Anonymity is NOT for hiding...

...it is to be used when doing service, not when leaving comments on my blog, especially when you are out to make Mickel look bad. For shame!

I have received, and posted, some anonymous comments on my blog, and you know what? All of them were contrary to some degree. Now, I don't mind contrarians; in fact, I think that they are necessary to regulate society, and at times they make very good points.

However, if you post a comment to a blog with your comment, ranging from annoying to downright insulting, if you do it anonymously, I will take that as a sign of your cowardice. You do not need to be afraid of stating your opinion, but, well, I guess you feel otherwise. That's fine. But if you want to do so, don't be surprised when I call you a coward! (you cowards)

Like I said, anonymity should be reserved for doing service. The FCA thereby decrees that no anonymously-left comments will be published on this blog, unless they are positive or complimentary in some way. I expect that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will start flooding me with comment notices full of flowery words and semi-gay rhetoric.

Oh, Kareem!

Sonnet XVII - Pablo Neruda

(100 Love Sonnets, 1960)

I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving

but this, in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.