Colorless Green Ideas

The first step is to get rid of facebook. Its blue pages and stiff edits have fallen far. Most teens that are into anything are into DeviantArt The next thing is to banish your fears and don't be afraid to punch them in the arm They're expecting it They'd do it to you Talking to a Teen involves high stakes They're on the front lines They're the ones that take the hit So be prepared to lay it down and keep it short Don't overexplain just help them out So that they'll come back After all The most you can hope for is one or two words that point them in the right direction They'll take their own They keep to their own. Mazeltov

The bottom of the barrel dark and sticky something within telling me all along it would all settle at last to the bottom of the lake Tell me of my fears and yours The ones that paralyze the terror close your eyes And tell me of the dark times Show me the statue that still stands of the blessed Virgin Tell me of the man or woman betrayed with a kiss Watch it all fall slowly sifting through dark waters at last to the silt bane of cave divers and treasure hunters everywhere And then the sky will burn down upon the lake and like so many others it will disappear And the gray stones will come pushed by the ice to compress to anthracite the layers of black and darkest gray Now. Be. In my heart. And follow me. As I travel through time Can you hear the sound of the ticking clock? Its hands unwind? We are in the long run. And pressure builds crashing down upon once golden pond screeching rock against rock And it all turns clear that you are ...

High speed gyro stabilizers are these wheels that spin at unreal RPM. If you've ever grabbed one, the axis has this huge tendency to resist being pulled off its centerline. Speed, energy and force are all related. Energy is , from a workingman's perspective - the potential for work. It's force times distance. Think of energy as the amount of work you need to do to make something happen. A rock on a hill has alot of potential energy, because it sits in a gravity field that wants to pull it into the center of our planet. You've added energy (distance) to that rock by pulling it away from the center of the earth. The higher the hill, the greater the distance. Once, I was up on a hill with some friends of mine - near Mount Ranier. Rocks started to cascade down off the side of the hill. Me and my friend ran from the rocks. The girls just stood there. My wife remembers this as the moment I abandoned her. I remember it as the moment I got out of the way of a very big ro...

It was two in the morning and she was walking or trying But we ending up running. We were not far from the Thirsty Scholar it felt good to hold her in my arms We held tight laughed maybe cried She was so beautiful and tall And too soon. The Lady in the Dark said goodbye at Dawn So he left, tired. And had trouble operating the door With a promise he would return driving off he didn't even notice the hours Secretly disappointed he figured out the latch

The film "Absentia" is based on the premise that matter itself can be traversed. We stand on the ground, and do not fall through - because each atom of the molecules that make up our foot - are excluded in orbit from filling the outer shell and either passing through or bonding with the atoms of the earth upon which we stand. We might be largely water, and organics. With just enough inorganics to guarantee things like blood salt and iron defeciencies that if cleared up make you look like superman on your mile split. Take away life giving water, and it's ashes to ashes and dust to dust. How is it that we simply don't fall through? Wolfgang Pauli discovered that the substances follow very specific rules regarding how atoms fill out their electron shell. If you think of a Hydrogen atom, its outer shell fills fairly simply. One electron in the outer shell. The shape of the orbit is roughly spherical. It wants one more, but once it gets that, its geometry is complete...

I worked hard today Played basketball painted a room vintage yellow My fingers were covered with spackle I swept the drive and worked outside and felt the sun on my face I suppose it is kind of like taking a walk Except I raked leaves and carried boxes And then locked myself into a room and painted it until dark I took the kids to get Sushi I was tired and happy And when everything was quiet I went Outside* I looked up to the moon And nature whispered to me that somewhere in that same light I will find you Did you know that all light from the moon is polarized? It's true. And there, I was. And there are you. We are in some ways, you and I the enemy of fear and credulity It is my faith that gives me something worth sleeping in on a Sunday After writing a poem to a woman I have loved my entire life and I will love when I am gone But fortunately I love now A woman very much alive And I am willing to fight This is your brain o...

Shabbat is a time when no work must be done It is a sacred time of rest That falls upon a Saturday He never really knew why dialing the phone was considered work by some but he was pretty sure it wasn't. This, of course, by his Rebbi And so in the amber light as the sun set He calls her number and gets her voicemail then hangs up before the answering machine picks up He speed dials her again from his droid the sound of the tones ricochet in his head and then, connection And her voice answers again a shibboleth then she says leave a message And so he hangs up. There is a moment of silence. Amber light has faded from the sky. Night has fallen. He speed dials her number. Listens to the message. Then hangs up. Outside his home faintly against the darkening sky the sound of her voice on the phone It is her voice. He is alone. He hangs up before the tone. Dials again. And hangs up. Then. The voice quits. Just at the last word. Eno...