i feel like a stealthy blogger now that my address has changed :) but i know nate and jil have located it at the very least ;)
in short: love my job, miss nathan, learning florida.
:)
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Monday, March 27, 2006
Aubade by A.R. Ammons
They say, lose weight, change your lifestyle:
that's, take the life out of your style and
the style out of your life: give up fats,
give up sweets, chew rabbit greens, raw: and
how about carrots: raw: also, wear your
hipbones out walking: we were designed for
times when breakfast was not always there, and
you had to walk a mile, maybe, for your first
berry or you had to chip off a flint before
you could dig up a root: and there were
times when like going off to a weight reduction
center you had a belly full of nothing: easy
to be skinny digesting bark: but here now at
the breakfast buffet or lavish brunch you're
trapped between resistance and getting your
money's worth and the net gain from that
transaction is about one pound more: hunting
and gathering is a better lifestyle than
resisting: resisting works up your nerves
not your appetite (already substantial in the
wild) and burns up fewer calories than the
activity arising from hunger pangs: all in
all this is a praise for modern life — who
wants to pick the subrealities from his teeth
every minute — but all this is just not what
we were designed for, bad as it was: any way
I go now I feel I'm going against nature, when
I feel so free with the ways and means, the
dynamics, the essentialities honed out clearly
from millions of years: sometimes when I say
"you" in my poems and appear to be addressing
the lord above, I'm personifying the contours
of the onhigh, the ways by which the world
works, however hard to see: for the onhigh
is every time the on low, too, and in the
middle: one lifts up one's voice to the
lineations of singing and sings, in effect,
you, you are the one, the center, it is around
you that the comings and goings gather, you
are the before and after, the around and
through: in all your motions you are ever
still, constant as motion itself: there with
you we abide, abide the changes, abide the
dissolutions and recommencements of our very
selves, abide in your abiding: but, of course
I don't mean "you" as anyone in particular
but I mean the center of motions millions of
years have taught us to seek: now, with
space travel and gene therapy that "you" has
moved out of the woods and rocks and streams
and traveled on out so far in space that it
rounds the whole and is, in a way, nowhere to
be found or congratulated, and so what is out
there dwells in our heads now as a bit of
yearning, maybe vestigial, and it is a yearning
like a painful sweetness, a nearly reachable
presence that nearly feels like love, something
we can put aside as we get up to rustle up a
little breakfast or contemplate a little
weight loss, or gladden the morning by getting
off to work . . . .
that's, take the life out of your style and
the style out of your life: give up fats,
give up sweets, chew rabbit greens, raw: and
how about carrots: raw: also, wear your
hipbones out walking: we were designed for
times when breakfast was not always there, and
you had to walk a mile, maybe, for your first
berry or you had to chip off a flint before
you could dig up a root: and there were
times when like going off to a weight reduction
center you had a belly full of nothing: easy
to be skinny digesting bark: but here now at
the breakfast buffet or lavish brunch you're
trapped between resistance and getting your
money's worth and the net gain from that
transaction is about one pound more: hunting
and gathering is a better lifestyle than
resisting: resisting works up your nerves
not your appetite (already substantial in the
wild) and burns up fewer calories than the
activity arising from hunger pangs: all in
all this is a praise for modern life — who
wants to pick the subrealities from his teeth
every minute — but all this is just not what
we were designed for, bad as it was: any way
I go now I feel I'm going against nature, when
I feel so free with the ways and means, the
dynamics, the essentialities honed out clearly
from millions of years: sometimes when I say
"you" in my poems and appear to be addressing
the lord above, I'm personifying the contours
of the onhigh, the ways by which the world
works, however hard to see: for the onhigh
is every time the on low, too, and in the
middle: one lifts up one's voice to the
lineations of singing and sings, in effect,
you, you are the one, the center, it is around
you that the comings and goings gather, you
are the before and after, the around and
through: in all your motions you are ever
still, constant as motion itself: there with
you we abide, abide the changes, abide the
dissolutions and recommencements of our very
selves, abide in your abiding: but, of course
I don't mean "you" as anyone in particular
but I mean the center of motions millions of
years have taught us to seek: now, with
space travel and gene therapy that "you" has
moved out of the woods and rocks and streams
and traveled on out so far in space that it
rounds the whole and is, in a way, nowhere to
be found or congratulated, and so what is out
there dwells in our heads now as a bit of
yearning, maybe vestigial, and it is a yearning
like a painful sweetness, a nearly reachable
presence that nearly feels like love, something
we can put aside as we get up to rustle up a
little breakfast or contemplate a little
weight loss, or gladden the morning by getting
off to work . . . .
Saturday, March 25, 2006
saturday! s for shopping! :)
that's right, we're headed out to the mall today :) (call the credit card company!) cassie and ashlea are headed back to atlanta/blacksburg today but first we're going to do some shopping! we've been all around lately, epcot, magic kingdom, etc. lastnight we had some great chinese at a place i plan on taking nathan to when he moves down :)
check out our adventures and our new apartment at FloridaIveys.smugmug.com -- yes, yet another pictures site- HOWEVER -- the one on msn spaces will go away and this will be our main site for posting pics :) it allows comments and people are able to download the full pic size from their computers :) all that comes in handy when your families live far away like ours do!
i'm sure i'll be posting much more now that my company is gone and i have no nathan - sniff sniff :( i'll try to keep it interesting ;)
check out our adventures and our new apartment at FloridaIveys.smugmug.com -- yes, yet another pictures site- HOWEVER -- the one on msn spaces will go away and this will be our main site for posting pics :) it allows comments and people are able to download the full pic size from their computers :) all that comes in handy when your families live far away like ours do!
i'm sure i'll be posting much more now that my company is gone and i have no nathan - sniff sniff :( i'll try to keep it interesting ;)
Monday, March 20, 2006
Friday, March 17, 2006
wedding pictures!
knock yourself out! :) katie and mark posted their best on their website -- i'll post the others en mass on floridaiveys when i get the chance :) yay :) i'm so excited! they're both incredibly talented and we're very lucky to have them as friends and photographers :)
http://redturtlephoto.smugmug.com/Weddings
http://redturtlephoto.smugmug.com/Weddings
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
online scrabble rocks!
well since nately and i are sadly separated by several state lines, we found a new activity! online scrabble! :)
it's nice -- now we can play our favorite game even though we're far far away :) three cheers for the internet!
it's nice -- now we can play our favorite game even though we're far far away :) three cheers for the internet!
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
new blog address!
set you bookmarks to mrsivey.blogspot.com sometime next week :)
thanks for the suggestions and votes, i decided to keep it simple afterall ;) and joey you guessed it, the advantage to up and changing the address is i get to hold on to all of the blog history :) so there you have it...
thanks for the suggestions and votes, i decided to keep it simple afterall ;) and joey you guessed it, the advantage to up and changing the address is i get to hold on to all of the blog history :) so there you have it...
Monday, March 13, 2006
quick update!
just a quick update :)
- work? good!
- florida? good! loved venice beach :) (our mini-moon, more on that later)
- nate? back in va- looking forward to his happy return!
- cleo? good! uber-watchdog since her daddy's gone back home :)
thinking maybe mrsivey.blogspot.com since neither of the two mrs. iveys i know have blogs :) and then, to my mother's point, it won't be geographically specific! thoughts?
Saturday, March 11, 2006
url change :)
i'm changing my url! bmonteverde is no longer applicable :) i can't decide what to change it to though... and once i change it, the old address will be immediately unavailable, so i'll probably post the new one and then wait a week once i figure it out :)
i like floridabreeze.blogspot.com, but it's not available. here are a few others i'm considering:
i like floridabreeze.blogspot.com, but it's not available. here are a few others i'm considering:
- breezeflorida
- breezyflorida
- breezeinflorida
sensing a theme here? i'm stuck on that at the moment, so my creativity stops there, but i'm open to new suggestions if you have any good ones :)
Monday, March 6, 2006
Sunday, March 5, 2006
tomorrow is the other 'big day'...
my first day of work! nathan and i have been busy busy since we got to florida -- will probably have more time to write and update once he heads back to VA... :)
sorry i haven't updated wedding pics on the ivey site! i have many to post but should have time this week to do it :) no professional pics yet, but many great shots from friends and family!
sorry i haven't updated wedding pics on the ivey site! i have many to post but should have time this week to do it :) no professional pics yet, but many great shots from friends and family!
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