This is my new favorite song. There is something about starting over ‘where no one knows your name’ that makes me love this song. Well, it’s been my life for ten years…..
“Boston” – by Augustana (click on this for the video)
…..She said I think I’ll go to Boston…
I think I’ll start a new life,
I think I’ll start it over, where no one knows my name,
I’ll get out of California, I’m tired of the weather,
I think I’ll get a lover and fly em out to Spain…
I think I’ll go to Boston,
I think that I’m just tired
I think I need a new town, to leave this all behind…
I think I need a sunrise, I’m tired of the sunset,
I hear it’s nice in the Summer, some snow would be nice… oh yeah,
Stay
Come to me
We will play king of the island
And eat meatball subs
Unless, of course, you are vegetarian now
And remember Lafayette, Whiteface
Where you showed me your world
Will you come, stay with me
Here.
I can’t ask you to come
But will you?
We will play king of the island
And eat meatball subs
Unless, of course, you are vegetarian now
We will sit in the the maroon Honda
At low tide
And remember
So stay,
With me
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow,
Its white flag waving over everything,
I just discovered the poet Billy Collins. I read an article about him in Poets & Writer’s Magazine and he seemed interesting. As I am looking through the shelves in the Granby Library (always the 800 section) I see his name on a thin book of poetry, Sailing Alone Around the Room. I check it out and read it the minute I return home. My favorite poem is Dharma about his dog that “trots out the front door/every morning/without a hat or an umbrella,/without any money/or the keys to her doghouse”.
Now, I’m reading Nine Horses. His poems speak to me in a way poetry never has up to this point in my 37 years. I’m reading the poem Velocity. The poet is drawing a motorcyclist who rides up next to the bus he is on. In the portrait of this motorcyclist, he draws “lines to indicate speed”.
We would all
Appear to have speed lines trailing behind us
As we rush down the long tunnel of time
And I say aloud, hmph, to myself; no one is here. I just imagine and feel his poetry like nothing before it. It’s so much fun to discover something new; a new poet, a new book, a new trail in the woods.
Test your knowledge of western American Literature here.
9) Where was Buster the hermit crab’s transplanted home? (From High Tide in Tucson - Kinsolver) Tucson
21) Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer-winning Angle of Repose features what Rocky Mountain mining town? Leadville, CO.
Sunflower Maze Fun Run was a hit:
http://www.skyhidailynews.com/article/20081005/NEWS/810059977/1079/rss
And here are the scarecrows:
My favorite - Granby Firehouse
Firebird Design:
Mavericks: (the owner, Sean, just got married)
Granby Medical Center - Things tourist do that give them business:
Today at 3 p.m., a voice over the radio airwaves will say, “KUNC 91.5 serving Greeley, Fort Collins, KRNC 88.5 in Steamboat Springs, and welcoming Grand County residents at 91.9 from Granby Ranch at SolVista Ski Basin.”
The Ironman Race is NOT the test.
The test was the training.
The race is your celebration of the hard work
and
accomplishment.
