Thursday, March 23, 2023
The Tornadoes Got Out of the Alley
Missouri and Kansas are supposed to be "Tornado Alley" but..... I think they got lost, or something. T.V. news keeps showing photos of tornado damage in California....lots of it...even death is involved in the damage. Not that I want any of them here, but.... I don't imagine California wants them...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
This Old Girl...
I'm definitely losing ground in the fight for writing, writing in any form. I seldom write letters to anyone anymore. It's so much easier to "ring them up" and talk to them face to face no matter where they are. I've just about folded when it comes to Facebook, and as for Blogit I definitely am...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023
No Loon Today
No singing birds. No loon calling. On this first full day of Spring no sunshine, only thick gray clouds, cold winter temperature, and squawking Canada geese. These are Canada geese that have never been to Canada. Being born here, they have no remembrance of the land to which they are supposed to...
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Monday, March 20, 2023
The Loon Is Letting Us Know
"The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet. Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes our ears do greet: Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! Spring, the sweet spring!" Thomas Nashe, 16th-century British poet He certainly looked forward to spring in his own...
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Friday, March 17, 2023
Rose Is My Middle Name
William Blake, way back when things were not exactly as they are now, wrote a poem that I never liked: "Oh Rose thou art sick, the invisible worm that flies in the night, in the howling storm: has found out thy bed of crimson joy and his dark secret love does thy life destroy." I was interested in...
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