Bus Travel

Over Christmas break I was blessed with the opportunity to experience what is the joy of Greyhound travel. There are several benefits to this type of travel and if anyone is looking for any of these, I highly recommend it.

1) The buses don't always travel on main roads so you get to see a lot of beautiful scenery.

2) The people who travel Greyhound are very diverse: poor, multi-ethnic groups, young, very old, middle-aged, etc. I found most bus travelers to be very generous and open. They are pretty much everything but high-brow snobs. So, if you are looking to meet some characters this is the transportation choice for you!

3) You don't get anywhere fast with Greyhound so if you are looking for a leisurely trip with time to put your thoughts together choose the bus.

Here are a few pictures from my ride this week. We stopped in Tennessee and it was snowing very hard.

The Pedigree of Honey

Poem for the Day

The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy.

~Emily Dickinson

Poetry Afternoon

At first I was reading poetry, looking for inspiration for the title of a book that my class is collaborating on. Then I was just mesmerized by the pages of beautiful ideas and I lay back and read. Here is one poem I want to share that is especially beautiful.

I started again; where everything starts:
at the body. Classes in life-drawing,
training my hand to see.

In Paris alone,
my family waiting for me to give up
so I could go back to being "happy."

Every day, failure boiled up into my throat
and stayed there.

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Obsession is the sacrifice of light
to the richness of submergence.
But love is separation,
the membrane of the orange dividing itself,
the surface of silver
that turns glass into a mirror.

There's failure in every choice.

Art emerged from silence;
silence, from one's place in the world.

~Anne Michaels from "Modersohn - Becker"

Sailing

It's a beautiful thing.

Beautiful

I want my life to be a reflection of Christ, just like the murky water holds the beauty of the tree branches above.

Seize the Day - Remember the Dead

Fall is here

Fall is here! I went to a pumpkin patch today and enjoyed taking pictures. They are all locally grown. I opted out of getting one because they were a little more than I wanted to pay but it was so much fun.