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I am the only being whose doom
　 No tongue would ask no eye would mourn
　　I never caused a thought of gloom
　　A smile of joy since I was born
　　
　　In secret pleasure - secret tears
　　This changeful life has slipped away
　　As friendless after eighteen years
　　As lone as on my natal day
　　
　　There ...

Happy Thanksgiving & St. Kateri Tekakwitha

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. I want to wish all my American friends a wonderful holiday. As bad as the times are, and I’ve never seen them like this in my adult life, there are many more things we should be thankful for. Life is good. Here’s a little historical perspective.




And here’s something silly to enjoy. ...

I love her poems very much.

Your little hand

Lying in the arms

With no smile and no cry

for you are in the dream forever

How can I be slient

with the memory of your smile

with the imagination of your little hand waving in the air

The young life

The innnocent ones

All gone with the hatred

During the summer, some may remember I mentioned I was going to be reading Herman Melville’s Moby Dick as part of my summer’s read. Well I finally finished, three months after I started, which shows you either how slow a reader I am or how busy I’ve been or, yet still, how distracted I can become. One of my favorite quotes is from TS Eliot: “Distracted from distraction by distraction” (from “Burnt Norton”). I guess the reality is that all three are somewhat true.

I want to entice ...