Josh, thank you for your latest list and the chance to listen to these songs.
Dan, I am going to read your last few posts, soon, but I have to start with an apology, for having no time these last few weeks. And yet he has been listening to music? And (next post) writing a poem? Yes, and training for tomorrow’s half marathon, presiding over a church council saying goodbye to its pastor, plodding through another stage of my four year divorce, getting Andrew to all his fencing classes, attending parent-teacher conferences, working my regular job, keeping my regular monthly volunteer shifts at PADS and Feed My Starving Children. But here is the plan: Monday I am taking some time off to read your latest story... (and , p.s., next week going with Anne to see Kirsten's production of West Side Story!)
Meanwhile, in advance of Sunday’s race, here is my poem.
I like the old-fashioned use of 'apologia'--defense via words (as distinct from swords and shields); it's a blessing we're busy and that we have anchors to bring us together, from church fellowship to good radio stations--I miss NPR but with my more fluent Czech am enjoying a couple stations here. Just as was the case at Concordia when I was in full training, I studied, read and wrote with acuity; I sometimes churn out a poem on an evening I could least afford to, timewise. In that regard, the "Mixed Messages" short story set in Zagreb is not very good--as I prefaced in red, it is one of those churn-outs to replace another story that is not so good (and too exposing). If there's a story to comb through, it's "Cymabline"--not because it is 'so good' (that's up to readers) but because I feel it's unshakeable, at least to me. I feel that in your 13 miles poem, which I am eager to comment on next...
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