Month: July 2008

  • Living life fully regardless of circumstances. Impact of poetry on lives. “The Lesson of the Moth” poem by Don Marquis (July 2008)

    Susan’s Thursday morning note July 24, 2008  The Lesson of the Moth poem by Don Marquis     Life life fully regardless of circumstances.     Impact of poetry on lives. Good morning!  I can’t resist continuing with last week’s book, Good Poems, selected by Garrison Keillor.  There were several poems that I wanted to type for…

  • Analysis of Baseball Poem. Garrison Keillor’s “Good Poems: Selected & Introduced by Garrison Keillor” (July 2008)

    Susan’s Thursday morning note July 17, 2008  Analysis of Baseball Poem (Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems: Selected & Introduced by Garrison Keillor) Good morning!  I hope some of you had the same moon as we did last night.  The colors of a “harvest moon” – full and deep auburn – in July.  A quiet, thinking moon. …

  • Death of who we deeply love. “Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo 1623-1633” (July 2008)

    Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 Everyday life of Galileo’s daughter in a convent. (Death, time, peace) Susan’s Thursday morning note July 10, 2008  Good afternoon!  (I’m hoping I don’t have to even change that to good evening eventually – the way this day is going!) This is the first “Good afternoon…