RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

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PART III - THE SEASONS OF MY LIFE SUMMER Wasn’t it pleasant, O brother mine In those old days of the lost sunshine Of youth... When we were visiting, me and you, Out to Old Aunt Mary’s? It all comes back so clear today Out in the barn lot and down the lane We patter … Continue reading RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

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PART III - THE SEASONS OF MY LIFE       “Every season seems best to us in turn” Henry David Thoreau – Walden      From the time I was a child, my life has run according to a seasonal orbit as fixed as any planet’s . The seasons that have revolved around and around and around … Continue reading RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

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PART II - REMEMBRANCE LEST I FORGET Monterrey is Steinbeck country. John Steinbeck grew up in nearby Salinas. He won the Nobel Prize for literature for a body of writing that included Cannery Row about the sardine canneries of Monterrey and The Grapes of Wrath that became a wonderful movie starring Henry Fonda.      Time … Continue reading RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

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PART II - REMEMBRANCE SOMEONE LOST, SOMEONE FOUND Someone Lost, Someone Found Lincoln Steffens told his father that if he didn’t get a pony for Christmas, he didn’t want anything and was devastated when he found neither pony nor gifts. When the pony finally arrived in the afternoon the sudden change from misery to joy … Continue reading RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

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PART II - REMEMBRANCE IN THE SILENCE OF THE HEART -GOING HOME- Lay-go shared many adventures with Vicki such as backpacking in the Tetons while traveling inside of Vicki’s belt. She went whitewater rafting on the Snake but was kept in the oarsman’s chest. “Obviously, this doll is worth a lot, and we wouldn’t want … Continue reading RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

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PART II - REMEMBRANCE Remembrance      Marcel Proust’s story of the madeleine in his masterwork, In Search of Lost Time, contains some of the loveliest, lines in all of literature. His words have expressed my own feelings. He understood how simple incidents can instantaniously transport one into one’s past. The adult Proust sipped a spoonful … Continue reading RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

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PART I - WHAT I HAVE LIVED FOR Journeys GREAT POETRY LIVES FOREVER IN THE HEART Certain poems, such as “Ithaca” by Constantine Cavafy, Greece’s great modern poet, have been woven into the very fabric of my being and have added beauty and insights to my journey through life. They blend significant ideas with fine … Continue reading RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY