"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, October 12, 2004
Sploosh
Just as an aside, didI mention that we had a flood here in Richmond while all this stuff I was writing about happened?
We didn't have any damage here, but some other people were not so lucky. Check out this site for some wild pictures of what happened to our downtown.
Yeah, I know, it was done on a Mac but try not to hold it against 'em. They don't know any better. [insert huge playful grin here!]
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