Sorry folks...

No 55 today... I have been working so hard this week with my school assignments, and on top of that I have been doing some teaching too. In addition, a lot of things have been going on with my family as well. I have been really swamped with things to do, and even though this has eaten a lot of my energy, it has given me some in return as well... I haven’t been able to write anything for my blog though, and I haven’t had time to visit you guys much either and I am sorry about that…

I decided to google for the perfect picture to use as I try to write a post that will allow you to get an image of what has been going on in my mind recently. This class I am taking, Nature and sustainable development, has been messing with my head big time. That is not always entirely a bad thing. But the other day as my teachers decided to be a little bit "spontanious" and give us another three (!) heavy lab assigments due next week, this is how I felt:

And this is how I feel still. I am hoping it will pass during this weekend.

55 - Fall on me

it’s wet and wild

it’s good for me

i need it in order to grow

going out there and letting it embrace me

taking shelter from it or letting it cover me

breathing it

smelling it

listening to the music it brings

heavy on the rooftops

gentle at the windows

fall on me

beautiful rain

Theme Thursday: Pets

Just imagine I’d be doing a blog post about pets… Since I am in a desperate need for a break from current school assignments, I have decided I’ll give it a try. I will not, however, use that picture. Somebody commented that it had too much cuteness in it. I agree. That picture was a massive cuteness OD. And I will not even go there…

So what can I tell you about pets? I am not really a cat person. Cats always seem so much smarter than me, and I’m worthless dealing with that… Birds in general, in my opinion, should not be kept in cages. Fish belong in the sea. Rats are far too intelligent to be held hostages by humans. Turtles belong in the wild. But I do love dogs. I really love dogs. And they love me. Dogs are like that, they love everyone… I believe that if some people were more like dogs, this would be a better world. But then again, if that was the case, I guess a lot of people would end up getting arrested too, since dogs seem to enjoy making love in public…

One day I want to have a dog of my own. A big dog. A Scooby-Doo kind of dog. We will take long walks together. I will train him. I will try to challenge his abilities. He will not be allowed in my bed, but it’d be OK to put his bed in my bedroom. If he doesn’t have a lot of gas. In that case his bed will be put somewhere else. A big dog eats a lot of food. A lot of food costs a lot of money. A poor teacher student doesn’t have a lot of money. And therefore, the dog part of my life will have to wait until I get a job. Or until I retire, maybe, considering I really want to be able to actually spend time with my dog too, not just leave him at home all by himself all day while I’m at school working and teaching. Dogs deserve people who care, people who love them and cherish them. Until I get a dog of my own, I’ll just continue hugging other people’s dogs and let them lick me in my face.

Closing up on beautiful growing things

Trying to focus...

Happy orange

Some more orange...

A promising bud

Some green with a spin

A flower that kind of looks like an UFO or something...

 

Beautiful rain

Wet wet wet

 

Time for me to wake up and smell the flowers...

A message

there is a red light blinking on the answering machine

we decide to erase it but it keeps returning

how strange

but, then again, if it’s broken, we can always go out and buy a new one

right?

there seems to be a message here

but we are just not seeing it

maybe we don’t want to

maybe we don’t have the time

maybe we are just to busy

minding our own business

preparing dinner, mowing the lawn and preparing for soccer practice

there are tsunamis, oil spills, deforestation

erosion

piles of garbage

smog

and earthquakes

floods

volcanos and ash clouds

there is hunger and malnutrition

there is obesity - people dying from eating too much

but why should I care?

I feel fine. Most of the time.

and all the stress

there are status symbols, status updates, status pressure

we climb higher, go faster, build bigger, work harder

mother Earth

we inherited her

now we are draining her

raping her

she is screaming “no”

again and again

but nobody seems to listen

we pretend we don’t hear

and carry on

doing what we do

minding our own business

the way we always have

and the red light is still there...

if we would push play

I think we would hear her crying

55 - Just do it

The candles were lit, the meal had been fantastic. “I need more than this”, she told him, looking straight into his brown eyes. “You and I have been together for fifteen years. We have been on this rollercoaster ride through heaven and hell, your hand in mine, my head on your shoulder. Now marry me.”

Theme Thursday: Mystery

you work so hard

to act mysterious

to stay out of it

to take no part in it

to not get involved

to not let yourself be affected

to not have to feel

to not have to know

I am trying to figure out what goes on in that head of yours

To me it is a mystery

why act cool when you are burning up inside?

why look away when you should look me in the eye?

why leave, why now, why at all?

to me you are a mystery

and you always have been

I used to think we were so much alike

chasing shadows,

and dreams,

and shadows of dreams,

and dreams of shadows.

But maybe you went on living

and I am the one still chasing shadows?

It is a mystery.