tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30869933.post494102903843248499..comments2009-07-27T14:49:23.314+01:00Botogolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17024057489361848870noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30869933.post-10674716079057119672009-07-27T14:49:23.314+01:002009-07-27T14:49:23.314+01:00Happy Birthday Alibert! Live well and prosperAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30869933.post-80202521503161278432009-07-25T21:11:42.946+01:002009-07-25T21:11:42.946+01:00Happy Birthday and many happy returns!<br />For you another poem by Stanley Kunitz who wrote poetry and kept gardening until his 100th birthday!<br />This is from ‘Intellectual Things’ written in 1930 (Can you see his foresight? this poem includes many of GI’s colourful (not colourless) buzzwords: brain, vat, mind, space…;-))<br /><br />”Change<br /><br />Dissolving in the chemic vat<br />Of time, man (gristle and fat),<br />Corrupting on a rock in space<br />That crumbles, lifts his impermanent face<br />To watch the stars, his brain locked tight<br />Against the tall revolving night.<br />Yet is he neither here nor there<br />Because tomorrow comes again<br />Foreshadowed, and the ragged wing<br />Of yesterday&#39;s remembering<br />Cuts sharply the immediate moon;<br />Nor is he always; late and soon<br />Becoming, never being, till<br />Becoming is a being still.<br /><br />Here, Now, and Always, man would be<br />Inviolate eternally:<br />This is his spirit&#39;s trinity.”<br /><br /><br />PS BTW Rumour has it, two new blogs are about to launch:<br />(1) ‘Colourless Yellow Ideas’, and (2) its sister ‘Colourless Red Ideas.’ They are awaiting your ‘Green’ blessing. I’d say send them the unthawed round pistachio ones ;-)(Kidding)M4GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05037301160446631777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30869933.post-29920035774537512832009-07-24T07:39:28.245+01:002009-07-24T07:39:28.245+01:00Happy Birthday to you - enjoy your next year with glee and fun.<br /><br />Now please tell us about that darn wall....transitionyourlifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605277510279760481noreply@blogger.com