Here's something from one of Sherman Alexie's poems.

[From the Poem 'Water']


. . .
My wife, just a child then of five or ten or eighteen years old,
heard the slurred laughter of her father, the drunk, and
maybe he would laugh and get off the phone and be charming
or maybe he would be the cruel bastard, but there was no way
of knowing until he got off the phone, so she'd sit in her room
with a glass of water on the windowsill, oh, she'd be praying
to that glass of water, oh, she'd be praying
like everything was two parts broken heart and one part hope.

--Sherman Alexie

Cats love watching windows. I use to think they were watching the scene before them outdoors. Now I know better. In actuality, they are minutely focused on a speck of dirt, much the way a mystic focuses on his breathing in order to meditate. Woohoo! I just pissed off my cat Morris, because he overheard what I was writing. He didnt know I knew :-) So he jumped down fromthe window sill and ran into the other room. Ha-ha

noah grey What is photographic art: Is the last movie that moved you any less of a movie for not being a real-time unscripted documentary without cuts or post-production? Is any work of art invalid that isn't a spontaneous and completely unplanned first-draft? Because all of those are no less forms of lying than anything you can do in photography, digital or otherwise

Noah Grey is a photographer and blogger with his own weblog software (I plan to try it out soon) This website has elegant writing on a variety of topics not just photography.

Non-Errors . . . it is interesting to note that in English adjectives connected to sensations in the perceiver of an object or event are often transferred to the object or event itself. In the 19th century it was not uncommon to refer, for instance, to a "grateful shower of rain," and we still say "a gloomy landscape," "a cheerful sight" and "a happy coincidence."

Prof. Brians' page of Non-errors in English strikes a blow against the hyper-pedant and recognizes that English evolves. I like this guy. In graduate school, I once had a usage corrected by my professor, and was pleased to find my construction also used by T. Jefferson, generally thought to be a graceful writer. I wish I remembered the phrase, but do not.

Also see his list of errors that he objects to (the other list contains what some say are errors but he thinks not. Especially check out my pet peeve, the use of literally as an intensifier.