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What a magnificent Sunday! It was lazy. It was warmish outside. The leaves continue to fall into their singular and collective oblivion. Actually they are the nutrient loam of future growth, but today they are the crinkled collection of crunch in which children can play and adults can rake. What a gift. There is nothing [...] Continue reading Thoughts and Memories on a Fall Day I had not planned on writing an observation about nature today, but it happened nonetheless. Some leaves in my area are already changing to their fall festival refinement. Every time I see this, I wonder about the fall in my own life and will I in my cooling climate refinement of nouns, verbs and connecting [...] Continue reading The Beginning of Fall I met a delightful gentlemen on board a train yesterday as we both traveled home from New York City. Normally very few people talk to those they are sitting beside. I don’t know why that is for there is so much to learn from shared conversation. People seem not to want to bother another or [...] Continue reading Train Talk Good Morning, some rants and raves and whys on life on this fine, cold, frosty morning in the northeast. Let me start with the whys. Why does the railing on an escalator move slightly faster than the stairs? Why is gasoline cheaper or more expensive at stations that are no more than a mile or [...] Continue reading Rants, Raves and Whys Some thoughts on fences. America continues to debate a duality and dilemma similar to the questions asked by Robert Frost in his poem Mending Wall. The poem starts with the line, “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” and it ends with “Good fences make good neighbors”. Frost makes no distinction as to which [...] Continue reading Fences Since today is President John F. Kennedy’s birthday, I am reminded of what he said about poetry at the dedication of the Robert Frost Library. “When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitation. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his [...] Continue reading About Poetry…It’s OK to read. It won’t hurt! |
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Poetry
April is poetry month. President John F. Kenned talked about poetry at the dedication of the Robert Frost Library. He said: “When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitation. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, [...]
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