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This week They said last spring. By Easter. Stage one, phase five, third wave, second tier, key indicator seven. The next eleven days Was three months ago. And summer. Stage two, phase thirty-three, fourth wave, first tier, key indicator twelve. Assignments may occur any day of the week And may occur more than […]
“I keep thinking I can see the virus blooming on the horizon like a sunrise. I realize the world will continue to turn, even with no people on it. Maybe it will go a little faster.” That’s from Carmen Maria Machado’s short story “Inventory,” which was written years pre-Covid 19, one of many “prophetic” observations
“…Perhaps, indeed, the rarest and most blessed quality of transcendent noble poetry–as of law, and of the profoundest wisdom and estheticism–is, (I would suggest,) from sane, completed, vital, capable old age. The final proof of song or personality is a sort of matured, accreted, superb, evoluted, almost divine, impalpable diffuseness and atmosphere or invisible magnetism,
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“What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.” John Lennon
Compared to 2020, this approaching year of 2021 should be a piece of cake. And even if it’s not, it still will be better in at least a few ways. 1. We won’t have to learn complicated medical terms as even doctors and epidemiologists try to figure out what’s going on. 2. Wearing the necessary
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And what a year it was … Talking on the phone to an old friend, you hear people are so grateful to have this year ending soon. Same for social media. And if anyone still wrote letters, there’d likely be the same sentiment expressed in cursive. Cursive for a cursed year. As it winds down,
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Sometimes there are impediments to doing all we wish to do; hence a sabbatical may be the most practical course. I have enjoyed opening the study of astrology to perhaps some new readers these past weeks. The opportunity to discuss one of my favorite subjects is not to be dismissed lightly, nor the chance to
Since it looks as though either nasty winter weather or the need for social distancing may have more of us staying home currently, here’s a quick reminder that you may find useful. Project Gutenberg ( http://www.gutenberg.org/help/new_website.html ) now has over 60,000 books you may read and enjoy online or download to peruse at your leisure,
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It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot Perhaps the waning days of sequestration will give all of us time to consider changes in our outlook, career, and avocations. That would draw good from discontent.
Gregory George lived with his mother. During the day, he worked as a bookkeeper for a small business, receiving an even smaller paycheck. But at night – ah, at night! Gregory George was the equal of a dozen swashbucklers, three private eyes, or an efficient cleaning woman. He was a writer. He sat at the