Daily Archives: January 4, 2005

This is not a test…

This is the real thing. A new, hopefully improved, more readily updated and maintained, gigglefern.com. The old stuff is still all here. Get to it by clicking the “old site” link on the left. Little-by-little, I’ll bring old content into this new format. And my new year’s resolution (as trite as that may be) is to update this site more frequently … with diary notes and photos. Of course, first I have to figure out how to add photos. Hopefully that won’t prove too difficult.

A little orientation… the categories you are used to will be used in this site as well, some mostly as subcategories of the photo section, and some more oriented to the written word. It will be easily searchable by category and by date. And you get to choose the style you want to see it in. Right now there are three styles to pick from (river, woods and sky). This is the fun stuff so I plan to add more. Oh, and it’s interactive. You get to comment on anything I put here. Try it! (Mom and Michele, this means you… I think you might be the only people who actually look at my website!)

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.