"Bond and Free" - Robert Frost

BOND AND FREE

Love has earth to which she clings

With hills and circling arms about---

Wall within wall to shut fear out.

But Thought has need of no such things,

For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings.

On snow and sand and turf, I see

Where Love has left a printed trace

With straining in the world's embrace.

And such is Love and glad to be.

But Thought has shaken his ankles free.

Thought cleaves the interstellar gloom

And sits in Sirius' disc all night,

Till day makes him retrace his flight,

With smell of burning on every plume,

Back past the sun to an earthly room.

His gains in heaven are what they are. 

Yet some say Love by being thrall

And simply staying possesses all

In several beauty that Thought fares far

To find fused in another star.

reLENTless

Go big or go home.

Or...

try something different?

My goals for Lent were a bit ambitious. A lot ambitious. I only lasted about 34 hours.
I'll let you guess which one of those resolutions I broke first.

But I don't feel to bad about it. I'm not Catholic anyway.

Instead of finding a new way to deprive myself, I'm just going to try and be better person. So I made some new resolutions that I'm mostly going to keep to myself. Except for this one. We had a lesson about morality in institute. I know, I know. But it was actually a really good lesson!

There are a lot of negative influences that we can't avoid. It's not a matter of choice, they are just always there. We'll think of those influences as pollution or second hand smoke. The only way to 100% escape those influences is to totally separate yourself from the world and become a reclusive hermit.

But other things are choices. We choose what media we'll "ingest". We choose (for the most part) how we'll use our bodies. We choose how we'll react to situations that are out of our control. When we choose something that's wrong, it's like doing double-damage. It's like choosing to light up a cigarette in an already smoke-filled room.

ANYWAY.
Starting today, I'm really going to try and be more discerning about my choices. I haven't set any real hard rules about it, except I'm not allowed to watch Gossip Girl, Glee, or New Girl. I have a destructive relationship with those three shows, and I need it to stop.

I know guys. I'm really sad about it too. But we're just not good for each other.

Don't worry! I'm going to watch Psych instead because it is popular, innoffensive, funny, and uncomplicated.

Oh boy.

Too good.

I am now addicted to THESE:

They are too good to be true. I ate a whole package in one sitting and thought, 

"Oh no! The whole package?!? That's sixty calories!!!!"

And then I remembered. 60 calories is not much at all.

But these little guys are not cheap. 

So if anyone would send some my way, I'd be most appreciative.

"A dream pang" - Robert Frost

Listen

A DREAM PANG

I had withdrawn in forest, and my song

Was swallowed up in leaves that blew away;

And to the forest edge you came one day

(This was my dream) and looked and pondered long,

But did not enter, though the wish was strong:

You shook your pensive head as who should say,

"I dare not---too far in his footsteps stray---

He must seek me would he undo the wrong."

Not far, but near, I stood and saw it all

Behind low boughs the trees let down outside;

And the sweet pang it cost me not to call

And tell you that I saw does still abide.

But 'tis not true that thus I dwelt aloof,

For the wood wakes, and you are here for proof.

It's a date.

I'm all about Tennis right now.

"We could be good but we don't live the way that we should
Constantly told we're imperfect and cannot be good
Tired of waiting around for you to intervene
Tired of wishing that you even knew what I mean."

Hey you. Consider this an intervention. 

Tennis will be playing at Urban Lounge on April 24th. 

We are going.

LENT: Let's crank it up a notch.

Hello my fellow penitents,

Last year for Lent, I gave up Facebook. It didn't quite have the affect I had hoped for. I replaced one time-waster with another, spending countless hour on Hype Machine, the Huffington Post, and making never-to-be-fulfilled wishlists on the Anthropologie and J. Crew websites. So this year, I'm going to crank it up a notch.

1. I will stop eating bad stuff. Nothing fried, no added sugar, and no foods with ingredients whose names I cannot pronounce. BUT...I will be allowed to eat whatevs I want on Sunday. I'd say that's pretty reasonable.

2. I will stop sleeping by waking up at 7:00 every weekday morning. Ew.


3. I will stop flipping off inanimate objects.
Let me explain. Most of the time, I think flipping stuff off is funny. I guess I've been desensitized after laughing through this show and going to Real Salt Lake games. But there have been a couple times where I was the recipient of a ...bird flipping? And it was not funny at all. I actually felt very embarrassed and wanted to cry. Yep. I cry when people get mad at me. It doesn't happen often. Anyway, now that I'm an adult, I need to be a little more appropriate. I commonly flip off:
- treacherous, icy sidewalks
- stoplights that refuse to turn green
- MY COMPUTER. Like, all the time
But I'm worried this habit will become so engrained into my character, that it will cross over to real life. Even though flipping the bird makes me feel careless and edgy, I need to find a suitable substitute.

Hope your Lent is a thoughtful one!

"Revelation" - Robert Frost

REVELATION

We make ourselves a place apart

     Behind light words that tease and flout,

But oh, the agitated heart

     Til someone find us really out.

'Tis pity if the case require

     (Or so we say) that in the end

We speak the literal to inspire

     The understanding of a friend.

But with all, from babes that play

     At hide-and-seek to God afar,

So all who hide too well away

     Must speak and tell us where they are.