More "Enduring to the End"

Weather: Friday/Saturday... o'cast & cool. Sabbath Sunday... crisp temperatures and sunny blue skies. Monday partly o'cast to completely o'cast... Tuesday's rain dampened the spirit a bit.

Looking forward to the solstice (December 21?)... I'm longing for days to gain more daylight time. Tired, runny nose... comimg dow'in wid a code?

BIG QUAKES: (From my e-mail alert notification through the bigquake mailing list.)
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake IN THE HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION has occurred at:
42.90N 145.20E Depth 36km Mon Dec 6 14:15:12 2004 UTC
Location with respect to nearby cities:

• 65 km (40 miles) E of Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan (pop 199,000)
• 250 km (155 miles) ESE of Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
• 930 km (580 miles) NNE of TOKYO, Japan

Brother James' birthday the 4th... Happy 50th Birthday Jim!

My entries... poetry.com: " Poetry in Motion "... & Haiku Contest daily contests:

Starlight Dreams "... a love poem.

"Desolation " a Haiku: ... Megaliths came to mind in viewing the black and white photo for inspiration... a clouded sky above a worn path surrounded by sparse weedy grass with large stony outcroppings heaped about. 'Runes' are what might have been on such ancient ruins of druidic bent.

"Thief " a Haiku: ... The 'tiles' were few (about 100 words and partial words/alphabet) and skewed toward thanksgiving of a sort. I sought more obscure verbiage perusing the dictionary (my dog chewed "Funk & Wagnalls") looking to combine 'tiles' or superimpose same: venal..... ennui..... mendacious. 'Mendacious' was formed by superimposing the tile-letter 'm' and the tile-word 'end' and the tile-letter 'a' (in that order) over the tile-word 'delicious'. Not entirely happy with the result, except in the fact that the poem sorta'/kinda' rhymes... and I stayed away from turkey day references. My poetic interpretation: Steal at thine own hazard... thy corruptible,bored, false one.

"... having a perfect brightness of hope..." ...

Hona sainara !!!