5.28.2013

Today at the beach





O to have life henceforth a poem of new joys!
To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on!
To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports,
A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
A swift and swelling ship full of rich words, full of joys.
- walt whitman


1.01.2013

a winters hike




"That all the jarring notes of life
Seem blending in a psalm
And the angles of its strife
Slow rounding into calm.

And so the shadows fall apart,
And so the west-winds play;
And all the windows of my heart
I open to the day."
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1919