I am back - I had an absolutely wonderful vacation (and I
finally heard those 3 little words I have been wanting to hear) and I am
posting photos
slowly. However, I am being bombarded with spam! It wont stop, so if
you emailed me or placed an order, please bear with me, I seriously have
thousands of spam emails mixed in with the good emails and am having quite a
time sorting through. By the way, all of you who responded to last weeks
question, thank you, it was wonderful hearing about all your favorite trips!
I missed collaging so much, I made this - I was feeling a
bit more abstract than I normally do - hope you like it.
Question of the week: Where did your blog/website
name come from?
Originally I was "asortofhope" but had some problems with
the ex finding it and reading about me and mike and it was awkward, so I had to
change. A sort of hope is a line in a Keats poem... Hyperion: A
Fragment. "And in her bearing was a sort of hope"
Well, I had to come up with something else, but could not
find any thing with Hope in it that I liked, I looked at art, poetry, everything
I could think of, and finally found an excerpt from Shakespeare, Henry IV Part
1: ACT IV: SCENE I (The rebel camp
near Shrewsbury).
A perilous gash, a very limb lopp'd off:
And yet, in faith, it is not; his present want
Seems more than we shall find it: were it good
To set the exact wealth of all our states
All at one cast? to set so rich a main
On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
It were not good; for therein should we read
The very bottom and the soul of hope,
The very list, the very utmost bound
Of all our fortunes.
it is not as poetic, but I liked it nonetheless...
and here I am today, as the soul of hope. What about
you?
