Monthly Archives: January 2013

the cold clear day

Be careful how you wield the power that you have and know whether you wield it for good or evil… Continue reading

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Dickinson, Frost, Stevens…

and what’s left of my New Englandish brain. Tonight’s discussion started with a bit of Plato, which one of the other students had brought up and which the teacher explained quite succintly while tying it in to our subject matter … Continue reading

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other types of views

on my way to writing something about tonight’s New Englandly poetry thing but first – a bit of something for Mrs. Burns, a little something something pirate-y, arrrrgh: and then, taking the longer view – Ireland as seen from Wales.

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from the quote box, the enlightened view

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darknesses. – Kazantzakis Continue reading

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Mid-night news flashes

It’s about -5F here at the moment.

It’s dark. Continue reading

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