To give of one’s self: to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived…this is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday, October 24, 2009
The Stimulus Plan at Work
The small Whitetail, Mont., checkpoint along Montana’s border with Canada, which serves about three travelers every day, will receive $15 million for repairs under President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan. At right is the Canadian border crossing station. Associated Press
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
u go levon......
"Winter time is coming,
my windows are filled with frost,
went to tell everybody, but I could not get across......
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Utah
Tourism
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overcooked. Hopefully this road is already
nameless; I am sure that the wind behind your
car will suck it down into the tire-strewn
canyon with the snakes and sage. Heat
bends the road, browns the stones,
burns the clouds.
The already wide open valley opens up
and we are incomprehensibly small together,
both from the lush Southern hills,
you pause your thoughts of God to ask me
in genuine interest if I am writing poetry
when I see these things and I can’t reply
precisely, but I know that a poem would
crush the scenery in a way that prayer
wouldn’t. Later, you won’t see the dime-sized
lizard hatchlings, these serious jewels, but
I will. Crossing my path, darting under rocks,
frantically alive, all over, and already at home
……………..Andy Trebing