*Lines selected from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself.
I know I am deathless.
I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content.
One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten
million years,
I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
My foothold is tenon’d and mortis’d in granite,
I laugh at what you call dissolution,
And I know the amplitude of time.
Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am
touch’d from,
The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,
This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.
This is why, this is why, this is why I’m hot.
#1 by erinm on 09.12.2009 - 12.13 pm
Joe, Soooooooo (i can’t add enough ooo’s) freaking good. i love your post! oh and by the way…we picked the same lines. i’m guessing it’s because we are both cool like that! lol. great minds think alike. i’m so glad you agreed to be my partner! your pic rocks. awesome job.
#2 by jillians on 09.17.2009 - 5.26 pm
I also picked these lines So far, I am really enjoying your blog- keep up the great writing (and the great photos)!