickly?
Here I am, and September, again.
September 1st.. I cried nearly all day. Washing away?
Finished Order of the Phoenix (again) last night..
Second to last chapter is pretty neat..
Harry’s such a child/teenager.. And I guess that’s apparently excusable.. as was his father’s behavior on account of his age at the time as well.. I don’t know. I still expect more from Harry/people. Yes there’s time for them to grow up and make up for what they were, but the future never negates the past. What it can do, though, is allow for one to correct and build on the past.
Anyway, in second to last chapter, Harry is in much pain.. and is being patiently addressed by wisdom and age.. That pain, wisdom recognizes, is reflective of great strength and power that is not understandable nor matchable by darkness.
And here, context comes into play again, because fewer people than the number of fingers on one of my hands will understand why the question of that pain means something to me.
The conflict between age is interesting too… the young do not trust the old.. the young believe they know better, or that they should know everything.. The old believe that they are protecting the young from knowledge that could hurt them. (All the while people are concerned about test scores and attendance records when there’s a real world, life and death to face.)
By the way, Harry’s slowness on the uptake of the prophecy and what it meant to whom….. is that even reasonable? Are people allowed to be so slow?
Have to go…..
Wouldn’t call it great communication,
but couldn’t quite call it no communication, either.
Many things we can do with our time.
Work, play…
Work on what? play what?
Work for whom? Why?
Play with whom?
The work one is a whole issue unto itself…
but the play question has been on my mind lately, and I had a good short discussion with someone the other day about it…
I’m trying to learn to run.
I’m hoping I’ll learn to like it if I get good at it.