"Deception"

I came across this poem by C.S. Lewis last night, and I liked it!

Deception

"Iron will eat the world's old beauty up.

Girder and grid and gantry will arise,

Iron forest of engines will arise,

Criss-cross of iron crotchet. For your eyes

No green or growth. Over all, the skies

Scribbled from end to end with boasts and lies.

Clamour shall clean put out the voice of wisdom,

The printing-presses with their clapping wings,

Fouling your nourishment. Harpy wings,

Filling your minds all day with foolish things,

Will tame the eagle Thought: till she sings

Parrot-like in her cage to please dark kings.

The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought,

And fools crying, Because it has begun,

It will continue as it has begun!

The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run

Faster for ever. The old age is done,

We have new lights and see without the sun."

one of those moments..

So I have been really stressed lately. I started remembering this week why we went on our trip to Hawaii; what we wanted a break from. I've been sick, working long hours, trying to get grad school applications in, visiting grad schools, spending countless hours trying to figure out how to not owe the IRS all of our savings, and the list goes on. So I wasn't in the mood to even read last night. I wasn't sure what I was in the mood for. I sort of felt like being some place else, but I picked up my little paperback dopy of "call of the wild" and laid down on my bed. Apparently the last time I read this was on the beaches of Kauai. I opened it up and began to page through it to find where I left off, and with every turn of the page more and more white sand began to fall on my face and into our bed. Then my wife began to rub my neck and I thought about how life really isn't so bad. Silly me for thinking this week's problems were too big for a little sand sprnkled on the face to fix.