Are You Breathing, Just a Little, and Calling it a Life?
Another poem I happened across and decided to share. Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?by Mary Oliver (1935 – ??) Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches of other lives –tried to imagine what the crisp fringes, full of honey, hanging from the branches of the young […]
The Grapes of Wrath Have Not Yet Withered on the Vine …
So, I pulled out my trusty old copy of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and began reading (or re-reading, I guess … does it count if you were 8 when you read it the last time?) … As always, it was a heart breaking experience. On one hand you have the horrific circumstances that push […]
