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alignment

I currently have a stop-gap job which is kind of an answer to prayer and helping me get my feet on the ground for a bit.  I share the office with four other women.  We share a very strange alignment o...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:58:00 GMT

Top 20 Christmas CDs

 began playing the Christmas CD's this morning, sometime before 9:00.  Late this year -- usually I'm listening to Christmast music by mid-November.  Every year I arrange them differently, and they qui...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:29:00 GMT

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey ...

William WordsworthComplete Poetical Works ..> LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR. JULY 13, 1798 No poem of mine was composed under c...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:00:00 GMT

"Trees as Individuals"

The following is taken from "The Trees in My Forest" by Bernd Heinrich. "Like us, each individual tree is genetically distinct in ways we do not normally see.  However, much more noticeably,...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:19:00 GMT

interchange

"There is no death in mortal things, and no end in ruinous death.  There is only mingling and interchange of parts, and it is this that we call "Nature"." Empedocles
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:11:00 GMT

from inside the kaleidoscope

(The following is a passage from Mark Salzman's "Lying Awake") "For three astonishing years she had lived and prayed from the inside of a kaleidoscope.  Everything fell into a design of feeling, ...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:45:00 GMT

Home I’ll Be

I've just returned from a place not far from Cape Breton, and feel much of the same way Rita MacNeil must have when she wrote this song.  And I've listened to her CD "Porch Songs" several times o...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:31:00 GMT

A Wrinkle in Time author L’Engle dies (repost from Bestemor)

    A Wrinkle in Time author L'Engle dies ..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /> By CARA RUBINSKY, Associated Press Writer Fri Sep 7, 2007 ..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 />HARTFORD, Conn. - Author Madelein...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:32:00 GMT

Wild Swans

WILD SWANS by Edna St. Vincent Millay I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over.And what did I see I had not seen before?Only a question less or a question more;Nothing to match the flight ...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:36:00 GMT

Everyone Sang, by Siegfried Sassoon

Everyone suddenly burst out singing;And I was filled with such delightAs prisoned birds must find in freedom,Winging wildly across the whiteOrchards and dark-green fields; on - on - and out of sight.E...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:37:00 GMT