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Thanks Tracy,

Might be a little modifier-ridden but my thoughts are loaded with modifiers of all kinds lately, dazzling rainbows to you in these times

So glad to see you back here Tracy,  I thought I read every Michener book---some more than once-- but I don't remember the culture you reference. I do know that i love Michener's acceptance of, no, reverence for the beliefs of whatever culture he wrote about. How to deal with the pluralism we are fa...

I read this before you posted the clip. You had the feel of it down pat. I even thought of Bogey as i read. How corney were those old romantic scenes. No wonder my mothers (ahem)  genereration harbored such unrealistic ideas about "love". I like the last wdit best.

and on this side of the pond----


http://www.ronnowpoetry.com/contents/ke ... inent.html

 

This poem of yours arrives in the middle of my duties as the trustee of my mother's estate. She was 102, I am going through the cardboard boxes and boxes of what amounts to a family history that, in some cases spans a few generations. Little stuff, newspaper clippings, death certificates of her fore...

But Mark---I lean left

Somene recently said that food is the new religion. Redemption through organic grains and superfoods.

Mm, this be good now, be even better tomorrow. My sweetheart, born in the backwoods of Texas, says the old folks called that second day improvement "sumption". An Italian friend told me his family routinely made spaghetti sauce and didn't eat it until a day or 2 later. from the sounds of it I love ...

Tragedy is inherent in life experience, if we show grace and goodness in the face of it we have been called to some higher self. Easy to be beautiful and good if all around is beautiful and good but its not. Oh boy, is it ever not.

THank you all, poet-e, Phil and Colm, p-e, I considered the flip you suggested but the ppint of this write is that it is indeed "up to us" and I feel ending on that suggestion is most effective Phil, yes Odin :oops:  I am on shaky ground with the addresses i gave but I might research and add some in...