Away In Virginia, I See a Mustard Field And Think Of You
because the blue hills are like the shoulder and slopes
of your back as you sleep. Often I slip a hand under
your body to anchor myself to this earth. The yellow
mustard rises from a waving sea of green.
I think of us driving narrow roads in France, under
a tunnel of sycamores, my hair blowing in the hot wind,
opera washing out of the radio, loud. We are feeding
each other cherries from a white paper sack.
And then we return to everyday life, where we fall
into bed exhausted, fall asleep while still reading,
forget the solid planes of the body in the country
of dreams. I miss your underwear, soft from a thousand
washings, the socks you still wear from a store
out of business thirty years. I love to smell your sweat
after mowing grass or hauling wood; I miss the weight
on your side of the bed.
Barbara Crooker - thought you would all like this
Music
The Beatles, Nirvana, Cole Porter, Gnarls Barkley, Bjork, Miles Davis, CCR, Tom Waits, Seu Jorge, The Flaming Lips, Nikka Costa, Joanna Newsom, Yahn Tiersen
Movies
The Secret of Nim, Big Fish, Solo Dios Sabe(because it is good too), The Cotton Club, Trainspotting, Ghandi and more...
Television
No more Cable, no more Project Runway or History or HGTV. Good thing I have a job for now
Books
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, Ender's Game, The Great Gatsby, Copenhagen, Waiting for Godot, The Ethiopian Tattoo Shop, plays of course. Getting back to the Greeks and back to American Classics. I am not sure why but I am moving back to my High Schools required reading.....I really don't know.
Heroes
My Father, my Mother, My Family in general, a few past teachers, Ghandi, Multi-Skilled Artists, Dogs and Lovers of Life...
About me:
I can't go on,
I must go on,
I go on.... Samuel Beckett
You scored as Utilitarianism. Your life is guided by the principles of Utilitarianism: You seek the greatest good for the greatest number.
?The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.?
--Jeremy Bentham
?Whenever the general disposition of the people is such, that each individual regards those only of his interests which are selfish, and does not dwell on, or concern himself for, his share of the general interest, in such a state of things, good government is impossible.?
--John Stuart Mill
You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.
Doing alright. Going with the flow, I guess. Debating grad school, but not finding much direction. Sorry I missed your birthday. Hope it was a good one.
