Friday, September 30, 2016

Confucius and Wisdom

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Confucius met two boys who were arguing.  One said: " When the sun rises it is closer to the  earth and at midday it is farther away.  ...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Ray Bradbury: Long After Midnight, "The Blue Bottle"

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Ray Bradbury Long After Midnight Long After Midnight is a  collection of short stories that I had read many years ago, but as usual, I...
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Sunday, September 25, 2016

Missed cultural signals

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No. 93 well nothing happened yesterday has passed away with globefish soup                 -- Basho -- from The Complete Haiku Tex...
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Friday, September 23, 2016

A Minute Meditation

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"Don't worry and everything will naturally sort itself out."                                                                ...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Autumn Poems

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Today, September 22,  2016 is the first day of Autumn, or the Autumnal Equinox, or if you prefer, the Fall Equinox.  In recognition of this...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

John Muir: immortality, sort of anyway

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94 Bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters.  A bear's days are warmed by the sa...
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Sunday, September 18, 2016

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882): The Two Longfellows

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Presented are two poems written by Longfellow,  one published in 1836 and one published some forty years later.  I wonder what has happened ...
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Thursday, September 15, 2016

A Minute Meditation: a paradox or a contradiction or. . .?

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August 6 All theories are completely false. -- Chuang Tzu -- from Taoist Wisdom:  Daily Teachings  Does this include his theory?  
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXI

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And yet another quatrain that FitzGerald introduced in the Second Edition. Second Edition: Quatrain LXXI I sent my Soul through the In...
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Saturday, September 10, 2016

Cats: a poem and a painting

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                                                                                                 Cat and Yellow Butterfly             ...
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Friday, September 9, 2016

Elizabeth Jennings: "The Enemies"

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Here is a strange, enigmatic poem by Elizabeth Jennings, a poet of whom I know nothing.  I shall have to do some digging around. The Enem...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

A Minute Meditation

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No. 36 inside the temple   visitors cannot know      cherries are blooming                    -- Basho -- from   Basho:  The Complete ...
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Sunday, September 4, 2016

A few words about Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey

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Jane Austen Northanger Abbey This was one of the two novels published posthumously, shortly after her death in 1817.  The other was my f...
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Thursday, September 1, 2016

A Minute Meditation

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August 30 Nothing is wrong.  Everything is right. -- Lao Tzu -- from  Taoist Wisdom Why are those who go around denying the validity...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

Sarah Orne Jewett: September Song

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Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of  Pointed Firs The conclusion to the novel--the end of the vacation.  It is time to return home and face...
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Friday, August 26, 2016

A Minute Meditation

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I usually post texts that either I agree with to a greater or lesser degree or which puzzle me and I hope for illumination.  Rarely do I pos...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Thomas Hardy: "Afterwards"

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Here is another gem of Thomas Hardy's that I just discovered recently while browsing through the collection of his poems.  Afterwards...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain LXX

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This quatrain responds to the previous quatrain in which the human body was referred to as a "Clay suburb." Second Edition:  Q...
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Saturday, August 20, 2016

A Minute Meditation

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At one point in his stay in the Sierras, John Muir got a job on a sheep ranch.  This resulted in the following observation, which may or may...
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Friday, August 19, 2016

Joseph Wood Krutch: drawing the line, sorta, kinda

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Joseph Wood Krutch The Twelve Seasons This summer I have been looking again at Paramecia and Lacrimaria and Opalina, as well as at the fl...
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