Doesn’t seem possible that Steve Jobs has been dead a year. The Apple website had a nice little video piece and note from Tim talking about the legacy of Steve. I think we could have done something a little more but ok. It was a day full of things good and bad, big and small. one of those days when it’s hard to know what a single person or small group of people can do. Probably the biggest thing we can do is stand together and care about each other.

Let your pain, your fright
be brushed away, soothed and stilled
with each calming breath.

sad story to hear
your life wrongly damaged
and the pain of fear.

Warm and most foggy
october morning: sweater
unnecessary

But the shelves were filled with a host of other things: tennis rackets, hockey sticks, umbrellas, a spade, a notebook computer, a wooden leg, several mugs, dozens of shoes, pairs of binoculars, a small log, six glove puppets, a lava lamp, various CDs, records (LPs, 45s, and 78s), cassette tapes and eight-tracks, dice toy cars, assorted pairs of dentures, watches, flashlights, four garden gnomes of assorted sizes (two fishing, one of them mooning, the last smoking a cigar), …

Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman

you’ve reached the end;
end of possibilities
I’ve no suggestions.

so many reasons
why you shouldn’t be asking
for this kind of help.

the sound of my breath,
putting hands over both ears
inner calm, night sea.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatsoever that it is not entirely absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. – Bertrand Russell

yep. all of that.