"Study buddies!!!"

It can be so difficult to do good and help others when a variety of distractions and frustration-inducing factors are being thrown at you from every direction. Even when one supposedly has a "good attitude and work ethic."

Items

As I said earlier today to a friend, I have two notable items to present:

"Item number A..."

Yes, I said that.

So.
Moving on.

Item number A:

Today was the last day of summer.
It was really warm... and thus, fitting.
Beautiful day, truly.

Item number B:

I am working on a most excellent, super duper secret surprise.
And I fear that I am not going to be able to work on my homework in an entirely proper fashion until I have finished said surprise. Which could very well take months. Oh dear.

Tender

Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,
which I gaze on so fondly today,
were to change by tomorrow, and fleet in my arms,
like fairy gifts fading away,
thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art,
let thy loveliness fade as it will;
and around the dear ruin each wish of my heart
would entwine itself verdantly still.

It is not while beauty and youth are thine own,
and thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear,
that the fervor and faith of a soul may be known,
to which time will but make thee more dear!
No, the heart that has truly loved never forges,
but as truly loves on to the close,
as the sunflower turns on her god when he sets
the same look which she turned when he rose!

Thomas Moore

Lightning

These past nine years have flown by...

Possession

"… he bound the strong man, when he cast out unclean spirits by his word: thus he wrested the sword out of the devil’s hand, that he might wrest the sceptre out of it."
[Matthew Henry]