"Here Are Two Clear Eyes To Read The World"

Lately I've been writing shorthand here, or not writing even - but pasting. The pasting too is writing. Anyway, here's a post Mother's Day poem, read by its author - Billy Collins. It's called The Lanyard. It's about mothers and the fact that they give life. It's written in a clever/funny way - because it pretends to be about lanyard. I love the way at the end he states the cliche' that many would say is the way to decode his point. And within the poem itself he says, No, I'm trying to say something beyond the predictable "archaic truth," a more subtle, and thus more necessary truth to state.

On an unrelated, related note, I am appreciative to the blogger who put together this week's Havel Havalim, a Jewish blog Carnival. She did a great job, and included my Lag Ba'Omer stream of consciousness.