Tag: life and death
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“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanks to my new and old friends. Wishing you all a happy Thanksgiving! ***Dancing Lesson by Thomas Eakins
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. Nor you, ye proud, impute to those the fault, If memory o’er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing…
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Books I’ve Known And Loved
What is it about disasters? We want to look away, but find ourselves absorbed in the horrifying details of a hurricane or a tornado. Our hearts go out but so does or keen and morbid interest. In general I don’t go in for disaster stories because I already live with enough irrational fear, but I…
Author Adrienne Morris 