Obelisk of Fire

And before that chasm of light,

As within a furnace bright,

Column, tower, and dome, and spire,

Shine like obelisks of fire,

Pointing with inconstant motion

From the altar of dark ocean

To the sapphire-tinted skies; As the flames of sacrifice

From the marble shrines did rise,

As to pierce the dome of gold

Where Apollo spoke of old.

-Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills, 1819

Surprise!

It was s'posed to be a surprise, but I artfully ruined it :)

Turns out my dad and I are going to get away for a few days and see Evan preform at Carnegie :) yay!

( I think I had too high of expectations when e handed me the tickets... reading... "Days Inn, Alexandria"....wait....Alexandria, Egypt ???? :P But this is good too.)

We're gonna mozy our way up...stop in Washington D.C. for a day... go to museums, galleries... etc. Then head to Philly and go to a few more rather prestigious galleries etc. (Maybe I can lick the Liberty Bell for real this time ;) ) Then FINALLY, to NYC...see a few sites in the city (I'm not so sure I want to go to Ground Zero, I will cry.) until the show. But the twist is, Evan doesn't know I'm coming. He has the idea that we can't afford (which we can't lol, and I'm giving up my class til next year to do this) So he won't even expect it. :)

I'm verrrrrrrrrry excited for this. (Now I get to brag that MY brother is singing in the CARNEGIE ;) )

http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_7733.html?selecteddate=03192007 (see the "Madison High School, Rexburg, Idaho"....)

"A Bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this."

"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."

"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."

"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"

--Thich Nhat Hanh

Ek Ong Kar

"Who can remember their race between dreams? Nothing ever holds its pace between dreams. A mighty river thunders on its way, An endless quest for the place between dreams. Though predators fiercely hunt for your soul, Know they can never give chase between dreams. Cloudscapes of splendor vanish in the wind; Their existence bears no trace between dreams. This depthless farness mid the burning stars Is but the motionless space between dreams. Light ventures through and beyond the abyss, Yet will never show its face between dreams. Our pains and sorrows gather fold on fold, But who can carry their case between dreams? Your freedom flutters far in flight, Zahhar, For limitless is the grace between dreams."

--(I'm not quite sure of the source)

(p.s. I promise I'll start writing again soon...)