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

Posted on by Victoria C. Clarke

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 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

RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

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PART I - WHAT I HAVE LIVED FOR Unusual People “All men are children and of one family. The sun sends them off to bed and wakes them in the morning.” Henry David Thoreau – Walden “Each man beareth upon him the entire stamp of the human condition.” Michel de Montaigne – Essays The 16th … Continue reading RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY

Posted on by Victoria C. Clarke

PART I - WHAT I HAVE LIVED FOR Nature I Have Lived For Nature Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden, “Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.” One of the reasons why his writing resonates so strongly with me is his deep appreciation of nature. When I sort through my internal photograph album … Continue reading RAMBLINGS BY ROSE MARY