33 posts tagged with "living"

As a teenager — and perhaps beyond — I thought I might achieve some great thing in this world. I wished for recognition, aspired for greatness and some exalted place, to strive with Tennyson's gods...

Death closes all: but something ere the end
Some work of noble note, may yet be done
Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.

We're now 85% unpacked, though the place is still a mess. Just got library cards and using a public library Internet Station for the first time ever, very exciting you know. So if anyone's reading, other than the viagra and cialis spam-bots (they flood old blog entries with spurious spam comments), drop me a line and say hello. My Austin mobile number is still good. If you don't have it, send me an e-mail. Oh, and the weather has been gorgeous =).

Perhaps tomorrow or another day soon I shall extol with melodrama on the virtues of blogging and my sudden embrace of the medium. But not this day. This day I shall speak of loss and of hope.

I am by nature a Stoic. Thus it is not often that I shed a few tears twice in 24 hours.