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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

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Shaun Our Beloved Little Man 02/28/20

"Some friend must now perforce

Make haste, and bid my boy

To saddle me my wooden horse ;

For I mean to conquer Troy. "

Thomas Randolph

My Dear Friend, Max 1/28/16

"Stand with me here upon the terrace, for it may be the last quiet talk that we shall ever have."

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Last Bow

My other blogs

A Jagged Orbit (SF)
HPL: Beyond the Walls of Sleep
Kindling (Poetry)
Star Born: My Tribute to Andre Norton

" The sun is axeman among dry
Slashings: he would clear
Kindling from the rocky hills "

Blue Jay in Haliburton
D.G. Jones
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HandHills

"A little while and I will be gone from among you," he said. "Whither, I cannot tell. From nowhere we came; into nowhere we go. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

Isapo-Muxika, Crowfoot, Blackfoot Chief

"Bears are not companions of men, but children of God, and His charity is broad enough for both... We seek to establish a narrow line between ourselves and the feathery zeros we dare to call angels, but ask a partition barrier of infinite width to show the rest of creation its proper place. Yet bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bears days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart-pulsings like ours and was poured from the same fountain....." - John Muir

"For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not bretheren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the Earth." —-

The Outermost House

Henry Beston

Wendolene 10/14/12

Love sorrow. She is yours now,
and you must
take care of what has been
given. Brush her hair, help her
into her little coat, hold her hand,
especially when crossing a street. For, think,

what if you should lose her?

from Love Sorrow
Mary Oliver

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