First Known When Lost

Sunday, February 5, 2023

In Passing

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"Life passes swiftly, hedged by sorrow;/how long before you've lost it -- a scene like this?"  (Su Tung-p'o (1037-1101), &...
Monday, January 16, 2023

How to Live, Part Thirty-Two: River

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Human nature being what it is, the world has always been, and will always be, beset with utopian busybodies who have taken leave of their se...
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Thursday, December 22, 2022

Beauty

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 " . . . like a dove/That slants unswerving to its home and love." Earlier this week, about an hour before sunset, I was out for...
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Friday, November 25, 2022

Passers-by

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Reading Chinese poetry of past centuries, one often encounters poems of parting, as well as poems of longing for a family member or friend w...
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Monday, October 31, 2022

Autumn

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I beg your pardon, dear readers, for the lengthy silence.  I fell ill upon returning from an early September journey to Southern California ...
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Saturday, September 3, 2022

How to Live, Part Thirty-One: Repose

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Reading the poetry of Robert Herrick always helps to put our day-to-day world into perspective.  For instance:                          Noth...
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Monday, August 1, 2022

What You Leave Behind

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Virtually nothing is known about the Greek poet Praxilla, who, it is conjectured, lived in the middle of the Fifth Century, B. C.  Of her po...
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Thursday, July 14, 2022

Glimmers

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"Yet still the unresting castles thresh."  This line by Philip Larkin came to me a few days ago as I walked through a grove of tre...
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