tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post4845357620241817625..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Kitties Came and Went All Night LongUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-26877735021974472642019-06-21T12:31:25.682-04:002019-06-21T12:31:25.682-04:001930s<b>1930s</b>mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-9781542063269999682019-06-21T12:30:02.632-04:002019-06-21T12:30:02.632-04:00speaking of biden -
"Joe Biden cannot win a...speaking of biden - <br /><br />"Joe Biden cannot win against Trump simply because Trump, unlike him, is America with its mask of civility removed. And the liberation experienced by the removal of the mask is more attractive than the prospect of it having to put it back on again.<br /><br />The choice the American people need in 2020 is not a window or an aisle seat on a flight to the same destination. What they need is a different flight to a whole new destination.<br /><br />That destination is social and economic justice at home and multipolarity abroad."<br /><br />https://www.rt.com/op-ed/462328-joe-biden-2020-democrats/mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-6599627148280775372019-06-21T09:26:03.279-04:002019-06-21T09:26:03.279-04:00speaking of the sphere of lux and lumen, as clark ...speaking of <i>the sphere of lux and lumen</i>, as clark does - coincidentally whittier chose as the epigraph to<i> Snow-bound </i><b><br /><br /><br />“As the Spirits of Darkness be stronger in the dark, so Good Spirits which be Angels of Light are augmented not only by the Divine light of the Sun, but also by our common Wood Fire: and as the Celestial Fire drives away dark spirits, so also this our Fire of Wood doth the same.”<br /><br />Cor. Agrippa, Occult Philosophy, Book I. chap. v.<br /><br /><br /></b>mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-38967270895182285252019-06-21T09:13:14.958-04:002019-06-21T09:13:14.958-04:00I can't imagine 2029
at my late father'...<b>I can't imagine 2029 </b><br /><br />at my late father's memorial service at the military retirement home where he spent his last years, we sang the hymns he specified - these were hymns popular in the methodist church he attended during the 1030s, and were generally rather unfamiliar to the people present, either family or fellow residents - one began<br /><br /><i>I know not what the future hath of marvel or surprise</i><br /><br />see http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/i/k/n/iknwfhat.htm<br /><br />John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the Fireside Poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Whittier is remembered particularly for his anti-slavery writings as well as his book <i>Snow-Bound</i> ...[which] takes place in what is today known as the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, which still stands in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The poem chronicles a rural New England family as a snowstorm rages outside for three days. Stuck their home for a week, the family members exchange stories by their roaring fire.<br /><br /><br />Whittier began the poem originally as a personal gift to his niece Elizabeth as a method of remembering the family. Nevertheless, he told publisher James Thomas Fields about it, referring to it as "a homely picture of old New England homes".... Snow-Bound was first published as a book-length poem on February 17, 1866.... <br /><br />The first important critical response to<i> Snow-Bound </i>came from James Russell Lowell. Published in the North American Review, the review emphasized the poem as a record of a vanishing era. "It describes scenes and manners which the rapid changes of our national habits will soon have made as remote from us as if they were foreign or ancient," he wrote. "Already are the railroads displacing the companionable cheer of crackling walnut with the dogged self-complacency and sullen virtue of anthracite."<br /><br />The poem was second in popularity only to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's<i> The Song of Hiawatha</i> and was published well into the twentieth century. Though it remains in many common anthologies today, it is not as widely read as it once was.<br /><br />[above quoted from Wikipedia]mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com