-- Donald G. Smith
Friday, July 17, 2009
Quote of the Day
Sunday, July 05, 2009
My Failure as an Eco Reader
a) I'm able to check out new authors without investing in valuable and treasured reading time.
b) I like listening to speaking voices more than I like listening to the music on the radio.
c) And more to the point of this post, no trees were injured in the making of the CD.
However...
when I find a book I like, I wind up making unnecessary trips just to progress further in the book.
Yesterday, I went for a 60 mile drive in order to finish listening to Michael Connelly's "The Overlook" (the first but not the last of his books that I will listen to/read, btw) - greenhouse gases be damned. Not to mention that at the current price of gas, it would have been cheaper to buy the paperback.
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Quote of the Day
Sunday, May 31, 2009
My Feeble (but Sincere) Attempt at Haiku
Cool air Warm conversation A break in the clouds
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Why a Bird???
Birds fly away...unless it's a flamingo or an emu. But I don't think flamingos or emus sing a sweet song as the birds of flight. And I don't like the idea that hope can easily flit away.
So why a bird???
Friday, May 01, 2009
I'm in a Sore Storm
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me
-Emily Dickinson