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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....
J.C. Weil
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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
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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
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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...
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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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POST MARKS #1: ON THE REASONING OF DREAMS
This morning’s conversation was between one of my selves and a peculiarly attractive man. His physical virtues were, to put it kindly,...
J.C. Weil
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Excerpt from The April Book
July 1, 2022 COMPARISON From The April Book by Jennifer C. Weil An unedited diary of at least one poem per day, from April 5,1984 trough...
J.C. Weil
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