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Crossing the Bar

Published on December 10, 2021 at 6:27 am by LEW

Looking toward Chesapeak Bay form Solomons Island“Crossing the bar” is an expression I have not thought about in few months. It is something that periodically comes back to me these days, generally in association with a death of someone I know. Something that happens much more frequently as you get older. Someone I know passed recently, and it had been several months since that had happened. (more…)

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Poems Revisited – The Last Hero

Published on October 25, 2021 at 8:19 am by LEW

The Last Hero by G. K. Chesterton (not the one by G. W. Russell) is a poem I first read at an early age, and is one of several that I always come back too. I have been contemplating why this poem engender a desire to read it over and over again. While others I can read once and then never again. (more…)

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