Category: poetry

“For my ally is the Force” – Yoda

Posted on August 25, 2015 by

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This year, I am assigned to teach World History to 120 shiny, freshman fourteen year-olds.  Imagine my dismay when I polled my classes and most all of them had not seen any Star Wars? I’m still reeling five years ago when I conducted a…

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Poetry in Lyrics: a pair from DMB

Posted on December 13, 2013 by

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Boyd Tinsley, Dave Matthews, Carter Beauford, Stephen Lesard, LeRoi Moore–Tim Reynolds, lead guitar There are three types of people when it comes to listening to songs. Type one hears the voice, the instruments, the melody, and refrain. Type two knows all the lyrics and their favorite…

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Greece, Part II: Haviaras Book Review and Athens

Posted on March 27, 2013 by

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I escorted a group to Athens/Aegean cruise in 2002. When we arrived in Athens, we stayed at a great hotel in the Plaka district where the neighborhood shops and restaurants surrounded us. My room was on the fifth floor. As I stretched out on…

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Liebe dein Leben

Nine out of ten things you worry about don't come true.

BOOK 2: Inside The Gold-Plated Pistol

It’s 1928: German Expressionism, the Western & Hollywood

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Peek behind the curtain.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
Words I take to heart

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. --Eleanor Roosevelt

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. --Benjamin Franklin

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.--Milton Berle

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

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