a Robert Frost quote

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. 

Robert Frost

August 1, 1915: Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken was first published in the Atlantic Monthly 100 years ago today. While the poem works as a metaphor for the weight we put on turning points in our lives, Frost later insisted the verses were simply inspired by a literal walk in the woods.

i love a lot of Robert Frost's poems, 

Mending Wall, 
The Road Not Taken, 
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

 - to name three favorites.

A Goodread quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

 

Ursula K. Le Guin

October 21, 1929: Happy 84th birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin! The pioneering fantasy writer's parents were also respected writers. Her mother, Theodora Kroeber, wrote a popular book about Ishi, then thought to be the last member of the Native American Yahi tribe.

I read a lot of books written by her.  Her EarthSea tales, i especially like the left hand of darkness ....Love indeed has to change, all the time.  It must grow, less it stagnate.

A Colossal Thought

Are you a reader? I am.  I read lots of stuff, i think i have mentioned before, from the sublime to the ridiculous, all of them interesting.

i  read for the fun of it, and i come by this love of reading from both sides of the family.  My Mom's family are readers and they have tons of books.  Unfortunately though, the floods in the Sampaloc area during those times have destroyed some of them.  From my Dad's side are all prodigious readers, and all the family have libraries.  Some of those books have been given away.

i must have read over a 1000 books, and i havent included the romance books i read in High School, or numerous Peanuts, and my collection of Calvin and Hobbes.

i try and read all of Neil Gaiman's, and i have a favorite one.

i have books on Socrates, Plato, St. Augustine, and Descartes. I also have books on Lemony Snicket ... and whodunnits galore (Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, The Cat Who series by Lilian Braun..... and more).

i tend to love fantasy and sci-fi so I have Tolkien, Asimov, StarTrek (TOS, of course), Ray Bradbury, Clarke, and one of the books i love is by Madeleine L'Engle. She wrote A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet .... as a cover of one of those books is supposedly a seraphim.  Yes, and the art work -- see the link --- depicted reminds me of that.

you do remember what seraphims are, right?

Click here for an interesting peek at surreal-wildlife-paintings-by-tiffany-bozic/?src=footer

a 3d pen - for all you who love to doodle

would you want to own a 3d doodle pen?

click on the link below for details.  

if i remember right,  Neil Gaiman also mentioned the kickstarter campaign, for an artist who wanted to animate his short story "The Price".  i think. if memory serves.  i have had 3 full-on unconscious surgeries, which i am told ... affect memories...  whatever.  you can check Neil's blog.

i wasnt able to contribute then, but the project was a success!

here's a chance to help kickstart a project.  who knows ... maybe one day you will have a project to kickstart..  the Colossal page also brings you to the Kickstart site.  it doesnt have to a big amount, but it does have to be in $$$$$$$

Click here all ye doodlers Colossal.com/2013/02/the-worlds-first-3d-printing-pen-that-lets-you-draw-sculptures-in-real-time/?src=footer

Goodreads quote for Wednesday, 27 February

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. 


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
February 27, 1807: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s greatest achievement? Becoming the first American writer to earn a living from royalties! He was born 205 years ago today.