We Can't Let Everything Happen In Stillwater

I have had a busy week (busy is good), and even now I have to keep it short, but I am enjoying this exchange.

Mom, your reference to Psalm 77 is excellent. I knew as I wrote that last poem that I was following some sort of Psalmic lead, and you have confirmed it. Not that I've reached the caliber of Asaph, or whoever wrote #77, but I always find it refreshing to hear that God does not even expect us to have pat answers to the questions we (the child who challenges as well as the child within) may pose. For that matter, it is always amazing in each Lent season to be reminded of Jesus's humanness and despair.

A thought on websites: Dan had separately suggested using Facebook as our portal. I am very thrilled that we have complete consensus on the name of this endeavor, and in that spirit, let me voice my No! to f.b. and offer an alternative or two. I am probably just an old fart, but I do not want to give up on my resistance to Facebook, it being so overly social and time-consuming for my taste. But here are two other possibilities, both courtesy of Kirsten: 1. weebly.com allows a website to be created that can eventually be, but does not have to be, converted to an independent domain. There would be a fee for the conversion, but no fee to maintain the site with a weebly tag. 2. blogger.com allows creation of a blog portal. I don't know much more about this one, except that it is a free weblog publishing site through Google.

I am attaching another poem, following the last ponderings. This is part of my collection of a sequence of about 30 poems written last year, very loosely reflecting the poetry of Sanai's Hadiqa. I don't know what started me on this exercise, but while Dan works on his Codex Orange, this may be my own installment series.

Dan, I owe you a direct response to your Facebook broaching email, and I'll try to get this out soon. But to all, on the subject of Codex Orange I have to admit that I think I get Dan's use of Golden Valley. Lake Woebegone needs its St Cloud and Springfield needs its Shelbyville. We can't let everything happen in Stillwater.

Jon