DON’T OPEN THAT DOOR Don’t open that door. I don’t want to see what is hidden I want to imagine flights of joy Laughter hugs love I don’t want to hear the moan Rising from an abyss of anguish Please, don’t uncover The tent on the circus of life. Pandora, become wiser!
Dust If You Must by Rose Milligan Dust if you must, but wouldn’t it be better To paint a picture, or write a letter, Bake a cake, or plant a seed; Ponder the difference between want and need? Dust if you must, but there’s not much time, With rivers to swim, and mountains to climb;… Read More DUST IF YOU MUST
“Innalza le tue parole, non la voce. E’ la pioggia che fa crescere i fiori, non il tuono.”
On 15 March 44 BC, Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house by 60 conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. A haruspex, Spurinna, on Ferbrary 15 had warned him that his life would be in danger for a period of 30 days, which… Read More The Ides of March
Blessed in Aging Blessed are they who understand My faltering step and shaking hand Blessed, who know my ears today Must strain to hear the things they say. Blessed are those who seem to know My eyes are dim and my mind is slow Blessed are those who look away When I spilled… Read More “Blessed in Aging”
Mary Maxwell, a friend of the couple who founded Home Instead Senior Care friend, was invited to give the Invocation at their annual Convention. Nobody expected what they were going to listen, since the prayer soon took a very funny turn, when the elderly speaker went off script and started to joke about the process… Read More Laughter is the best medicine
9 March 1913 On this day Virginia Woolf delivers her first novel, “The Voyage Out”, to her publishers, after working on it for six years. This day is also the 21st birthday of Vita Sackville-West. The two will have a relationship from 1925 to 1935
Bob Dylan covered Sinatra’s song in his album “Triplicate” (2017)
September of My Years One day you turn around and it’s summer Next day you turn around and it’s fall And all the winters and the springs of a lifetime Whatever happened to them all? As a man who has always had the wandering ways I keep looking back to yesterdays ‘Til a long-forgotten love… Read More “September of My Years”
Play it once, Sam. For old times’ sake. I don’t know what you mean, Miss Ilsa. Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By. AS TIME GOES BY You must remember this A kiss is just a kiss A sigh is just a sigh The fundamental things apply As time goes by And when two… Read More “As Times Goes By”
