All Things Human

The Old Familiar Faces
by Charles Lamb (1779-1834)
Where are they gone, the old familiar faces

Song to Celia
by Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I’ll not look for wine.
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove’s nectar sup,
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Things That Take Time
by Benjamin F. Hull (1941-)
These hill’s woods
Drain to Bird Brook
And in time its waters find the sea
But early deal with rapids
In which I found a lily.
Over time one rock got enough
Silt, dirt, whatever
To grow one tigery lily
And cardinal flowers framed it
And let it take the high ground.
Just witnessed
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Some things need the time
The [...]

I recently completed Jared Diamond’s “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive” and I highly recommend it. His earlier work, “Guns, Germs, and Steel” is a great book and this is merely very good. Still, this is the book that Hugo Chavez should have held up and urged everyone to read. If he had, [...]

“Because I could not stop for Death”
by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Because I could not stop for death
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality
We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.
We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields [...]