September 23rd, 2011 → 3:19 am
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” – Sonnet 18
I had to wear a jacket yesterday, for the first time in months. It is definitely getting cold out. Bummer.
September 21st, 2011 → 6:37 am
“I love long life better than figs.” – Antony and Cleopatra
This quote seems a little odd, until you realize that in ancient times “fig” had a sexual connotation. Aristophanes, for example, in Peace wrote: “Pick your figs. May his be large and hard. May hers be sweet.” On that note, the choice between a long life and figs can indeed seem like something of a toss-up.
Filed under: Blog & Literature/Theatre/Art & Other
September 19th, 2011 → 8:35 am
“I could endure anything before but a cat.” – All’s Well that Ends Well
Apparently Shakespeare was not at all fond of cats, which is too bad, because I love them. I guess this marks my second disagreement now with the great bard (though, like the first disagreement on economics, I can certainly come up with a twist that brings us closer together: think feral cats of the 16th century). Since my husband and baby have been away all week, my cat NoMe and I have been comforting each other and cuddling at all hours of the day, in all rooms of the house. We’re thick as thieves right now…
Filed under: Blog & Self/My Life
September 15th, 2011 → 7:23 am
“This must my comfort be,
That sun that warms you here shall shine on me.” – Richard II
My husband took my baby and flew off to Nevada to visit his brother. So I’m home alone.
It’s scary quiet in here…
Filed under: Blog & Self/My Life
September 11th, 2011 → 7:55 am
“One for all or all for one we gage.” – Lucrece
On this 10th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy I feel a strong comradery with my fellow Americans. One for all and all for one! – if we can just stick together, work together, and look out for each other, we can do anything. I know it.
September 9th, 2011 → 6:08 am
“Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?” – Macbeth
Sometimes life just gets to me and I feel blue. I wish there were a way to minister to this heartache of the mind, except to simply wait and let time pass….
Filed under: Blog & Self/My Life
September 5th, 2011 → 8:30 am
“O how full of briars is this working-day world!” – As You Like It
Last Friday’s jobs report came out and it’s not good. Over 6 million people in the U.S. are unemployed and have been for 6 months or more. Some report that things are even worse than this report from the Labor Department suggests. It is a very, very tough working-day world out there right now.
Filed under: Blog & Economics/Money
September 2nd, 2011 → 5:25 am
“…where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuff’d brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.” – Romeo and Juliet
I’ve been having trouble sleeping again lately, though when I get up in the middle of the night and shuffle to my baby’s crib, at least he is sleeping soundly. It seems that Shakespeare must have had some sleep issues as well because I can find a number of quotes from him about sleeplessness and tormented dreams. Here’s to the insomniacs among us!
Filed under: Blog & Self/My Life