The new year - a few random things

Today is J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday.

I haven't written much - thesis or weblog - these days since I'm bursting my head putting the syllabus together. The reading list is complete and I dropped off the coursepack materials today. Apart from this, I'm not quite ready for school to start up again.

To de-stress, I've been watching the first few episodes of Wolf's Rain, the anime from the same team that did Cowboy Bebop. They even got Yoko Kanno to do the soundtrack. Quite good, I must say. Them wolves look cool.

It's awfully sad to read about the thieves who've been looting the homes of people reported dead or missing in the tsunami disaster. And raping the survivors, kidnapping children? It's just sick.

The Sixth of January

The cat sits on the back of the sofa looking
out the window through the softly falling snow
at the last bit of gray light.

I can't say the sun is going down.
We haven't seen the sun for two months.
Who cares?

I am sitting in the blue chair listening to this stillness.
The only sound: the occasional gurgle of tea
coming out of the pot and into the cup.

How can this be?
Such calm, such peace, such solitude
in this world of woe.

~ by David Budbill

Posted by Monoceros at January 3, 2005 9:34 PM