John Donne, a British poet born in 1572, wrote a poem, NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, that finished with the words Ernest Hemingway used in the title of one of his best known books. Donne’s poem says, “And therefore, never…
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Posted in Chat Tagged with: Community, Ernest Hemingway, Flight for Life helicopter, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, John Donne
FORT MCPHERSON thoughts:
There’s a book with the names of the dead in it on a counter in the small information building. The white gravestones stretch in all directions. Fort McPherson, outside of Maxwell, Nebraska, and easily reached from Highway I-80 caught me…
OPERATION MIGRATION
Fog. After driving twelve hundred miles from the Wet Mountain Valley of Colorado to the White River Marsh Wildlife Area in Wisconsin, we looked out at the grey cotton wool of the fog and felt distinctly uneasy. We’d come to…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Brooke Pennypacker, Eastern Flyway, extinction, Joe Duff, Operation Migration, Princeton Wisconsin, Sandhill Cranes, Tom Schultz, Whooping Crane Festival, Whooping Cranes
THE NESTING DOLL
Years ago at a yard sale I found a nesting doll that was on sale because the smaller nesting dolls that went inside her were gone. Only the largest one of the set remained, a cheerful looking figure in a…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: equal pay, gender issues, matriarchal societies, men, patriarchal societies, women, yard sales
