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A Monday Poetry Friday

THE SNOW-STORM

ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house at the garden’s end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier’s feet Delayed, all friends shut out, [...]

Sunday mornings

I’ve always enjoyed Sunday mornings … from going to Sunday School and then services at First Baptist Church of Chattanooga, Tennessee with my great-grandmother when my age was still in the single-digits, to my current more adult-oriented fare (no, not porn) of double cappuccino, CBS Sunday Morning, Face the Nation, and the New York Times.

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New Year’s Eve

A SONG FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE

Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay—       Stay till the good old year, So long companion of our way,       Shakes hands, and leaves us here.             Oh stay, oh stay, One little hour, and then away.

The year, whose hopes were high and strong,       Has [...]

Renewal of faith

It’s never been a huge secret that I’m not the biggest fan of this time of year.

No, not because it’s winter, but because it’s Christmas-time … the mass commercialization of the season has really started to get to me, even more so than usual.

Christmas is about being with people, not about buying [...]

Quote of the Day

OH NO

If you wander far enough you will come to it and when you get there they will give you a place to sit

for yourself only, in a nice chair, and all your friends will be there with smiles on their faces and they will likewise all have places.

  — Robert Creeley (1926 [...]

Thanksgiving

Time once again for early morning musings on all that I am thankful for over the past year; which given the current state of the economy and world politics might be a difficult task:

My condo actually increased in value, it would seem, which given he current real estate market conditions is a minor miracle. [...]

History

I’m not sure what I’m more excited about.

Barack Obama’s landslide victory tonight? Or the dinner I had with an old friend from high school.

The first was history in the making; the latter is history … but both were extremely pleasant.

A nomad growing roots

Nomads at last | Economist.com

Wireless communication is changing the way people work, live, love and relate to places—and each other, says Andreas Kluth.

Illustration by Bell Mellor

AT THE Nomad Café in Oakland, California, Tia Katrina Canlas, a law student at the nearby university in Berkeley, places her double Americano next to her [...]

Video Poetry (Forever Edition)

ALKALINE TRIO – GOODBYE FOREVER

Take your wings outside You can’t fly in here Besides a purple sky Is better soaring For you my angel You’re an angel You little devil As for me I’ll stay inside I’ll be a spy And I’ll watch from the window

Cannot categorize The nature of this sickness [...]

It has been brought to my attention …

… that some of my behavior, blog posts, and comments on other people’s blogs is making some people uncomfortable, or even “freaked out”, as one friend put it.

For that, please accept my most sincere and humble apologies.

I was stunned, and extremely embarrassed by how my actions and words are, and have been [...]