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February 10, 2010

while I think on thee, dear friend

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear times' waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd and sorrows end.
—William Shakespeare: Sonnet XXX

Source: The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor for Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010.

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February 6, 2010

Your Tribe; Do You Know It?

Our tribe members are those people who accept us as we are and gladly accompany us on our journeys of evolution.
—Daily OM for Friday, 5 Feb. 2010

Source: Daily OM for Friday, 5 Feb. 2010, Finding Your Tribe; Your Allies On Life’s Journey.
> See also: Men's Work: The Chesapeake Men's Gathering.

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January 27, 2010

When to Stop Talking?

My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Source: ThinkExist.com's Mozart Quotes
> It is the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in 1756 on this day in Salzburg, Austria. He died in Vienna, Austria on December 5, 1791. See The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor for Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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December 30, 2009

You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

'E carried me away
To where a dooli lay,
An' a bullet come an' drilled the beggar clean.
'E put me safe inside,
An' just before 'e died,
"I 'ope you liked your drink", sez Gunga Din.
So I'll meet 'im later on
At the place where 'e is gone --
Where it's always double drill and no canteen;
'E'll be squattin' on the coals
Givin' drink to poor damned souls,
An' I'll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!
Yes, Din! Din! Din!
You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!
Though I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
—Rudyard Kipling in his poem Gunga Din

Source: Everypoet.com's Poetry of Rudyard Kipling Gunga Din.
> it is the birthday of Rudyard Kipling who was born in Bombay, India in 1865. He died on January 18, 1936 in London England.

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December 23, 2009

Waiting for Sunday?

Some masters say our life lasts only seven days.
Where are we in the week? Is it Thursday yet?
Hurry, cry now! Soon Sunday night will come.
—Robert Bly from his unpublished poem Call and Answer

Source: New and Unpublished Poems by Robert Bly: Call and Answer
> It is the birthday of Robert Bly, born on this day in 1926 in Madison, Minnesota.
> See also The Chesapeake Men's Gathering.

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December 16, 2009

No Lies, Please, I Love a good Soup!

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
—Ludwig van Beethoven

Source: BrainyQuote.com's Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes.
>: Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany; he was baptized in a Roman Catholic service on 17 December 1770, and was probably born the previous day, 16 December. He died on 26 March 1827 in Vienna, Austria.

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December 9, 2009

Ah, Life!

Never, my heart, is there enough of living.
—Leonie Adams

Source: The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor for Wednesday, December 9, 2009.
> It's the birthday of the American poet Leonie Adams. She was born on this day in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York. She died on June 27, 1988 in New Milford, Connecticut.

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