This is one of Shakespeare’s most well loved sonnets and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it is my current favorite as well. Typically analysis of this poem overall takes the incredibly literal approach to the content in saying that Shakespeare is saying that this one woman’s beauty is eternal and will never fade away because he has written … Continue reading Classics: “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”
This is a personal favorite of mine. I don’t know if it was the images of trees breaking through the ruins I was thinking about when I was writing The Old Broken House With The Tree Growing Through It instead of sleeping last night or something else but this morning I awoke with these old … Continue reading Classics: The Road Not Taken
This week I did something I haven’t done at all in almost 16 months with more ease than I’ve been able to do it in for more than 4 years: I stood up on my one leg and a prosthetic and I walked. If you don’t have any major health issues, disability, or problems with … Continue reading Perspective Taking
This isn’t a game of Go Fish… This is Chess. Pawns will be sacrificed, and as many other pieces as is necessary for that matter, in order for me to be the Queen of this battle… ~First uttered by me I’m not sure when. This ism is my current favorite. And, honestly, how could it … Continue reading Gwenism #2
Don’t live with regrets For a lifetime for things that Take moments to say ⁂ Haiku originally published 19 September 2018 Continue reading Don’t live with regrets
If you’ve been reading the last couple Sound of My Day posts from the last couple weeks, you’ve by now realized that I’m hitting my favorite songs from one of my all time favorite albums ever and the artist happens to be Norah Jones. You all know that feeling you get when you can only … Continue reading “One Flight Down” ~ The Sound of My Day
Resilience. This is a word that keeps coming back to me but not because I say it to or about myself, rather because there’s a very small handful of those who keep saying it is a quality I possess in great supply. To be honest, I have a difficult time hearing this word applied to … Continue reading Resilience
This piece was originally published 960 days ago, WAAAAAAY before Covid-19 was a worldwide pandemic sort of thing and therefore WAAAAAAAY before all y’all learned what it is like for people with disabilities, chronic illnesses, or a long recovery from an illness or injury by being locked up in the same 4 walls for weeks … Continue reading Groundhog Day (or Covid-19 Quarantining for Dummies)
there is something delightful about knowing you’re beautiful to look at, but there is something even more delightful about knowing you’re a ravishing soul. “She accepts your compliments on her face, her hair, and her body graciously— and she is, indeed, beautiful. But she is only moved when you notice the beauty of … Continue reading “lady, i will touch you with my mind” ⁂ e.e. cummings: modern classics
When the Europeans came to the continent (by “the continent” I mean North America), they brought with them everything they could conceive of needing, including sources of food, because they were leaving everything behind and needed to be assured they would have what they needed to survive. And who could blame them? I’m fairly certain … Continue reading Be the Buffalo: History with a Point
