http://www.yarnivore.com/runblog/ These songs are true, these days are ours, these tears are free Copyright 2009 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:30:28 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss My dad died five years ago, just after Christmas of 2002. The best piece of advice anyone gave me was this: You never stop mourning a parent. And it's okay. That has certainly turned out to be true. A couple... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001975.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001975.html Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:30:28 -0500 It's Thanksgiving, and I have so incredibly much to be thankful for this year that I hardly know where to start. We're in the middle of preparing dinner for seven, but I wanted to stop to post a bit. Right... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001943.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001943.html Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:25:00 -0500 Spring and Fall, to a Young Child -- Gerard Manley Hopkins Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves, like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! as the heart grows older It... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001939.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001939.html Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:08:16 -0500 I'm angry today. I'm not angry because it's September 11th and therefore I'm mad at the Bad People who blew up the World Trade Center. I'm not angry about how the fabric of our nation was torn asunder, and we... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001920.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001920.html Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:49:33 -0500 A couple of weeks ago I was running in Prospect Park, and I had an epiphany. (I love having epiphanies in the park, it's part of what makes it mine.) It was a perfectly beautiful day to run, low 70s,... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001913.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001913.html Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:05:07 -0500 Had a lovely NYC moment last night. I was in a happy mood after leaving work, waiting on a phone call and walking down Sixth Avenue looking for a snack. Saw the Mr. Softie truck and felt that a vanilla... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001904.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001904.html Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:10:02 -0500 Ganked from Spiderwords, another lovely poem by Neil Gaiman. Between this and his story "How to Talk to Girls at Parties," I'm enormously touched by his sense of wonder about women and sex. Poem Neil Gaiman I am continually disappointed... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001902.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001902.html Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:36:34 -0500 Poem sent me by a dear friend, on the occasion of my miserable, grinding loss. Give All To Love Ralph Waldo Emerson Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse;... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001885.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001885.html Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:20:20 -0500 Have been reading Peter D. Kramer's brilliant Against Depression; I read an essay excerpted from it a couple of years ago that stuck with me, and then I found it this past weekend remaindered at a Barnes and Noble. I'm... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001880.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001880.html Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:39 -0500 Blogging from me, all yatima-style. R: So I got a sticker for Rachel that says "happy is the new rich" -- I think she'll really like that. F: Yeah? R: Yeah, it's so her philosophy. F: I hear that and... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001876.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001876.html Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:23:44 -0500 I’ve been thinking about how madness is like obscenity; everyone thinks they’ll know it when they see it, but each person has a slightly different definition. I’ve also been thinking about how one travels from madness to health. Obviously in... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001870.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001870.html Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:28:58 -0500 A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING. by John Donne AS virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, "Now his breath goes," and some say, "No." So let us melt,... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001863.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001863.html Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:00:37 -0500 Leaves of Grass, 45 Walt Whitman Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning—I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001857.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001857.html Thu, 17 May 2007 06:43:14 -0500 Sonnets -- Unrealities -- X e.e. cummings it is at moments after i have dreamed of the rare entertainment of your eyes, when(being fool to fancy)i have deemed with your peculiar mouth my heart made wise; at moments when the... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001854.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001854.html Tue, 15 May 2007 21:37:53 -0500 SONG by John Donne Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me ; But since that I At the last must part, 'tis best, Thus... http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001853.html http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/001853.html Tue, 15 May 2007 00:11:41 -0500