"Men should be as they seem / Or those that be not, would they might seem none"

Oda al Otoño

It's a great day to be alive

...Sometimes I'm falling, desperately calling, howling at the moon...

Darrell Scott

Today...

"...self control became not just having restraint, grace, and determination enough to NOT do something, but having commitment, perseverance, and loyalty TO do something."

-Me

Sideways Station

"poems, other noises and thoughts that walk through my brain without knocking."

http://www.sidewaysstation.com/

I'll keep saying...

how lucky we are
oh oh ohh
how lucky we are
oh oh ohh
how lucky we are
oh oh ohh
how lucky we are

crudissimo

Hanging By A Moment

Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started
Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you

Forgetting all I'm lacking
Completely incomplete
I'll take your invitation
You take all of me now...

Lifehouse

AA

"God's grace is just like rain, falling on the just and the unjust."

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!


--Rudyard Kipling--

Ode to a Title

You dream of colors that have never been made

You imagine the songs that have never been played

They will try to buy you and your mind

Only the curious have something to find

...

Nickel Creek - This Side

Regretfully Honest

"I am a danger I guess

I should have did something about my anger

But I never learn, real things I don't concern

I pour kerosene on everything I love and watch it burn"

T.I. - At The Bar

The Ultimate Rivalry

This is perhaps one of the best, most well-crafted army vs. navy spirit spot videos ever produced... and it's for the wrong side! GO NAVY! BEAT ARMY!

Watch and enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K78zNtO_EFQ&feature=related