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CarrollBlog 8.12

Unsaid

by Dana Gioia

So much of what we live goes on inside–

The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied aches

Of unacknowledged love are no less real

For having passed unsaid. What we conceal

Is always more than what we dare confide.

Think of the letters that we write our dead.

CarrollBlog 8.11

Lovely animation that says it all:

http://tinyurl.com/mv94ah

CarrollBlog 8.7

On Monday morning I will walk down

to the market with my heart inside me, mysterious,

something I will never get to hold

in my hands, something I will never understand.

from "The Mysterious Human Heart" by Matthew Dickman

CarrollBlog 8.6

The famous YouTube clip of the dancing wedding party has now been parodied by some people who simply copy the format (the wedding party dancing down a church aisle), but set it this time in a divorce courtroom. The clip is getting a lot of play but there's nothing new there-- it's simply a copy of the original with a different setting. It reminds me of something that happened back in college and was one of my great lessons. I was the editor of the college literary magazine. For one issue I had t

CarrollBlog 8.5

One of those people who always seems to be in the way, physically and otherwise. You know who I'm talking about--the kind who stand directly in the middle of a sidewalk while looking in a store window or talking on their phone, oblivious to the fact they're making everyone who passes detour around them. While shopping, they leave their cart in the middle of the supermarket aisle, blocking the world. When they get to the checkout counter they don't take their wallet out until they're told their b

CarrollBlog 8.4

Ben

by David Budbill

Ah, you three women whom I have loved in this

long life, along with the few others.

And the four I may have loved, or stopped short

of loving. I wander through these woods

making songs of you. Some of regret, some

of longing, and a terrible one of death.

I carry the privacy of your bodies

and hearts in me. The shameful ardor

and the shameless intimacy, the secret kinds

of happiness and the walled-up childhoods.

I carol loudly of you among trees emptied

of winter and rejoic

CarrollBlog 8.3

A really wonderful story:

http://tinyurl.com/mepwxg

CarrollBlog 8.2

You've got to see this. If you like part 1, watch all parts of it. The last section will knock you flat):

http://tinyurl.com/n23xpw

CarrollBlog 8.1

If I am to grow poor

let it be like a land

ravaged by blight.

If I am to grow poor

let it be with pride.

Torah scrolls

are saved from the fire.

Not me.

If I die, this is my desire:

Let me be

like some ship wrecked at sea.

Waters without end

will extinguish the fire.

by Dahlia Ravikovitch

CarrollBlog 7.30

According to the UCLA linguistics department, the following are the newest, hippest, most used slang among US college students today:

"bellig" -- belligerent and drunk

"bromance" -- extremely close platonic friendship between men

"brothers from another mother" -- male friends as close as siblings

"destroy" -- to do well at something

"epic fail" -- big mistake

"FOMO" -- fear of missing out

"get all up in your biznatch" -- meddle in your business

"mija" -- female friend

"Obama" -- cool

"off the