2 posts tagged “npr”
Waking up at 6am and sitting in the car for a couple hours does have its benefits, like listening to the commentary on NPR with Nancy Pearl on further under the radar: more books not to miss, including After, a book of poetry from Jane Hirshfield.
To Wake at 3:00
To wake at 3:00
and not want to go back to sleep
is different
from waking and wanting
not to go back to sleep.
Thoughts
come to the mind,
predictable almost as breath.
The day's small errors and failures.
wrong words that were said,
right ones that were not.
Outside the window
a truck, with yellow lights
running the length of its body
and R&L Cargo lettered large down its side,
diesels the street inexplicably backward.
Making its own deliveries,
equally exhausted, from some great distance.
From After by Jane Hirshfield. All rights reserved.
Courtesy of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Listen to it here on the June 9th show.
"Great news from Google, their new street view feature...allows you to see what a street actually looks like as if you were standing right there. They did it by taking millions of digital photos from moving vans. But the pictures also show rather surprising things, including a man sitting on a bench in San Jose, California doing what?"
Mashable also has a photo of a crime in progress (#2 in their top 15 sightings) and a sad story of Cornelius, a homeless man, and his dog.
We're just human, after all.
