Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Send in the Clowns
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Sentimental Journey: Back to Mayberry (2003)
Your Head Trucker swore off broadcast television thirty years ago, so I never saw this reunion special with Andy and company that was made in 2003. But I'm enjoying it now - maybe you will, too.
The Mayberry Special departs at 7 o'clock on Track 1. I've got my Pullman ticket in hand. Who else wants to go?
Bonus: Marina Coates from Mockingbird Lane Design has done a brilliant job of portraying the Taylor home in 3-D. Check it out:
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Friday, November 15, 2024
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Trump Trifecta: Republicans Keep House Majority
Once again, I have no words.
Monday, November 11, 2024
The Heart of the Matter
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Sunday Drive: From a Distance
From a distance, we all have enoughAnd no one is in needAnd there are no guns, no bombs, and no diseaseNo hungry mouths to feed . . .
My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Saturday, November 9, 2024
The Second Coming
Illustration of the Great Sphinx from worldhistory.org Click to enlarge. |
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
--William Butler Yeats
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Friday, November 8, 2024
After great pain
After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –
The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’
And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’?
The Feet, mechanical, go round –
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought –
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone –
This is the Hour of Lead –
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow –
First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –
--Emily Dickinson
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