Laura Kasko:
CLASS OF 1977
Ft. Hunt High SchoolClass of 1977
Alexandria, VA
Laura's Story
Laura's schools include Ft. Hunt High School. Laura later attended College of Southern Maryland (Studio Art) , Randolph-Macon Woman's College (Russian Studies) , The Montessori Institute (Primary Ed) .
Music Laura likes includes The Association, The Fractal Cauliflowers, MIDLAKE BAND. Books Laura likes include Black Like Me, Animal, Vegetable. Movies Laura likes include Gone With The Wind, Rebecca (1940 film), October Sky. TV shows Laura likes include Star Trek, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Star Trek: The Next Generation.
One of Laura's favorite quotes is:""Judge me by my size, do you?"--Yoda
"Daring, perhaps once, to look into the mirror, and see, and not look away"
-Ciardi
"Do I contradict myself?--very well, I contradict myself. I am vast; I contain multitudes."
-Whitman
"My anguished spirit, like a bird,
Beating against my lips I heard;
Yet lay the weight so close about
There was no room for it without.
And so beneath the weight lay I
And suffered death, but could not die."
-Millay
"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Here a great personal deed has room,
(Such a deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men,
Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and mocks all authority and all argument against it.)
Here is the test of wisdom,
Wisdom is not finally tested in schools,
Wisdom cannot be passâd from one having it to another not having it,
Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof,
Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content.
Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things;
Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.
Now I re-examine philosophies and religions,
They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.
Here is realization,
Here is a man talliedâhe realizes here what he has in him."
-Whitman
"I to be self-balanced for contingencies,
To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do."
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"Not only sands and gravels
Were once more on their travels,
But gulping muddy gallons
Great boulders off their balance
Bumped heads together dully
And started down the gully.
Whole capes caked off in slices.
I felt my standpoint shaken
In the universal crises.
But with one step backward taken
I saved myself from going.
A world torn loose went by me.
Then the rain stopped and the blowing
And the sun came out to dry me."
-Frost
"Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber, nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone."
-Millay
"The rain to the wind said,
âYou push and Iâll pelt.â
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodgedâthough not dead.
I know how the flowers felt."
-Frost
I stood swaying
The wind was rushing by
And I was crushed inside.
I pressed my flushing face
To smooth and graying bark
And felt in tight embrace
Beneath the darkening sky
The straining flailing limbs up high.
And every tree was groaning
As I leaned my forehead on its skin
My teeth ground to hold it in
Uselessly. I quaked in sudden spasms
Tears blown from my lashes,
Grappled with phantasmsâ
The otherâs flaring fevered eyes
His curling hellbent venomed lips
Hurling cruel and brutal slashes
At my proferred bleeding breast
In our shared apocalypse.
I canât, I canât, I canât! I plead
Canât try and try my goddamn best
To make another man happy
Stretch and strain to meet his need,
Watch him grow more discontent,
And nothing I do can impede
The slow ill turn to blaming me
If what we are is different
And I canât be what he asks me to be.
I canât go through it all again!
Wind ripped away my cries.
I sobbed and shook till I was spent
And outburst, though not graying, gone.
I pushed away.
The tree stood swaying.
I walked unsteadily on.
-Kasko".
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