You are here: Home / life and death However deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld No. 168 François Duc de La Rochefoucauld. Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims. J.W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell, trans. Samson Low, Marston, Dearle & Rivington (limited), London. 1888. More of La Rochefoucauld’s Reflections
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We took our company for a drive yesterday afternoon. Traveled mostly gravel roads and didn’t pass a single vehicle on them. Of course, it was Sunday and approximately 100˚ so that’s really no surprise. You can’t see it very well but the place still had clothes and furniture in it. Unfortunately, none of us had
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In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields. Take up
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Be sure to read to the end, in case you’ve forgotten about this disgusting and un-American episode from the distant past of 2019. ~~~ I posted the following on October 2, 2013. Reposting it in its entirety (though reformatted) for the Memorial Day weekend, 2019. Ernie Pyle was an American journalist and war correspondent. A quick
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I wasn’t really surprised to see the post below pop up on today’s read posts. I searched, and I have mentioned him twice here at Big Food. The other post got hit yesterday. Gerard is an amazing human being. He’s being called the Poet Laureate of the Internet. And rightly so. Context for the copied
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Buzzards are cleaning up a dead deer. Who knows what happened. It’s quite far from the house, but very close to the driveway. I cannot remember which Disney movie it is that has the vultures, but whoever drew them must have been acquainted with the real things.
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I mentioned earlier in the week that Oregon Muse, the proprietor of the Sunday Morning Book Thread at Ace of Spades Headquarters, has died. May he rest in peace, and take his place among the Inklings. Though his readers knew he wasn’t well, everyone had thought that he was on the mend would would soon
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Oregon Muse, the fellow who did the Ace of Spades Headquarters Sunday Morning Book Thread (from which I liberally swiped content) has passed away. I corresponded with him several times over the years. He was knowledgeable and generous with his knowledge. Prayers for his family and friends.
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Over the many long years here I have written several decent posts .for Memorial Day. Today I’ll be picking and choosing from among them and reposting. Here’s the first. In Flanders Fields Published on May 25, 2020 by Marica In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks,
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It’s quite remarkable, isn’t it? I don’t think it’s necessary to sit around all day thinking about it, but it is good from time to time to recall that people were engaged in the same things thousands of years ago that we today engage in. We shop, prepare meals, eat, bathe, sleep, make homes for
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Originally posted May 23, 2015 and not too subtly addressed to my children. “In Flanders Fields” is a poem written by physician and poet John McCrae on May 3, 1915 (thanks, wikipedia!) after the death of a friend and fellow soldier in WWI. Flanders, of course, refers to Belgium, specifically the western parts where during
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And Mr. Big Food and I are spinning some discs back here in the Den. My God. What a song writer. “We were kinda crazy then…” Rest in peace, Jerry.
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Mr. Big Food was on sabbatical. I had just quit/gotten kicked out of the Ph.D. program. That’s the north fork of the Shenandoah River. The country vet she saw in Lurray prescribed glucosamine and a baby aspirin once a day. She was like a new dog for a few more years. Made it to The
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“The old farm-home is Mother’s yet and mine,And filled it is with plenty and to spare,-But we are lonely here in life’s decline,Though fortune smiles around us everywhere:We look across the goldOf the harvests, as of old-The corn, the fragrant clover, and the hayBut most we turn our gaze,As with eyes of other days,To the
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7000 without power in southern Mississippi.
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One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001 I am busy today. Mr. Big Food is giving a talk to the University of Mississippi Medical Center folks, so I’ll be out in the Bunkhouse with him hoping my technical expertise is not needed. The pre-scheduled Miss Emily post will be along later this afternoon. As we
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We were, and still are, in the slot, thankfully. This is what I’ve been thinking since yesterday. It’s been an interesting storm. Did a lot of damage in Louisiana. Did you hear? Just as the storm was moving over Lake Charles, a sugar plant outside of town caught fire. Toxic fumes. Turn off your air
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Aging “Funny to think we’re both elderly, isn’t it? And what a sham this business of age is. Do you (except physically) feel older than when we saw the hedge pig and played gramophone records to one another? I don’t a bit. My own pupils still seem to me in many ways older than I.
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Born today in the year 1888, Alan Seeger. He died in WWI. Pete Seeger’s uncle. His most famous poem is the first Daily Reading. That in fallible source tells me it was JFK’s favorite. Mysterious ways & all. Daily Readings June 22 I have a Rendezvous with Death [published posthumously] O. Henry’s Gift of the
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