October 2009
16 posts
May You Always Feel Loved
May you find serenity and tranquility in a world you may not always understand.
May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with optimism and courage. Always know that there are those whose love and understanding will always be there even when you feel most alone.
May you discover enough goodness...
The Wave getting some props →
But Rockaway is a fascinating place neglected by both the city and its media, and The Wave diligently reports its stories, from “Shooting Incidents Rip Rockaway” to “New Diner Management Hopes to Erase Nightmare Beginning.”
High School
I’ve been reeling the past few days after hearing that my alma mater, Stella Maris High School in Rockaway Beach, will be closing in August 2010.
Stella is an interesting little place. It was always a small, intimate school, but now the enrollment is down so low that it can’t remain open. It’s the economy, a sign of the times. But it still baffles me—who, given the...
“Nature’s first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early...”
– robert frost
Mary, Star of the Sea
If the winds of temptation arise; If you are driven upon the rocks of tribulation look to the star, call on Mary; If you are tossed upon the waves of pride, of ambition, of envy, of rivalry, look to the star, call on Mary.
“as fair you are my bonnie lass/so deep in love am i
and i will love you still,...”
– how i remember it from the walls of mrs. gluszak’s english class room, 10th grade.
“The words on the page start to swim
As light catches your face and you’re...”
– bell x 1, “light catches your face”
“if love be rough with you, be rough with love. prick love for pricking and you...”
– billy shakes
“don’t let this world tame your heart. be a hunter and not the hunted.”
