Monday, October 31, 2016

N. Scott Momaday: The Ancient Child, a novel

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N. Scott Momaday The Ancient Child As I began reading this work, I was reminded of Momaday's, The Way to Rainy Mountain , which I pos...
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Sunday, October 30, 2016

A Minute Meditation

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Today is surely a significant day in English Literature, if not in World Literature.  On this day Oct. 30, 1811,  Sense and Sensibility wa...
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Thursday, October 27, 2016

A Minute Meditation

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Being in a strange and perverse mood, I found this to resonate with today's headlines and stories about people in the news.         ...
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Monday, October 24, 2016

Robert Grudin: Weighed down by the future

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No. III.22 The birth of our second child is one, maybe two weeks away.  The coming event looms over us, the way a big wave looms over a li...
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Friday, October 21, 2016

More Autumn Poems

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AUTUMN Sky full of autumn earth like crystal news arrives from a long way off following one wild goose. The fragrance gone from the t...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Lawrence Durrell: "A Bowl of Roses"

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A Bowl of Roses 'Spring' says your Alexandrian poet ' Means time of the remission of the rose.' Now here at this tatter...
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Sunday, October 16, 2016

Jane Austen: Lady Susan (Boo, Hiss)

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Jane Austen "Lady Susan" "Lady Susan" is one of those works whose length makes it difficult to categorize it.  Is it ...
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Friday, October 14, 2016

Joseph Wood Krutch: Some thoughts on autumn

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Joseph Wood Krutch, prior to moving to Tucson, lived in New England,  and some of his finest writings about nature relate to that period. ...
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Monday, October 10, 2016

Short ones, but. . .

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Must be in a strange mood this morning as I read these short poems and found that they brought a smile, not a laugh, but just a gentle smile...
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Friday, October 7, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXII

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This quatrain continues the theme of the nature of the afterlife, or at least the Poet's thoughts on what it is.  The theme, therefore, ...
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Sunday, October 2, 2016

A Minute Meditation

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A SUGGESTION TO MY FRIEND LIU There's a gleam of green in an old bottle, There's a stir of red in the quiet stove, There's a...
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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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