Bagels

So ever since I was about oh, 5, I've had this thing for bagels.  To put it simply: I love bagels.

I think this love for the chewy, starchy food started with hotel continental breakfasts.  If you haven't noticed there's always bagels, cream cheese and jam involved in those. My dad-- a bagel connoisseur-- would toast a bagel, spread on a thick schmear of cream cheese and then top it off with one of those little plastic packets of jam.  Absolutely delicious.  

My favorite combo is a cinnamon sugar bagel with honey almond cream cheese from Einstein Bros.

Speaking of which, there's an Einstein Bros. being put in where the old Hogi Yogi used to be on Bulldog Blvd.  I'm very excited!

Today's breakfast: Everything bagel with veggie cream cheese.

Onward.

and e. e. too

i'm a little . . . shall we say, overwhelmed.

there's too much to do.

too much to start.

too much to complete.

too little time.

too many people to think about.

too many thing i haven't done.

too

too

too

my escape from all this "too" has been into a small collection of e. e. cummings poetry.  why?

well because he uses punctuation and grammar in no way i've ever seen, his language is beautiful and soothing because his cadence is fabulously simple.

And mostly, because he uses the word "love" a lot.

i don't know of any other poet that uses the word so pointedly, or so many times and yet it never feel overdone . . . it's never too much.

"and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly"

or

"love's function is to fabricate unknownness"

or

"let all go--the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things-- let all go
dear
       so comes love"


so comes love.


and now, i will dive back into too much.

Kony 2012: The Great Human Experiment

Have you ever wanted to change something? Stand up for something?

Here's your chance: here's OUR chance.

Watch this video.  I promise you'll feel inspired and empowered.

I now feel like ninja, a legitimate ninja, and that's a cool feeling.

Do you think we can do it?

Now, there's always criticism for things like this: questions on legitimacy, on accuracy, on accountability etc.  There's always criticism, no doubt, and probably some of it can be substantiated.  But, maybe push that aside for a brief moment and think about what this movie has done in the last couple of days.  

It caught fire.  

It went VIRAL.

It raised awareness.

If this works, why can't it work for other things?  Like people dying from hunger and lack of clean water: It's an experiment, a human experiment and all experiments have risks and unknowns.