"The world is too much with us"

A poem for Monday morning! But before I post it, I just wanted to thank everyone who reads and comments to my journal. I've leaned on you all a lot recently, especially in proportion to my tiny little troubles. Thank you for being my friends.

I usually prefer Coleridge to Wordsworth, but I found this poem echoing through my thoughts. From my perspective, I was thinking this with respect to fantasy/fandom/things that aren't real rather than Nature, but with that same feeling that sometimes one needs to look away from the ground and to the sky.

( The world is too much with us; late and soon... )

Four Happinesses

Some of my friends have done the Happy Things Meme, where one posts every day for a month with at least one happy-making thing. I'm not going to do a month (September has already begun, after all), but let me try a week.

( Four things that made me happy recently )