The · Singularity · is · Near

Quotes of the day:

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Author: La Rochefoucauld

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
Author: Vi Putnam

Love is like a balloon.. when you push your relationship with someone forward it is like blowing up the balloon. If you blow too hard and too fast, the balloon pops and likewise the relationship breaks. But if you take things slowly and let the balloon of love stretch on its own, it grows into a huge, prosperous balloon, full of love. Also, if you don't push the relationship at all, or at least hold it at the same level it was at, the air will flow out of the balloon, deflating it, and your love will shrivel up and become flat & lifeless. So when you are in love, push the relationship forward slowly and gently and the balloon will grow comfortably into a strong, immense love.
Author: Crystal Southerland

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Author: John Harrigan

So, I'm sitting in the GSA doing my office hour for the day
and I'm reading random stuff online and I happen upon a website
with all of Aesop's Fables. Coolness! So I have included three
below. Apparently, the speaker for today is cancelled? I need
to find out about that. The GSA drag show was an immense success.
It makes me very proud to be a part of an organization that can pull
off something that immense. PrideFest was interesting- a lesson well
learned- So, Friday Night @ Shoneys with three drag queens was quite
a time. "I'm gonna have the bufffffet!" lol!




The Four Oxen and the Lion


A Lion used to prowl about a field in which Four Oxen used to
dwell. Many a time he tried to attack them; but whenever he came
near they turned their tails to one another, so that whichever way
he approached them he was met by the horns of one of them. At
last, however, they fell a-quarrelling among themselves, and each
went off to pasture alone in a separate corner of the field. Then
the Lion attacked them one by one and soon made an end of all
four.


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The Boy and the Filberts


A BOY put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped
as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out
his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the
pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to
withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his
disappointment. A bystander said to him, "Be satisfied with half
the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand."

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The Woodman and the Serpent


One wintry day a Woodman was tramping home from his work when
he saw something black lying on the snow. When he came closer he
saw it was a Serpent to all appearance dead. But he took it up
and put it in his bosom to warm while he hurried home. As soon as
he got indoors he put the Serpent down on the hearth before the
fire. The children watched it and saw it slowly come to life
again. Then one of them stooped down to stroke it, but thc
Serpent raised its head and put out its fangs and was about to
sting the child to death. So the Woodman seized his axe, and with
one stroke cut the Serpent in two. "Ah," said he,


"No gratitude from the wicked."

I am so happy!!! Spring is finally here and it seems that everyone knows it! I've seen so many people around campus wearing shorts and spring-like attire! And the weather is so warm(warm=45*) So... long time, no update. Classes are going well and it seems as if this year is zipping by. Only another month of classes left and then we're out for the summer! I'm really excited about the possibility of working at Interlochen. I'm also really excited about the traveling possibilities that I have this summer! In honor of Spring, here are a few random things.........

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this weary world
vanishes
into green leaves

Susumu Takiguchi

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scissor-snip
pollen sprinkles the back
of one hand

Christopher Herold

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stars at dusk
a spray of willow buds
by the gate

Carol Raisfeld, USA

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http://raysweb.net/haiku-spring/
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Cheers!

Ben D

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