Sunday to Sunday Delightful Fairpoint Update & Warez MB?

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

Folks I’ve been without DSL from @MyFairpoint a week as of today. I won’t go into the phone calls other than to say I’m out of energy on it and besides they don’t work much on weekends or at night (other than the people who tell you to restart your modem). I’ve asked for a reduction of my bill and I was assured (!ha ha!) that a note to the appropriate person would be sent along with a note to the different person to send me a freaking new modem.

Anyway this is to tell you that while at home I’m on iffy and fluctuating ATT cellular data. So if I seem a little quieter than normal, that’s why.

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How you spend it…

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. — Carl Sandburg

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Saturday, thinking about August

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

Monday I should send off my first Postcards with poetry. So today I’m thinking about whether my month will have any theme and what should guide my hand to one sort of postcard or another. I hope they make people smile on both sides of the card.

Today I remembered to bring the lunch I forgot yesterday. Luckily it was sturdy stuff – cheese and crackers and some fruit and some boiled potatoes. There were some cucumbers in there before the photo, lol.

Here’s some lunchtime haiku:

roadside with loosestrife
queen anne’s lace and chicory
grateful for stopping

this morning’s sky: blue
with strips of clouds
frayed at the edges

today’s simple lunch:
cheese and crackers and cherries
black berries and cukes

when the traffic stopped,
there, in the ditch forgotten:
loosestrife and daisies.

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It Isn’t Nice…

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

I watched a PBS show about the Newport Folk Festival tonight and there were lots of pretty amazing little bits of connection and people and music and yet the mention of Malvina Reynolds and her music and influence made me sit up. She had started writing music around age 50 and eventually got to the Newport Folk Festival where people paid attention to the words this little white-haired lady was singing, stuff like this:

It isn’t nice to block the doorway,
It isn’t nice to go to jail,
There are nicer ways to do it,
But the nice ways always fail.
It isn’t nice, it isn’t nice,
You told us once, you told us twice,
But if that is Freedom’s price,
We don’t mind.

It isn’t nice to carry banners
Or to sit in on the floor,
Or to shout our cry of Freedom
At the hotel and the store.
It isn’t nice, it isn’t nice,
You told us once, you told us twice,
But if that is Freedom’s price,
We don’t mind. Continue reading →

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E. L. Doctorow

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

I really loved the end where he talks about being the “instant reader” of every line you’ve written

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