Sunday, March 27, 2011

MArch 27, 2011


·       Websites of the week





·       The culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor

·       Quotes of the week

“He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.”
Japanese Proverb
on Extravagance

“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
Alfred Emanuel Smith
on Democracy

“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.”
Joanne Woodward
on Marriage

·       Poem of the Week

"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching out toward expression, an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the word." Robert Frost

Acquainted with the Night

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain – and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
A luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.

·       Song of the Week

The Island - Loggins, Messina & Kaapana