Poems, essays, before I go into the next weeks

Almost forgot.

Lovely essay given to me by GretchenJoanna of

Donald Hall on his marriage with his wife, fellow poet

Jane Kenyon.

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Also on marriage, this by Joni E Tada about

her marriage with Ken Tada,

really an example for us, 

in how love can grow in 

really difficult situations...

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This one on marriage had some good points,

but some that I found almost nonsensical...

like how can an article have some really good points 

and then some that verge on nonsensical/not applicable to life? 

Anyway... 

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I would rather listen to Donald Hall than some of that.

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I remember meeting Donald Hall, a year after Jane died,

at Calvin's Faith and Writing Conference,

autographs gotten, a few words;

I even met Annie Dillard, then.

Amazing, I was 19.

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It's funny how when you are 19 or 18 and you think you can plan

how your life can and will go.

I had a 10 year plan, written on paper.

All I can say is thank God that plan never came about;

now I see that plan as near to a 'might-have-been' that was more from

the evil side of things than of the good (to give reference to 

L'Engle's Swiftly Tilting Planet).

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What do to with our days, with out time,

that is often the question I am faced with

and I am not always very good at answering it.