January 2009
30 posts
“The Death Of The Old Year
Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,
And the winter...”
December 2008
13 posts
The Best Things in Life
Falling in love.
Laughing so hard your face hurts.
A hot shower.
No lines at the Super Wal-Mart.
A special glance.
Getting mail.
Taking a drive on a pretty road.
Hearing your favorite song on the radio.
Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.
Hot towels out of the dryer.
Finding the sweater you want is on sale for half price.
Chocolate milkshake.
A long distance phone...
“Learn To Be Quiet
Franz Kafka
You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at...”
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old...”
Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings, at the antelopes stretching over the palings, beauty sprang instantly. To watch a leaf quivering in the rush of air was an exquisite joy. Up in the sky swallows swooping, swerving, flinging themselves in and out, round and round, yet always with perfect control as if...
It’s the Dream Drops in the East Wind, 1966 It’s the dream we carry in secret that something miraculous will happen, that it must happen – that time will open that the heart will open that doors will open that the rockface will open that spring will gush – that the dream will open, that one morning we will glide into some little harbour we didn’t know was there.
Olav H. Hauge
