Oooh! I thought I'd long ago trashed my Kentucky Colonel commission (there's teenage rebellion for you), but I found it earlier this morning! It is so getting framed and going on one of the walls at home, because it passes the Potential For Entertainment test. (Let's face it - for most of my guests, Kentucky Colonel = mouthy Asian chick in a leather miniskirt = not what first comes to mind.)

My high school attempts at calligraphy do not, but here's what was on my mind (and thus on the edge of my nib) back then: Jethro Tull lyrics ("Let me bring you songs from the wood..." *waves at senior-year prom date* ), Georgia O'Keefe ("Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays"), Sophocles ("Though he has watched a decent age pass by/ A man will sometimes still desire the world"), gamzu ya'avor/ "this too shall pass" (speaking of things I keep having to relearn again and again...), Songs 8:6, the First Amendment, the start of Article VI of the Constitution, Goethe ("Wer nie sein..."), and Ted Kooser:

...Some thought is caught
dead center in its own small world,
a thought so far from the touch of things
that we can only guess at it. If mine,
it would be the secret dream
of walking across, alone, the floor of my life
with an easy grace, and with love enough
to live on at the center of myself.