Just what I need.......more books, of which I have no space for. But one of the local libraries around here has this annual book give away with boxes and boxes of free books. So here is my booty: Embers by Sandor Marai The Letters of Abelard and Heloise The Human Stain by Philip Roth Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer ...
Updated 08-31-2011 at 09:30 PM by Dark Muse
The fireworks are very beautiful But she is unable to see them For her, the fireworks Are but some terrible sound Somewhat similar to guns She sits alone on a board That is her little bed Covered with clean bedding She presses hands over her ears Every time when the fireworks crack To endeavor to control her trembling Lest it should startle the kind woman Who is a rubbish collector She call her mother
Updated 09-09-2011 at 02:58 PM by yuka
Summer's nearly gone and i'm still not ready for another hectic schedule. I was on the road 2 days ago with 15 of my friends, we went star sighting and observing. It was such a GORGEOUS sky!!!! we took tons of pictures which i'll post in a day or two, it was just so much...different. There you are in the middle of nowhere 6 hours away from your town not a single light on nor a single car passing by, no TV or computer or even mobile connections. Just the stars twinkling above your head ...
I wonder if it can be said truly that those we love who are cosmically a good match - be it in our lives as a friend or a romantic partner - that when they leave us, or when we lose them, those tears we cry for them are always of a purifying nature.. whereas, when we lose soemeone we loved, and cared about but was wrong for us, the pain they cause us always carries a more lingering effect. We cannot simply swallow the hurt, and bear it for them because we can still love them truly. Instead, we feel ...
As hurricanes go, I don’t think it was so terrible, at least in general. I don’t know what the winds got up to, but around here I didn’t see anything unusual. I saw some of the trees sway, but I’ve seen worse. Suffice it to say, no windows shattered. The rain was heavy. I don’t know how much we got. I took the dog out to relieve herself in the morning, or at least I tried to. It was raining very heavy; you could feel the barometric pressure squeezing down. I tried to take Brandi for a walk ...