There and Back Again

Pondering: A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. (Robert Frost)
It has been ages since I’ve written anything.  This is worrying because it’s either I haven’t had the time, in a long time to write, and/or nothing’s happened to me in a long time that’s worth [...]

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Pondering: Beauty and sadness always go together.Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth upon the earth without a meet alloy. (George MacDonald)
Some pictures or images invoke a feeling of sadness and happiness. These ones I found while perusing Google Images brings a melancholy for moments that happened before my time.

The Kennedys

Charlie Chaplin

The Beatles

Brian [...]

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Pondering: It’s all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. (Mick Jagger)
I saw this question at some random website, can’t remember anymore which one: if you were a songwriter, what songs do you wish you composed? If I were a songwriter, these are the songs I wish I wrote [...]

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Pondering: Sailing on summer breeze and skipping over the ocean like a stone. (Harry Nilson, Everybody’s Talking)

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Pondering: Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am overjoyed when I read what my dear nephew Mike August (now fondly called Mique) is up to nowadays. Last time I saw him, he was only a baby - five years old, I think. Now he’s [...]

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Pondering: One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. (Elbert Hubbard)
I got tagged, so I had to…. The rule is, once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits or goals about you and tag [...]

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Pondering: People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. (Frederick Douglass)
A new year is once again upon us. There is trouble brewing in the horizon but the world still looks forward to a new year, a new start. It’s a new [...]

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Pondering: Dear Lord… The gods have been good to me. For the first time in my life, everything is absolutely perfect just the way it is. So here’s the deal: You freeze everything the way it is, and I won’t ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. OK, [...]

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Pondering: When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
In a few hours another Christmas celebration has come and gone. At [...]

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Pondering: When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. (Lao Tzu)
A feeling of elation washed over me today during my early morning walk. It was foggy when I set off for my four-mile walk. I could hardly see anything or anyone. The cool [...]

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