In China, during the Tang Dynasty, over 2,000 poets wrote almost 50,000 poems. The Tang was, for a time, a golden age for poets, full of inspiration and solace. One emperor, Li Longji, believed the arts could be a kind of justice. Uniting all society for a brief, creative moment. Most citizens, and most poets, lived without fear of the future. To power, a man considered by many .

Reflections of a humanist living in America. Wednesday, November 9, 2016. It has long since been colored by my subsequent life experiences. I know I was sad, even heart-broken. The adults around me surely were and I must have noticed their fear. I do know that it was the first truly dark day of my life, the genesis of my awareness of the larger world around me. Wednesday, August 22, 2012.

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No Soap, Radio! A little bit louder now. We have to get a divorce. I saw the way you looked at the waiter last night. I saw the way you looked at the waiter last night.

Tis all a chequerboard of nights and days . Monday, March 07, 2011. On Seeing An Unexpected Online Presence. Much have I dreamt in the days of old,. And many goodly poems and stories written;. Now by absence of a muse sorely smitten. With unspun dreams and stories untold. And rue the lost emotion that ruled my demesne;. Yet did I continue in vegetation serene. Until by some chance did her glimpse unfold. Then felt I like some astrologer wise.