I had no idea the continent was so mountainous

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This is exactly how I feel about it, its difficult to watch your country die

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Bowdlerized.

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  In 1807, a new edition of the works of William Shakespeare hit the scene in England. Titled The Family Shakespeare, the collection of 20 o...

Kafkaesque kahf-kuh-ESK

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  Kafkaesque   kahf-kuh-ESK Something described as Kafkaesque has an often nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality to it. Mor...

I adore words

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        Troth (troth, trohth) 1. One’s pledged word, loyalty, or fidelity. 2. Truth. 3. Betrothal. To pledge or betroth. Fro...

The Colombo's kill a cop

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The Big Dipper

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Rye

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Lexiphanic

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  Lexiphanic (lek-si-FAN-ik)   Using pretentious words and language. After Lexiphanes, a bombastic speaker, in the satire of the same name b...

The chase

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Yakitori, Shinjuku 新宿

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aaahhhh...

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Ralph Morse (October 23, 1917 – December 7, 2014), Sunset Diner, New Jersey, 1947.

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Peter Keetman. Oktoberfest München. München 1957

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Gutmann, John (1905-1998) - 1960 The Confessional, Mexico

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1928 Samuel Novarro Mayan Revival Home by Frank Lloyd Wright, Los Angeles, California.

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Elves

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The Crying of Water by Arthur Symons

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  O water, voice of my heart, crying in the sand, All night long crying with a mournful cry, As I lie and listen, and cannot understand The ...

Its all about style

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Perfect

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Variation on the word Sleep by Margaret Atwood

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which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to enter your sleep as its smooth dark wave slide...

Good Bones by Maggie Smith

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Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thou...

Word origins (as a writer you should be aware of this sort of thing)

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  Intrepid comes from the Latin word intrepidus, itself formed by the combination of the prefix in-, meaning “not,” and the adjective trepid...

Bonskeid House, Pitlochry, Highland Perthshire, Scotland, James Lloydcole Photography

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Abracadabra. A poem by Mia Kang

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    for Erich and Patricia   List of things to banish Can include words, people, theoretical apparatuses Can take the form of a ...

Saul Leiter (December 3, 1923 – November 26, 2013), Harlem, 1960.

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The Great Black Heron

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        The Great Black Heron Denise Levertov - 1923-1997 Since I stroll in the woods more often than on this frequented path, it's usua...

An attack on those least able to defend themselves

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                                  Biden and Xavier Becerra I can’t come to grips with the fact that we actually need to protect orphans and ...

Island

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  Island Langston Hughes   Wave of sorrow, Do not drown me now:   I see the island Still ahead somehow.   I see the island And its san...

Intuition

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  As I approach seven decades, I have become much more aware that aging is many things, an accumulation of changes that happened in quick su...

December 7, Pearle Harbor Day

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    “They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun ...

I haven't read it but I intend too.....right up my alley

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  A true story of glamour and tragedy Review: “American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the ‘It’ Girl, and the Crime of t...

Style matters.........

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  Middle Neolithic, 3500 B. C. clear quartz arrowhead found during the construction of a cable car track in Neuchâtel, Switzerland in 1999.