Pandora discoveries

Sitting in my usual place in good old Kanbar, typing away at an essay, when this song begins to play on Pandora...

Last sunset

Back to Maine tomorrow.

Words I like

This morning I was looking through the "Quotes I like" document on my computer and rediscovered some really nice poems/sayings by Walt Whitman.

“I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content.
One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself.”

“These are the days that must happen to you.” 

“When I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the
lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”

“The question, O me! so sad, recurring -
What good amid these, O me, O life?
That you are here - that life
exists and identity,
that the powerful play goes on,
and you may contribute a verse.”

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”

Long walk in the preserve

The colorful quiet

     I bought a new denim jacket from Goodwill and have been embroidering patches to sew onto it. Here is my favorite and most recent patch.

     As I pondered what to name this post, the name of the indie band "The Colorful Quiet" sprung into my mind. I have one song by them which I only sorta like, but the words of their name seemed fitting for this image.

Bear beneath the clouds

Bananagoop: Cooking Adventures Ep. 2

     The last time we saw Lucy, she was cooking a veggie-refried bean medley on her stove in Brunswick Apartments. This morning she embarked on a new cooking adventure. If you thought her tofu-beano escapade this summer was goopy, prepare yourself for her newest invention: BANANAGOOPANCAKE. The pancake part of the name is a bit disputable seeing as the "cake" is really just a big, soupy blob of banana and cinnamon with a spoonful of pancake mix for body. 

     Eat with yogurt for maximum goop factor. 

     Photos to come the next time... this time around she forgot to get a shot before she ate it.

     But that doesn't mean she can't post some even sweeter Little Tree photos.