Tag: Calm Before the Storm
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The Doggma the Fool
Fling and flung, ring and run,Our missteps vex the arrogant sun.My words sing true for me, for you,Yet truth eludes woe but so few. Sand and sun, land and gun,We fight, we scrape, and always ache.We kill ourselves to fill our shelves,And miss the peace our souls forsake. Each grain we grasp, a truth we… Read more
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To Trudge
A quote from one of my guilty pleasure movies that might get me judged but I love it anyway:“To trudge: The slow, weary, depressing, yet determined walk of a man who has nothing left in his life except the impulse to simply soldier on.”~ Lilium inter spinas, or rather, Geoffrey Chaucer, A Knight’s Tale. Today,… Read more
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Aboard Liberty Venture, June 2, 1792
My Dearest Abigail, The ink is scarcely dry upon the pages of our farewell, and yet, I find myself compelled to write to you with a fervor I cannot contain, as if by putting pen to parchment, I might bridge the vast and insurmountable distance between us. Though the sails have only begun to stretch… Read more