David Given Schwarm

“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.”~ Alfred Adler

Grief made the young Spring wild, and she threw down Her kindling buds, as if she Autumn were, Or they dead leaves; since her delight is flown, For whom should she have wak’d the sullen year? To Phoebus was not Hyacinth so dear Nor to himself Narcissus, as to both Thou, Adonais; wan they stand…

“When I say ‘I will be true to you’ I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.”~ Jeanette Winterson

All he had lov’d, and moulded into thought, From shape, and hue, and odour, and sweet sound, Lamented Adonais. Morning sough Her eastern watch-tower, and her hair unbound, Wet with the tears which should adorn the ground, Dimm’d the aëreal eyes that kindle day; Afar the melancholy thunder moan’d Pale Ocean in unquiet slumber lay,…

The four D’s: Dramatics, Dance, Debating and Dating.

We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.

(I don’t mind if these verbs are all wrong)

The baths were mostly tiled showers, with an endless variety of spouting mechanisms, but with one definitely non-Laodicean characteristic in common, a propensity, while in use, to turn instantly beastly hot or blindingly cold upon you, depending on whether your neighbor turned on his cold or his hot to deprive you of a necessary complement in…