10.25.2013

Think Different.

"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? We make tools for these kinds of people.While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

10.07.2013

"Lute Music" by Kenneth Rexroth

The earth will be going a long time
Before it finally freezes;
Men will be on it; they will take names,
Give their deeds reasons.
We will be here only
As chemical constituents--
A small franchise indeed.
Right now we have lives,
Corpuscles, ambitions, caresses,
Like everybody had once--
All the bright neige d'antan people,
"Blithe Helen, white Iope, and the rest,"
All the uneasy remembered dead.

Here are the year's end, at the feast
Of birth, let us bring to each other
The gifts brought once west through deserts--
The precious metal of our mingled hair,
The frankincense of enraptured arms and legs,
The myrrh of desperate invincible kisses--
Let us celebrate the daily
Recurrent nativity of love,
The endless epiphany of our fluent selves,
While the earth rolls away under us
Into unknown snows and summers,
Into untraveled spaces of the stars.

Just a little poetry to start your Monday morning.

10.01.2013

Pink October


Today marks the beginning of October! I'll make a list of why October is by far one of the better months of the year (giving you the stink eye, January and March), but for now I want to remind you all that it is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So wear pink, sport those ribbons, and help fund research for something important.