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Damn, too many media and too confusing for this old gray mare! I just left a comment on this entry/poem on your Facebook page where it is also posted, sort of. I think I can only master one social networking application at a time (and by "master" I mean barely struggle my way through and not screw up too much). Anyway, this is a wonderful, moving poem. Here's what i wrote "over there":
Wow, that's as moving as some of your best poems! Now I really wish that I'd arranged to jet out there for your reading tonight (or you'd agreed to come read here with Nancy Rybczynski in May). It has been quite a journey, and I wish you continued godspeed for the leg in MT. I couldn't resist looking up the Ignatow poem (obviously he had quite a different childhood environment than yours, just from the two poems!) but then associated to Mary Oliver's "The Journey." Her entry in Wikipedia even has the ending of it in a side box:
You strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do,
determined to save
the only life you could save.
From "The Journey", in Dream work (1986)
and then:
Damn those automatic post endings! I just wanted to say "bon voyage" and "godspeed" again, and break a leg, but not a beer glass tonight!
"The Journey"
This will be my post #200--a milestone of some sort, I suppose. Who'd have guessed (other than anyone who knows me) that I'd keep finding things to write about, often at great length? This evening I'll be reading poetry along with my friends Zan and Ann Marie at Shakespeare & Co. here in Missoul...
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Mar 20, 2012
No, she di-int. She couldn't possibly have said that. You're making that up. You just said that to make my head explode. But then Obama hugged a black Harvard Law professor once. And that proves he's a radical Socialist. Finally, we have proof. Or something. I cannot even follow their batshit crazy thinking anymore (and I'm using "thinking" very loosely here). Pleeeeeease make it stop!
Those Three Little Words: "Sarah Palin Said..."
I've previously discussed the the seven most terrifying words in the English language ("The Supreme Court has agreed to hear..."). Today I was reminded of three even more terrifying words: "Sarah Palin said..." What Sarah Palin said this evening on the Sean Hannity show was that President Obama ...
Ann, I'm glad you've found a unique ritual for your Lenten practice that's meaningful to you--and fits within your religious tradition (with updating, it seems). As you know, I've given up such things (and not just for Lent), but I'm glad I got the notice for your page and could come here to see what you're doing. And I also got to read Jack's comments, which cracked me up! I need Laughs for Lent! Since Jack's given up ridiculing Rick Santorum for lent, I guess I'll have to take over the task: see my Facebook page. Talk to you real soon. Can't wait to make plans!
Sermon for Lent 1 & Thoughts on Lent
Ash Wednesday is over, ashes duly administered and received (2 services) -- next year we'll likely try "Ashes to Go" (Google it -- there are hundreds of articles) -- but not a drive-through, though our church has a lovely circle drive that would be perfect for it! I'm forming a worship planning...
I know I'm late to this discussion but just saw it and cannot agree more! I can't stand Chris Matthews--not very bright, egotistical, and extremely rude! The only think he wants to hear is his own voice. The comparison to O'Riley seems apt. Yes, Rachel is the best on prime time, but the very best one they have is Chris Hayes, on with great panels Saturday and Sunday mornings. I've caught part of his shows the last few weeks and have not seen better discussions--ever! My 2 cents and I'm sticking to it!
The Perils Of Pundit Lit
I can't remember when I've enjoyed a book review more than I did the one by David Greenberg today at The New Republic. Titled "It's a Man's World," Greenberg's review was a devastating critique of Chris Matthews' best-selling "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero". I haven't read Matthews' book and didn't...
Makes perfect sense to me. But you forgot the part where he's then going to turn our country (the one where the Founding Fathers abolished slavery) over to his Muslim comrades--you know, the ones he grew up with in Kenya. You are following this, aren't you? Jon Stewart was on Dave Letterman's show tonight and Jon said he thinks the country "over-corrected" when they went from Pres. Bush to Pres. Obama. Waaaaay over-corrected for some of us; just went way over their heads (that are stuck you-know-where) for some of them. They are way through the looking glass, so none of it has to make sense!
Fox News: #1 In Making Heads Explode
According to Fox News' Greg Gutfeld (if you haven't seen him, he's kind of the Fox version of Gilbert Gottfried), the reason that the President and others on the political left are pushing contraception is that they're interested in "getting rid of the poor." Not coincidentally, this is also the...
"The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind; the answer is blowing in the wind."
I'm the one who made Ms. Markle see "Winter's Bone" and she said "Well, that was pretty awful," because it was so depressing. It WAS depressing; bleak, I'd call it. Very, very bleak. Jack, you will probably love it! Actually, it's really stayed with me, but it's still very bleak.
I love Elizabeth Warren; I want to marry her and have her baby.
Oh, I just remembered the answer: “And she lets the river answer. . . That Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said 'All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them' But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone.”
And so we’ve come full circle because the references to [watch] towers and [rolling] stones clearly reveals that Mr. You-Know-Who had all the answers posed by all the songs of the ‘60s! (So, it wasn’t found in playing the Beatles songs backwards after all.) Any more stupid questions?
Anon, and now to bed, to sleep off all the silliness I've just said!
i blog therefore i am
Apropos of nothing, but because I hate to let a day go by without adding a blog entry, I present the following writing exercise I did a few years back. It's a "list" poem, consisting of 24 profound and perhaps unanswerable questions, all of which were posed in the lyrics of songs from the 1960's...
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