Moving down the dial
[ 1 Comment ] Posted on 03.31.05 in music, awesomeness
I know I don’t usually venture outside of my thirty year old box when it comes to music, but I recently acquired the Bishop Allen Charm School release, and believe me when I say that this little indie band is going to be big one day. Very big.
The lonesome loser
[ 2 Comments ] Posted on 03.27.05 in bliss
This is not interesting to anyone but me, but I thought I’d mention it because It feels good to see it in print.
At the beginning of last summer, I weighed about 175 pounds.
At the commencement of school in August, I weighed about 155 pounds.
At the beginning of Lent, I weighed about 149 pounds.
At the present moment, I weigh 143 pounds.
Life is good.
Ode to Gravity
[ 5 Comments ] Posted on 03.23.05 in random, awesomeness
Just when you think nothing can look up, things fall down. Perhaps I’m being a bit too cryptic.
Today, as I took a jolly jaunt around the neighborhood with the dog, I got to thinking as each of my feet hit the ground. I thought about lots of stuff, but mostly how thankful I am for gravity’s perfect attendance record.
Sure, you can overlook it as easily as one takes breathing or meiosis for granted. But once you take into consideration the fact that in billions of years, gravity hasn’t taken one sick day, governmental holiday, or weekend in its timeshare in Southern San Bernardino. Gravity doesn’t even go home: it spends day after day cooped up in its little office, ordering in Chinese food on the company’s budget.
And how are we beneficiaries of gravity’s undaunted work ethic? Everything we hold dear, gravity, too, holds near. However, gravity is not so developed as a workaholic tot he point of overbearing dominance upon the surface of the earth. That is, gravity is like a cool babysitter that holds its children close but allows a certain degree of independence. While we are held to the globe like a fly on spherical sticky paper, gravity allows us to lift our feet to move.
For its unceasing respect for the terrestrial responsibility to which it has been ascribed, for the dominant execution of its duty, and for its flexibility that correlates with our human desire for controlled independence, I commend Gravity and owe to her much of my good fortune.