"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:
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
"Hello, is this thing on?"
For some reason, on this end the Amber Alert ticker is not working. If it is, you'll see it as a yellow bar with text scrolling across it just under the Blogger ads. If you see anything there, leave me a message so I will know if it's just me.
That’s Not My Bag A woman walking her dog in San Diego, Calif., was accosted by a man who grabbed a bag out of her hands and ran off. He didn’t get far when he realized what he had just stolen: a baggie of dog droppings. He threw it down and demanded that the woman give him some money, but she said she didn’t have any. The man pointed a gun at her dog, “pulled the trigger on the gun twice, but it didn’t fire,” a police detective said. The newspaper concluded its report by noting “Police failed to find the baggie.” (San Diego Union-Tribune) ...How hard could they have looked? Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 11