Monthly Archives: January 2014

Bright Star

Watched the movie Bright Star… Continue reading

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Super Bowl Haiku and other voices

You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: Yourself. โ€“ Alan Alda Continue reading

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Conversing about sonnets, night two.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. โ€“ Robert Frost Continue reading

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And with ah, winter cold!

Yep. Had Sunday and Monday off and BLAM – head cold. I hoped I would be able to get into work today but I called in and then went back to sleep. I got up, made some tea and had … Continue reading

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Are you going to doubt Shakespeare and his friends?

I went to the first of three nights of “conversation” about sonnets at the East Greenbush Library. Sounded like a good time – you may remember that I attempted to do a daily sonnet during last year’s National Poetry Writing … Continue reading

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