Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes commandThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep, ancient lands, […]
Monthly Archives: November 2020
Empathy — em·pa·thy, noun, the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Back in the early seventies, I read somewhere that you should talk to your house plants to help them grow better. It wasn’t a stretch for me, since I already talked with my dog, and often with my first wife. The plants […]
From our Colorado breakfast table, I can look off to the north where the front edge of the Foothills drops down to the plains and to the west where they rise abruptly from the end of our street. From our yard, I can see the tops of the two table mountains, mesas that frame Golden […]
I don’t get many phone calls, but for the third time in two days, I just received another sales call from some solar company. I support solar power and had actually looked into getting it for our house at one time. I went through the calculations and talked to a salesperson. But we live in […]
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