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8/13/2023
. . . and I can hardly believe another three years since my last last post here.
The Memoir is making progress oh so slowly. (I have become engrossed in trying to solve the fourth of the Langley cryptograms, with solution now seeming nearer than the end of Memoir.)
Now we shall see...
Just finished 'Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia, Plath's Rival and Ted HUghes's Doomed Love.'
A necessary and absorbing biography for anyone interested in completing the ill-starred triangular love story of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill.
:star5:
Reverie:
The Shroud
Dark umber nearly black a cloud of smoke
Glimpsed at first far off
At the edge of infinite space
Seen occasionally, advancing nearer
Floating breeze-borne wafting growing
Always erasing leaving blank
Memories people thoughts knowledge careers
Changing shape floating...
Just finished The Presidency of Donald J. Trump - A First Historical Assessment by Julian E Zelizer (Editor). A one-book factual narrative of what-all went on during those 4 years (a lot), plus background perspective from previous trends in American politics. Quite condensed to fit everything...
Cosimah, I'm a little late in responding, so I hope that maybe you are perhaps feeling somewhat better.
Years ago, before all this covid, I had a severe case of pneumonia, which eventually cleared up and left me with asthma. I used an inhaler, as you are doing, and after a while the asthma...
Forty
Aged forty, feared milestone of life’s middle,
Maybe more than half-way gone
Maybe all downhill from here
Unless one can ski uphill
And build on one’s experience,
Older and wiser
The future coming in view
How long? How much longer?
Children growing, gawky young teens.
Wonder how they’ll...
Imran98,
I would definitely suggest "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living," by Dale Carnegie. Although dated by now, it gets its message across through simple stories of people's experiences. But, taken to heart, its ideas can and will change your life. I speak from experience.
More...
Thank you so much, KariBernadine, for a very kind reply. :)
You lift my own spirits and encourage me to plug on, continuing to try to get thoughts onto the page.
Most sincerely
Peder
j10976m,
Many thanks for reading my poem and for your thoughtful comment:
"I believe that chaos cannot remain in place of Light as, Light is ever present. So despite what might seem dismal, Light always outshines!"
Yes, indeed, that is the hope -- yours and mine.
However, just at the moment...
I'm with you entirely on that sentiment. But I'm afraid my optimism has faded to nil.
I'm resigned to the thought that maybe we are looking at what will be the 'new normal' in this sparkling Information Age which is upon us.
I don't know where these people come from, or where they got their...
As the other half of pontalba (her husband) I am glad she has a very cautious view of the pandemic. I am in the highest risk group for any and all variants, under any and all conditions, and I sincerely appreciate her scrupulous attention to trying to keep us alive. She has succeeded so far...
Daisies
The daisies of the field grow and have their day,
then perish – most of them – without their chance
for lauds at their transitory beauty and existence.
But such metaphors are inadequate for the reality,
of a world gone upside-down where false-fact
replaces actual truth and urges human...
Daisies
The daisies of the field grow and have their day,
then perish – most of them – without their chance
for lauds at their transitory beauty and existence.
But such metaphors are inadequate for the reality,
of a world gone upside-down where false-fact
replaces actual truth and urges human...
8/13/2020
Just a news note:
I can't believe 5 years have gone by since my last post here!
I can believe, however, that my attention lately has been diverted to other things!
Recently, my main attention has been focused on writing my memoirs, hopefully for the benefit of my children.
The current...
Grand Tour
Come my Darling
tonight with me
we'll open the future
be on our way
to vistas unseen
wonders unheard,
'laddin's 'lectronic screen
our magic carpet
'round the Earth
past the planets
through all space
billions of years
through the galaxies
to the Edge
and then...
Éclair,
I agree with you there. The Likeness is rather contrived, as if forcing the genre/formula.
But I think every author is entitled to a flat one (or two).
So I read on, ever hopeful.
Peder
Maybe 4 - 5 days when I'm really interested, otherwise a couple weeks. If not then, it tends to get buried and never finished. Last year, I only finished about 25, for example.