For Roberto…
Posted by Joni in About Him, Love, Quotes, Widda Hood
The Call
Out of the nothingness of sleep,
The slow dreams of Eternity,
There was a thunder on the deep:
I came, because you called to me.
Posted by Joni in About Him, Love, Quotes, Widda Hood
The Call
Out of the nothingness of sleep,
The slow dreams of Eternity,
There was a thunder on the deep:
I came, because you called to me.
“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never loses. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
~ Jeanette Winterson (Written on the Body)
Posted by Joni in General
This is my favorite passage from Momo Kapor’s book, “The Serbian Mentality.” Sadly Kapor died on March 3, 2010.
Posted by Joni in Bookish, Culture, Current Events, Serbia
I went Googling for a good book review of Diana Johnstone’s Fool’s Crusade, because it is my most-recommended book to anyone wishing to learn what really happened during the NATO bombings of the 1990s without the spin and cover-up by mainstream media, paticularly U.S. media. I found this great review by Louis Proyect.
Posted by Joni in Cats
This is standard operating procedure at our house morning, noon and night.
Sunny: “It’s 8:00 a.m. and we don’t got no stinkin entrees?”
Posted by Joni in Current Events
I found this at the Mission Status section of the Kennedy Space Center web site.
Shuttle Columbia continues to perform well on its SPACEHAB microgravity research mission. On the medical research front, work with the bone and prostate cancer studies continued in the Bioreactor Demonstration System, and crewmembers participated in experiments for the Physiology and Biochemistry suite….
(Emphasis added.)