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

Jun 23, 2012

NASCAR Prayer: Boogity Boogity Boogity

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JUNE 25, 2012: It's Monday and readers might need a follow-up prayer after yesterday's services. Or they might just need some ...
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Jun 22, 2012

3 MOVIE REVIEWS: PROMETHEUS, BERNIE, HUNGER GAMES

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PROMETHEUS:   Since this film is the most recent of the three, I’ll begin with it, though I have nothing good to say. Visually, it’s a b...
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Jun 21, 2012

Chloe Honum, "Spring": Another Kind of Rebirth

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http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/238028 While looking for seasonal poems a few weeks ago, I came across Chloe Ho...
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Jun 19, 2012

Yeats' "The Second Coming," Mob Mentality and Community

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Fernandina Beach, Florida, January 2012 How scary it must be to live in Greece or Egypt right now, to name just two trouble spots. W...
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Jun 14, 2012

Doc Watson, Two Songs, Glitch Corrected

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3ZWdyhkkLQ Doc Watson, "Don't Think Twice" and "Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor...
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Roethke's "The Geranium": Following Up

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Roethke’s “The Geranium” was well-received, and the visitor comments were again thoughtful and interesting. So once again, I’m turning m...
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Jun 8, 2012

Theodore Roethke, "The Geranium"

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OK, OK, you literalists, it's not a geranium . . .  http://gawow.com/roethke/poems/220.html I’ve delayed posting Theodore Roet...
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Michigan, Ohio River Valley, United States
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