Monday, November 28, 2011

Three Kinds of Buzzing Insects

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THREE KINDS OF BUZZING INSECTS

I don’t know why I thought I would be a good beekeeper. But once I read the classified ad that offered a complete beekeeping setup for one hundred dollars, I was hooked.

I plunked down the money and got bee boxes, a bee suit, and a beekeeping helmet. Now all I needed was the bees. Believe it or not, you can order bees through the mail, and you pick them up at your local post office. It was a small box filled with bees, and a special holding area just for the queen. I picked it up at the post office and started my beekeeping adventures.

It really isn’t hard to do, since the bees do all the work and you can harvest the honey of their labors. However, gathering the honey is something that was beyond me. Every time I tried to get to some of the golden nectar, I was repeated stung.

As secure as you try to make the outfit, the little stingers find a way in, even if you have tried to quiet them down with a little smoke.

I guess smoke makes them worried about a fire close buy, so they hunker down and act a little less frantic. I wish I had video footage of me running from the backyard to the front slapping myself in the various places I was being stung.

I finally was able to harvest some honeycomb, but had no idea how to extract the honey. I kind of sucked some honey out of the waxy honeycomb, and even chewed on a little of the sweet wax. But that was the only production from my beekeeping efforts, and I was such a bad beekeeper that either all the bees died by the next year, or they got tired of stinging me and left for sweeter pastures.

Another stinging insect I encountered resided in the hills behind my home. I have admired the mountains behind Springville for several years, and they have a beautiful ruggedness that calls for someone to climb them.

I was only wearing jogging shoes, and I guess I was thinking there would be a beaten path all the way to the top. But surprisingly few people have ever climbed any but the most popular mountain trails around here, and I doubt fewer than a hundred have climbed where I went. The top of the mountain is called Mt. Buckley, but I went sideways up the mountain from the subdivision above us.

This route probably added miles to the hike, but it allowed me to go up the mountain through a wide pass I had been looking at for years from my backyard. From my house it looked like there was a five foot tree in the middle of the pass, but when I got to it I realized this tree was more than 30 feet tall and about 50 feet around. I have no idea how long it had to be growing there in that dry wash to reach that size.

As I climbed the ridgeline looking for places to climb higher which didn't require scaling cliffs, I passed by an amazing hillside. The dirt had sloughed off onto the mountain below and there was a wide and a long bar of dirt facing south. It must have been fifty to seventy-five feet tall, and over 200 feet long.

But the most amazing thing about it was that it was completely inhabited with thousands or perhaps millions of wasps. We have had wasp problems at my house for years, and I used to try to eliminate them. Now I just tolerate them unless they are building nests on the porch. There is no way we will ever be rid of wasps there, because buzzing in front of me was the mother lode. None of them bothered me, and I determined not to bother them by hiking up a little higher before I went farther north.

Along the way I encountered a beautiful meadow full of yellow flowers and one huge plant with hundreds of bumblebee-like insects buzzing around it. They were huge, and I was seriously tempted to touch them, just to see if they were real. I couldn't resist, and so I put my hand up to the plant and the bees climbed on my hand and flew around my body. They didn't seem threatened, since I doubt they had ever had many encounters with humans at all. We were two hours away from the nearest other human, and all they did was buzz around me and crawl on my hands. I don't know what I would have done if they had stung me and I had suffered from an allergic reaction.

I think I like wild flying insects better than the domesticated kind.


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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Abundance Betterment Nov 20

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Rat Race by Dane Allred

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Rat Race

by Dane Allred

Getting better’s overrated
Usually, it’s overstated
When I get better
So do you
And then I have some more to do.

This endless cycle of better and best
Puts even the best of us to the test.

When does this rat race ever stop?
Why won’t you quit? So I can drop
My act about my betterment
And just enjoy retirement?

I will quit if you will, too.
What’s that? You have more to do?
Let’s get back on this treadmill fast
And hope our feets and shoes will last.

Rats? Ready? Set? Go!



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Betterment by Dane Allred

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Betterment

by Dane Allred


Can’t we all be getting better all the time?

Does someone have to fail so I can succeed?

Does your world view include winners and losers;
Those who succeed and those who never had a chance?

It’s too bad we don’t remember more about the Bright Space.
That place we were, before we were here.

Remember?
I knew you, and everyone who has ever lived,
Or will ever live.

I recognize you, and feel that spark of familiarity
That feeling we have met before
That we spent time together in that wonderful light
Of the Bright Space.

We knew we needed to have a life of our own here.
It was the only way to learn all we needed to learn.
It was the way this universe would experience itself
Through you
And through me.

But now that we are here,
That veil of forgetfulness clouds our thinking,
And we imagine we are all separate,
Alone and away from each other,
Wandering in our own worlds.

There really is only this world.
This time when you and I happen to be here together.
We are here to succeed
To strive and to try,
To fail and get back up
And try again.

And we are here to help each other.

How sad this universe would be if there was just me
Or just you.

We would miss the chance to meet each other again
To struggle to remember how we know each other,
To try to remember we are here for each other
Because we are all trying to experience the world in
Our own way,
Get our own experience,
Find our own path,
And help complete this universe’s attempt to experience itself.

How can there be winners and losers when we are
All here on the same mission?

To find out all there is to know
To return and complete this circle of knowledge?

Maybe you are here to help me find my way.

Isn’t it great we are here together today?



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Friday, November 25, 2011

Film Follies

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FILM FOLLIES



None of the film stories I'm about to relate have any sort of injury involved, so for the squeamish this may be your favorite part. If you have sadistic tendencies and have been enjoying the details of my pain and suffering, you may want to skip this section.

I decided late in life to start my cinema career. Early on I had gone to Suzy McCarty as an 18 year old, and she quite correctly told me there were way too many 18 year olds who wanted to be in films in her agency already. So I waited until I was 38, and then I started looking for film work.

I was working as an extra for a woman named Elizabeth and I can't recall the agency, but she did get me lots of jobs as extras in locally filmed TV commercials, television series and even some nationally released movies.

I recall one of the first films I worked on was called "Divided by Hate". It was directed by and starred Tom Skerrit, who decided like many others that Utah was a great place to film for not much money.

Where else could you get idiots like us, who were willing to show up and play cops and even do some of our own high speed stunts. I'm not kidding. We were a group of police trying to get a fundamentalist preacher out of his house, and for some reason this called for us to drive down a dirt road at seventy miles per hour while only feet from the bumper of the car in front of us. My car even caught on fire as the bubblegum machines used for my cop car were wired wrong.

We did get to see some cool explosions, and I was even mistaken for a real cop as someone pulled up delivering some bottled water for the cast and crew.

You really don't understand the power you feel in a uniform until you are dressed like a fake cop and someone asks your permission to park their car. In the middle of a field. Just until the water was delivered.

There were reasons for me to explain to this delivery person that I wasn't really a cop, and that he really didn't need to ask me for permission to park, especially in the middle of a field in Payson.

But the easy way out of this was to just tell him it was all right. It was a great feeling, and I didn't even have to fire my fake gun.

We must have looked imposing because there were about 15 of us fake officers standing around. The extra-coordinator decided we looked tough enough that she convinced someone to take a picture of us surrounding her. She told us to look mean, and aspiring extras that we were, we did our best to look surly. After the picture, she wrote a note on the Polaroid to her ex, stating that these guys would have something to say to him if he ever bothered her again.

I hope she mailed it.

This was an eye-opening event in my life, and besides the boredom of sitting around for most of the twelve hours the standard contract calls for you to be there, I was learning all kinds of new things. Like the way to get the birds in the tree quiet for filming was to shoot some blank shotgun shells next to the tree.

They would be quiet for a second and then start chirping again, usually after the scene was shot.

I got my first big break in this film as I was called back for second day of shooting over by the Scera pool in Orem. This time I was one of the guards, and I was to look tough guarding one of the non-descript doors to the compound. That was how the cinematographer shot it. When Tom Skerrit realized how boring the scene was, he directed me to be tying my shoe until he showed up at the door, whereupon I was to snap to attention. I thought it was a much better shot.

I even got to play the vice-principal once at my old high school, which would be disturbing to the vice-principal who was there when I was a student.

I sat in the former offices where I had done announcements as a senior, I looked up my father, my aunts and my uncles in the old yearbooks they had brought in for props. I laid the books out on the table and took a picture.

It’s a sweet memory from a place that no longer exists. A property improvement is now in the place of that old high school. I don’t know if I think it is better. Maybe just different.


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Sonnet Sixty-five by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet Sixty-five


Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
O fearful meditation! Where, alack,
Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid?
Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?
Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
O, none, unless this miracle have might,
That in black ink my love may still shine bright.



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Sonnet Sixty-four by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet Sixty-four


When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.



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Sonnet Sixty-three by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet Sixty-three


Against my love shall be, as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'er-worn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night,
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing or vanish'd out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify
Against confounding age's cruel knife,
That he shall never cut from memory
My sweet love's beauty, though my lover's life:
His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,
And they shall live, and he in them still green.



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Sonnet Sixty-two by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet Sixty-two


Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
And all my soul and all my every part;
And for this sin there is no remedy,
It is so grounded inward in my heart.
Methinks no face so gracious is as mine,
No shape so true, no truth of such account;
And for myself mine own worth do define,
As I all other in all worths surmount.
But when my glass shows me myself indeed,
Beated and chopp'd with tann'd antiquity,
Mine own self-love quite contrary I read;
Self so self-loving were iniquity.
'Tis thee, myself, that for myself I praise,
Painting my age with beauty of thy days.


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Monday, November 21, 2011

Sonnet Sixty-one by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet Sixty-one


Is it thy will thy image should keep open
My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee
So far from home into my deeds to pry,
To find out shames and idle hours in me,
The scope and tenor of thy jealousy?
O, no! Thy love, though much, is not so great:
It is my love that keeps mine eye awake;
Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,
To play the watchman ever for thy sake:
For thee watch I whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
From me far off, with others all too near.


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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Broken and Bloody

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BROKEN AND BLOODY



I must have learned something about falling while I was in "The Desperate Hours". In this show, my job was to appear with a gun and as I was drawing my weapon to shoot the invaders, get shot and have to collapse as I did a forward roll down three wooden stairs. Then after landing face down on the floor, I would reach up and puncture a blood pack under my shirt and then be escorted out the house moments later with blood running down my chest and dripping between my fingers.

It was a pretty dramatic scene, but I found after playing this role that I really didn't like playing ingénues. While it is fun to be the love interest, there really isn't much challenge. I guess all of my experience falling during my formative years must have helped me stay uninjured during the show. Even though I repeatedly flew head over heels down the lightly padded wooden stairs, I never remember getting any bruises from the stair somersaults.

My luck wasn't always so good in college. I still have a kink in my neck from playing some pickup soccer. I really hadn't played that much, but there must have been someone I was trying to impress because I jumped up to save my side from a possible goal by kicking wildly in the air. The problem became evident when I landed on my neck. Then I decided soccer wasn't my game.

The only other problem I remember from Utah State was that I was getting a lot of roles as old men. Egeus (Hermia's father) in Midsummer Night's Dream and Fender in the Bespoke Overcoat. Egeus doesn't get what he wants, which is for Hermia to marry Demetrius. The funny thing is that both of these actors were at least three years older than I was. Fender was so old that he dies during the play. Luckily, I get to come back in that show and get the coat I've already paid for. But the future didn't look bright. I was playing characters who were so old they died of old age in the show. I began hunching over and walking slowly at times when I didn't need to, and one day as I was walking to the dorms, I noticed I was hobbling across the lawn like I was ninety. I stopped and looked around to see if anyone was looking. Then, just in case someone was watching, I ran the rest of the way. I’ve already told you about injuring my ankle playing a jester at a Tupperware convention. I made twenty-five dollars, but injured myself yet again.

After getting an ankle cast, I also got to see how fast I could run with one ankle immobilized. I made the mistake of showing my wife her birthday present before her birthday, and she grabbed it and ran down the street, pretending to open it. I think I believed she would actually open it since she had confessed to opening her Christmas presents early as a little girl and then carefully rewrapping them. I ran after her as fast as I could hobble, and as she ran faster, I tried to run faster, too. The cast broke right at the ankle as I grabbed the present and her.

The recasting of the ankle didn't get properly billed from the old Budge clinic and my wife and I got our first taste of a credit report problem. After I found out there was a problem I went and paid the bill which stopped my wife from opening her present early - - only ninety dollars.

Even when I do something as non-threatening as trying to start a tiller when I’m gardening, I usually find some way to injure myself.

Just this week I was trying to get the old Sears tiller started up. It was working just last week, and I was able to get some good tilling done. But when I tried to start it yesterday, it wouldn’t start. I’m pretty stubborn, so I like to keep trying when most people would have had the sense to stop.

The more I pulled, the more I wanted it to start. But it just sat there mocking me. As I got more worn from pulling the rope, I started to get careless.

This tiller has a handle that curves back to the front, and there is supposed to be a cap on the pipe handle. Of course, it was missing, and when I pulled hard but kind of sloppy, I rammed the back of my hand into the pipe. I scraped my hand pretty hard from the wrist to my index finger.

It’s okay. I’ve had fake blood run between my fingers. It hurts less than the real thing.


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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Abundance Zeniths October 28








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Thursday, November 3, 2011

The Declaration of Indepedence

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The Declaration of Independence


IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.


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The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton

Column 2
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton

Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean

Column 5
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark

Column 6
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Sonnet Sixty by Wiliiam Shakespeare

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Sonnet Sixty


Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,
Crooked elipses 'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand,
Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.


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Sonnet Fifty-nine by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet Fifty-nine


If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguiled,
Which, laboring for invention, bear amiss
The second burden of a former child!
O, that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done!
That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your frame;
Whether we are mended, or whether better they,
Or whether revolution be the same.
O, sure I am, the wits of former days
To subjects worse have given admiring praise.



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Sonnet Fifty-eight by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet Fifty-eight


That God forbid that made me first your slave,
I should in thought control your times of pleasure,
Or at your hand the account of hours to crave,
Being your vassal, bound to stay your leisure!
O, let me suffer, being at your beck,
The imprison'd absence of your liberty;
And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each cheque,
Without accusing you of injury.
Be where you list, your charter is so strong
That you yourself may privilege your time
To what you will; to you it doth belong
Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime.
I am to wait, though waiting so be hell;
Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well.

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Sonnet Fifty-seven by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet Fifty-seven


Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
Nor services to do, till you require.
Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour
When you have bid your servant once adieu;
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are how happy you make those.
So true a fool is love that in your will,
Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill.


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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Sonnet Fifty-six by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet Fifty-six
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,
To-morrow sharpen'd in his former might:
So, love, be thou; although to-day thou fill
Thy hungry eyes even till they wink with fullness,
To-morrow see again, and do not kill
The spirit of love with a perpetual dullness.
Let this sad interim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore, where two contracted new
Come daily to the banks, that, when they see
Return of love, more blest may be the view;
Else call it winter, which being full of care
Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.


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Everest by Dane Allred

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Everest
by Dane Allred

If you climb and never rest
Until you’ve climbed your Everest
When you climb down with the rest
How long before another test?

At the peak you’re at your best
You have finally reached the crest.
But if we ask, if you’re pressed
How long before another quest?

Get up and go get dressed.
We are unimpressed.


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