Jonathan Wagner

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

—Robert Frost

Photo Credit: Foster Hungtington of A Restless Transplant

Typography: IF by Rudyard Kipling from George Horne on Vimeo.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Made these last night and they were pretty awesome. Thanks go out to Alana at Sunshine and Bones for showcasing these and for the lovely image.

Nick and I had the day off since CAPE1’s testing went so well. We decided to take a drive up the coast and snapped these photos.

There’s a short video of the seal at YouTube.

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It was originally my intention to complete a design theme for this site before going live. However, I needed somewhere to publish the CAPE Subversion System article and I wanted it to be on the new site, so I launched prematurely I guess you could say. Well, things came up and I have not had the time to work on the site. So, now I am committing myself to at least a partial, but fully usable theme by the end of this month. At first it will probably just be a CSS design based on the Sandbox theme by Scott Wallick. Eventually, I would like to add a little of the functionality of K2 and probably slim down some of the PHP of Sandbox just to make it a little more focused to the needs of this site.