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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY Dorsey Lou Justice Woliver Tribute to Mother A picture memory brings to me; I look across the years and see Myself...

How many of us, given the opportunity, have the knowledge and/or experience to literally build our family a new house?   Last week my...

The April 25, 2024 edition of  “The Morning” from the NYT included a piece about campus protests in the US over the Hamas/Israeli war. ...

On Earth Day 2024, how (in-form-ed) are we about this miraculous sphere on which we exist?   Have we stopped long enough to recognize...

Imitation is the highest compliment mediocrity pays to genius. Sometime around the year 2000, I found myself with enough leisure time to...

If cloud cover permits, on April 8, 2024, residents living at 6090 Junk Road, Mount Sterling, Ohio will be able to see a 99.7% solar...

3/24/24 Unfortunately, there is a strong attempt from the conservative political right to turn back advances in diversity, equity, and inclusion. I offer words from Langston Hughes: I look at the world I look at the world From awakening eyes in a black face — And this is what I see: This fenced-off narrow space Assigned to me. I look then at the silly walls Through dark eyes in a dark face — And this is what I know: That all these walls oppression builds Will have to go! I lo

On this Saint Patrick's Day 2024, I offer words from two of Ireland's favorite poets and from one "want-to-be". My love is in a light attire My love is in a light attire Among the apple-trees, Where the gay winds do most desire To run in companies. There, where the gay winds stay to woo The young leaves as they pass, My love goes slowly, bending to Her shadow on the grass; And where the sky's a pale blue cup Over the laughing land, My love goes lightly, holding up Her dress w

2/14/24 "Lady with a Fan"-Klimt With a Fan from Rimmel's Go, happy Fan, in all the land The happiest … seek my lady's hand,  And,...

Are you prepared to don the green, purple, and yellow with a blotch of red?  Are you ready for revelry and debauchery? Being a...

The Sun Rising Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions...

There once was a lady from Gath, Who posed while taking a bath. Along came a frog, Who wanted a snog, [look it up] She's now enraptured...

That is how you are Your flesh, mingled with soul, Your tangled hair, Your feet pursuing time, Your shadow which stretches And whispers...

Journey of the Magi (1927) A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways...

January is named after the Roman god Janus, who presided over doors and beginnings. Janus’ image is usually depicted with two faces: one...

From our family to yours-Merry Christmas! Adoration of the Magi #10 by Peter Paul Reubens CPW

“…Now Dasher, now Dancer, Prancer, and Vixen … On Comet, on Cupid, on Donder and Vixen…” No doubt, today Santa Claus is rounding up his...

Winter Solstice 2023 In Columbus, Ohio, USA: Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 10:27 pm EST The Solstice Stone at Merry Mount The winter...

I'm feelin' kinda Grinchy. "PoohPooh to the Whos!" he was grinchishly humming. "They're finding out now that no Christmas is coming!" "They're just waking up! I know just what they'll do!" "Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, Then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry BooHoo!" "That's a noise," grinned the Grinch, "That I simply MUST hear!" So he paused. And the Grinch put his hand to his ear. And he did hear a sound rising over the snow. It started in low. Then it

The Darkling Thrush I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day....