सवोरिंग सुम्मेर

Well today is my last day at HRF and the end of BGIA Summer 2009. I turned in my Core essay yesterday and my other one is due next Friday. I move out of the Y tomorrow and will be staying in my mom's college roommate's house for the next week, I'm really looking forward to it. I can't believe how fast it's all gone by. In four weeks I will be back at Bard and on my way to Senior year, talk about scary. Life is good besides a few bumps here and there. I'm reading The Sum of our Days by Isabel Allende, I love how funny and honest she is. Well I suppose that's my little update for now. Time to savor the rest of my summer and I'll leave you with a quote:

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. -Kahlil Gibran

Darshan
by:Irene Black

Alone, we two
travel dust-layered
along the unfamiliar road.

How long?
An hour maybe, a day? Who knows, who cares?
Visions of temples, dark, inscrutable,
flicker and fade away,
time-shimmered into obscurity.

Here is no town, no habitation,
only the silent calm of reapers in distant fields,
and the lame bucking of black, bristled swine,
pincered by the thorny talons
of satin-suited crows.

Two grizzled buffalo, horns
resting like folded wings
graze in a grass-damp ditch;
while on a tarmac-flattened patch of road
a woman in a purple sari
sifts golden ragi, newly-threshed
beneath unwitting tyres.

At last the fields lie bare; their honey spilled.
Air flecked with powdered gold;
with slow applauding hoof beats and protesting squeals
of wooden cartwheels passing close;
with the sweet breath of karma-laden oxen
bearing the harvest home.

The undiscovered gods wait in the temple.
Let them stay hidden in dark places.
Clothed in golden glances
we two are divine

*Just a poem I found online that I happened to like

Hot Chocolate!

Cheesecake, Produce and Pride

Ok so I know this isn't going to happen for at least five years but I think I want to go to Mackinac island for my honeymoon. I went there when I was younger, motorized vehicals aren't allowed and it's only an 8 mile walk around the whole island or something tiny like that. It's amazing! There's fudge on every block, cute hotels, horses and bikes. The perfect place to get away and really do whatever you want! Or I'll just go somewhere exotic but if I end up staying the United States for the occasion, Mackinac it is :)

Busy Busy Busy Fun

Last week was:

Idealist Grad Fair
The 39 Steps
Webster Hall
Up!

This week is:

The Hangover
Staten Island Yankees
Iran Rally
Transformers
Pride Parade with HRF

Something Important

I feel like I've lost it. No, I don't mean my mind. Just...something. Something important. I'm not as into this summer as I thought I would be. I'm pretty happy and I still really like the city. HRF is fine and my classes are good, I really like Tom Parker who teaches my class about terrorism but I kind of feel like I'm waiting for senior year. Like this is all just something to pass the time until September. And at the same time, the thought of senior year kind of terrifies me. I like to know what I'm doing and what's next to a certain extent and after graduation...well it's all wide open. I know that's amazing and exciting but it also really worries me.

It's not even about graduation though, I'm also trying to figure out what I should do for Senior Project, how I'm going to go about writing my novella and get good grades and necessary credits and survive my social life. From what I've heard everyone goes insane senior year and I just hope my friends and I survive heh.

Oh well, in the meantime I guess I'll just look forward to the little things.