tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post4666756278563177538..comments2023-10-29T06:41:23.910-07:00Comments on Halfway There: Up, up, and awayZenohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-32486235818408738562009-03-29T13:25:00.000-07:002009-03-29T13:25:00.000-07:00Zeno. I read your comments over on Pharyngula, and...Zeno. I read your comments over on Pharyngula, and that is what has brought me over to read and subscribe (rss) to your blog. I really enjoy your stories about your family, as they often tend to resonate with my own family experience. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for writing such enjoyable blogs.Phillip Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14346653995659723361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-16000841063307881722009-03-27T13:24:00.000-07:002009-03-27T13:24:00.000-07:00Thanks.The music is by Coplandhttp://www.youtube.c...Thanks.<BR/><BR/>The music is by Copland<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXuErqEyc04<BR/><BR/>Not a great performance, I fear. At least it doesn't catch me the way the one that made me recall the words did.<BR/><BR/>wv: "reads" - what it appears that captcha does to my posts.<BR/><BR/>PS: Have you had the banner updated? Or did I just never notice the wee man before?Jens Knudsen (Sili)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14078875730565068352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-334736360754400452009-03-26T15:55:00.000-07:002009-03-26T15:55:00.000-07:00Yep - Dickinson:Going to heaven!I don’t know when,...Yep - Dickinson:<BR/><BR/>Going to heaven!<BR/>I don’t know when,<BR/>Pray do not ask me how, –<BR/>Indeed, I ‘m too astonished<BR/>To think of answering you!<BR/>Going to heaven! –<BR/>How dim it sounds!<BR/>And yet it will be done<BR/>As sure as flocks go home at night<BR/>Unto the shepherd’s arm!<BR/><BR/>Perhaps you ‘re going too!<BR/>Who knows?<BR/>If you should get there first,<BR/>Save just a little place for me<BR/>Close to the two I lost!<BR/><BR/>The smallest “robe” will fit me,<BR/>And just a bit of “crown;”<BR/>For you know we do not mind our dress<BR/>When we are going home.<BR/><BR/>I ‘m glad I don’t believe it,<BR/>For it would stop my breath,<BR/>And I ‘d like to look a little more<BR/>At such a curious earth!<BR/>I am glad they did believe it<BR/>Whom I have never found<BR/>Since the mighty autumn afternoon<BR/>I left them in the ground.<BR/><BR/>(word: boxic - what bickflu is)The Ridger, FCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01538111197270563075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-53668893565369336542009-03-26T14:13:00.000-07:002009-03-26T14:13:00.000-07:00‘Going to heaven! Going to heaven!’ Isn't that som...‘Going to heaven! Going to heaven!’ <BR/><BR/>Isn't that something by Emily Dickinson? I seem to recall those words sung on the radio on occasion.<BR/><BR/>wv: "bickflu" - birdfly when it has a cold?<BR/><BR/>Musta typed wrong. 2nd wv: "exicomet" - the wonderdrug that cures bickflu.Jens Knudsen (Sili)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14078875730565068352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-24820998212478999202009-03-26T02:44:00.000-07:002009-03-26T02:44:00.000-07:00Siblings can be the best toys sometimes.Siblings can be the best toys sometimes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com