with gratitude to Ralph Waldo Emerson
The idea for this came from Emerson's 1837 address known as "The American Scholar" Ever the wind blows, Ever the grass grows. I took it a bit further here
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O crying child Up in the sky Above the ocean blue! You’ll grow someday And maybe hear
Since Jimmy Buffett passed away His New York Times obituary Has required three corrections, so… But his first musical offering Sold exactly 324 copies,
Chicago’s party of the summer is the Pride parade up north It’s boozier than St. Patrick’s… Less explosive than the 4th Lots of people dance and play
She was once the fastest woman ali… and won a gold medal to prove it less than a decade ago. But where does one go from the top of the world?
There are words trapped inside you and they’re waiting to come out. If you don’t try to release them you’ll always have some doubt. Could they have made a difference
“We’re sorry that you’re leaving.… The hashtag was once a revolution in how people communicate with eac… Now the platform that first brough… threatens to become a shadow of it…
While the Speaker’s chair sits em… the entire Congress remains immobi… The world looks toward the United… and finds nothing but disfunction. How can we presume to lead the wor…
Your music hasn’t aged a bit, although the rest of us surely hav… Whenever we hear your songs playin… it’s as if 1984 has magically retu… and everything that’s happened sin…
When the sun shines on Friday mor… Especially in the Spring It reminds us of what good things The coming day can bring. So offer the people you encounter
Gil Scott-Heron a poet who made the first rap reco… said the problem with peace is that there was no money to be made in it.
It’s not the death of a person but it is the end of an era for just about every American over the age of perhaps thirty-fiv… Gracing the cover of Sports Illus…
“Will be wild” were the magic word… used by a sitting president to ann… the mayhem of January 6. So they gathered to await their di… from the man who had taken an oath
For nearly 20 years my family and… Visited the Outer Cape in Massac… Wellfleet, to be exact. And it relaxed me in a way that nothing else could ever do.
Supporters of the former president who pack his rallies swallow his pronouncements whole and believe there was some “great”… that can be attained again
Rhyme some words or maybe don’t. They’ll make sense unless they won’t