A Technical Writer's Poem

Just got back from our family's "no-electronics" vacation in the Bruce peninsula. Here's a stopgap posting that I found in a collection of Arabian poety:

The Pen

Take a pen in your uncertain fingers,
Trust, and be assured
That the whole world is a sky-blue butterfly,
and that words are the nets to capture it.
-- Muhammad Al-Ghuzzi

Started reading or read: (I took mostly history books away with me)

• Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony by David C. Woodman
• The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: A Novel by Wayne Johnston
• Sugar: A Bittersweet History by Elizabeth Abbott
• The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Parisby Ian Cannell and Richard Vaughn
• The Tea Companion by Jane Pettigrew
• The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus
• Reap the Whirlwind: The Untold Story of 6 Group, Canada's Bomber Force of World War II by Spencer Dunmore
• Zot, Book 1 by Scott McCloud
• Ancient Mariner: The Arctic Adventures of Samuel Hearne by Ken McGoogan