"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:
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Tell Me Why (Montage)
Photo montage to the song "Tell Me Why" by the group Echobelly. The visuals are sort of experimental. I was trying for a very minimalist bleak look, that's the mood I had.
Sorry, this is yet another not very cheery song. When a cheery time comes, I'll do cheery, promise.
Lyrics:
Do you ask yourself why You run scared, with nowhere to go Your heart full of sundays The surface of saturday nights You stare at the floor The fistful of dreams that you crave Got burned out on nicotine stains When nobody called
Tell me why, you're alone my friend Tell me why, do you fill yourself on empty Tell me why, you're alone again
Do you ask yourself why You don't care for no-one at all You trip on the mainline You're bound to the static that's there All you've ever known
Tell me why, you're alone my friend Tell me why, do you fill yourself on empty Tell me why, you're alone again
Nowhere to go, nowhere to go Nobody knows you're all alone Nowhere to go, nowhere to go Nobody knows the way to go
Just Say No II A study of sex education programs in schools in Texas finds the state’s abstinence-only policy doesn’t work as well as hoped. “We didn’t find what many would like for us to find,” said Texas A&M University researcher Buzz Pruitt. His study shows that 23 percent of ninth grade girls have already had sex by the time they received abstinence lessons. And after they attend, the percentage increased. The numbers for boys are even worse, but they lag the girls by a year. Abstinence education, which must have “as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity” to get federal funding, has been strongly pushed by President George W. Bush, who was governor of Texas before he was elected president. (Dallas Morning News) ...Because girls said no to him while he was in school, and he wants to be sure that doesn’t change now that he’s out. Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 11
