ROOM ON THE LEFT: Don't worry Oscar....

Monday, October 4, 2010

she'll never be bothering you

I forgot that my camera has a video

so this morning I went out the front door and saw the sky

clearing and I did this...

sit back and enjoy the worst video ever taken!!!

and just know...

one suffers for one's art

I was wet upon by the tree above when a gust of wind came by!!!!

I promise I will never make you look at a video by moi

ever again!!!

here she comes...

I am standing by the seashore.

A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze

and starts for the blue ocean.

She is an object of beauty and strength,

and I stand and watch

until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud

just where the sun and sky come down to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says, ‘There she goes!

Gone where? Gone from my sight – that is all.

She is just as large in mast and hull and spar

as she was when she left my side

and just as able to bear her load of living freight

to the places of destination.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her.

And just at the moment when someone at my side says,

‘There she goes! ‘ ,

there are other eyes watching her coming,

and other voices ready to take up the glad shout :

‘Here she comes!’

Henry Van Dyke, 19th century

ROOM ON THE LEFT