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January 2024
the most powerful of them all.”
--Josiyah Martinl
Finding it difficult to imagine what great strides our lives may
be taking in this new year. Perhaps AI, the Artificial Intelligence
that is enthralling everyone, could predict an outcome, but, hey, that
by its very nature would most likely be "Artificial."
Guess we shall just wait and see. Hopefully our authors will
be bursting with new visions and liklihoods to pour into next issue
which shall be the first for Volume 27 of this Art and Literature eZine.
Walt Perryman's "One Day After Christmas" poem also displays
a photo of his wife Laura and him during the Christmas season. His
encore poem "About New Year's Eve" is not only timely but excellent
advice. Bruce Clifford's "The Blame" is his only composition this time.
John I. Blair is still under the weather, but fortunately we have a
treasure trove of his poetry to bless this January Pencil Stubs,
including his prize winner poem "Sputnik." (Details included.) His
other three are "Hay," "If Time Is A River," and "Taking The Sun in
January."Bud Lemire's "In The New Year" is spot on, and his other
three are "When I'm Gone," "The Elf on The Shelf," and a
beautiful tribute to his late sister, "Dottie." There is one from your
editor, "Not The Me" that is on the reminiscent side.
"Introspective" by Thomas F. O'Neill welcomes the New Year,
while Marilyn Carnell's column "Sifoddling Along" reveals plans of
several projects for her coming days, and likely months. Judith Kroll's
column "On Trek" is so like her--we have met and I can speak
knowingly--and is a comforting essay. Pauline Evanosky's column "Woo
Woo," is intriguing, as she's one of our authors who has learned to use
the various AI sites and shares her expertise. Our new columnist Ara
Parisien in "Medium-Author-Spiritual Teacher" discusses visitations and
various examples of them. This is a subject your editor has been
looking forward to reading.
Rod Cohenour's "Cooking with Rod" features a scrumptious
recipe and he confided that he considers a serving to offer three of the
small chops from his French Onion Pork Chops. "Armchair Genealogy" by
columnist Melinda Cohenour looks ahead to the new year as an
opportunity to delve more deeply into family connections, with the
continued quest for info for five "brick walls." Mattie Lennon of
Dublin, nostalgically tells about his "Best" Christmas, and previews a
new book for his "Irish Eyes."
We recognize and gratefully bless our good fortune in knowing
our co-founder and webmaster, Mike Craner, whose knowledge and
expertise keeps Pencil Stubs Online actually online We know how
busy he was during Christmas season as he "plays" Santa on an excursion
train in Virginia, delighting children of all ages.. We place our
confidence in him as we have in the past and shall continue doing so.
Click on author's byline for bio and list of other works published by Pencil Stubs Online.
This
issue appears in the ezine at www.pencilstubs.com and also in the blog
www.pencilstubs.net with the capability of adding comments at the
latter.
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