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“Always the same underdog stance under the same happy-sad sky, eternally crying. Am I still shy? I am always beginning the world beginnin...

“You walk into the room with a pencil in your hand...” ~ Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man A reprieve of stillness mercifully interrupted t...

“I wandered about for a long time in different districts, having for my fellow-traveller the Prayer of Jesus, which heartened and conso...

Oh what will you give me? Say the sad bells of Rhymney. Is there hope for the future? Cry the brown bells of Merthyr. Who made the mine o...

"O hush the noise, ye men of strife, And hear the angels sing. And ye, beneath life's crushing load, Whose forms are bending low,...

“I take a long look A long look It's a hard climb that takes a long time I can see where I'm going And some places I've been ...

“Then the star appeared again, the same star they had seen in the eastern skies. It led them on until it hovered over the place of the ch...

“I’ve seen by the highways on a million exit ramps those two-legged memorials to the laws of happenstance waiting for four-wheeled messia...

“It’s not true I had nothing on. I had the radio on.” ~Marilyn Monroe When welcoming a houseguest, I try to share as much of my living sp...