Poetry Friday

If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one Pain

Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in Vain

More Random Thoughts

This journal entry comes from 7/14/05.  

“Can we go to the Dollar Store first?”  Tobi and I are sitting at Burger King – at the black rubber coated mesh table.  She is slurping the last bits of frozen Coke from the bottom of her Fantastic Four cup.  Will has found a playmate and they are having fun climbing up and sliding down the many ladders and slides of the  plastic King’s Castle.  I remember when this play area was made of metal and towered over the building.  The ladder inside the vertical tunnel made a great hiding place when I was younger, and an even better place to sneak a kiss when I was a teenager.  Today I sit and listen to my kids as they play bury-the-new-happy-meal-toy-and-go-seek.  I brought my new book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon and read the first 13 chapters.  Well, sort of.  When I got to the page with the large number 13 at the top I thought, “I can’t believe I’ve read 13 chapters already.”  That is when I noticed that the chapters were numbered by prime numbers (i.e. 2,3,7,11,13).  So, I’m actually only on the 6th chapter. I guess that is what happens when the main character is autistic.  

I’d love to stay and read, but we have much to do before we rest.

Angela’s Word of the Day

er⋅u⋅dite

[er-yoo-dahyt, er-oo-] 

–adjective 

characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly: an erudite professor; an erudite commentary.

Random Thoughts – taken from my journals.

Today I pulled out my journal from 2005. These random thoughts were written on the plane ride home from Walloon Institute in Lake Placid, New York.

One thing that seems to resonate for me from all of the sessions and speeches and conversations is that we need to stop avoiding difficult topics and conversations. We need to be willing to open a discussion about things that are difficult to discuss. We need to LISTEN to each other.

The view out my window is mind numbing. I can’t concentrate on my reflections with the lights and darks of the cities down below. I want to know what the cities are. Is it NYC? How far do the lights go? Some of the lights seem to be floating above the ground. I can still see the sunlight on the horizon, but there is darkness down below. WOW!

Wordless Wednesday

 

New Beginnings

Every day is a new beginning. Every morning we wake up to a new day. We wake up to an opportunity to begin again. It is up to us to decide whether this day will be a new beginning or a continuation of the day before. Today I have decided to begin again. I have decided to freshen up the appearance of this blog and seize the opportunity to begin again. Today I will begin again to share my thoughts with the world.