incandescens | but on the whole happy

Awareness session thing this morning went smoothly and was informative, which is really all that can be asked. We then slogged through the afternoon. People started to get demob happy around four o'clock. It's been a long week for everyone.

Apparently there is plenty of rain to come this weekend. Mutter mutter English weather mutter.

But hey. Three days off. Why did I never appreciate weekends when I was younger?

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Variation on a Theme by Rilke

A certain day became a presence to me;
there it was, confronting me -- a sky, air, light:
a being. And before it started to descend
from the height of noon, it leaned over
and struck my shoulder as if with
the flat of a sword, granting me
honor and a task. The day's blow
rang out, metallic -- or it was I, a bell awakened,
and what I heard was my whole self
saying and singing what it knew: I can.

-- Denise Levertov