"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me."
Walt Whitman (1819-92)
"When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break."
Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC)
And now, the current weather, from some random person we pulled off the street:
Friday, February 27, 2004
OK, stop the presses, grab the firetruck, its time for this blog's Top Blogger Idol Nominees
A winnowed out field this time, probably a result of the late email that went out for the topic, but they still were good.
Stab the Messenger During “boisterous play between friends,” a 9-year-old boy at St Anne’s Primary School in Denton, Manchester, England, was accidentally cut with a letter opener “which had inadvertently been brought into school in a pencil case by another child,” head teacher Glenys Dyer says. The boy’s injury was minor, but Dyer took strong, decisive action: the boy who “inadvertently” brought the letter opener was suspended for at least six weeks and, Dyer says, “the school has banned students from bringing pencil cases to school.” (Manchester Evening News) ...The pen is mightier than the sword, but at least the sword has a sheath. Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 11
