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Epitaph (from Gray’s Elegy)

“Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray; Along the cool, sequester’d life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.”

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from Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

“Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathom’d caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

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After van Gogh

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Yawn–Tennyson’s “In Memoriam”:

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“The peace which passeth understanding”

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Designed by Nature in Edmo

(July 2, 2013) The robin’s rhapsody rebuts “No, This is it. This is what matters.” No smartphone sale or cheap coffee queues today. Only a 30 plus enhancement designed by Nature. Days forever change. The 100 k winds will likely … Continue reading

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Winston Churchill

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”–speech, Harvard U, Sept. 6, 1943 ……………………………. In response to the ‘in your face’ June 2013 Apple print ads and tv commercials: Mind control is what it’s all about, baby. Control … Continue reading

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On a Provincial Government’s Choice to Abandon Print Texts/Textbooks:

(by closing the text book bureau) Save money! Let the children play!

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On Writers Aging

“With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs”–James Thurber

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“‘ight”: On Making Connections

The connection process. It is that which makes observing my 18-month-young grandson’s journey so interesting. There was one day a couple of months ago that epitomizes that. It was a windy day outside, trees moving outside. He was sitting on … Continue reading

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