Saturday

I thought the blogosphere could do without me for a day or so… So we had lunch with our friend Albert and went to a show of Elizabeth Nourse‘s works. She was from Cincinnati, born just before the Civil War started. Impressionist, close friend of Mary Cassatt. She died in the early 1930’s, I think… Continue reading Saturday

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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. — Carl Sandburg

A hoax and an insult

Warning: crazy people on the loose. STLtoday – News – Metro East: CARBONDALE, Ill. – For two years, Carbondale residents have been riveted by the writing of a little girl imploring her father in Iraq: “Don’t die, OK?” Only now are they learning there was never any danger of that. The Daily Egyptian, Southern Illinois Continue reading A hoax and an insult