Thursday, November 16, 2017

Carl Sandburg: "Muckers"

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                   MUCKERS   Twenty men stand watching the muckers.        Stabbing the sides of the ditch        Where clay gleams ye...
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Monday, November 13, 2017

Bokeh, a film

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Bokeh, a film A young couple, Americans, are on vacation in Iceland.  One morning they awake to find that everybody else has disappeared-...
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Friday, November 10, 2017

Ray Bradbury: "The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind"

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Ray Bradbury "The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind" a short story found  in Twice 22 This, of course, is a fairy tale, and that ...
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Eric Hoffer: re-seeing the ordinary

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No. 90 Familiarity blurs and flattens.  Both the artist and the thinker are preoccupied with the birth of the ordinary and the discovery o...
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Saturday, November 4, 2017

Haiku Bells

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Long ago I believe bells, church bells, played an important role in everyday life, especially in rural areas.  I wonder if that's still ...
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Thursday, November 2, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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No. 224 I never saw a discontented tree.  They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far a...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

An History of Ancient Egypt

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An History of Ancient Egypt A Teaching Company Production Eight DVD set 48 lectures, 30 minutes each This is an excellent introduction ...
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Saturday, October 28, 2017

Cavafy: "Desires"

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Cavafy is the poet celebrated by Lawrence Durrell in his "The Alexandria Quartet."  It was those frequent references to him and hi...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Gene Wolfe: "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories"

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Gene Wolfe "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" from The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest...
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Sunday, October 22, 2017

It's not always Edenic

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A favorite form of poetry of mine have been those created by the hermit poets in China and Japan.  Many of their poems portray the simple li...
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Thursday, October 19, 2017

A. E. van Vogt: The Voyage of the Space Beagle

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A. E. van Vogt The Voyage of the Space  Beagle In 1831, a British warship was refitted for an exploratory mission. It's task was ...
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Monday, October 16, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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Henry Beston Northern Farm: A Chronicle of Maine written during the late 1930s first published in 1949 When the nineteenth century and...
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Friday, October 13, 2017

Two New England Farmers--A Brief Conversation

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One comments. . . As I  "mushed" on into a little clearing, walking towards the sun, I had a glimpse of a winter effect I alway...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Theodore Sturgeon: "A God in the Garden"

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Theodore Sturgeon "A God in the Garden" in The Ultimate Egoist: Volume 1: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon Th...
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Saturday, October 7, 2017

Baltasar Gracian: a man of peace

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-- 192 -- A man  of peace, a man of years; in order to live, let live;    the peaceful not only live, but they reign; lend your ear...
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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Lawrence Durrell: Pope Joan

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Lawrence Durrell:  Pope Joan translated and adapted from the Greek of Emmanuel Royidis.  Brief  quotation from the Wikipedia article o...
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Saturday, September 30, 2017

Robert Grudin: on watch shapes

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Robert Grudin Time and the Art of Living   VII.26 For a while now I have kept, along with our more traditional timepieces, a digital ...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Loren Eiseley: "The Innocent Fox"

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This is an excerpt from an essay in Loren Eiseley's collection, The Star Thrower.   The essay is titled "The Innocent Fox." ...
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Sunday, September 24, 2017

John Donne and Elizabeth Jennings: Bells

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No man is an iland, intire of it selfe No man is an iland, intire of it selfe; Every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine...
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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Cordwainer Smith: "War No. 81-Q"

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Cordwainer Smith "War No. 81-Q" from The Rediscovery of Man In the future, humanity has progressed to the point that, while t...
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