"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:
Monday, March 15, 2004
I Confess, I've Been Amiss...
...But here are this week's (belated) Blogger Idol top five:
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