ManicDDaily

Hello  World!  This is my first post and I want to tell you a little about myself.

I love Robert Pattinson.  I also love Walt Whitman, W.B. Yeats and Virginia Woolf, so please don’t judge me too harshly.   Though I’ve actually been quite amazed by my love for Pattinson.  It is not just his looks (okay, it’s his looks), but also an inherent, seeming, sweetness.   The casual smile, upturned lips, harassed hair, truly harassed self.  (Additional love is engendered by pity, the poor guy seems to hardly have a life, at least not a life that can be led in any public forum.)

I’m not sure it is the sweetness of the Lake Isle of Innisfree, of clay and wattles, of nine bean rows, and a hive for the honey bee, or of the Q that Mr. Ramsay endlessly searches for or even of the sands of the Pahmanouk (excuse the spelling), that is, Brooklyn beach that Whitman throws himself onto, endlessly rocking.   But there is something there.  Beauty that must be conscious of itself but runs its fingers through careless hair as if not.

Can’t help it.

Anyway, my obsession for Pattinson is a small and relatively secret part of me.  But it does make for a certain uplift (even though I’m a woman).  Something to pour myself into other than the collapse of the economy, the nadir of stock prices, the weight of college tuition, the fear of the future, the endless grimness of print everywhere and all that’s happening.   The sight of a  sweet unselfconsious smile makes for a good break.   I go to google news, type in Robert Pattinson, and can enter a paparazzi-made bee-loud glade, laughing at the silliness of it all, for just a moment, and then, if I’m at my office, quickly deleting all search history.

Oh, by the way, speaking of sweetness, and this is only a bit of a plug, I also love elephants, drawn in a slightly anthropomorphized fashion.  If you like them too, check out a new children’s counting book  called 1 Mississippi, available at Amazon.  http://www.amazon.com/1-Mississippi-Karin-Gustafson/dp/0981992307/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248491601&sr=1-10