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Let the Stable Still Astonish - Leslie Leyland Fields

Let the stable still astonish:
Straw – dirt floor, dull eyes,
Dusty flanks of donkeys, oxen;
Crumbling, crooked walls;
No bed to carry that pain,
And then, the child,
Rag-wrapped, laid to cry
In a trough.
Who would have chosen this?
Who would have said: “Yes,
Let the God of all the heavens and earth
Be born here, in this place?
Who but the same God
Who stands in the darker, fouler rooms
Of our hearts
And says, “Yes,
Let the God of Heaven and Earth
Be born here –
In this place.

As I sit here at SFO watching my departure time tick past two hours, I am struck at the the truthiness of the following excerpts from the issue of EW that I’m reading:

…here were the children, who I once believed to be the future, spending all their time figuring out how to make the background of their MySpace page as ugly as possble! So I got a MySpace page. But I had no idea what I was suposed to do with it, and soon abandoned MySpace for Facebook, where at least I can play Scrabble with my friends.

You know who plays Scrabble? Old People.

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So, like-what’s the emoticon for “just shoot me now, because next thing you know I’ll be agreeing with Andy Rooney and eating dinner at 4.30pm?” I’d like to post it as my Facebook status as soon as possible. For reasons I don’t understand, this is how we live now.

God, I’m old.

I saw this warning message today when I logged into our timekeeping application:

Please use the “Log Out” link in the upper right-hand corner of your screen to exit Unanet. Simply closing your browser may hinder performance of the application.

Maybe it’s time to find a new job…

My last CSA delivery was two weeks ago and since I had asked for an extra box, I haven’t had the need to buy any additional veggies. But since Wynne expressed her desire to hit the farmer’s market in Campbell today, I took the opportunity to restock on some badly needed greens. I have copious amounts of root veggies (onions, garlic, sweet potatoes, winter squash, potatoes, beets, ginormous carrots, etc) which means my oven has been doing it’s duty roasting them in olive oil coasted in spices.

So here’s my haul for today: sunchokes (Jerusalem artichokes), shiitake and oyster mushrooms, gailan, rainbow chard, rapini, green onions, meyer lemons and 1lb of mixed salad greens w/edible flowers.  Yum!  My biggest find was definitely the sunchokes which I learned to love when they appeared in my CSA box

On my way into the office today (yes, it is my off-Friday) I stopped by Valley Fair to return some pants I bought from BR which, when I tried them on looked like I had sacks on my legs. Go in, return the pants, walk out, that was my intention. But for those of you who know me well, you can guess what happened.

I decided to wander around to hopefully finish off my Christmas shopping list and that’s when something disconcerting happened. As I was walking, all these people manning those kiosks would suddenly get in front of me and try to push something for “my special lady.” I’m all like WTF and after the 3rd time it happened I realized I was carrying around a bright pink Juicy Couture bag. Heh, if only they knew what was inside it…

I originally allocated 1 hour for this whole endeavor, but yeah…that didn’t happen. But I did manage to escape without buying anything for myself which is almost miraculous. Though I came really close at the True Religion store and at Guess and I’ll probably stop by tomorrow to pick up something Jan showed me for my mom.

Let’s hope my resolve is as good tomorrow…