December 2010
18 posts
Singing Horses →
Thoroughly enjoyed playing with this. Music we say!
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
– Hans Christian Andersen
“The individual’s three greatest hopes:
1] Meeting the beloved one;
2] to be...”
– Irving Wallace, The Book of Lists, 1977
“….attain excellence; collaborate with man and trust in God.”
– Alvin Day
sincesheleft:
Edge of Desire (unplugged) | John...
Nots
He recorded each of them Indexed them Eventually stored them in his database so he could retrieve them at will This is how he treated my ‘nots’ Not skinny enough Not neat enough Not punctual enough Not plain enough Not quiet enough Not dumb enough to be silent during an argument And I would spend endless hours trying to untie the ‘nots’ that he gave me Working hard to...
If You Weren't Afraid
Last week I helped my sister prepare a presentation for her sales team. They seemed to be coping poorly with the organizational changes as well as the changes in the economic environment. The light bulb lit over her head as the book “Who Moved My Cheese” sprung to her mind. I thought it was perfect and fitting. I sought out a presentation on the topic. As I read through the recount of...
“A musician wakes from a terrible nightmare. In his dream he finds himself in a...”
– Excerpt from Paul Lockhart’s “A Mathematician’s Lament” available from http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
Prisoner of Words Unsaid
P.O.W By Alicia Keys I’m a prisoner Of words unsaid Just lonely feelings Locked away in my head I trap myself further Every time I stay quiet I should start to speak But I stop and stay silent And now I’ve made My own hard bed Inside a prison of words unsaid I am a P.O.W. Not a prisoner of war A prisoner of words Like a soldier I’m a fighter Yet only a puppet Mostly I only say...
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