November 2010
19 posts
Thoughts after driving alone for seven hours,...
“I wonder if the birds flying in formation know that somewhere, fish exist, and that they’re are doing the same thing underwater.”
“Don’t stop at a Denny’s in the-middle-of-nowhere-Indiana when you’re traveling by yourself. And if you do, definitely don’t order the eggs. Or the yogurt with ‘fresh’ strawberries.”
“Three women...
“There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis...”
– Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
It is possible to be struck by a meteor or a single-engine plane while reading in a chair at home. Pedestrians are flattened by safes falling from rooftops mostly within the panels of the comics, but still, we know it is possible, as well as the flash of summer lightning, the thermos toppling over, spilling out on the grass. And we know the message can be delivered from within. The heart, no...
Goodness, its good to be home. →
