Friday, July 21, 2017
Big Daddy To The Rescue
"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him." - Pablo Casals. Do you remember Little Abby of the chicken farm and her pet hen that was killed by their new dog that was...
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Thursday, July 20, 2017
Word-Smithery
In response to a comment made by Pat_B to my post of yesterday on my Poetry Blog ( Go to Haiku And Other Aperçus ), I must admit that quite often the prompts to silliness come from Ribcage, as did the words "assiduity" and "asphodel". He is definitely a word-smith when it comes to words especially...
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Saturday, July 15, 2017
Why At Night?
I know it's an old building. I first noticed it about 1965, and it wasn't new then. I know we have been having hard rains of the deluge type. I know that something around here is always in need of maintaining. But, why must this place always make its noises at night...banging, tapping, dripping...
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Friday, July 14, 2017
Silver Fountains Mud
For the second summer in a row, P.D. has a doe with triplets coming out of the woods to graze in his yard and drink from his little stream that last night was a roaring river. Yes, we had another deluge....something like two inches in just a couple of minutes. The clouds moved in. Suddenly a flash...
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
I Don't Want To Die On The Throne
Marguerite was a long-time friend of mine. She was a whole lot older than I. She was even older than my mother. She reached a good old age, raised eight children of her own and even in her eighties was still teaching piano lessons to children, as well as violin, accordion, and other musical...
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