Sunday, November 27, 2016

A Minute Meditation

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The white blossoms of pear trees and the slashes of red earth in the grasses, the brown rivers high and roiling.  The sky is the very blue ...
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Thursday, November 24, 2016

John Muir: life in the mountains

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The following is an excerpt from John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir. 79 "These beautiful days must enrich...
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Monday, November 21, 2016

P. D. James: The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories

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P. D. James The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories Intro by Val McDermid Preface by P. D. James P. D. James is my favorite mystery writ...
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Friday, November 18, 2016

Colin Dexter: The Last Bus to Woodstock

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Colin Dexter The Last Bus to Woodstock Police Procedural Oxford, UK Detective:  Inspector Morse This is the first in the highly accla...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Ray Bradbury: Long After Midnight, "One Timeless Spring"

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Ray Bradbury "One Timeless Spring" Long After Midnight "One Timeless Spring" is the second story in the collection, ...
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Monday, November 14, 2016

November

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                                                     November First What I love best in autumn is the way that Nature takes her curtain, ...
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Friday, November 11, 2016

John Haines: "If the Owl Calls Again"

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I'm not sure why, but this poem struck a chord in me.  I know nothing about John Haines; I had never even heard of him until I read this...
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Monday, November 7, 2016

Balance

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Tomorrow, November 8, 2016,  is Election Day.   It is one of the most controversial and troubled elections we've ever had.  Predictions ...
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Saturday, November 5, 2016

Andrey Kurkov: Death and the Penguin, a novel

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Andrey Kurkov Death and the Penguin A Militia major is driving along when he sees a militiaman standing with a penguin. 'Take hi...
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXVII

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Quatrain LXXVII of the Second Edition refers back to the previous quatrain in the Second Edition: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXVI The Mov...
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Shakespeare's Farewell

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The Tempest:  Act IV Scene 1 Prospero:  Be cheerful, sir: Our revels now are ended.  These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spir...
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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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