A Map for Saturday

Watched another movie this morning... "A Map for Saturday" about one man's year backpacking around the world.  It gives me the travel bug, makes me want to save up all my money and just go somewhere for awhile.  It's funny... for my last vacation to Australia  everyone kept saying "I wish I could do that" or "Your so lucky you can do that."  Well, anyone can do it, if they have the right attitude. 

The movie helped remind me how I've lost a lot of focus on where I wanted to go in life and where I've ended up.  Maybe it can be a constant reminder of where I wanted to be and how to get there.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art

I just finished watching the 2009 film "Bright Star" and can't believe I didn't watch it sooner than tonight.  The love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne is told so absolutely, heartbreakingly beautiful...

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art —
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors —
No — yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft swell and fall,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever — or else swoon to death.

- John Keats, 1819

Bear patiently, my heart...

"Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things." - Homer

My hearts hurts. And I don't know why I still care.