When Time Stops ...
For an instant, your world freezes. Everything, even breath, is suspended. Only the mind perceives this pause, identifies it for the...
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J.C. Weil
- 4 min
Research or Digression or Both?
If we are halfway inquisitive, we want to learn. If inquisitive to the point of obsession, we can get lost in this learning, this...
J.C. Weil
- 4 min
The Other’s Voice
My generation included activities not as apparent for Generations X and Y. Yes, we went to school, did homework, waited for Christmas and...
J.C. Weil
- 4 min
Joan’s Immortality
Lately, especially on rainy summer afternoons, I remember Joan _____. We met many years ago when members of the same church. I was almost...
J.C. Weil
- 5 min
If You Doubt and if You Don’t
If you have unshakable faith and practice it through some form of organized religion, my respect and admiration are yours. If you...
J.C. Weil
- 3 min
The Patience of Virtue
“She’s got it backwards.” “You’re right. How odd. It should be the virtue of patience. You know, ‘patience is a virtue.’” “Exactly.”...
J.C. Weil
- 4 min
Send Your Ennui Packing
If you have had or currently have a job you loathe, or merely dislike intensely, you know how you feel at the end of the work day and at...
J.C. Weil
- 7 min
LINGERING VISIT WITH EMILY D.
TELL ALL THE TRUTH BUT TELL IT SLANT -- #1263 Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm...
J.C. Weil
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YOUR PRIVATE MOMENTS WITH EMILY DICKINSON
Here without analysis, counting of feet, nor rhythm and rhyme, are five of Emily’s poems for you to sit with and ponder, if you wish....
J.C. Weil
- 1 min
Our Glass For Two Sisters
In its fullness like time itself the hour glass holds lazy sand moving in languorous sashay a young unhurried thing intent on the moment...
J.C. Weil
- 1 min
EARLY LOOKING BACK
And, sometimes with a whoosh! at others with an oosh, glub sog the year went to its dying. What had graced its days, what burdens the...
J.C. Weil
- 1 min
MOVING TO THE COUNTRY
Alone and naked in the sun where a full length mirror tells the truth of time, I wonder if--alone and naked in the sun of our...
J.C. Weil
- 2 min
Navigating Your Life
Meeting change and sorrow with grace, appreciation, courage, and sometimes a change in attitude. TAKING STOCK Years are measured by the...
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