haikus

at our school's open house the other night we had a poetry corner and they asked staff to write poems on the hanging poster board so that students would be inspired to do the same. not many did, but i'm always one to write haikus instead of do actual work, so here were the four i contributed (in order of them being written):

The boys of summer
Are soon back with hits and runs
Happy registrar

People disrespect
Hufflepuff but we all know
That it's the best house

Harry and Ronald
Would not have made it without
Hermione's brains

Frodo and Samwise
Are the bravest of hobbits
The Ring is destroyed

Heavenly perspective

"For Judaism, the sacred is a realm that both permeates the everyday and extends far beyond it. Lighting a match is a simple act, but using that match to light a Shabbat candle gives it an everlasting dimension. Doing an act of kindness for another is a beautiful thing; recognizing it as a mitzvah adds an invisible vertical line stretching to eternity." - Rabbi David Wolpe

Not a movie review

When I woke up this morning (well, afternoon), I came downstairs to find my mother watching an old movie. The part where I came in had a troupe graduating from West Point in 1854. The camera zoomed in on one of the men, 'Ooh! He's dashing!' 'Look who's next to him: Ronald Reagan.' 'Okay, yeah, but who cares, I'm watching that one!' And so I kept watching, because yowzah. 

After awhile my mom and I had to pause it to go do things, at which point I looked at the dvd cover because I simply had to know who this dashing young man was. Errol Flynn. In my defense, I've never actually seen him in anything, and it was out of context because he wasn't swashbuckling, and at this point in the movie he didn't have his trademark pencil-line mustache. But good gracious he was a handsome fellow. Also, I couldn't help but smile that my word of choice had been 'dashing' before I knew who it was. Go me. 
And him. For being dashing.