I’ve been digitizing home movies from 8mm video tape, and ran across one from our 1996 vacation to see my parents in the Black Hills. On this tape was footage of a side trip we took to a threshing bee in Sturgis, South Dakota.
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Over the past few months, I’ve been drawn to Facebook, adding family and friends I have now, and friends I haven’t seen for many years. It was also the impetus to reconnect with friends who are not on Facebook.
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Looked around one morning and this poem just sort of spilled out. Very easy to write, I don’t know why. . .
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The start of this short piece of common verse was inspired by a much longer free verse poem I wrote in 1985.
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I haven’t written any poetry in almost 25 years; the last was some free verse expression written during a low point of my life. However, I’ve recently gotten the bug to try my hand again, so I offer this, my first sonnet, to my wife.
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I was having a conversation with a friend recently, in which she made the comment, “Getting old is not all it was cracked up to be.” I totally understand the comment seeing as how I’ve passed the half-century mark myself. But then I started to wonder what aging really means.
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Well, my conversion to the Dark Side™ is nearly complete. I have signed up on Twitter.
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Sadie developed a rash on two of her paws that we didn’t notice until a couple of weeks ago when she started licking at it. Because she was in discomfort, we went in to see the vet, who diagnosed it as an allergy. To what, we don’t know, since we can’t think of anything that has changed in our home recently.
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I just ran across a band by the name of Eatliz while cruising around on web space. Found them on Aniboom of all places. (How did we ever find anything before the Internet?)
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I guess I’m just turning into a social networking fool. And interpret that almost any way you like — it probably still applies. This is quite a long way from my older phones-are-evil, don’t-talk-even-if-you-have-something-to-say mentality.
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