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Day to Day
This was my view as I drank my tea and puttered on my computer this morning. The world is finally turning green and colorful and today it is going to be somewhere around 80 degrees. I am not pleased about the warm temperatures but I do love the color. A walk in the park is a constant search for the latest spring flowers and baby animals. The goslings are starting to hatch and their parents are not pleased to have people walking on the paths nearby. They hiss and run at us as we walk past. We still haven’t seen the beavers this year but I live in hope. This…
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A Poem for a Thursday #178
Howard Nemerov was an American poet who lived from 1920-1991. He served as the Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. He also won the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He said of his poetry: “When I was starting to write the great influence was T.S. Elliot and after that William Butler Yeats. I got, of course, the idea that what you were supposed to do was to be plenty morbid and predict the end of civilization many times but civilization has ended so many times during my brief time on earth that…
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Book Review//Post After Post-Mortem by E. C. R. Lorac
The Surrays are a family that seems to be winning at life. The parents live in a beautiful home, they are all successful in their chosen careers, and they all love each other. Lorac does a beautiful job of setting the scene and the atmosphere in just the first few paragraphs. Her slim fingers busy with the task of fitting the stems into the block at the bottom of the great cut-glass bowl, she reflected that flowers had a magic all their own. Each season the garden gave her a fresh shock of joy, for there was about flowers none of that feeling which haunts middle-age: “It’s lovely, but surely…
