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March 2022
--Charles Dickens
Welcoming March and hoping it is imbued with warmer Spring type
days to bless us. Our 'Artic Blast' as defined by the national weather
service in the brief days of February, certainly brought quite a few of
us conditions that made the Winter Olympics seem nearby. The crazness of
Texas weather spliced in a few much higher than normal temperatures
among the extreme low temps, just to keep us on our toes, raising and
lowering thermostats and turning our ceiling fans off and on again.
Our dozen poetic compositions this issue include "Sumertime
Woman " from yours truly who grows ever more weary of the unusually cold
weather last month poured out upon us. One poem "Patio Cat's
Adventurre" arrived from John I. Blair to be included for March, also
inspired by some of those fridgid temperatures.
Bruce Clifford's three poems are "The Variants of Those Who
Doubt It," "What Will Be," and "How Far Away is It?." Bud Lemire's
three poems are "I Have Sinned and Loved It," "The Mountain," and
"Omicron on the Loose."
Walt Perryman, our poet who is recovering from a bout of the
virus, shows these three, "My Unfinished Baffling Morning Thought,"
"Have You Ever," and "My Little Grandfalls Church." (Your editor's
paternal grandmother belonged to the same church and took my sisters and
me there when we were with her on Sundays.) Dayvid Bruce Clarkson,
whose column "Reflections of the Day" has a poem "God Had Arrived,"
embedded in a photo in our compliment of poetry for March.
Danielle Cote Serar's column "A Mother's Lessons" subtitled
"Following Through with The Plan," discusses how patience is the
important ingredient for everyone. Judith Kroll remembers her father,
speaks on creating one's Reality, and shares a sweet tale to make the
point.
Dayvid Bruce Clarkson's "Reflections of the Day" column
presents a piece based on various recognized attributes and closes with
one of his unique goodnight musings. Thomas O'Neill also devotes his
column to one of his own compositions, a short story reprinted from
2006, but very timely now.
Pauline Evanosky, in her column "Woo Woo," wants her readers
to realize that meditation should be, and can be fun. Marilyn
Carnell's delightful column "Sifoddling Along" in which she often shares
reminising and historic facts, addresses current times as she discusses
"Change."
Mattie Lennon's "Irish Eyes" gets into the subject of traffic
lights, bridges, and some literary history of Ireland's Ballydonoghue
Bardic Festival. "Cooking with Rod" brings us a favorite recipe, an
encore of Rod Cohenour's from March 2016, his Double Chocolate – Triple
Raspberry Cake.
In "Armchair Genealogy" column, Melinda Cohenour tells how
the subject of the history of DNA became revelant when it was determined
as a useful type of info for humans' health research. This continues
the series "DNA: Complex. Tantalizing, And Nothing Short of Miraculous"
begun in December 2021.
The first chapter of a fantasy (perhaps) serialized story
"2061" by Bud Lemire begins with this publication. We will continue with
future installments monthly. Enjoy!
Mike Craner and wife Susie, are the backbone of this eZine
which was co-founded by him and your editor. Mike keeps this
informational and entertaining publication viable Much love and
appreciation to them (and their first grandchild) every day. Thanks,
Mike, for everything,!
See you in April!
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