March 2012
79 posts
5 tags
4 tags
February 2012
24 posts
4 tags
3 tags
3 tags
2 tags
5 tags
“This is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters....”
– “The History Boys” by Alan Bennett
1 tag
3 tags
4 tags
4 tags
“I asked him, If he could talk with a stone, could he communicate with the dead?”...”
– Contact by Carl Sagan
4 tags
3 tags
4 tags
5 tags
3 tags
3 tags
don't mourn, organize
My will is easy to decide, For there is nothing to divide. My kin don’t need to fuss and moan, “Moss does not cling to a rolling stone.” My body? Oh, if I could choose I would to ashes it reduce, And let the merry breezes blow, My dust to where some flowers grow. Perhaps some fading flower then Would come to life and bloom again. This is my Last and final Will. Good Luck to...
2 tags
3 tags
2 tags
4 tags
4 tags
Drummer Hodge
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest Uncoffined – just as found: His landmark is a kopje-crest That breaks the veldt around; And foreign constellations west Each night above his mound. Young Hodge the Drummer never knew – Fresh from his Wessex home – The meaning of the broad Karoo, The Bush, the dusty loam, And why uprose to nightly view Strange stars amid the gloam. Yet portion...
3 tags
3 tags
