At meeting this past Sunday a Friend’s message asked for help. Specifically she described a particular situation that was troubling her, namely the latest development of our militaristic society, the way that technology-based warfare can create atrocities just as easily as human hands. In so doing, she asked for specific prayers from those gathered for worship. I believe she was lamenting, in part, how human achievement can be so useful and so destructive at the same time. Many Friends rose to fulfill her request. They were so numerous, honestly, that I now have trouble now recalling all of them. One woman recited aloud the Lord’s Prayer, which I memorized at a young age, as many do. Others provided words of comfort that were utterly foreign to me, but no less intriguing.
Category: Poetry
Oct 26 2010
Muse in the Morning
 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
–Anonymous |
 Vortex 3 |
Oct 25 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers.
–Mignon McLaughlin |
 Fishface |
Oct 22 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.
–Daniel Knode |
 Tribute to Benoit |
Oct 21 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
–Katherine Hepburn |
 Whirling |
Oct 20 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
–Margaret Mitchell |
 Stir |
Oct 19 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant’s bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke great words of wisdom as he sat there on that chair: “To eat these things,” said my uncle, “You must exercise great care. You may swallow down what’s solid, but you must spit out the air!” And as you partake of the world’s bill of fare, that’s darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow. –Theodore Seuss Geisel |
 Planetary System |
Oct 18 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to share some art.
| Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
–George Bernard Shaw |
 Water 3 |
Oct 15 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
–Joe Ancis |
 Turbulence 1 |
Oct 14 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly. –Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
 Natural 2 |
Oct 13 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.
–Lillian Hellman |
 Natural |
Oct 12 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| I am not eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
–Dame Edith Sitwell |
 Sculpting |