Banjo52

Conversation. Especially literature and language, education, football and baseball, movies, history, then and now, birds, two-lane roads. "Banjo" is a fun word, and the instrument can make fine music. But this isn't really a blog about banjos, except in the metaphorical sense of interesting sounds riding across a valley from one porch to another. Click on any photo to enlarge. Students, remember to footnote. All text and photos: © 2009-2014 Banjo52

Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
May 8, 2014

Poking and Prodding: e.e. cummings’ “O sweet spontaneous” and the Nature of Nature (and; un-Schooling

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At Kensington Metropark the other day, I discovered an island hubbub, a rookery full of Great Egrets, Great Blue Herons, and Co...
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Aug 8, 2013

John Ciardi, "Lines": Bee Pirates

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Bob the Pirate Boards the Ship   I don’t think these purple flowers are morning glories, but they’re a rich purple, and afte...
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Jul 31, 2013

Green: Thoreau, the Turtle, David Wagoner

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         In looking for information about Thoreau and turtles (what? that doesn’t interest you?), I came across the site of Dr. Sa...
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Jul 3, 2013

Emerson, Thoreau, Georgian Bay

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Northern Rim of Lake Huron, Blind River, Ontario   Ten days ago I returned from a four-day, thousand-mile drive along the east...
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Jun 14, 2013

SIDNEY WADE’S “BIRDING AT THE DAIRY”: BEAUTIFUL STARLINGS FROM HELL

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Believe it or not, I’ve been trying to shorten my posts, but one thing or another about a good poem teases me into holding the podium. In...
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May 28, 2013

When a Snake is Just a Snake: Emily Dickinson and A.E. Stallings

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Momentary by A. E. Stallings : Poetry Magazine A narrow fellow in the grass by Emily Dickinson : The Poetry Foundation "Momentary...
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