Tag Archives: seriousness

Seriously.

If I drone on and on about how we need to be more serious, then my words won’t be taken seriously no matter how true they are. The pain we know others experience alone should be reminder enough of what is at stake.

May 9, 2008 – 9:10 pm | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Is Being Serious Something You Work For, Or A Natural Product of Having Fun?

Soul and body have no bounds:To lovers as they lie uponHer tolerant enchanted slopeIn their ordinary swoon,Grave the vision Venus sendsOf supernatural sympathy,Universal love and hope;While abstract insight wakesAmong the glaciers and the rocksThe hermit’s sensual ecstasy.- from W. H. Auden’s “Lullaby”Someone asserted the other day that there were bands trying too hard to be …

August 26, 2007 – 3:22 pm | By ashok | Posted in poetry | Tagged | Comments (0)

Connection Problems, and What to Take Seriously

I have not been able to get on the Internet since early yesterday morning because of my ISP (Verizon) – now, for whatever reason, I am on, so I’d better make full use of this time. My apologies to those of you who commented awaiting a response. I expect the rest of the day will …

February 16, 2007 – 2:25 am | By ashok | Posted in plato, politics | Tagged | Comments (1)