"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:
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Sheesh, Lighten Up...
I just realized that my last few posts have been pretty somber, and not only that but I've dealt with one potential and two successful suicides in the last four posts. One hopes not to pass through seasons like this, but sometimes it happens.
Anyways, I'll try to post some entries a little lighter in tone. Not everything is death and destruction here, ya know.
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Creepy Scott Reed, 34, is the dean of students, science teacher, and head football coach at Central Linn High School in Halsey, Ore. But maybe not for long: the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission may revoke his teaching credential. It has charged him with “gross neglect of duty” for his first aid treatment of several student athletes injured during play: he allegedly licked their bloody wounds clean. The county sheriff investigated and called the practice “bizarre,” but not illegal since the lickings were not forced, nor even “necessarily unwanted.” (Eugene Register-Guard) ...Huh: usually it’s the linebackers who are “out for blood.” Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 11
