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Porch Poem
The Prow of a ship The End of the world The year, the day advance And I with them. My breath is caught The way home is easy I am grateful for all I have, I am, I know. Today is the end of was The...
My good Australian friend....
.... left me a link to this wonderful discovery.... Here is the link she left....... There are lots more of the Marsh family on youtube. Follow them and make yourself happy. Oh and here is th...
Good was my word... for the whole year?
Oh well. Good is better than some things. I have some stuff to write about but I’m not sure I want to do it… yet.... at all… ever. Maybe. Maybe not. I’m fun, aren’t I? It’s Sunday night. ...
Declaration
I am through with facebook forever
More Kennedys
I apologize for posting these - they are nice to see. I’m sorry if non-US readers can’t see them, though someone said they were able to find a link to youtube to watch. I also realize it’s har...
Nu obsession...
Nu obsession and it doesn’t involve yu. Small joke for the day after the U.S. Presidential Inauguration. On-line jig saw puzzles. Has anyone but me ever been captured by them? They are either wo...
It's snowing....
https://explorelacrosse.com/live-rivercam/
Writing
I like to write. I think writing may even have been my greatest unfulfilled talent/possibility. I think the writing I have done is probably my greatest satisfaction - well except for when I ha...
50 minutes of something like excellence
This is a compilation of John F. Kennedy’s presidential press conferences. It’s narrated by E. G. Marshall. It has a lot of history in it. Those of us who remember those years will think o...
dogs, not my own
https://twitter.com/dog_rates/status/1344342520096985089 This is a compilation from the We Rate Dogs account on twitter. It’s a collection of film bits of dogs being themselves, i.e. lovable. ...
Book reviews
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2020-in-review/the-best-books-we-read-in-2020?itm_content=footer-recirc
Two
Magic - in the daylight - on this day of days
https://explorelacrosse.com/live-rivercam/
Tell me a story...
.... about these people.
I wrote a poem - I am not proud
Do what you want to Do what is itchy and calm Do what I want to. Make this what we know Make this alphabetical Make this everything. Remember always Remember the now of love Remember what was Tel...
Another of my favorites
Oh and his house. I want a house like that. https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/12/10/thomas-mertons-obituary-1969?fbclid=IwAR3fioWCR1_dBbdprAPNrxTr9Jk-j0E5VQ_XeULxG-oHXqXHijqAi7Ym6A8
Retired Iowa Senator Harken is sailing off Newfoundland
https://www.yachtingworld.com/cruising/sailing-newfoundland-swan-59-skipper-128768 lobsters too!
an old picture
Deb, my sainted daughterinlaw, scanned some pictures of my brother. This is 1975. Mike was 25. Picture was taken in this room. There’s my mother’s formica table. And the plate rack that c...
Remarkable man
Christmas Poet
To wondering eyes appear a sleigh with tiny reindeer - To the top of the table, to the top of the tree, up with the star With stamping of hoof, with gay snorts and laughter. On the White House la...
Penny for your thoughts...
I’m reading Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge - God I love that man. How does everyone else feel about him? And/or David Icke?
One question - three venues
What would your protest sign say? Think as much or as little as you’d like.
Something else with numbers
Are you named after someone? My two grandmothers - Mary for my father’s mother and Kathryn for my mother’s mother. When is the last time you cried? I never cry. Do you like your handwriting? I h...
74 goals
Resubscribe to New Yorker. Read New Yorker in the bathtub. Read the poems in the New Yorker. Write a letter to someone once in a while. Never buy another book. Organize my books. Get rid of some...
All Souls Day - Found it!
Van Halen notBon Jovi or REM. This is my favorite day. The three come in a row = Halloween, All Saints and All Souls. If all Saints includes everyone in heaven - including those we knew whe...
Book Description
Just a few words that don’t mean anything.