Sevi – All God’s Critters

Took Sevi to choir today walking down the street, brisk fall day (finally) with her sheet music in hand as she sang and read"All God's critters got a place in the choir, some sing low and some sing higher, some sing out loud on the telephone wire, and some just clap their hands, or paws,…

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Home Movies

the family watched home movies to stave off the change that was coming over them, bone protruding, skin greasing up. they were splitting like overripe fruit and the neat and tidy remained only on 8mm.

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Hart says my name

After the bath tonight Hart turned to me and said “You’re K***B***”. This cracked him up, so he kept repeating it..

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Nostalgia for the Eternal – Adks

Hard to watch everything failing, trees susceptible, leaves eaten, uprooted. Wishing like mad for rain, white-knuckled over the drying up of brooks. I watch a puddle evaporate and want back the springy rich green, rich black muck of just 25 years ago. It’s a keening hard sorrow, to want back the vitality the woods gave…

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Thomas Hardy’s Darkling Thrush

why is it this poem always makes me think of that one day I was hunting, or was it just walking, through the graphite mines in Chester Springs? Was it New Year's Day? Why do I think of that overcast crisp, grey hopeful unresolved feeling, crunching something underfoot, not know what this place was about?

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