Posted in Thought for the week, tagged Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within”
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients with her book On Death and Dying and later as [...]
Posted in Word of the week, tagged Funky on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Funky (adjective)
Pronunciation: ['fung-kee]
Definition: (1) Cowardly (1837 Dickens), (2) depressed, or (3) smelling of old and moldy cheese. The November 1954 issue of Time Magazine referred to “Funky, authentic, swinging blues, down to earth, smelling of earth.” Today its meaning is very diffuse but is, roughly: authentic, less than fresh, earthy, in the broadest senses of [...]
Posted in Poem of the Week, tagged leisure, William Henry Davies on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Leisure
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No [...]
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