tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232408562024-03-14T04:00:56.418-05:00the janus project"To foresee the future we should know the past." Machiavele. l. woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16358679289226300791noreply@blogger.comBlogger188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23240856.post-1679476656742699982021-05-12T21:34:00.001-05:002021-05-12T21:36:22.165-05:00Shameless Plug . . . <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBL_q48sc_fT2UYQZBUOjxyxaHiEb-OJ6iclOENcQ27Y12rIA5JOcuCAPcYQV6rA61y13904eZY3PGGwY_6rYIQJ07u0u99arCw2_jzUkutBDbm6Sg7gLzuCC_d67pmth9WJGH/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="309" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBL_q48sc_fT2UYQZBUOjxyxaHiEb-OJ6iclOENcQ27Y12rIA5JOcuCAPcYQV6rA61y13904eZY3PGGwY_6rYIQJ07u0u99arCw2_jzUkutBDbm6Sg7gLzuCC_d67pmth9WJGH/" width="320" /></a></div>For those of you who stumble into the Janus Project, I'd like to direct you to one of my side-hustles located at <a href="http://elwoodscigarbox.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Cigar Box</a>. The Cigar Box is a visual display of hand-crafted artwork designed and built from recycled materials. Below are a few examples of my work. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCx33qX9O5cHAQnAdW5N_ju1e8v-p4m7ImbS47KfrPuHlk_YXZ96ngUoCxCOvWbrJYeBFfXR4zekH9zMOnwRVBEJzpanbvgRNUzoiivMieLJL4KEhj2pvlzFaIHn-nmxpc5AFW/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCx33qX9O5cHAQnAdW5N_ju1e8v-p4m7ImbS47KfrPuHlk_YXZ96ngUoCxCOvWbrJYeBFfXR4zekH9zMOnwRVBEJzpanbvgRNUzoiivMieLJL4KEhj2pvlzFaIHn-nmxpc5AFW/" width="180" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW26MZxQsCScQlOJ67RwhmzZ31ADS0nf-EIhknS5hZgsJZokVrv5M0VFKEeRcTeK4wqpqw3-_W2ADffaSCl1lv1R4k9sxYt_jejDb2nCvY57-JngpIkQJ8it4zVs0gW_vLXBn9/s320/shinerboxfull2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW26MZxQsCScQlOJ67RwhmzZ31ADS0nf-EIhknS5hZgsJZokVrv5M0VFKEeRcTeK4wqpqw3-_W2ADffaSCl1lv1R4k9sxYt_jejDb2nCvY57-JngpIkQJ8it4zVs0gW_vLXBn9/s0/shinerboxfull2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgmjBtb5pQFG2FKAP182gm0PqYT_LpI2weDsy0eQ8nak65RWD2SVc5XiSvOJ9LcawtuCXZUF3Qfzkg3E34cG4fA63_1Ad93wy5ACED-YBXptoSH9Mi0err8Afc5S4jrmVhQI4J/s512/IMG_0489.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="384" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgmjBtb5pQFG2FKAP182gm0PqYT_LpI2weDsy0eQ8nak65RWD2SVc5XiSvOJ9LcawtuCXZUF3Qfzkg3E34cG4fA63_1Ad93wy5ACED-YBXptoSH9Mi0err8Afc5S4jrmVhQI4J/s320/IMG_0489.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p>e. l. woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16358679289226300791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23240856.post-75641663710161608822020-04-05T21:36:00.000-05:002020-04-05T21:54:57.627-05:00COVID19, 2020 <span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Nothing like a pandemic to provide time and focus enough to get back to neglected pursuits. So - along with jumping back into the blogging world, here is a bit of photo journalism of some things we have witnessed in recent days. </span><br />
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What exactly is Corona virus? I thought I had already discovered a vaccine in the mid-nineties; make sure to only have two while eating Mexican food and you will never get sick.<br />
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Where the heck is Wuhan, China?<br />
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What is social distancing?<br />
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What is the future of Dollar Stores, Dollar Generals, Dollar Trees, and Hobby Lobby's everywhere? How do I teach online? What is Zoom? How much water should I buy? Where is all the toilet paper? How do I use my knowledge of baseball and football to help continue to train my 14-year-old up and coming soccer scholar athlete? Do masks work?<br />
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Do gloves work? How long is this going to last? Will the NBA finish? Will MLB start? Will there be SEC football in the fall? Do dorm students have to pay for room and board for the whole spring semester? Who do I know that is in jeopardy of losing their jobs? How do I help them? How do we have church without going to church? Will we be able to worship together on Easter Sunday?<br />
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Why the heck are people obsessed with <i>Tiger King? </i><br />
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Do I have enough ammunition?<br />
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Nothing like a pandemic to make me feel like a four-year-old again. Full of questions, some of which have answers I can understand, some of which I think I understand, and some still flummox me four weeks in.<br />
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What started off as a lot of unexpected extra time has turned into four weeks of heeding Ben Franklin's admonition to not put off for tomorrow what can be done today.<br />
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I sanded and painted a bathroom ceiling. I changed a battery in an old watch. I fixed the transmission on my self-propelled mower. I fixed my riding lawn mower that would not crank despite having a new battery and new solenoid. I washed not one, not two, but all three vehicles in our fleet. I don't know that any of those cars have been washed three times total in their collective lives, but they all got a bath in the span of one day. I learned how to transition from face-to-face teaching to 100% on-line teaching. We have deep cleaned the house. We have begun to have our devotions together as a family. I bought a litter grabber and have been picking up trash on our afternoon walks. We have been cooking everyday. We've been washing and putting away dishes - everyday. We have been reading separate books in large chunks of time, all of us on the back porch, while listening to records and the birds.<br />
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Nothing like a pandemic to deliver a knock-out punch to the excuse of not having time.<br />
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So - along with whatever else you are experiencing out there . . . remember Paul's words to Timothy: "God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and a sound, sound mind." Stay safe, stay strong.<br />
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<br />e. l. woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16358679289226300791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23240856.post-89710066790745869232017-11-07T17:45:00.000-06:002017-11-07T18:05:41.319-06:00Eulogy For Tom Thoms, Nov 6th 2017<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I met Tom in a faculty-reading group in the late 1990’s at
Pearl River Community College.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was a young,
new faculty member and was more than a little in awe of Tom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tom was a cool, veteran teacher whose classes
immediately filled up when open registration began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tom was the old-school guy with the stacks of
big yellow legal pads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the guy
who used chalk and hand wrote his notes long hand every day on the board for
his classes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tom was the larger than
life guy with a mustache that gave Tom Selleck a run for the money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the guy with an infectious grin who
loved talking about politics, the stock market, and Mississippi State football.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tom was the guy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">everyone</i> wanted to hang out with at lunch. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tom had a lunch posse that was legendary; they
were so cool, they ate lunch off campus on Fridays. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was not a part of that lunch posse early on,
but through the faculty reading group, Tom became my friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For almost two decades, we worked together
and played together; we celebrated happy times with and for each other; we
shared some tough and even sad times with each other, both professionally and
personally. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d like to think that I’ve
become a better person from having a friend like Tom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know I’ve become a better football fan
through discussing the highs and lows of Mississippi State and Auburn football
with my friend Tom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am grateful that
Tom was a part of my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m an English teacher, so I like metaphors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d like to tell you a bit about my friend
and colleague, Tom, through a sports metaphor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Early on in our friendship, one of the ways our relationship developed
was through the game of golf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither of
us was very good at golf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, most
folks would probably consider us duffers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But we were graceful duffers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
I’m not talking about “graceful” in the physical sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m talking about being “graceful” in the
spiritual sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had graceful rules
like, “You can take two tee shots off the first hole,” and “A bad lie is your
own fault.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Between us both there were
so many foot wedges and hand mashies, and mulligans and “do overs” that I’m
convinced the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ was right there in the midst of every
single round that Tom and I ever played together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Tom and I were both convinced that life was a lot like golf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life, like golf takes place somewhere between
the ridiculous and the sublime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When my
golf game was not going well and things on the course were at their most
absurd, my friend Tom was right there beside me, a witness to my shortcomings
and my plights, always the listener, ever the encourager, ready with advice and
positive feedback.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of his favorite
sayings when a round was going poorly was, “Well, Eric, sometimes you just
gotta grind through it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
classroom, Tom was the same way with his students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter what a student was going though, he
was right there beside them, encouraging them to grind through the challenges
of both their academic and their personal lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tom’s office was next to mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he was in his office, the door was
always wide open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he wasn’t there,
his door was rarely locked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the
years I have heard Tom counsel, tutor, and mentor students semester after semester,
year after year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are reasons Tom was
one of the most popular instructors on campus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was one of the best in the classroom, making the world of psychology
come to life for his students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
want proof go to YOUTUBE and type in “Tom Thoms and His Elephant Impression.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are in for a 15 second treat of what life
in class with Mr. Thoms was all about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Tom had the ability to connect with the individual student both in and
out of the classroom and help them through the tough parts of life both on and
off campus. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The highlight of my academic
year was getting to team teach the Leadership Honors Forum each spring with my
friend, Tom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got to work with Tom week
in and week out, preparing and then teaching with him in the same
classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got to witness the joy he
brought to students’ lives as he taught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I got to learn how to be a better teacher and a better person by
watching Tom in front of the students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
got to see first hand why Tom was an excellent choice for the Pearl River
Community College Mississippi Humanities Counsel Teacher of the Year
award.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The words of our colleague Genny
Kemp sum it up best, “Tom was a difference maker.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On the rare occasions when my golf game actually went well,
my friend Tom was right there in those few sublime moments, celebrating
joyously my successes and achievements, with high fives, fist bumps, and his
unmistakable and infectious million dollar grin that we all know and love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tom brought this same enthusiasm and joy to
my life off the course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will never forget
the day Kate, my daughter, was born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
got to introduce her to my friend, Tom Thoms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That ranked right up there with getting to show Kate off to my own dad. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve seen Tom celebrate just as
enthusiastically with students as they succeeded on assignments, barely passed
exams, or came back to campus to let him know what had been going on in their
lives after they left Pearl River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">M. Scott Peck says that love is an activity, an
investment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I think this is what
made Tom a true friend and a great teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tom had a special connection to people because he took an active role in
our lives and invested in us as individuals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One quick golf story about Tom precisely illustrates what Peck was
getting at.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tom loved new golf
clubs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He always chased the illusive
“new” club that would immediately take three strokes off his score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Christmas one year, Linda gave Tom a very
nice fairway wood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tom was so excited
about this club he could hardly stand it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The problem was that after several rounds of playing with this new club,
Tom figured out he couldn’t hit it a lick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So – for the next several rounds it just sat in his bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At some point, Tom offered to let me swing
the club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it was AWESOME!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took three strokes off MY score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next time we played, I asked to borrow
the club and Tom said without any hesitation, “Sure.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It worked so well for me that I kept
borrowing it out of his bag until one day he said, “Eric, why don’t you just
keep it in your bag awhile.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That club
is still in my bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Since Tom was a chemical engineer before he became a
psychologist and later a teacher of psychology, I thought it almost a necessity
to invoke Carl Jung’s quote about relationships. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jung said, “The meeting of two personalities
is like the contact of two chemical substances:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you were a part of Tom’s life – a family
member, a student, a colleague, a friend – you know what kind of a reaction and
transformation Tom had on your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am confident that Tom’s ability to touch our
lives in the ways that he did was largely due to the love and grace he had for
each of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am also confident that
Tom’s love and grace flowed from the transforming relationship he had with his
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I am confident that because of the
transforming power of grace, fellow believers in Jesus will one day sit down at
the Lord’s lunch table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And at that lunch
table will be our friend Tom, grinning ear to ear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we will celebrate together Christ’s
victory over death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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He that dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Psalms 91:1e. l. woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16358679289226300791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23240856.post-37088617998921724002015-06-12T17:54:00.001-05:002015-06-12T17:54:24.105-05:00Go USA Women's Soccer!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Special K getting ready for USA vs Sweden with home-made Bangers and Mash!<br />
<br />e. l. woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16358679289226300791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23240856.post-68434382861777302902015-04-06T14:17:00.000-05:002015-04-06T14:17:49.456-05:00hamlet's plight<br />
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the world wobbles on its axis<br />
as atlas stumbles.<br />
the stars' light hurtles through the universe<br />
already extinct,<br />
evidence that the center of this galactic machine<br />
will not hold.<br />
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though the rough beast's deafening roar<br />
creates chaos and the weak lose their way,<br />
against all odds, i shout above the noise<br />
the words of denmark's sweet prince,<br />
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"never doubt my love!<br />
i love thee best, most best!<br />
thine, evermore!"<br />
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<br />e. l. woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16358679289226300791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23240856.post-2198452083784523262014-10-28T13:53:00.001-05:002014-10-28T13:54:50.675-05:00a news clip for my daughter . . . <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xi1Y9VSNzt0" width="560"></iframe><br />
. . . and for all the others who are being force-fed the hoax of man-made global warming.e. l. woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16358679289226300791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23240856.post-22219045950213559712014-04-12T20:56:00.001-05:002014-04-12T20:56:55.504-05:00HYSA U-8 Girls ChampionsA huge thank you to Coach Casey and Keg and Barrel for a fun spring on the pitch! Congratulations Girls!<br />
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Sadly and paradoxically, put out by a bailed out company that was too big to fail. Still - we need more of this sort of pride in and verbalization of these bedrock principles of our country.e. l. woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16358679289226300791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23240856.post-44763866899007156512014-02-11T08:53:00.000-06:002014-02-11T08:53:00.286-06:00Alfonzo Rachel . . . Wow. I may be late to the party here, but today I stumbled upon a true patriot, Alfonzo Rachel. This video is an awesome 20 minute rebuttal of the drivel that is passed off as history these days from K12 on up to IHL. Thank you Mr. Rachel and keep up the good work.<br />
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Cousins on the Sand Couch<br />
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December at the Gulf<br />
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Sand Castle Cake<br />
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Cowboys win! Auburn wins! Pie all around!<br />
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Fishin' with Pop-Pop<br />
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Happy Birthday, Girl! We love you! Mommy and Papa.e. l. woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16358679289226300791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23240856.post-68372150654364571982013-11-14T18:52:00.000-06:002013-11-14T19:04:38.721-06:00These are two of my favorite things: Cellos and Star WarsGo to this link so you can see the full screen version on youtube.
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<span style="background: white;">The first time I walked</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">With a girl, I was twelve,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Cold, and weighted down</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">With two oranges in my jacket.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">December. Frost cracking</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Beneath my steps, my breath</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Before me, then gone,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">As I walked toward</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Her house, the one whose</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Porch light burned yellow</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Night and day, in any weather.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">A dog barked at me, until</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">She came out pulling</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">At her gloves, face bright</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">With rouge. I smiled,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Touched her shoulder, and led</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Her down the street, across</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">A used car lot and a line</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Of newly planted trees,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Until we were breathing</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Before a drugstore. We</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Entered, the tiny bell</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Bringing a saleslady</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Down a narrow aisle of goods.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I turned to the candies</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Tiered like bleachers,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And asked what she wanted -</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Light in her eyes, a smile</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Starting at the corners</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Of her mouth. I fingered</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">A nickel in my pocket,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And when she lifted a chocolate</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">That cost a dime,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I didn’t say anything.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I took the nickel from</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">My pocket, then an orange,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And set them quietly on</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The counter. When I looked up,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The lady’s eyes met mine,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And held them, knowing</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Very well what it was all</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">About.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Outside,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">A few cars hissing past,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Fog hanging like old</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Coats between the trees.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I took my girl’s hand</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">In mine for two blocks,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Then released it to let</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Her unwrap the chocolate.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I peeled my orange</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">That was so bright against</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The gray of December</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">That, from some distance,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Someone might have thought</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I was making a fire in my hands.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I snapped beans into the silver
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that sat on the splintering slats</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of the porchswing between my
grandma and me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was home for the weekend,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from school, from the North,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Grandma hummed “What A Friend We
Have in Jesus”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as the sun rose, pushing its pink
spikes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">through the slant of cornstalks,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">through the fly-eyed mesh of the
screen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We didn’t speak until the sun overcame<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the feathered tips of the
cornfield<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and Grandma stopped humming. I
could feel<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the soft gray of her stare<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">against the side of my face<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">when she asked,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">How’s school a-goin’?</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wanted to tell her about my
classes,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the revelations by book and
lecture,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as real as any shout of faith<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and potent as a swig of
strychnine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She reached the leather of her
hand<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">over the bowl and cupped<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">my quivering chin; the slick
smooth of her palm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">held my face the way she held
tomatoes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">under the spigot, careful not to
drop them,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and I wanted to tell her<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">about the nights I cried into the
familiar<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">heartsick panels of the quilt she
made me,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">wishing myself home on the evening
star.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that my friends wore noserings and
wrote poetry<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">about sex, about alcoholism, about
Buddha.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wanted to tell her how my
stomach burned<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">acidic holes at the thought of
speaking in class,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">speaking in an accent, speaking
out of turn,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">how I was tearing, splitting
myself apart<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">with the slow-simmering guilt of
being happy<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">despite it all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I said,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">School’s fine.</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We snapped beans into the silver
bowl between us<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and when a hickory leaf, still
summer green,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">skidded onto the porchfront,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> matte, glossy. She will hug me, my old<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I will smell her hair! She will sleep in this
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> her sleep like an untamed, good object,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> like a soul in a body. She came into my life
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> second great arrival, after him, fresh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> from the other world—which lay, from within
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> within me. Those nights, I fed her to sleep,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> week after week, the moon rising,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and setting, and waxing—whirling, over the
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> in a slow blur, around our planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Now she doesn’t need love like that, she has<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> had it. She will walk in glowing, we will
talk,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and then, when she’s fast asleep, I’ll exult<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> behind that door! As a child, I caught<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> looked into their wild faces,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> listened to them sing, then tossed them back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> into the air—I remember the moment the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the corrected curve of their departure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Directly, </b>by R. T. Smith</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br />
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"I'll get it directly," she'd say, meaning<br />
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<i>soon</i>, meaning,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>when I
can</i>, meaning,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>not<br />
<br />
yet, be patient, the world don't turn upon<br />
<br />
your every need and whim</i>. Or "the dogs<br />
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will be back home directly, I reckon,"<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
"the preacher will be finished," "your daddy<br />
<br />
will see to you," "supper will be laid out"--<br />
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all "directly," which never meant<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>the
straight<br />
<br />
line between two surveyor's points</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or<br />
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<i>an arrow's flight</i>, but rather,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>by
the curve,<br />
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the indirect, the arc of life and breath</i>,<br />
<br />
and she was right, and when she passed<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
or was passing, I could not say which,<br />
<br />
in a patchwork quilt, the makeshift room,<br />
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the sweet hymn notes sung neighborly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt;">across the hall, she whispered, "Learn to tell</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt;">what needs doing quick as a bluesnake<br />
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and what will take the slow way, full<br />
<br />
of care and mulling, be fair in every<br />
<br />
dealing with beasts and people and all<br />
<br />
else alive, and surely, my dear, He will<br />
<br />
come for you in His good time, the way<br />
<br />
He comes for all of us, directly."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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e. l. woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16358679289226300791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23240856.post-6178674028173139952013-04-09T11:55:00.000-05:002013-04-09T12:57:39.435-05:00Speechless . . . I don't really even know how to respond to this ad for MSNBC without my head exploding, so I'll just throw it up there for your perusal. <br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1673.Thomas_Jefferson" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Thomas Jefferson</a>e. l. woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16358679289226300791noreply@blogger.com1