She walked down a grey lane
at two in the morning.
The fog put an illusion over everything,
turning trees to people,
and crows to nothing
but fleeting shadows.
Slowly a cold husk of a prison appeared,
a place where withering people
are led by the blind.
She shivered, buttoned her coat
and walked on,
listening to the ice
being crushed under her feet.
Thoughts raced through her mind.
She dreamed songs
She felt color.
She knew more than most,
and she spoke things other people couldn't hear.
She saw feelings,
touched them with her hands.
She was a pensive person in an empty land.
Streetlamps bathed the frosted ground.
She didn't see light when she looked there,
she saw time,
she saw memories being erased,
and pain being created.
In night she saw day,
and in day,
she saw night.
She saw red veins in walls
and fierce glow emanating from rooftops.
The longest falls were nothing.
She could fly.
Sound moved her,
and music gave her being.
Life was different to her,
she didn't belong in the world she was in.
The destination she set out to reach
loomed into view.
She walked towards it and paused.
A man without a face,
without expression
stood there.
He held out his hand.
She asked his name.
He replied,
"Thought"
Her eyes lit up
small glass panes inside her,
reflected a knowing, and spontaneity,
an escape.
She turned her face to the cellophane sky.
It had always seemed so superfluous.
The clouds told stories that taught nothing but whim.
She reached up her hands,
and the fragile sky shattered,
sending down a shower
of fervently dancing colors.
Returning her gaze,
to the serene eyes of thought,
the answer was made clear.
She smiled in her head
at the efforts of others,
who desperately seek,
the peace they won't find.
She turned on her heel,
and set off to the unknown
ready to change the world,
ready to awe people
with revolution.
Her eyes reflected the rising sun
the frost was melting
along with the world.
The green of the trees mixed
with the black of her path
Everything that used to be,
drifted away.
Before all was over,
She addressed the last remnants
of her superficial world.
She opened her eyes wide
and whispered to the last
shadows and figures:
"Imagine a pure love,
the true value of things,
I know what life is,
and I know what death brings."
Best.
What do you tend to obsess over?
Well I usually tend to obsess over quite weird things. I just recently bought an iPod Classic, and the fact that the mirror on the back, and the screen ALWAYS get dirty with scratches and fingerprints, just about drives me to the edge of insanity. I swear I spend half my day wiping it off with the sleeve of my shirt, but it always manages to get dirty again. BLEH! I Cannot stand it. Also, not as wierd, I really obsess over music, preferably the Beatles (Hence the iPod), and usually I spend the other half of the day, which I have not wasted, listing to music and letting it guide me through the day.
What are your top 3 current goals?
My top three goals, as of now, are to:
1. Graduate with honors
2. Plant a wonderful herb garden come spring
3. Read, and write consistently
Just recently, I finished reading the Book Marley and Me by Josh Grogan. It was A WONDERFUL book, and affected me alot. It tells the true story of the Author's life starting when he buys a new and quite rambunctious lab puppy named Marley. The rest is history. The story was funny and heartwarming, and I think anyone who has a dog, which is a lot of people, will deeply connect with this book. I recommend it to anyone, and everyone. It is definetly one of my all time favorites. It made laugh and it made me cry. And that, is what I define as a great book. 10 out of 10
I just recently bought this book from the local powells book store and hav found the most helpful to me so far. I honestly think it is the best one i will ever find. It includes everything from a *detailed* descriptions of more than 75 herbs to step by steps on how to make cuttings, divisions and also gives a few recipes here and there. There are probably more than 30 graphs on anything from pests ( pics, descriptions, their fav. plants, how to get rid of them) to how deep to plant certain seedlings ( when, and how much to water them ect... ) . I highly reccomend reding it and adding it to your library. please tell me what you think.
Okay. i have a tomato plant that started to have these weird.. rash like...things on the stems they are getting bigger and now i am worried. i am also trying to make cuttings from some of my herbs and on a young basil plant it is starting to appear on the base of the plant. i checked online but could not find anything. i really hope you can tell me how to get rid of this thing.. and what it is! (sorry for the blurry pics)
Since i am just starting with this herb stuff i have a really simple tea that i experimented with one night and found that it actually tasted good! here it is: *THIS IS FOR ONE CUP OF TEA*
INGREDIENTS
* about 5 sprigs of spanish lavender (any lavender will work though)*
* around 5 or 6 leaves of chocolate mint ( again, vary the mints)*
HOW TO MAKE
* boil one cup of water while you go outside to gather your herbs
* when the water is boiling remove from the heat and place on a heat safe pad
* remove leaves from stems and rince of dirt, pesticides, or anything you do not want to eat, from your herbs
* tear herbs up with your hands to realese a litlle more flavor and set them in an infuser ( a built in infuser that in inside a teapot is best )
* let the oils infuse anywhere from 5 to 10 min. depending on how stong you want your
tea... if you let it infuse londer it will be stronger.
* pour into a teacup and add sugar. ( the sugar amout i use is about half a spoonful but
feel free to vary the amout.
ENJOY!!!!!!!!!
does anyone know what this is??? they are everywhere in in my garden but they especially love my catnip plant.. i cannot tell if the eat the leaves or if they just rest there. Is anyone familiar with this bug? the smaller ones resemble spit bugs, they are smaller and a transparent green with no stripes. pest or no?
this is a pic of a spider waiting to gobble up some of the pests in my garden. although spiders really creep me out, i am really very thankful to have them in my garden. thay eat all the bugs that eat my plants and do not do much else. it happens this spider is also in my catnip plant... perhaps eating the unlnown bug in the picture above?
GRRRR! of all the pests in my garden i HATE the slugs!!!!! this is a trail of one that was creeping over my walls outside. the always hide under the roman chamomile and make it all gooey and slug infested. i have to check under all my chamomile clumps every other day, pick out all the slugs, and dispose of them. i do it by using the good ol' salt.. but i have heard some people just cut 'em in half with garden shears. personally i think that would gross me out too much.
