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Springtime Sketchbook
I don’t remember ever seeing as many flowers as I’ve seen this Spring. Daffodils, tulips, pansies, posies, hyacinth, daisies, and morning glories. You can’t swing a dead cat in this town without hitting one.“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know Read more
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Matt Kennon’s Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc’s story is one of the most fascinating biographies in history. A girl, guided by the voices of angels, leads the armies of France to defeat the English. She is captured, convicted of heresy and burned alive by the same Catholic Church that would one day declare her a saint. Just as Read more
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Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc
“By far the most extraordinary person the human race has ever produced.” Mark Twain on Joan of Arc When Mark Twain wrote Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc in 1896 he was 61 years old and madly in love with his teenage heroine. While reading this book more than a century later, it’s hard not Read more
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She Comes To Me
She comes to me in silent dreamsWhen there’s nothing to sayShe comes to me in whispersThat take my breath awayShe comes to me with questionsWhose answers break my heartShe comes to me with nothingThat becomes a work of artShe comes to me in memoriesAs brittle as old boneShe comes to me with lonelinessThat won’t Read more
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Daffodil
All of us have moments of doubt, crises of faith or confidence that throw our hopes into disarray. Fortunately, there are graces – love, beauty, humor – that lower ropes into our pits of despair. For me, and maybe for you, one of the sturdiest ropes is music.The only thing better than those ropes is Read more
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We Don’t Like That Image Of Ourselves
Some poetry from Marlon Brando, starting at 2:36 on the video below:Our schoolbooks are hopelessly lacking Perhaps criminally lacking in revealing what our relationship was with the Indians When we hear as we’ve heard throughout our lives no matter how old we are that we are a country that stands for freedom for rightness for justice Read more
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