perps, poets, prophets

i put this first link here for the entertainment of my spouse, who recently returned from church groaning, "not another flippin' Purpose Driven Sermon!"
This little gem from Lark News should put a smile on his face:
http://larknews.com/may_2005/secondary.php?page=1

over on jude's blog you may have recently read the "see-someone-you-went-to-school-with-for-first-time-in-years-so-do-you-go-up-and-say-hello?" dilemma.

From Pádraig, for Jude, comes this lovely piece from the poetic pen of Steve Turner:

The Gap - Steve Turner.

We both happened
to be there.
It was some
distance from
schooldays and yet
we still carried
something of the
same faces.
We smiled and said
hello. We smiled and said
how are you. We smiled and said
how goes it.
Then came the damp
silence that forms
in the gaps between
experiences.
Lips dried up and
eyes hunted for
escape routes.
We searched for an
intersection of our
lives which could be
made to look like a
conversation.
We said it was good
to have seen each other
like this but both
knew it wasn't.
We said we might bump
into each other again
but already we were
taking precautions.
Maybe it would have
been better if we'd
just touched that night.
Just smiled,
and acknowledged our humanity
and moved on.

please try and make time today to check out and bookmark:

http://www.takeitpersonally.org/index.php

and while you're at it, please participate in The Big Ask on climate change@ http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/big_ask/

enjoy your weekends.

cary. x