SPRING DOES NO SPRINGING--WE DO
It's March, just after St. Paddy's and the Ides. Please keep your green beer and dire predictions far, far from me. I am in full-tilt...
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J.C. Weil
- 4 min
Appreciating Home
We drove three days, though if we wanted to, we could scrunch it into two, but the likelihood of that is slim to zero. My husband made...
J.C. Weil
- 5 min
The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge
Many fine books have adopted me as their constant child. I am loyal to their influences upon me, even when my views may radically differ...
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J.C. Weil
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Coming to Age [The Mind May Change]
in my twenties, aware of women how much older no way to say discrimination lacking all older is old early aging equalizes skin defeated,...
J.C. Weil
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Check your insanity at the Door
Perhaps you want to know which door. Too late to have a choice. It's my door, and you’re already inside. If you felt that this past year...
J.C. Weil
- 3 min
Celebrate in May (And I Don't Mean Mother's Day).
Actually, I do. However, it is not all I mean. Although I intended this for May, something else was in my mind. That is hardly a...
J.C. Weil
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When Time Stops ...
For an instant, your world freezes. Everything, even breath, is suspended. Only the mind perceives this pause, identifies it for the...
J.C. Weil
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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....
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