John, Sherrie, Ed, Ursula, et al
Thanks.
I'm living now as a hermit, spending my time much as I did today -- as
in the last 41 photos of
https://lawrencehelm.smugmug.com/RiverPhotography/Dec-2015/
Though I'm not actually often talking to anyone other than Ben and
Duffy, as someone Cyril Connolly quoted in /The Unquiet Grave, /"one
must read in order to think" (or something like that), and while I
believe that, I don't quite know what to think of Connolly's book. He
strikes me as having been mightily impressed by Confucius somewhere
along the line. Still, I've other things to read and think about -- and
though Connolly didn't say it, I suspect one must think in order to
write -- and I shall be striving to do that.
Lawrence
On 12/23/2015 7:29 PM, John McCreery wrote:
May your new year be filled, as always, with poetry.
John
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Ursula Stange <ursula@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Heartfelt greetings, Lawrence.
> On Dec 23, 2015, at 2:38 PM, Lawrence Helm
<lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:
>
>
>
> Just a few more things to tidy up,
> To Fulfill my responsibility, then
> I’ll be free to go, eighty-one
> Being a respectable age to, no
> One will be bothered if
> I do. If I choose to
> Stay a longer, pondering
>
> This feeling of having
> Gone on this long,
> Surviving two wives, a
> Number of relatives and
> Friends, I might look again
> For purpose, something to do
> In between reading Borges’
>
> Conversations and Connolly’s
> The Unquiet Grave, neither
> Of whom found purposes
> Worthy of much though they
> Moved on as long as they could
> With imposing style, and
> Enjoyed each warming day.
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