I am more than delighted to report...

...that Southwest Airlines just called me to say they are refunding the entire additional amount it cost to reschedule my travel back from San Francisco to BWI immediately following my grandmother's stroke in January.

Apologies to those who don't like the 'no reserved seating' thing. I LOVE this company.

I am more than despondent to report...

... that 'glossary' now means 'list of abbreviations and/or acronyms'.

Sonnet from the Porch de Guise

The word for today is 'glossolalia'
Today's stiff gusts of unrelated texts
white-squall into an incoherent din,
a glossolalia that the mind rejects
seeking instead a panic room within,
a simple, candle-lit and ohm-filled space;
Anne Franking oneself from the shrieking shills
of retail sales; and sending any trace
of 'business English' heading for the hills.
And when at last life's lavish lexicon
is banished, when my hyperactive brain
divines its rallentando, noises gone
to heaven, may one simple tune remain
with words which are not words, which angels sang:
'Ooh ee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang.'

A word about today's sonnet:

I tried, I really did, to build a sonnet on dendren's utterly wonderful statement today: 'I wanted to be the Mary Tyler Moore of slutdom!'

I've not totally abandoned the idea.

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Originally uploaded by fr_defenestrato.

I unearthed a portrait I sat for as a child...

in 1921.