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The Poets’ Birds: Songbirds
Eastern Kingbird (Click for greater clarity) Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all. And sweetest in the gale is heard;...
View ArticleA Season Of Turning
Woodworker, carver, sailor, musician: Gordon Bok is an American treasure. Until several years ago, I’d not heard his name and might have missed his artistry forever, had it not been for the...
View ArticlePracticing Resurrection
Ten years after ~ Bastrop State Park On September 4, 2011, the Bastrop County Complex fire ignited in central Texas. The most destructive wildfire in state history, it became a 32,000 acre inferno,...
View ArticleSong for a Turning World
Turning toward a new season As a maelstrom of conflict and change sweeps across the world, I find myself returning to the music of Gordon Bok: woodworker, sculptor, sailor, and poet. It serves as a...
View ArticleLongfellow’s Complicated Christmas
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~ Heppenheimer & Maurer Cigar box label c. 1880 Long ago and far away, in a world still appreciative of rhyme and meter, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow committed a crime...
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