Today's Writer's Almanac page includes a good poem by George Bilgere, a poet I like. You might like him, too. It also includes a moving statement by Queen Elizabeth the First, made near the end of her 45 year reign.
The quote from a writer changes each time the page is accessed and I wanted to report the one that came up when I looked at the page:
"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
—Iris Murdoch
I do feel very lucky to have found the wife I have and especially so since yesterday afternoon. My marriage was not in jeopardy then but a symbol of it, my own wedding ring, had been missing. I have been wearing that ring for more than 50 years. (You wouldn't want it since it is misshapen from where I put a blowtorch to it. About 1963, I had a little accident with mercury and got it all over my ring. I had heard that mercury is bad for gold and read that I should heat the gold to 475° and the mercury would vaporize. As I was wondering if the ring had reached that temperature, its side began to melt.) I definitely felt something was wrong with a bare left ring finger. I was shocked to find it wasn't on my hand and looked all over trying to figure out what had happened. I must have taken it off to avoid getting it all gooey and put in on my dresser. Shutting the sweater drawer, I must have rocked the furniture enough to make it tumble unnoticed into the drawer soundlessly falling onto a sweater.
I get shared jokes, videos and whatnot, some very good and some not. I realize that as I look at enough stuff, I am going to find that I wish I had a catalog of what I've gotten because sometime I am going to want to find something again. Often, a collection of slides or pictures or a video is a large file and I delete it to keep my mailbox from getting too big. This is the latest thing that seemed pretty good.
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Bill
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