[NicknamedBob]

I have a flip side.

"And so the metaphor of a stone also undergirds (as a foundation) our prior themes: of being (for a stone has no busyness; it simply is); and of maturity (for in a stone we find that which is "older than the hills")."

I found this message a while ago.

Written In Stone

How is it you haven't read, then,
The notes that were carefully placed,
In layers of sedimentary rock,
So they wouldn't be simply erased?

My other stone writing you noted.
I guess brevity counts with you now,
It used to be any message,
Was like manna from Heaven somehow.

But before, you were watching the heavens,
And now you seem glued to that "set",
Which perhaps was a gift from Lucifer,
I haven't decided quite yet.

In any case I left some scribblings,
That I'd just jotted down on the fly,
As I puttered around in my Garden,
While a few million ages crept by.

Like flowers pressed between pages,
Impressions of things that once were,
Were cast in the layers of future rock,
And baked in the way that they stir.

A simmering, bubbling cauldron,
If your scale of observing is such,
That a million years is the blink of an eye,
And some things need a delicate touch.

Now you may think those notes are of failures,
Being things that I tried and put by,
But remember that all of them did once live,
Ere they came to that place where they'd die.

They succeeded in terms of getting along,
With the challenges they had to face,
Remarkable, really, that out of such wood,
I whittled the whole human race.

Now, off you go with your studies,
Don't think it's an open-book test!
This place that you think is a garden,
Is a prison for all but the best.

NicknamedBob . . . . April 29, 2009

Stones make my bed, too.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

Lovely poem.

Now for today’s Word of the Day: Senescence

Hey, I know it wasn’t an actual WotD (I’m on that Ping list also), but I figured it’s relevant, as your birthday has once again snuck up on you. ;)

Congrats!

[ThomasThomas]

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[NoCmpromiz]

According to the official time on this machine, as continuously updated and corrected by referencing time.us.gov, it is tomorrow. Well, no, it is actually today now, but yesterday today was tomorrow. Anyway, when yesterday was still known as 'today' there was a murmuring in the castle that tomorrow was someone's birthday. Since tomorrow in now called 'today' logic dictates that 'today' is the birthday day that would have been 'tomorrow' yesterday. Since the birthday day is now today, and since everyone will have been here later today before I make my way back even later today, while solidified globull warming is falling from the skies here at my location in emperor Cuomo's realm, let me be the first (unless someone gets there as I am typing this) to wish you a 'Happy Today'. And you can celebrate a birthday along with it.

Here's a heart shaped wish for your health and happiness on your Today... ;-)

[no-to-illegals]

Thanks Bob! Although this was yesterday, this is a blessed gift.

[Silentgypsy]

Happy Birthday, NnB!

[HKMk23]

Stones make my bed, too.

Carrying yesterday's topic over and into the importance of this day, I simply must say, "You rock!"

Happy Birthday to you, Sir.