Saturday, November 25, 2006

Dutiful Queen

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
-William Shakespeare
from Henry IV (Part2)

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Now, Voyager

"The untold want by life and land ne'er granted,
Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find."

-Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Friday, November 10, 2006

From The Gate of the Year

"I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year,
'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'

And he replied,
'Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'"

-by Minnie Louise Haskins (1875-1957)

The Fiddler’s Bill

The Parable, Redacted A long time ago, a grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing. A wretched thing, laboring away in the heat, a...