Depeche Mode – one of the bands of my youth.
When they want to bring it – Wow.. They can bring it.
Wrong
Hesitancy
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
– W.H. Murray, via svn.
Fred Wilson: That’s Impossible
“If someone says: ‘That’s Impossible’.
You should understand it as: ‘According to my very limited experience and narrow understanding of reality, that’s very unlikely’”
Meditations in an Emergency
My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me.
I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.
– Frank O’Hara
Galadriel – September 1995 – February 26th, 2009
Earlier this morning, around 2:10am, my beloved thirteen year old cat Galadriel passed away.
She had become ill this past weekend and spent a few days with the wonderful staff of the University of Minnesota Veterinary Medical Center where she received fantastic care. I was able to bring her home two days ago and spend some good quality time with her… I’m glad that she was able to come home as her passing was somewhat unexpected.
Miss G came into my life as a six week old kitten when I was just a junior in college at Indiana University. A co-worker of mine at Target in Columbus, Indiana, where I was working at the time, had a cat who had just birthed a litter of kittens – and one of them was Galadriel. Ever since she was a little runt kitten that could almost fit in the palm of my hand, she’s been with me.
We’ve lived together in Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, Massachusetts, and now Minnesota. Thirteen years, five states, four apartments, and two houses – she’s been the only pet that I’ve ever had as an adult.
She was named for the Tolkien character Galadriel, a female elf who lived in the woods of Lothlórien. I had named her long before the Lord of the Rings movies made her character as well known.
In the movie, Galadriel was played by Cate Blanchett who created a hauntingly beautiful vision of Galadriel.
To me, that’s what she was. Beautiful.
She is going to be incredibly missed.
A Dedication
I love Chartreuse’s dedication page:
this site is dedicated to my best friend, Henry Michel, who passed away in 2002, my daughter Destiny who I miss dearly and my 2nd ex-wife (yeah, second!) ,who taught me how to stop being so “fucking pedestrian.”
That’s my goal in life – to not be “fucking pedestrian”.
I’m still working on it.
You can tell a man from what he has to say
Smiling as the shit comes down
You can tell a man from what he has to say
Everything gets turned around
And I will risk my neck again, againYou can take me where you will
Up the creek and through the mill
All the things you cant explain
Four seasons in one day
– Crowded House