Originally uploaded by Constance Wiebrands.
My current favourite picture of Paco.
Per M’s suggestion, can anyone think of an amusing Lolcatese caption for this picture? 
Archive for May, 2008
Currently reading Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. It’s been a while since I’ve read something where the language has been so exquisite I find myself re-reading paragraphs and making notes of particular sentences and passages. Like this one:
I feel sometimes as if I were a child who opens its eyes on the world once and sees amazing things it will never know any names for and then has to close its eyes again. I know this is all mere apparition compared to what awaits us, but it is only lovelier for that. There is a human beauty in it.
p.57.
This is a book I’d heard a bit about but always resisted reading because, from its blurb, it seemed to be something I would be unlikely to enjoy. Misperceptions, hmph.
