Changes

So I changed the blog again. Really it is only the picture and the title but it's a change nonetheless.

It all started when I was on photobucket and saw that you could put borders on your pictures. One thing led to another and I made the picture.

The title relates to a poem by Julia Spicher Kasdorf called "First Gestures." Actually only the second part:

"Living, we cover vast territories;
imagine your life drawn on a map--
a scribble on the town where you grew up,
each bus trip traced between school
and home, or a clean line across the sea
to a place you flew once. Think of the time
and things we accumulate, all the while growing
more conscious of losing and leaving. Aging,
our bodies collect wrinkles and scars
for each place the world would not give
under our weight. Our thoughts get laced
with strange aches, sweet as the final chord
that hangs in a guitar's blond torso."

It reminds me of something we'd read in English and then have to quote and write an essay on later.

What is the theme of the poem? On a full sheet of bristleboard, create a map of a day in your life. In a three-page formal essay, relate Kasdorf's poem to Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken."
Due in one week.

Here's to the start of a five-day weekend :)