It's Saturday morning. Luz is asleep and Marta's off to Babies R Us. I, for the first time since the historic acceptance speech Thursday night, am taking a moment alone to let it all sink in:
I am about to celebrate my 5th wedding anniversary
Luz turned 8 months yesterday
On the 45th anniversary of the March on Washington, Barack Obama spoke to more than 38 million viewers - plus the rest of the world not gauged by Nielsen - and brought the ruckus!
8.21.2008
8.18.2008
Margaret Atwood
Since her book inspired the poem in my last post, I thought I'd feature some of her work directly. Here goes:
from Variation on the Word Sleep
I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary.
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
"Variation on the Word Sleep" from Selected Poems II: 1976-1986 by Margaret Atwood, published by Houghton Mifflin. Copyright © 1987. Reprinted by permission of the author.
from Variation on the Word Sleep
I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary.
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
"Variation on the Word Sleep" from Selected Poems II: 1976-1986 by Margaret Atwood, published by Houghton Mifflin. Copyright © 1987. Reprinted by permission of the author.
8.15.2008
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