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Day 6 - Reflections

Daily Reflections - Highs/Lows - Jun 25, 2005

Today's Highs

• Waking up this morning to find that a fellow stumbler, Once, had written a sonnet for me:
  
  "A Sonnet for Kayrn"

  The image is not clear, perhaps in red;
  But wait! the color's not the object; eyes
  Will seek the bevelled edges, never centered, rhines
  Not flesh in fruits attract, and then are meant
  To be discarded; hunger in the lips and tongue, abusing patience drain
  All substance, still remain the pastel skins,
  the porous membrane walls;
  The iris of the eye withdraws allowing all
  that's subtle free to fall
  Upon the optic nerve, the occult guise,
  descreetly recessed platforms for the trains
  That, bound for memories' glories in the seats of mind, no longer are
  At play in what should now occur when lightest violet, azure-dark
  Perceptions' concerts cornered and corralled become the captured lark
  Or mother robin's bluest egg,
  the scarlet-sandaled nightbird from afar!
  Collage of edges, husks, the stubble, shy remainders, faded outcasts
  Of the primal colors humbled, not the first today,
  but carried on to victory at last!

  
  
• Coming across even more ephemeral treasures at bargain prices to use in my art projects. Today's finds include some old music books (My Favorite Mountain Ballads and Old-Time Songs ©1928 by Bradley Kincaid; School For the Pianoforte by Theo Presser ©1929; Playthings For the Piano by Mary Ruth Jesse ©1939), vintage flash cards, playing cards and other game cards, and a variety of vintage mechanics magazines and other publications.
  

Today's Lows
I can't think of a single low point of my day. All is well.

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