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It is an amazing gift that man has the facultiesFor observation and analysis,And for drawing conclusions and sticking to them.

Jesus had told the man, “Today shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.”And billions, who cannot agree on much else, have taken it as a fact. “It must have happened,” they will tell you,Whether any writer tells us after the … Continue reading →

And I wonder about the birdsWhether they are singing to be heard by usIn the first place.

The birds could quit singingAnd there are manyWho would not notice.

Perhaps we should recognize the foolishnessOf expecting someone to behave betterThan he has yet been taught.

There are places yet in this countryWhere the black man had better notShow his face after sundown,Just as there are placesWhere the white man hadBetter not show his face, either. And this is the way they want it.

As necessary as it is,The marketplace wearies me so.

Who loves excellence the mostIs not the consumerWho spends only money,But the artisan who spends himselfTo make things just so.

Few are truly free to wonder about a thing—To explore and test the truth of a matterFor the wonder of truth itself.

She noticed a bunch of stuff other people don’t noticeAnd then wrote a bunch of stuff about it that other people don’t read. And that pretty much sums it up.