Collie's Bestiary

On Saturday I was very pleased to get to go to the ballet again, with my delightful companion, to see "Carmen." It was danced by the wonderful Ballet San Jose, with the marvelous orchestration performed by Symphony Silicon Valley. "Carmen" was preceded by the unfortunately titled short piece "Who Cares?" by George Balanchine (e.g. "What [...]

This was a quick one-page paper written for one of my classes, which has a wonderful name: "Tree of Brilliant Fruit: Finding Spiritual Wisdom Through the Arts." I'm sharing the paper here because the book was interesting, I'm open to other folks' interpretations, it's fun, and I like sharing writing. I can probably come up [...]

Not being much for pranks, I'm cheerfully indulging myself in yet more gorgeous weather and pleasant mental ramblings: I think I've discovered the three things which help me stay happiest with my life. Curiously, I'd not previously mentally verbalized them, and it wasn't until I read someone else speaking of them that I realized this [...]

The weather is absolutely gorgeous today! I am so pleased to have sunshine and warmth now, instead of constantly gray and rainy days. Consequently, here are some more quietly happy random thoughts… of no particular seriousness or order. :) ———- My hair is growing longer! When I let it down, the longest ends now brush [...]

Huzzah! Got my new Art! page up and pretty much rolling well. There's a link to it up at the top of every page (between Home and About) so it's easy to find. Check it out and let me know what you think! ;)

Random thoughts as I sit cozily in the warm house, sipping hot tea and listening to the rain slashing down madly outside: I'm halfway through my first semester and so far the doctoral program has been… excitingly scary. Or scarily exciting — one of those. Both. Maybe. ;-j Anyway, out of four classes so far, [...]

I just finished listening to an utterly fascinating interview on a blogradio with a man named Allan Johnson. I'm very interested in hearing what others think of it as well. Rarely have I heard a man with such patience and empathy so clear in his very voice, let alone his words; he actually had me [...]

It is the first day of my Spring Break as I write this — wheeeee! Of course, being the Wild Child I am, I'll likely happily spend it curled up on the couch with my textbooks and laptop, working on midterms in front of a crackling fire as I sip a mug of hot tea [...]

Wowzers. This has been an extremely momentous holiday season for my household and myself. I'm very excited at successfully registering for my first quarter of classes for the PhD — both on-line and face-to-face classes, it looks like. I've not done on-line classes before; nifty! I'm being careful for the first quarter and not taking [...]

In effect, those two verses were where the author wrote Truth as she knew it, and that's why those verses shone. Unfortunately, since we've not yet seen the end of this conflict, and she had to describe that 'victory' metaphorically, she couldn't write a truth for that — it hasn't happened yet. Here's the second [...]