Posted in Observations on Life on Jun 22nd, 2008
Who was it that said, “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” I sometimes turn to the bard to express feelings that could otherwise be mixed and misunderstood. In a couple of week friends are moving overseas for a couple of years. The wife is a senior partner in a large, international accounting firm and is going [...]
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Posted in Observations on Life on May 4th, 2008
I don’t know about you, but there’s something about the snap in the air on a fresh autumn morning. I was driving down a street near the city on Saturday morning and I was struck by the many hued trees shedding their leaves. It was beautiful to see. Yet I saw a fellow angrily brushing [...]
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Posted in Poems on Apr 27th, 2008
It’s funny how much so many of us exaggerate when we tell a story or anecdote. I have often wondered why it is we have to make the event so much grander, or dramatic or tragic. Don’t we have enough drama in our lives? Is our existence so insignificant that we must grasp at every [...]
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