At a Window
Give me hunger,
O you gods that sit and give
The world its orders.
Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!
But leave me a little love,
A voice to speak to me in the day end,
A hand to touch me in the dark room
Breaking the long loneliness.
In the dusk of day-shapes
Blurring the sunset,
One little wandering, western star
Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow.
Let me go to the window,
Watch there the day-shapes of dusk
And wait and know the coming
Of a little love.
—Carl Sandburg (Factoid: While Carl was in college, where he studied the classics and a professor encouraged him to begin writing poetry, he worked as a janitor at the fire department.)
On a sidenote, this will be the last week for the PotD. I committed to doing it for a year and 365 days have come and gone. I hope you've enjoyed it and learned as much as I have, and I thank you all for taking this ride with me. I am currently debating whether to continue in a different format, the PotW(eekly) perhaps, but I have yet to decide where to take it from here. Stayed tuned and keep paying attention to the world as it rolls by you.
All the best,
Scott
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Hopscotch. The game traces it's origin to the Roman Empire and the empire's time in England. Originally Roman soldiers hopped up and down 100-foot-long hopscotch-like courts in full armor for agility and endurance training, and the oldest known court can be found in the Roman Forum. Kids in England took what they saw the soldiers were doing, made it their own and a world-wide phenomenon was born. Click here to read more about its history, what it is called in different countries, and all its rules (there are more than you probably remember).
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Have you ever stopped to think how different huge cities like New York or San Francisco would be if bridges didn't exist? The first steel bridge in the United States was the Eads Bridge that crosses the Mississippi River at St. Louis. It was completed in 1874 and was the largest bridge ever built at the time. This is not that bridge. =)
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The Denver International Airport has all sort of cool and crazy and sometimes ugly art all over the place. The arch and the lights here are be part of a huge sculpture in the middle of concourse B. Cool? Crazy? Ugly? You decide.
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CHAIR ON A HOUSE (6.5.07) |
OK, this is a first for the PotD. I can't figure out a link to go with this photo. I could have sworn I once heard that nailing a chair to your house is suppose to be good luck, but I couldn't turn up anything. Anyone know why the hell you'd nail a chair to the outside of your house? Send in your answer and I'll post it with a future PotD. In the meantime, read up on some other superstitions, like the one about having a naked woman on board your boat will calm rough seas.
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The sign belongs to the Moondance Diner and, just like the diner, dates from the 1930s. The diner (not the sign) has appeared in "Friends" and "Sex in the City" and was where Kirsten Dunst's character, Mary Jane, worked in "Spider-Man." Sadly it is either getting moved or knocked down to make way for luxury condos.
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