31_days | themes: august 2012.

1. my one preparation for the rich, noisy, and functioning madness

2. purveyors of magic and miracle

3. evil from within that has been let out

4. doubt is useful for a while

5. that measure of madness that moves life

6. Plan Number Six: Wage a War of Attrition

7. the vertical edges between light and shadow

8. piqued, peeved, vexed, bothered, irked, annoyed - but not homicidal

9. finding nothing, no bait and no new idea

10. like an arrow entering my flesh

11. joy and pain in equal measure

12. more than a box full of icons

13. the nemesis of my digestive tract

14. for a great unknown beyond the horizon

15. a drumbeat to which we must all march

16. beholden to dry, yeastless factuality

17. an alignment of the universe along moral lines

18. mindful of the sea, which shared things with the sun

19. the fire in their midst roars and crackles

20. like cars from a wedding party honking their way through town

21. dismiss your last allies: hope and trust

22. ignorance is the worst doctor

23. daunted, but not defeated

24. words have no calories

25. with every rinsing, the window opened further

26. brute strength meant only moral weakness

27. the sweet civility of angels

28. as if we were playing hide-and-seek and he were the one counting

29. a person can get used to anything, even to killing

30. beating a rainbow to death

31. life goes on, and you don't touch tigers

All of the themes are taken from the book Life of Pi by Yann Martel, a story of a boy who survived a shipwreck, and was stranded on the Pacific Ocean with a Bengan Tiger, a spotted hyena, an injured zebra, and an orangutan for 227 days.

I hope these themes are workable. Enjoy the rest of your summer days!