Sunday, April 12, 2009

who fell on their knees in hopeless cathedrals

Wesolych Swiat Wielkanocnych! Happy Easter, or... Happy Springtime, or Happy Lots o'Candy Day, or Happy Almost Graduation!

I'm in pretty high spirits today. Since I've been in Minnesota (well, Wisconsin right now), I've accomplished a lot on my paper. Almost done! Now for the presentation...which currently has only a title slide.

All the times I was on Mount Lemmon I did not see a single squirrel, and there are five currently outside my window here. I even saw an Abert's squirrel in its warm weather gray coat. My family thinks they are huge pests, but I find them quite adorable. There is a family (pack? group? herd?) of about 5 deer that come around the feeder every night and many, many Canadian geese and robins. I love watching the wildlife up here.

My grandmother is also a wildlife enthusiast and has a wealth of information that I'm taking advantage of. She has field guides galore and an Audobon encyclopedia of North American wildlife.

College decision is more or less made. There's some things to sort through first.

I had a sad moment last night when I realized how far away everyone seemed, how the recent past doesn't feel so recent...but graduation is so close and I couldn't be more excited.

I just realized that Kurt Cobain and Allen Ginsberg both died on April 5th, three years apart. What a sad day for talent. A lot of birthdays in April, though!

Best wishes (I bet you're all watching the Mass at the Vatican like I am!),

Katharine

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Actually they're not entirely sure of Cobain's death day..they suspect that he committed suicide around April 5th, but nobody found his body until April 8th so they're not entirely sure of the exact date that he did himself in....
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Ms. Toews said...

good to see evidence of your high spirits.

What, may I ask, is that "college decision"? You can email me personally with the answer.

George Rising said...

Grab one of those squirrels and bring them home for your paper!