Something new under construction. I don’t know what it is yet (!) but will report back at a later date. Meanwhile, I’m so thankful for the people in my life. I’m so thankful for you.
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At our C)entral T)exas A)miga C)omputer S)ociety meeting this evening we each read and discussed "Spring and Fall, to a Young Child"
Austin poet, John Berry, some of whose works I have copies of, turns out to be an Amiga computer owner.
He is inactive, but I happened upon his new day job at Kinko's on N.Burnet. Fed Ex is pretty much on my way to work. So I thought to up the ante on my efforts to get him active once more.
I had at most 1 Hopkins poem in my high school education. 30 years ago Carol showed me a poem or two of his. Then your missive (blogive?). A quick reading got me nowhere (or too many wheres) so I decided it would be the extra "come-on" for the meeting. I included the poem along with the blurb for our meeting time and dropped it off to him at work. Of course he was ecstatic... I had to bring him down so he'd get back to work!
I took another copy to the meeting. John did not make it (lame excuse via email about not knowing WHERE to meet!), but a sworn promise to make the next meeting.
So this group of non-English majors pored over the poem. We ultimately decided we were trying to take riffs in too big a chunk (like one always seems to with Shakespeare soliloquies). We were down to 2 to 3 words at a time when something else drew our attention away.
However, each of the 7 of us read it and made a comment or two.
It will come up again when John *does* come to a meeting.
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At our C)entral T)exas A)miga C)omputer S)ociety meeting this evening we each read and discussed "Spring and Fall, to a Young Child"
That's intriguing-how'd that come about? How beautiful! thanks for writing-
Austin poet, John Berry, some of whose works I have copies of, turns out to be an Amiga computer owner.
He is inactive, but I happened upon his new day job at Kinko's on N.Burnet. Fed Ex is pretty much on my way to work. So I thought to up the ante on my efforts to get him active once more.
I had at most 1 Hopkins poem in my high school education. 30 years ago Carol showed me a poem or two of his. Then your missive (blogive?). A quick reading got me nowhere (or too many wheres) so I decided it would be the extra "come-on" for the meeting. I included the poem along with the blurb for our meeting time and dropped it off to him at work. Of course he was ecstatic... I had to bring him down so he'd get back to work!
I took another copy to the meeting. John did not make it (lame excuse via email about not knowing WHERE to meet!), but a sworn promise to make the next meeting.
So this group of non-English majors pored over the poem. We ultimately decided we were trying to take riffs in too big a chunk (like one always seems to with Shakespeare soliloquies). We were down to 2 to 3 words at a time when something else drew our attention away.
However, each of the 7 of us read it and made a comment or two.
It will come up again when John *does* come to a meeting.
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I want to be a fly on the wall at your next meeting...
I sow uour blog, I like it. I lake fhotos, Idon't speack english, but I like some words that I anderstood.
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