The Month That Would NOT Slow Down

I haven't been reading much this month. I hate - hate! - to make that confession, but it is what it is. People, friends who are pretty much family, events, classes... many things have taken me away from my routine life of reading, cross-stitching, doing laundry, and feeling a bit on the low side. Doubtless this is a good thing; I needed to remember that there are things that I enjoy and people that I love outside side of Austin, the kids, and the few friends I see frequently (Corinna, Andrew, Marnie... love you all!).

A few of the events have included a friend graduating from medical school (yay) and preparing to move away for his residency (boo), another friend getting married (yay) and bringing other old friends back to Minnesota (yay) for a hugely emotional, fantastic wedding. From there I went headfirst into taking a class in and getting certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (yay - but nerve-wracking). There is still more to come in this epic May of 2011; an anniversary party, a play to attend... and I'm skipping over some of the emotional content of the month (like Alex's choir concert... so much else) because I am getting overwhelmed just thinking about all of it.

So this has left me little to blog about in terms of books. I finished reading InterWorld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves (good stuff), but I haven't even managed to finish writing my Epinions review of it. I enjoyed it, but it's one of those books that are going to stay in the house that I somehow don't have much to say about here.

There are two topics I've been wanting to cover here that maybe don't fit perfectly (but who cares, this is my blog and if I want to I can write about worms or warts or whatever I want, right?). One is Books That I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time and one is Favorite Poems. Both topics might... let's be brutally honest here, they will take up multiple posts. Because I blog so infrequently, this could take years. I'm actually fine with that, though.

So. Here's a poem that I adore and never get tired of, that I think everyone should know.

i carry your heart with me
by e.e. cummings

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud)
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)


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After reading that, I dare you to tell me that you don't like poetry.

More of my favorites to come in the nebulous future...