Poetry

Being in a sappy girly mood, and being a terrible blogger (i.e. NOT POSTING) shame on me. I have found these two poems, which yes I will admit I was watching In Her Shoes and remembered how much I really enjoyed these poems.
1. One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel.
None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

2. 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)

___

They are truly beautiful, huh?

Today is a beautiful day. Sunny, 90 not a cloud in the sky. Running was amazing and really cleared my head. Hope all is well out there for everyone, I promise I will begin to actually update this thing!

Props to Eric Holder!

Eric Holder, the new Attorney General, has gained much respect already with me. I was on CNN.com today and saw that his address about racial matters was on the front page. As a sociology/Media nerd I felt it my part to watch, it is awesome that he isn't holding back about how he feel about race relations within our states. He points out that America now really isn't that much different then what it was years ago. Only 5 years ago did we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Topeka Board of Eduation, but have yet really changed much. Living in Topeka I can attest that there is very little change in race relations. We mostly live in a segregated country still, by choice, but there are parts of town that a white girl would never go and vice versa. If they do go to these parts they get a look, they get the whispers.

Holder discussed how no one sits and talks about these issues openly. Without addressing the issues we can't fix them. They will not dissolve themselves without an open conversation. Being a sociology minor, we still sometimes don't feel we can openly speak about race in the classroom. If we can't be safe and confident in the classroom how can we expect to be comfortable in society? We need to take steps to fix the problem, but mostly we need to acknowledge it.

Props to Holder for being brave enough to talk about racial issues. To not hold his tounge, but wake Americans up to the fact that we need to talk about these issues before they go away!