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American Life in Poetry: Column 066

By Ted Kooser, U.S. poet laureate, 2004-2006Some of the most telling poetry being written in our country today has to do with the smallest and briefest of pleasures. Here Marie Howe of New York captures a magical moment: sitting in the shelter of a leafy tree with the rain falling

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I tried some new code over in the sidebar to try to tidy things up around here, and it keeps looking glitchy in Safari. Does it look right on your end? I’ve tested it with Netscape, too, and it seems to be OK. In Safari, the same content keeps popping up in all three scrollable

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1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it!

Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Major-General Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley CB, OBE, MC (3 November 1915-22 June 2006) was the only son of Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Mary Adelaide Somes Colyer-Ferguson.

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I mentioned that yesterday was busy? So busy, I guess, that I forgot the biggest event of the day.

Amy took my to get my ears pierced!

I know. What am I, 12 years old? I had my ears pierced long, long ago, before I was able to protest. But I never wore jewelry after I was

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Baby’s first slice Originally uploaded by nichole_e.

We had a pretty busy Saturday this week. We started out with a yard sale, which went pretty well. In the evening, we joined some friends at Shakespeares Pizza and followed that up with a visit to Sparky’s ice cream

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The iPod apparently thinks Jeff Tweedy and Pink Floyd make the perfect soundtrack to yard sale prep.

Werewolves of London Warren Zevon
Moonshiner Uncle Tupelo
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd
Casanova 70 Air
Still Be Around Uncle Tupelo
Us & Them Pink Floyd
Tiny Vessels Death Cab for Cutie
High 5 (Rock the Catskills) Beck
100 Years from Now Wilco
Theologians Wilco

A lovely poem called “Where I’m From” by George Ella Lyons has turned into a meme, somewhat. Here are a bunch of different versions at Finding Joy in the Morning. And here is mine:

Where I’m Fromwith apologies to George Ella Lyons

I am from mountains, from Nintendo and well-worn pages.

I am from the humble home with

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