Could it have been this long?

Mercy me, it seems like just last month that I last posted, but it seems to have been four and a half years. I need to reform! No actual promises, though.

Time for a little Rilke

Memento

And you are waiting, expecting that one thing,
which infinitely enriches your life;
the mighty, tremendous, the awakening of the stones,
depths, turned to you.
Dawning in the bookshelves
are volumes in gold and brown;
and you think of encompassed lands
of images, of the garments of
women lost again.

And suddenly you realise: that was it.
You rise to your feet and before you stands
a past year’s
fear and guise and prayer.

R.M. Rilke, between 1902-06, or before

Things to Do Instead of Painting the Bathroom or Writing the Self Evaluation

Build a blog
Clean spots from carpet
Clean the fridge
Hem the curtain on the study door
Wash the curtain on the study door
Go outside for a cig
Make a pot of coffee
Learn the Greek alphabet
Add links to the blog
Clean out the freezer
Read Bonhoeffer
Go outside for another cig
Ride bike 13 miles
Have a cup of coffee
Clean and sterilize coffee pot
Post on blog
Lemon oil living room furniture
Pot petunias in windowbox
Another cig
Soak, bleach and wash all white towels
Learn what Third Declension means
Read some physics
Rest from the labor

Wonder

This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me -
The simple News that Nature told -
With tender Majesty

Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see -
For love of Her - Sweet - countrymen -
Judge tenderly - of Me -

Emily Dickinson

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