Bert Jansch - Running From Home

I said I like my life. If I have to give it back, if they take it from me,


let me only not feel I wasted any, let me not feel I forgot

to love anyone I meant to love, that I forgot to give

what I held in my hands, that I forgot

to do some little piece of the work that

wanted to come through.

Marge Piercy

Books

Leaving behind the noise of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically desiccated and preserved. Left and right, absorbed in their shining dreams, the readers. momentary profiles are sketched by the light of their bright officious lamps.My vanity and nostalgia have set up an impossible scene. Perhaps so (I tell myself), but tomorrow I too will have died, and our times will intermingle and chronology will be lost in a sphere of symbols. And then in some way it will be right to claim that I have brought you this book, and that you have accepted it.



(J.L.Borges, El Hacedor, August 9, 1960)

Take the bus

I love taking the bus - Interesting people- Most of the time friendly. Saves gas too.

I was going to write something poetic about buses.. but all i can think of is the magic bus song.. 

We need a home

Morris (orange) and Twiggy before the hissing

Bonnie loves water!  Update on Bonnie - she found her forever home  YAY!!

Scarlett   She went home !  yay beautiful girl !

We are all up for adoption if you live in the  Tampa Bay area please come and see us at the Manatee County Humane Society - more cat pictures soon

To G in Seattle

Thanks for the great mail.

 When I go to the PO and see that there is a creative envelope from you my heart sings.

penpals

Pe

Agata and Veronika sent cards of the former Yugoslavia & Czechoslovakia.  It bought back memories of my first pen pals.. Seka from Doboj   and Jan from Podebrady.  I wonder what their lives are like now.

The Village Bookshop - Village of the Arts - Bradenton, FL

Where have all the indy bookstores gone-
I miss this and Doug

tomato and books

 Tomato and books

Went to the library to get  Dandelion Wine- Ray Bradbury.
Then in the new section a book about the Library.
plus the poetry dictionary for 25C
I was cking out the books when my friend the librarian came around with some tomatoes !
Who knew you could get a tomato at the library?




You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.--Ray Bradbury

For LUN

My friend Margie will leave her earthly body soon.  Although I only knew her through PostCrossing. Her cards and letters will keep her spirit alive.

Peace to you LUN.

postcards

I love older cards so Elena from Russia sent me these

1973 Russian Hockey team and coaches

a Congratulations card.

Museum ad card for Samovar
a Russian water vessel used for making tea
Lenin street in Yalla

An event on the railway- V Perov

Alla Pugacheva- Was in the semi autobiographical movie - a woman who sings 1984