HeyJaredVintage Wisdom from Ann Anderson Evans
Tales of Hard-earned enlightenment derived from living in different languages, different countries, and under different circumstances
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THE AGE OF SADISM (opens the original)
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A video taken from a Palestinian West Bank village shows an Israeli tank pulling a struggling donkey behind it. (I’m assuming the donkey is symbolic of the Palestinian system of work and transport; Israelis don’t use donkeys.) The donkey can’t quite keep up, but is trying to. The driver of the tank keeps a steady pace assuring the donkey doesn’t fall, but doesn’t quite get its feet under it either. This torture continues until the donkey is dead. What is this if not pure sadism?Why kill all the
YOUR WEEKEND POEM: (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedFull fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them,— ding-dong, bell.
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY: A Memoir (opens the original)
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19While we waited for our food, Everett told me he was having a hard time dealing with the grief after his parents’ deaths earlier that year and his faith offered little solace, leading him to question his commitment to the Episcopal priesthood. “How can I help others through their grief if I can’t get through my own? I don’t feel as if God is guiding me, and that fact is profoundly annoying.” He gave a little smile.A motor scooter screamed t
WHAT RECESSIONS TAUGHT ME (opens the original)
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The Depression: Before recessions, there was the Depression. The men in my family lost their jobs then, and from 1939 to the end of the Second World War, were again taken away from their income-producing lives to serve the country. The family fortune was depleted, but again invested after the war, and has grown since then. The lesson: hold on.1980-82: I had my own word processing business and worried that work would stop coming in, but it didn’t. I muddled through, but when the refrigerator died
YOUR WEEKEND POEM (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little silver trout. When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a-flame, But something rustled on the floor, And someone called me by my name: It had become a glimm
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