If... If you can go through this and say, "Yes! I can!" to every virtue described, you're ... If... IfBy Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their... Continue Reading →
Stiff ~ RBP & Classics
She looked at him And she knew he was A stiff And as a stiff she knew He was as stiff as A functionary presiding over an interview, previous to an execution (1) The corpse of a hanged man (2) A side of coarse leather (3) A marble statue (4) Oak leaves after a frost... Continue Reading →
“Hope” is the thing with feathers ⁂ classics
I was considering recently a story that should be familiar to anyone familiar with the Torah ~ the story of how while wandering the desert for 40 years the Israelites won the Battle of Rephidim against the Amalekites. In the time the Israelites wandered the desert before finally entering the Promised Land, they had more... Continue Reading →
“Ode on Solitude” ⁂ classics
All of this is all I want today: pure, blissful, quiet and peaceful, solitude. Ode on Solitude By Alexander Pope Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with... Continue Reading →
“The Daffodils” ⁂ classics
While I have many works that are in the list of personal favorites, this piece is Number 1 and has been for, oh, 18 years or so. I can't decide if its the descriptions of his wandering and the beautiful landscape that unfolded before him, the fact that Wordsworth cannot help but be happy because... Continue Reading →
“Sonnets From the Portuguese No. 43” ⁂ classics
This piece has been a personal favorite of mine for more than 20 years. Browning's Sonnets From the Portuguese were written over time while the man who would become her husband slowly wooed her and won her heart. I love how in the early Sonnets she uses all the poetic elements and figurative language popular... Continue Reading →
the kintsukuroi life 