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Such Cheer
0Everyone is so depressing and looking on the bad side of everything. I thought I would offer this poem to cheer everyone up:
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Such characters in colour dim I mark’d
Over a portal’s lofty arch inscrib’d:
Whereat I thus: Master, these words import.
Forty-Five
0I am Forty Five today, thanks to you good friends that got me this far and celebrated with me…
Bear with the musings of an old man….I found this poem titled 45.
Forty-File by Hayden Carruth
When I was forty-five I lay for hours
beside a pool, the green hazy
springtime water, and watched
the salamanders coupling, how they drifted lazily,
their little hands floating before them,
aimlessly in and out of the shadows, fifteen
or twenty of them, and suddenly two
would dart together and clasp
one another belly to belly
the way we do, tender and vigorous, and then
would let go and drift away
at peace, lazily,
in the green pool that was their world
and for a while was mine.
With spring here updates are slowing down for the summer…
0Sorry, no new updates lately. I do have some new pictures that I need to post soon and my brother-in-law’s (Andy) 40th birthday celebration is next weekend (should have good pictures from that one)…If you frequent this site and ever want to talk, the best place to find me is at B. Donovan’s in Chesterfield on Friday night with friends. My wife is going to see Wilco tonight at the Pageant…Jean’s friend’s husband is the brother of the lead singer…then why didn’t I get a ticket……
What else- kids are out of school in about a week and we are going to Myrtle Beach (this is our Condo and view) in June. This is as far North as you can go in Myrtle Beach. If anyone has ideas for fun things to do in Myrtle let me know. This is our second year in a row going, but we just hanged out and relaxed most of the time at the condo.
Nothing new to pass on from the family, except my sister, Diane, is now working at Victoria’s secret…I should get some free underwear out of it!
Take care,
Dave
Calendar changes
0Google Calendar on calendar page…Let me know and I can give you permission for the calendar. This does require you to have a gmail.com e-mail address. Easy to set up.
Calendar is still under construction….
The Great Easter Egg…
0No pictures yet, but when you see me you will see the great Easter Egg!….yes, I am bald! I shaved off what little hair I had left. Why? Well, might be a lot of reasons for that, but probably comes down to mostly a mid-life crisis thing, but I had been thinking about doing it for some time. A friend of mine pushed me over the edge to do it and Jean helped me complete the task…
This may be one of my last posts…
0I just started taking Bikram Yoga and it is unbelieveably hard. You can hit the link for all the details, but it is a 90 minute body twisting nightmare in 105 degree room. Help!