Author: Paul Casey
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Keep on rolling up
“You may go into the pantry, an’ bring out the nutmeg now, Ann Mary,” said she presently, with dignity.
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The front yard of the west woods
As we travel from summer to fall. When we travel around our earth we see different peoples and places. Like us, but different. When our earth travels around the sun, it sees different seasons. Like one another, but different.
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November 3, 2024
Only the hardy few in bloom this sunday. For decades now everyone has been saying the climate will be getting more mild and here we are with fair weather at the start of November.
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Life well lived
Eastern sky before sunrise Maybe all we want is a life well lived. For each one that may mean something different. Been a little rough around here recently. Makes me wonder why. Feel like you want to cry. You know I try. See the love in their eye.
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That’s enough
A moment in time of a culturally significant place. Photography does not have to tell a story. It does not need to be special. Is the image nice to look at? That’s enough.
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Mental time travel
Imagine the craftsmen that fitted each stone. The laborers that broke and pulled each stone from the mountain. Imagine making level a foundation upon a jagged floor. Placing each brick, every stone just so. Hand tools to shape the timbers from felled trees. Cutting each piece of glass to fit the many windowpanes. People who…
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The Man And The Lion
It all depends on the point of view, and who tells the story A Lion and a Man chanced to travel in company through the forest. They soon began to quarrel, for each of them boasted that he and his kind were far superior to the other both in strength and mind. Now they reached…
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The Ant And The Dove
A kindness is never wasted A Dove saw an Ant fall into a brook. The Ant struggled in vain to reach the bank, and in pity, the Dove dropped a blade of straw close beside it. Clinging to the straw like a shipwrecked sailor to a broken spar, the Ant floated safely to shore. Soon…
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Mercury And The Woodman
A poor Woodman was cutting down a tree near the edge of a deep pool in the forest. It was late in the day and the Woodman was tired. He had been working since sunrise and his strokes were not so sure as they had been early that morning. Thus it happened that the axe…
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The Impostor
A certain man fell ill, and, being in a very bad way, he made a vow that he would sacrifice a hundred oxen to the gods if they would grant him a return to health. Wishing to see how he would keep his vow, they caused him to recover in a short time. Now, he…
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Joan as a Spiritual Guide
1:00-1:45 p.m. My French Language Journey Presenter: Louis Michot, Krewe de Jeanne d’Arc King 2024 & Grammy-Award winning musician 2:00-2:30 p.m. The Virtues of Joan of Arc & Our World Today Presenter: Father David Ducote, St. Joan of Arc Church, LaPlace, Louisiana 2:45-3:15 p.m. Joan as a Spiritual Guide Presenter: Jaymie Wolfe, Author of Born…
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The Astrologer
A man who lived a long time ago believed that he could read the future in the stars. He called himself an Astrologer, and spent his time at night gazing at the sky. One evening he was walking along the open road outside the village. His eyes were fixed on the stars. He thought he…
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Her flower garden this summer
I’m making art from her flower garden. We have had mild weather in a way that is to the garden’s liking. This results in plants that seem happy in how they produce bloom after bloom. The birds, bees and all manner of creatures seem to like it as much as I do. I like the…
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Last day of July 2024
And pictures of snow like it’s January. Was actually hot and humid yesterday. Not crazy hot like we read about in the news. No burning fires. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it hundreds of times, we are fortunate with the weather here in central Indiana. Most of our weather comes in from the…
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At the Olympic Games
At the Olympic Games, swimming events are held in a pool measuring 50 metres in length. The four strokes of Olympic swimming events—for both individual and relay races—are breaststroke, butterfly, backstroke and front crawl; the front crawl is predominantly used in freestyle races, and as such the term freestyle is often used as a synonym…
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Of course I have experimented
“It is a problem at which I have worked for the last seventeen years,” said Mr. Appin, “but only during the last eight or nine months have I been rewarded with glimmerings of success. Of course I have experimented with thousands of animals, but latterly only with cats, those wonderful creatures which have assimilated themselves…
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If we could first know where we are
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation…