The Common Vein

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HANGING ON TO JOYS OF THE PAST IN THE FACE OF COLD REALITY
? though sweet memories are always sweet, the future always springs new realities
Feb 25 2016
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Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.

Timothy Morton

made with the Wisdom of Heaven. The One Without the Other is Nothing
Springtime for the Iris The story of lessons from the garden will unfold
May 14, 2016 ·
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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Henry Van Dyke

ROMANCE OF THE LEAF AND THE FLOWERBUD ? A Marriage

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POTENTIAL EMERGING FROM A CRUSTY PAST
A New Beginning
May 17, 2016
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See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Joel Osteen

TIME ? DAUGHTER, MOTHER, AND GRANDMOTHER
It passes so quickly
Enjoy the Moments
June 15 2016
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Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

Gloria Steinem

GRANDPARENTS AND GRANDCHILDREN
AKA The Nuts and Bolts of the Old and Rusty (crusty) and the New and Shiny Creating Art from Found Objects on Dog Walks
July 13 2016
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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

Alex Haley

SISTERS
Said the adolescent to her older sister
?Why am I so gangly and you are so pretty??
Said the older Sister
? To everything there is a season .. and you are still wet behind the ears!?
July 14 2016
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Margaret Mead

 

SAID THE GHOST LEAF TO THE FULL MOON
?Now that I have fallen please explain why time moves in lunar cycles?
What makes Mr Lunar Tick?
Why do you live through these cycles and I and many others lose our lives?
November 16 2016
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?The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.? 
? Carl Sandburg

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THE BATTLE FOR SPACE AND TIME
Observations of a dOG wALKER
Green vs Brown vs White.
Green has had her time and is a mere beautiful memory ? and she knows it as she fades into the background
Brown has not yet given up, and rises above White.
White rests in quiet confidence She knows that time and space for the near future is on her side
November 21 2016
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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.   

Franklin D. Roosevelt

ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
As I emerged into 20F (-7C) for a Benjy walk -?reality and dream? on the car window
January 14 2017
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

WAVES OF THE WINTER
Time passes
January 17 2017
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If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Said the evergreen to the iceball
?I will have my way with you in the spring when you will wither away, and rather than embracing me with your hard and cold heart, you will enrich me from the bottom of my roots to the inner sanctum of my soul!?
Each has a glorious moment in time, as the cycles of nature go around and around with ups and downs.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

Ovid

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DOWN AND UP
Isaac Newton and the DogWalk
Said gravity to water droplet ?
? I will force you down?
Said droplet to earth ?
?You may shudder with the fall?
Said earth to water
?I will spread you in my womb?
Said water to the roots
?I will move up inside you?
Said Time to Winter
?You are going down?
Said Time to Spring
?Time to come up?
Said tree to itself
?Time to grow up and bud?
Said bud to husk
?Release me so I can grow up?
Said gravity to husk
?You are going to fall down?
Said spider to the tree
?Hold my web, so I do not fall?
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 Newton’s third law is: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Isaac Newton

BEYOND THE WATER DROP
From Big Bang to Eternity
A poem dedicated to our son Aaron on his birthday

From the explosive womb of Big Bang Hydrogen,
your progenitor was born
Consisting of single moving and opposite forces
Seeking companionship, and a need for Oneness
Bigger and more powerful than the self
And the atoms and elements and then the molecules of life
Were themselves given life
And then you my darling water
The purest of beings
Born with a gush from the amniotic sacs of Big Bang
Finding your way to virgin earth
Under forces beyond you
With forces in you
To enable all of life
For without you we would not be
The single droplet of rain hitting the puddle
With its kind but explosive kinetic force
Under the same original force that brought you to earth
Converting to a beautiful sound of the droplet on water
With an array of waves in perfect circle
As I ponder this wonder
The beauty of physics at its best
No energy destroyed, just converted
A simple yet not so simple action reaction of Newton
Snow, ice, vapor, waves of the sea, and a flowing river
Calming of the soul
Giver of life From Big Bang to Eternity
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We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

Carl Sagan

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TIME HAS RUN OUT to its end ? and I have to make amends with family and friends 320

Time and tide wait for no man.

Geoffrey Chaucer

END OF SEASON
And lost my bounce Time to retire
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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.