Sea breeze

I like the feel of a sea breeze. 

It carries with it a different touch from that of a land breeze 

In it you feel a tinge of coolness mixed in with the warmth

The air feels a little heavy,

As if it is cocooning you and 

As if you can touch it

And carry it in the palm of your hand.

It carries with it a light whiff of the sea's saltiness,

A scent that reminds you of a faraway land

Or a summer vacation.

When the breeze leaves,

You remember its touch

From the stickiness over your limbs

And your face.

I love that breeze

And how it makes me feel. 

There are days when the heart feels wicked,

And too weary to care.

In one's countenance,

One sees only despair.

All these weight on one's shoulder 

Sometimes it is just too much to bear.

I tried to see with unbroken eyes 

But was caught in a snare.

Asleep, awaken,

I found myself in the lion's lair.

He numbered my days

And counted the strands of my hair.

The days have ended

And I was laid bare.

My anguish, my tears, and sins

No longer forbear.

There is a truth he said 

That we all share. 

We are bind forever,

If we only dare,

To and in his love. 

The adventures of huckleberry Finn-mark twain

Took a little break from reading. Was deciding between Jonathan Franz's book and this, and finally chose this as it is such a well-known book and I've not gotten down to reading it. Upon reading it, I realized I might have enjoyed this a little more if I had read it in my teenage years. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a sequel to adventures of Tom Sawyer and in this book, we got a whiff that in the prequel, tom and huckleberry had acquired 6000 dollars. 

The beginning of the book was interesting but it got a little boring in the middle and then it started to get funny and interesting again at the end. Finn was a 12/13 year old boy who hated school and smoked pipes, and because of his no-good father, decided to run away by staging his own murder. During his run-away he met another run-away -a slave (Jim) of Ms Watson who had treated him kindly but whom he bore a little sense of resentment towards. So it was that Finn and Jim struck an unlikely friendship and with Finn determined to set Jim free from slavery. They got separated on one occasion when they went overboard after a steamboat came too close to their raft. Finn stayed with a wealthy and kind family who were enbroiled in a feud with another family. The family members were mostly killed but Jim and Finn were then reunited. Finn almost gave Jim up as he felt guilty for helping a slave escape but a sentence from Jim saying that Finn was his best friend in the world, prevented him from doing so. They continued on their journey along the Mississippi River to a state (I forgot where) where Jim could be free. They then met two frauds who pretended to be a duke and a king. Although Finn realized they were not who they claimed to be, he continued to act as their servant. The frauds were finally exposed when they posed as brothers of a man who had left behind a fortune. The part I loved most was when Finn came to Aunt Sally's (Tom Sawyer's aunt) home and posed as Tom. Alas, Tom came and after being briefed by Finn about what had transpired, tom posed as his own brother, Sid. There, they tried to free Jim who had been held captive by Aunt Sally's family, in the most ridiculous way. Tom Sawyer refused the easy way to get Jim out of captive and made an elaborate plan(from books he read) such as digging through the ground with knives, planting snakes, rats, and spiders in Jim's cell, hiding rope ladder in a pie and have it sent to Jim, etc. Jim lamented that it was hard being a prisoner because of these things that Sawyer insisted that he did, as this was what prison break was all about. I thought this part was really funny and tom's imaginative and adventure-seeking character really shone through in this episode. During the escape, Sawyer was shot in the leg by a gun and instead of feeling miserable, he was exuberated that he had acquired a gunshot wound. However, his condition deteriorated and Finn had to call upon a doctor (Sawyer again came up with an elaborate plan to bring the doctor). Jim was recaptured when he helped the doctor attend to Sawyer. Jim was finally released when Aunty Polly appeared and revealed that Ms Watson had left in her will that Jim shall be a free slave upon her death. his escape was thus redundant but had offered Tom Sawyer a wild adventure: not so much for Finn as he had just went along with whatever tom wanted. 

I'm not totally in love with the book and think it suits a younger audience. It was an entertaining read nonetheless.

2/5 - 9/5/2016

Bright star- John Keats

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-- 
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night 
And watching, with eternal lids apart, 
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, 
The moving waters at their priestlike task 
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, 
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask 
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors-- 
No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, 
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, 
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, 
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, 
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, 
And so live ever--or else swoon to death.

Why we can't remember what we read

http://bookriot.com/2016/05/04/read-cant-remember/

Exact sentiments...

It's funny how little I remember of a book even when I have just turned the last page. This is also one of the reasons why I decided to do a book review, to try to recall what I can... But most of the time, I end up writing more about how I feel about the book rather than giving a recount as it is a much easier task to do. 

Jungle of regrets

Sometimes you just want to leave the world behind,

Of all the things that trip you,

And ensnare you.

Say goodbye to the jungle of regrets,

To a place where worries hang on trees,

And the wild flowers bend underneath your feet.

There are things you wish you can forget,

But the blades of memories,

They cut deep into your heart. 

My obsessions these days :

http://youtu.be/EhQzh3G9Otw

Learning how to write all over again with a dip pen. It gets frustrating at times when the script just doesn't come out right no matter how hard you try. Sometimes the pen gets stuck, sometimes the ink gets wonky, sometimes you just don't know where the strokes should start and end. 

http://youtu.be/HSxmXhtXsT0

I've been obsessed with the idea of RV-ing for a couple of months now & feel a tinge of envy whenever I watch this couple's vlogs. They are either RV-ing or sailing all over the US. The idea of carrying your home wherever you go is kinda neat yet, I am not sure if it is something anyone wants to do for long-term. But still, I think it would be fun and it has to go onto my bucket list.