Showing posts with label morning coffee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label morning coffee. Show all posts

28 December, 2006

Blogging can be beautiful



I made that first cup and sat down on this spot where I sit now. I began to wander around, looking for truth, beauty or whatever I could find of value in the vast world of blogging.

I've spent the past hour now, reading blog entries from all over the world, blogs I've never visited before and may never have the privilege of visiting again. I've discovered that there is a great deal of beauty in the blog world, as odd as that may seem. The vast majority isn't. Blog and beauty are two words that seem not to look right in the same sentence. Blog beauty. No. I go back to what I've said before.
The word "blog" is so...well, it sounds like an old man clearing his throat. It certainly doesn't sound like something of beauty or worthy of note. And to be called a blogger. I can't imagine anything more insulting. I'm not being truthful. Of course I can. But I'm not going to say.

I started to say, before I interrupted myself, that I wanted to take some of the more beautiful passages that I've read from these blogs, and post them here. But, I just can't. I feel as if I've come upon someone's personal journal in an old chest of drawers I've purchased from a flea market. It's bad enough that I open it. Worse still that I read the pages. This is not my business! Shame on me. But I read it anyway. I will compound the crime by sharing with you the my most intimate findings of the morning.

There are probably millions of blogs on the naked web that are worth spending time some time with. I encourage you to put on some sound shoes and a warm scarf and go on
a hunt for truth, beauty, love and adventure.

Two hours have elapsed since I made that first, delicious, hot cup of coffee. My cup is now cold and empty. I must go. I'll probably be back.

06 December, 2006

Dating Habits of the Very Young and a Letter to Santa




Calvin and Hobbs


My eleven year old son came home from school yesterday, and while he was eating his chocolate chip cookie and drinking his glass of milk, he started to tell me about the note he found in his locker. He even offered the note to me to read. It was from a girl and she was asking him out on a date. At least, it seemed that way to me. She did warn him, however, that her parents said she wasn't allowed to date until she was 16.

Thank God.

I'm not ready for this.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Ogden Nash

05 December, 2006

Good Morning



Mozart For Morning Coffee, a CD of what you might imagine. Worth buying just for cover. It's available at a number of places on the web. Excuse me while a make my second cup and turn the thermostat up a degree or two.

I think I mentioned the new furnace. Actually, new boiler. I've been calling it a furnace, but the guy who installed it corrected me. Boiler. We have radiators in our house. Whatever it is, it does a much better job than the old one. It cost enough. It should. My wife and I think of it as our Christmas present---for the next 15 years or so. We're thinking of having pictures made with us and all the animals standing next to it to send to friends for Christmas.

It is a lovely thing to look at. My wife refuses to go to the basement to see it, though. So I took some pictures. She fell in love with right away, and the next day she mustered the courage to go down to the basement and touch it.

This is the general idea of how a boiler works.




Out of my shoe box of old pictures I give you this one.



One of my favorites.