International Awesome Day is 3/10/2012

Yes, international awesome day is 3/10/2012 and to celebrate this momentous occasion, we have usurped the idea and decided to create a publication for 3/10/2012. So friends on twitter and facebook have joined together and I am compiling their work into one volume. We're still thinking of a name for the entire magazine but the website is this:  http://collectedworksofawesome.blogspot.com/ Check it out for the idea and for the details! It's going to be GREAT!

A poem for my wife

I have written a poem for my wife for Valentines day. She hasn't seen it yet. I am going to post it to her facebook page at midnight tonight. Here it is:


Jennifer

Water

Flows freely

A bountiful gift

Descends gracefully

Sounding a joyful repetition

That it gives life; preserves life

It is the reason and the cause of life

Winding its way past the rocky barriers

Seeking out the cracks of manmade obstructions

Charting its own sweet, beautiful course deliberately

Finding its path

Yet

Treasured because it is fragile not despite its fragility

Worth everything for without it there is nothing

Needing protection with constant vigilance for

Water steams in heat and freezes in cold

Striving to keep its perfection

Abundant but not guaranteed

Gratefully received

Happily accepted

Blessed

Water

Your Love

Flows to Me

-J. Timothy Quirk

Jurascals road trip to Poughkeepsie!

For last week and for this upcoming week, the family is heading from Auburn, NY to Poughkeepsie, NY for a visit! Here are a couple from last week

Jurascals Ballet: week of 1/31 through 2/4

Jurascals (soon to be Jurrascals) about the rascally dinosaur from the Jurassic era in Auburn NY focuses this week on Ballet. One day, I really would like to see a ballet production that is not unlike the Nutcracker that kids flock to and parents enjoy and if it works out-who knows-maybe the Jurascals dinosaur can be the subject. This one printed in the Auburn Citizen 1/31/2012

This one printed from 1/31/2012. It's based on a true event!

This one is 2/1-also semi-autobiographical except instead of dinosaur, me and slightly different attire...slightly.