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		<title>An antidote to Christmas humbug</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bj omanson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Carlyle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great many of my friends and family are confirmed Christmas nay-sayers, citing primarily its commercial aspect, its religious dimension (or the lack of it), its hyped-up artificiality . . .   Etc.  I tend to agree with their criticisms and complaints, but reach my own conclusions, and my own solutions.   Shunning the glitzy aspect of Christmas as completely as possible, I try to avoid commercial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottenstair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3590791&amp;post=1252&amp;subd=forgottenstair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In these days leading up to Christmas . . .</title>
		<link>http://forgottenstair.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/in-these-days-leading-up-to-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bj omanson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alfred Lord Tennyson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fess Parker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marian Hollinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shawnee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trans-Allegheny frontier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victorian London]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In these days leading up to Christmas, I continue— in working simultaneously as an historical interpreter at Pricketts Fort &#38; as a theatre &#38; arts reviewer at Fairmont State— to straddle a chronological divide of some two &#38; a half centuries. Making that journey almost daily, from the trans-Allegheny frontier of the 1770s to the twilight realm of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottenstair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3590791&amp;post=1241&amp;subd=forgottenstair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia de Courcey, relics: literary, political, philosophical writings, 1966-1986</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bj omanson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rockford College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia DeCourcey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who remember my second wife, Virginia de Courcey, who died in 1986, I am in the process of makng her writings available online.  It is labor-intensive, but a labor of love.  There are many hundreds of pages to be typed out by hand, as they are on typescript of quality too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottenstair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3590791&amp;post=1215&amp;subd=forgottenstair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After three suicide attempts &amp; a stint in the asylum, the poet Cowper retires to his Garden &amp; the company of his rabbit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 04:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bj omanson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[et in Arcadia ego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monongahela River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mr Chumbles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here it is, August nearly gone, and this is almost the first time this year I have had a moment to sit quietly in the garden and write.  What has gone wrong in my life?  At my age, life should be slowing down . . . The poet Cowper, for instance, managed it nicely.  Recovering from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottenstair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3590791&amp;post=1103&amp;subd=forgottenstair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>hard times</title>
		<link>http://forgottenstair.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/hard-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bj omanson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bertolt Brecht]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way a single frail crocus struggles up through black matted leaves in our garden looks much like the world struggling to throw off this obdurate global recession.  The accumulated crust and weight of old death seems impossible to penetrate. I slog on.  Fittingly, all my work of late has concerned war or hard times. A few days [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottenstair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3590791&amp;post=1029&amp;subd=forgottenstair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>trans-siberian train of thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bj omanson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolsheviks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These past days stretching into weeks of ice and snow have put me much in mind of that old &#8220;easeful&#8221; friend that Keats wrote of&#8212; .  From about midnight until 3 or 4 each night I have been reading from Boris Pasternak&#8212; poetry, bolsheviks, siberia, beautiful women, war&#8212; the ideal antidote to days of mundane drudgery. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottenstair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3590791&amp;post=780&amp;subd=forgottenstair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A stubborn holdout</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bj omanson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Frederick Pollack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impatiens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well into November, after a good two weeks of nighttime frost and freezing, a stubborn holdout of bright impatiens &#8212; those most delicate of annuals &#8212; remained unblighted in our garden.  They were ensconced between two great old spruces, overseen by two stone angels, and overspread the graves of two beloved cats.  There was something slightly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottenstair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3590791&amp;post=999&amp;subd=forgottenstair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>old literary correspondence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bj omanson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charles Martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dana Gioia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Felix Staphanile]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I sometimes wonder if writers in our post-WWII generation&#8211; old codgers that we now are&#8211; will be the last to produce volumes of collected letters. Throughout the library here in our home, as in any standard literary library, there are dozens of volumes of letters &#8212; not just biographies or collected works containing letters &#8212; but complete [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottenstair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3590791&amp;post=918&amp;subd=forgottenstair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The gardener poet: Vita Sackville-West</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bj omanson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edward Thomas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not yet September and already the garden is strewn with fallen leaves. It has not been quite the summer I had envisioned (long hours reading poetry in the partial shade, sipping chilled chardonnay, listening to water drip endlessly from stone into pool). Too many demands on my time: I work two jobs, seven days a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottenstair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3590791&amp;post=877&amp;subd=forgottenstair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A setting for small mysteries . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we first took over this back yard some sixteen years ago, the grass was so high that for the first several months I cut it with a scythe, striding among the waist-high grasses and nettles like the figure of Death &#8211; no doubt startling the neighbors.  I didn&#8217;t own a gasoline mower or weed-eater (being unable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgottenstair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3590791&amp;post=857&amp;subd=forgottenstair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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