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For my fellow dog lovers, a beautiful poem.

Billy Collins — Dharma

Dan Gillmor’s eJournal on Silicon Valley has a great paragraph on the Right Wing’s Attacks on Science.

Well, it looks like John Kerry has the democratic nomination all locked up for himself. Which is a good thing. I think he’s the man to face 2nd Lt. Bush. In fact, he may epitomize the one thing that Bush has been avoiding for thirty years: a Vietnam veteran.

As someone who grew up in the sixties and felt, obliquely and with a child’s understanding, the broken-heartedness of the Vietnam time, it seems strange but fitting to me that the generation that dropped out has grown up. The torch has been passed, hasn’t it?

When they came home and stepped off the busses and planes, many of them were met with derision and scorn. What a bad dream for America. But now one of those soldiers has viable intentions for the White House. It’s beautiful, if you think about it.

I’ve always thought that Watership Down has got to be one of the best book titles ever. Up there with To Kill a Mockingbird. Anyway, my regular blog on Blog-City is down for server upgrading. I don’t know when it’s going back, and when it comes back I’m not sure I’ll like the results. Blog-city is the Cadillac of easy blogs; many premium features, but no spell check. We’ll see if the new version has spell check, yes? Mean time, I’m still here.

I wonder how far We The People are going to let the secular establishment push the institutions of our faith. I’m not a Roman Catholic, but I am a Christian. I believe that The Church is the living pressence of the Living God in this world. And the government should keep its filthy mits off the church. [news]

Billmon takes an excellent look at gay marriage as a civil rights issue.

Got a case of The Mondays? Feel like taking a break for a little chuckle? This is funny. Give it time to load. no candy

I’ve been informed that tomorrow night is the Academy Awards. Now, I have plans for the evening, and I don’t watch awards shows. It’s just not my thing. It’s cool if you like ‘em. Enjoy. Who am I to criticize? Which reminds me of something I read:

A critic is someone who goes out on the battlefield after the battle is over and kills all the wounded.

Enjoy the show!

by Robert Frost

It is right in there

Betwixt and between

The orchard bare

And the orchard green,

When the boughs are right

In a flowery burst

Of pink and white,

That we fear the worst.

For there’s not a clime

But at any cost

Will take that time

For a night of frost.

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… I remember

your face, like fog in a morning orchard;

so gentle and still and forming in my mind

until the trees begin to ring.

A soft hymn of stones

may answer from the shrouded hills,

but we will be asleep by then.

from Hymn of Stones

12/11/98

A poignant interview with poet Susan Atefat-Peckham, who died recently – much too young. She speaks of the middle east and her poetry.

Well, it’s finally here. I ordered a complete book of the poems of Robert Frost and it arrived yesterday. As I drove up the street, I saw the postman trotting back to his little truck, having left my new book on the porch. It’s nice and thick, over 400 pages of poems. It ought to be for 16 bucks I guess.

I’m sure you’re wondering why I would bother to bring it up. Well, it’s just that I’m really into poetry. Have been for many years. I’ve been writing it for 24 years, since right after high school. I just thought I’d mention it, in case you’re looking for a blog about Howard Stern or something. I got a little carried away on that, but I really couldn’t care less.