Francesca Forrest's Blog, page 175
October 30, 2012
All's well here!
... But I do feel for the people in New York City and New Jersey, everyone dealing with flooding and power out. And the folks in West Virginia now getting two feet of snow!
Anyway, thank you everyone for the good wishes.
And to lighten the mood, here's David Mitchell on PASSION
Anyway, thank you everyone for the good wishes.
And to lighten the mood, here's David Mitchell on PASSION
October 29, 2012
storm
Wind's rising, trees are swaying back and forth, roof is muttering -- so nervous-making! But everything's warm and cozy and still electrified here. And anyway, anything I'm experiencing . . . is something approximately 50 million others are experiencing! What a thought!
I should get back to work. This document isn't going to edit itself.
I should get back to work. This document isn't going to edit itself.
October 28, 2012
shepherds and sailors take warning
This was our dawn.
Storm's coming, so I'm told. And told and told! SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED. PLAN AHEAD said the electronic display on the highway.
Life lessons from a highway display sign, man. Further on it said
GIVE PEOPLE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
OFTEN IT'S NOT MALICE; IT's MISERY
(Nah, I'm making that one up. But when I become a hacker of highway electronic displays, that might be one of my messages.)
Anyway. A storm, on the precise anniversary of the destructive Halloween storm of last year....
Storm's coming, so I'm told. And told and told! SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED. PLAN AHEAD said the electronic display on the highway.
Life lessons from a highway display sign, man. Further on it said
GIVE PEOPLE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
OFTEN IT'S NOT MALICE; IT's MISERY
(Nah, I'm making that one up. But when I become a hacker of highway electronic displays, that might be one of my messages.)
Anyway. A storm, on the precise anniversary of the destructive Halloween storm of last year....
October 25, 2012
writing on the sky, delighting in snow, writing on stone
The sky is rice paper right now. To write on it, I need only an embrace of birds, four and twenty, up they go. And then the moon for a seal.
Here is an image from a card
sartorias
sent me today. Joyful face!
Pure delight . . .
The local free paper had a story from its fifteen-years-ago file in this week's issue, a ghost story. Since the paper is free, I think they won't mind if I reprint it its entirety.
Mr. DiNuovo's self-contradictory way of speaking made me laugh, but all the same, what a grea...
Here is an image from a card
sartorias
sent me today. Joyful face!
Pure delight . . .
The local free paper had a story from its fifteen-years-ago file in this week's issue, a ghost story. Since the paper is free, I think they won't mind if I reprint it its entirety.
Mr. DiNuovo's self-contradictory way of speaking made me laugh, but all the same, what a grea...
October 23, 2012
the knife in the squash, the apple in the hand, kitfo
whosoever pulls this knife from this squash is the RIGHTFUL KING OF ALL ENGLAND
... or ... the king of the kitchen at least.
And here is a magnificent Baldwin apple.
Three of them alone made a pie that's several inches deep. The hills and valleys of its mighty crust put the Badlands of South Dakota to shame.
So, I thought "kitfo" sounded like a fox boy's rapper name, but really it's a delicious-sounding Ethiopian dish.
If there were a fox boy who were to take kitfo as his rapper name, he would hav...
... or ... the king of the kitchen at least.
And here is a magnificent Baldwin apple.
Three of them alone made a pie that's several inches deep. The hills and valleys of its mighty crust put the Badlands of South Dakota to shame.
So, I thought "kitfo" sounded like a fox boy's rapper name, but really it's a delicious-sounding Ethiopian dish.
If there were a fox boy who were to take kitfo as his rapper name, he would hav...
milkweed Ishmael
All her sisters have departed. She is alone in the coracle.
I alone remain to tell the tale
Call me Ishmael
(Laurie Anderson, "Blue Lagoon")
I alone remain to tell the tale
Call me Ishmael
(Laurie Anderson, "Blue Lagoon")
October 22, 2012
milkweed maidens
Many sisters, huddled in a coracle.
The wind rises and they take to the air, brown-faced fairy princesses, adventurers, in white gowns of the finest, softest gossamer.
The wind rises and they take to the air, brown-faced fairy princesses, adventurers, in white gowns of the finest, softest gossamer.
October 21, 2012
I went traveling this weekend It's the fall part of autum...
I went traveling this weekend
It's the fall part of autumn now, with the air everywhere filled with leaves--above the highways, glittering dazzles of them. And soon, as I was remarking to
sovay
, there will be invincible mobs of them roaming the street, swaggering, taunting creatures of flesh and bone, tearing off at incredible speeds, sounding...
It's the fall part of autumn now, with the air everywhere filled with leaves--above the highways, glittering dazzles of them. And soon, as I was remarking to
sovay
, there will be invincible mobs of them roaming the street, swaggering, taunting creatures of flesh and bone, tearing off at incredible speeds, sounding...
October 19, 2012
The value of a smile
A Tumblr blogger (blog here) from the Netherlands wants to get a smile from every country in the world. He writes
A smile costs nothing, but it means much.
It enriches those who receives it and doesn't make poor the person who gives it.
Though a smile may be given only once, the memory of it may last forever.
The rich cannot survive without a smile, the poor cannot get rich because its comfort.
A smile creates happiness to everyone and everywhere. It’s a sensitive sign of friendship, goodwill and...
October 18, 2012
and at the high school
The latest intel from the high school main office, from Operative Asakiyume.
It's bustling at 7:15, everyone arriving.
A girl has a pink volleyball poster. Mrs. D, the receptionist, gives her some bright pink sharpies to use to finish the poster. "Don't let these go," she says. The girl says she won't, says she has some other markers to use, too, that she's meeting so-and-so at second lunch to finish the poster. [poster has since been finished: I saw it on the town common, advertising a volley...
It's bustling at 7:15, everyone arriving.
A girl has a pink volleyball poster. Mrs. D, the receptionist, gives her some bright pink sharpies to use to finish the poster. "Don't let these go," she says. The girl says she won't, says she has some other markers to use, too, that she's meeting so-and-so at second lunch to finish the poster. [poster has since been finished: I saw it on the town common, advertising a volley...
