Words, Music, & Outdoor Adventures

12/30/2004

Bobby Jean - Bruce Springstein

Filed under: Lyrics — kristen @ 6:10 pm

Well I came by your house the other day, your mother said you went away
She said there was nothing that I could have done
There was nothing nobody could say
Me and you we’ve known each other ever since we were sixteen
I wished I would have known I wished I could have called you
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean

Now you hung with me when all the others turned away turned up their nose
We liked the same music we liked the same bands we liked the same clothes
We told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we’d ever seen
Now I wished you would have told me I wished I could have talked to you
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean

Now we went walking in the rain talking about the pain from the world we hid
Now there ain’t nobody nowhere nohow gonna ever understand me the way you did
Maybe you’ll be out there on that road somewhere
In some bus or train traveling along
In some motel room there’ll be a radio playing
And you’ll hear me sing this song
Well if you do you’ll know I’m thinking of you and all the miles in between
And I’m just calling one last time not to change your mind
But just to say I miss you baby, good luck goodbye
, Bobby Jean

12/28/2004

My Credo

Filed under: Language/Literature — kristen @ 9:32 am

“I believe that words count, that writing matters, that poems, essays, and novels-in the long run-make a differenceOe I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. I write to record the truth of our times as best as I can see it … I write to give pleasure and promote aesthetic bliss. To honor life and to praise the divine beauty of the natural world. I write for the joy and exultation of writing itself. To tell my story.” - Edward Abbey

12/27/2004

Remember this

Filed under: Poetry — kristen @ 1:02 am

“unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.”

12/21/2004

Confucious

Filed under: Poetry — kristen @ 10:01 am

“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order;
to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order;
to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life;
and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.”

12/19/2004

Richard Bach

Filed under: Language/Literature — kristen @ 9:40 am

iWhat is it that you know without question, no matter how others insist?i

12/16/2004

Today

Filed under: Nature — kristen @ 7:51 pm

Skiing today was so much fun. Played in the trees and practiced moguls; very unlike me.

I got the most amazing glimpse into nature while skiing in the trees near The Closet. I saw a PORCUPINE. Not a small one but one the size of a bear cub. The quills were considerable. I normally carry a camera but not today: bummer. That would have been a great shot.

Just another day in paradise.

12/10/2004

~ Rudyard Kipling

Filed under: General, Poetry — kristen @ 7:35 am

“Words, of course, are the most powerful drug used by man.”

12/4/2004

From today’s Writer’s Almanac

Filed under: Language/Literature — kristen @ 8:14 am

Rilke wrote:

“It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

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