tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48431417925372487652024-03-14T06:44:16.574-04:00Life is but a dreamMerrily Down the Streamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02597012743683562304noreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843141792537248765.post-16936827658451837232012-01-08T11:57:00.000-05:002012-01-08T11:57:09.097-05:00The Lanyard<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">By Billy Collins</span></i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The other day I was ricocheting slowly<br />
off the blue walls of this room,<br />
moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano,<br />
from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,<br />
when I found myself in the L section of the dictionary<br />
where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
No cookie nibbled by a French novelist<br />
could send one into the past more suddenly—<br />
a past where I sat at a workbench at a camp<br />
by a deep Adirondack lake<br />
learning how to braid long thin plastic strips<br />
into a lanyard, a gift for my mother.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
I had never seen anyone use a lanyard<br />
or wear one, if that’s what you did with them,<br />
but that did not keep me from crossing<br />
strand over strand again and again<br />
until I had made a boxy<br />
red and white lanyard for my mother.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
She gave me life and milk from her breasts,<br />
and I gave her a lanyard.<br />
She nursed me in many a sick room,<br />
lifted spoons of medicine to my lips,<br />
laid cold face-cloths on my forehead,<br />
and then led me out into the airy light<br />
and taught me to walk and swim,<br />
and I, in turn, presented her with a lanyard.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
Here are thousands of meals, she said,<br />
and here is clothing and a good education.<br />
And here is your lanyard, I replied,<br />
which I made with a little help from a counselor.<br />
Here is a breathing body and a beating heart,<br />
strong legs, bones and teeth,<br />
and two clear eyes to read the world, she whispered,<br />
and here, I said, is the lanyard I made at camp.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
And here, I wish to say to her now,<br />
is a smaller gift—not the worn truth<br />
that you can never repay your mother,<br />
but the rueful admission that when she took<br />
the two-tone lanyard from my hand,<br />
I was as sure as a boy could be<br />
that this useless, worthless thing I wove<br />
out of boredom would be enough to make us even.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div>Merrily Down the Streamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02597012743683562304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843141792537248765.post-43885054866523289802011-12-24T16:40:00.000-05:002011-12-24T16:40:55.227-05:00The Abiding Love<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><em>by John White Chadwick</em></strong><em> </em></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It singeth low in every heart,</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> We hear it each and all--</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A song of those who answer not,</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> However we may call;</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They throng the silence of the breast, </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> We see them as of yore--</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The kind, the brave, the sweet,</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Who walk with us no more.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">'Tis hard to take the burden up</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> When these have laid it down;</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They brightened all the joy of life,</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> They softened every frown;</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But, Oh, 'tis good to think of them</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> When we are troubled sore!</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks be to God that such have been,</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Although they are no more.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More homelike seems the vast unknown</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Since they have entered there;</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To follow them were not so hard,</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Wherever they may fare;</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They cannot be where God is not,</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> On any sea or shore;</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whate'er betides, thy love abides</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Our God, forever more.</span></div><strong><em></em></strong>Merrily Down the Streamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02597012743683562304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843141792537248765.post-35213271955653070802011-10-21T13:55:00.003-04:002011-10-21T13:56:59.276-04:00and this...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">One day you finally knew<br />
what you had to do, and began,<br />
though the voices around you<br />
kept shouting<br />
their bad advice --<br />
<span class="text_exposed_show">though the whole house<br />
began to tremble<br />
and you felt the old tug<br />
at your ankles.<br />
"Mend my life!"<br />
each voice cried.<br />
But you didn't stop.<br />
You knew what you had to do,<br />
though the wind pried<br />
with its stiff fingers<br />
at the very foundations,<br />
though their melancholy<br />
was terrible.<br />
It was already late<br />
enough, and a wild night,<br />
and the road full of fallen<br />
branches and stones.<br />
But little by little,<br />
as you left their voices behind,<br />
the stars began to burn<br />
through the sheets of clouds<br />
and there was a new voice<br />
which you slowly<br />
recognized as your own,<br />
that kept you company<br />
as you strode deeper and deeper<br />
into the world,<br />
determined to do<br />
the only thing you could do --<br />
determined to save<br />
the only life you could save.<br />
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~ Mary Oliver</span></span>Merrily Down the Streamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02597012743683562304noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843141792537248765.post-8554525423994116232011-07-13T22:26:00.002-04:002011-07-13T22:27:23.259-04:00After my heart<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Bunny: 'Cause you're like exciting and crazy!</span><br />
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</span>Merrily Down the Streamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02597012743683562304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843141792537248765.post-33036313435497649712011-04-04T14:12:00.000-04:002011-04-04T14:12:34.788-04:00when i woke up this morning 04.04.11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">this was on the dining room table</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">just another of the reasons I love my husband</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my Bestie <a href="http://enjoli66.blogspot.com/">Simone</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">thought I might like </span><a href="http://farmhousemusings.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Farm House Musings</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it makes me ridiculously happy</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>Merrily Down the Streamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02597012743683562304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843141792537248765.post-31780599007584411602011-03-19T17:08:00.002-04:002011-03-19T17:09:16.347-04:00stiff competition 03.19.11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">after 3 botched races </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a little adjustment made the car fly like the wind</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">thank you pine car derby gods!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">this tree (and this daughter) blossom every year</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and every year it is a beautiful miracle</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">thank you for the lovely gift - just the lift I needed</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Merrily Down the Streamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02597012743683562304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843141792537248765.post-9479265748477755352011-02-21T09:30:00.000-05:002011-02-21T09:30:01.427-05:00caught red headed!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gapetto and I noticed a dumpster in front of the largest house </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in our neighborhood the other morning</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it definitely was worthy of a second look</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I didn't remember until 5 pm so I hopped in the car and went back</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">what a find - a Bernhardt dining room table </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">with a double pedestal base</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the top had water damage (and I don't need a dining room table)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but the bases were beautiful and connected </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">by an unfinished top that the main top attached to</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the entire piece weighed about nine million fifty four pounds </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so I went back and recruited Gapetto to help me load it up</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">they are now cut apart and make lovely bedside tables</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so grown up</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I haven't decided how I will top them yet</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">there are round holes for the hardware that attach </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the legs to the top</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the Bunny Rabbit went to a sleep-over birthday party last night</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so the Dolly invited her Bestie for a sleep-over</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">last night we made valentines </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for all of the twinkies classmates</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Merrily Down the Streamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02597012743683562304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843141792537248765.post-3588933346902723842011-02-10T09:08:00.002-05:002011-02-10T09:11:31.309-05:00wishes 02.10.11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the brass and crystal I do not polish</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the patina much more beautiful</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">than anything new</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">met with all my girlfriends this morning</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">coffee after</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">of course we brought our own cups</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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