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April 7, 2004
Wednesday
Let's see...I just got back from lunch with KT and Signe. Yummy grilled chicken salad at Levante's. Good stuff.
Tonight
Tomorrow is the day of truth. Weight in Day! I will be sure to report back. I have NOT been staying under my 30 points each day so I am not expecting any miracles. It shall be enlightening.
A bit of odd levity for the day: Scotty Bunny
Also, in honor of National Poetry Month:
The Orchid Flower
Sam Hamill
Just as I wonder
whether it's going to die,
the orchid blossoms
and I can't explain why it
moves my heart, why such pleasure
comes from one small bud
on a long spindly stem, one
blood red gold flower
opening at mid-summer,
tiny, perfect in its hour.
Even to a white-
haired craggy poet, it's
purely erotic,
pistil and stamen, pollen,
dew of the world, a spoonful
of earth, and water.
Erotic because there's death
at the heart of birth,
drama in those old sunrise
prisms in wet cedar boughs,
deepest mystery
in washing evening dishes
or teasing my wife,
who grows, yes, more beautiful
because one of us will die.
Quote of the Day:
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
-Ben Franklin
