Daffodils
by William Wordsworth
I wander’d lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch’d in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay;
Ten [...]
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11/15/07
I woke up this morning to the sound of Willie retching and then puking. Ah well – must’ve been the grass he was eating yesterday down at Myosotis. The next thing I became aware of was the wind and the rain in the dark. An indoor day.
I love that I can sit here at [...]
I recently spent a few days “away from it all” with Willie (a shy, sweet, black lab) at a rustic cottage that my brother, sister and I share in the Helderberg Region of New York. It’s a tradition going back quite a few years, for me to spend some days in November there.
The solitude is [...]
