I'll never
Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin. ~ William Shakespeare Happy 4th of July!
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May has been a busy month. Work has picked up, spent a week in the Outer Banks basking in... rain and a sweatshirt. But the most exciting part has been my birthday treat to myself, in the form of a sexy little supercar. Ordered from the factory for my birthday and delivered the first week of May (a month ahead of schedule!), it has exceeded my expectations in so many ways. I'm not sure that I will ever own anything that gives me as much instant joy as that car.
So today, the car and [my brother and] I took a ride to Detroit. The car needed broken in, and I had never been to Michigan before, so today we hit the thousand-mile-plus mark AND I got to state #47 on the list of 50. Also added a "never need to go there again" city to my short list of, well, places I never need to go again. I look forward to knocking #48 and #49 (Delaware and Vermont) off of the list in the near future, and I've got some plans for some fun stuff ahead for the summer. I hope to have some great photos from great places as well. Happy Memorial Day and sincere thanks to those who have sacrificed so that the end result is I (and so many others) may have a life of awesome. 
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape, give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. ~ Bible, Song of Songs 
Today, I found myself in a field of clover, on a hillside, in the evening sun. I ended up there just because. I felt enjoyment purely for the sake of enjoyment, for the first time in a long time.
It has been a weird adjustment period. I haven't been inspired much lately. Things and people and places in my life are shuffling around, trying to determine what fits and what doesn't. I'm starting to feel like they're finding their balance, but everything is still a little uncertain. I bought a [shiny, awesome, ridiculous] new car. I play in the sun. I do my job and when I'm not doing my job, I'm trying to spend time with the people who matter to me. I'm figuring out who matters to me. I'm trying to see extraordinary things in the ordinary world. I haven't forgotten, I just didn't want to see it for a while. It doesn't mean I'm back. It just means that, today, the ordinary was noteworthy.  How the time
Loiters in expectation! Then the mind Drags the dead burden of a hundred years In one short moment's space. The nimble heart Beats with impatient throbs, sick of delay, And pants to be at ease. ~ William Havard 
Alone! -- that worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE! ~ Lord Edward Robert Lytton, The New Timon 
The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams, that are bright all the time.
~ Conrad Potter Aiken 
Changed! There the epitaph of all the years
Was sounded! I am changed too. Let it be. Yet it is sad to know my latest tears Were faithful to a memory, -- not to thee. Nothing is left us! nothing -- save the soul. Yet even the immortal in us alters too. Who is it his old sensations can renew? Slowly the seas are changed... ~Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, The Wanderer 
But me, not destined such delights to share,
My prime of life in wandering spent and care; Impelled with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. ~Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveler 
True fortitude is seen in great exploits
That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction. ~ Joseph Addison |
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