tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59465205206460887252024-03-27T06:37:30.322+00:00VassagoVassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comBlogger3424125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-52691299661428404112024-03-23T17:59:00.005+00:002024-03-23T17:59:38.133+00:00<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Fear prophets, </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">and those prepared to die for the truth, </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">for as a rule they make many others die with them,</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> often before them,</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> at times instead of them.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-6391104287354154762024-03-23T17:56:00.004+00:002024-03-23T17:56:20.438+00:00<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">An atheist believes that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">a hospital </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">should be built instead of a church.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">An atheist believes that deed must </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">be done instead of prayer said.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">An atheist strives for involvement in life </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">and not escape into death.</span></p><p> <br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">He wants disease conquered, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">poverty vanished, war eliminated </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-76201631766089858512024-03-23T17:55:00.000+00:002024-03-23T17:55:02.153+00:00<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Spirituality is for those who've already been there</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-18547602973841520612024-03-18T12:04:00.003+00:002024-03-18T12:05:26.928+00:00Casey at the Bat <p> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Clung to the hope which springs eternal in the human breast;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">They thought, "If only Casey could but get a whack at that—</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">We'd put up even money now, with Casey at the bat."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And the former was a hoodoo, while the latter was a cake;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">For there seemed but little chance of Casey getting to the bat.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And Blake, the much despisèd, tore the cover off the ball;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And when the dust had lifted, and men saw what had occurred,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">It pounded on the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile lit Casey's face.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Defiance flashed in Casey's eye, a sneer curled Casey's lip.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped—</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">"That ain't my style," said Casey. "Strike one!" the umpire said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">"Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted someone on the stand;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And it's likely they'd have killed him had not Casey raised his hand.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visage shone;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the game go on;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the dun sphere flew;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">But Casey still ignored it and the umpire said, "Strike two!"</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">"Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered "Fraud!"</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "poets electra", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; 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margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-10165030130700897822024-03-18T12:01:00.002+00:002024-03-18T12:01:08.286+00:00The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb7Npj4IqquR0BPnhrnANQYknQTijrSOcsppZj-Zk8Sf40_MH7JBd_cRTjdqGMX1jxA-0dITGgDNC7wDMzHxXYy6zNbpkvY2WT8wEddskjXuPLu38qUrY7lAlp_rm06Tj11D6iyx7tY0C0kp3weDyzXAJijZOiJbR094Nb5vH47-h9yKjb-WjM9Qigx7hQ/s800/zzz555.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="800" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb7Npj4IqquR0BPnhrnANQYknQTijrSOcsppZj-Zk8Sf40_MH7JBd_cRTjdqGMX1jxA-0dITGgDNC7wDMzHxXYy6zNbpkvY2WT8wEddskjXuPLu38qUrY7lAlp_rm06Tj11D6iyx7tY0C0kp3weDyzXAJijZOiJbR094Nb5vH47-h9yKjb-WjM9Qigx7hQ/s320/zzz555.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-82209673222697142772024-03-18T11:59:00.002+00:002024-03-18T11:59:44.338+00:00<p> </p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: #D3E3FD; color: #040c28; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The poem itself acts as an extended metaphor for
the conflict between desire and obligation.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The speaker stopped by the woods </span><span lang="EN" style="background: #D3E3FD; color: #040c28; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">to observe the natural beauty and snowfall in the
woods</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">. He wanted to enjoy the calmness of the dark,
deep, lovely woods.</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The poem is often interpreted as </span><span lang="EN" style="background: #D3E3FD; color: #040c28; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">conveying an attraction toward death</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">,
indicated in the final lines: 'The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have
promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I
sleep. ' Here, the woods and the 'sleep' to which the speaker refers represent
death.</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">' taps on several themes such as life, death,
commitment, pessimism vs optimism, and darkness. The main theme of this piece
is </span><span lang="EN" style="background: #D3E3FD; color: #040c28; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">the journey of life</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">.
It is present throughout the poem and highlighted in the last few lines.</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The text of the poem reflects </span><span lang="EN" style="background: #D3E3FD; color: #040c28; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">the thoughts of a lone wagon driver (the narrator),
pausing at dusk in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">.
It ends with him reminding himself that, despite the loveliness of the view,
"I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep."</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The speaker is stopping by some woods on a snowy
evening. He or she takes in the lovely scene in near-silence, is tempted to
stay longer, but </span><span lang="EN" style="background: #D3E3FD; color: #040c28; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">acknowledges
the pull of obligations and the considerable distance yet to be traveled before
he or she can rest for the night</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">.</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The horse thinks </span><span lang="EN" style="background: #D3E3FD; color: #040c28; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">it is "queer" or odd to stop in the
middle of the woods</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> because it seems his
owner never does this. We know this because the speaker tells us that his
"little" horse is used to stopping near farmhouses.</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Hence, the phrase "miles to go before I
sleep" means that </span><span lang="EN" style="background: #D3E3FD; color: #040c28; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">the poet has a lot to achieve in life before death descends on him</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Woods represent </span><span lang="EN" style="background: #D3E3FD; color: #040c28; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">sensuous enjoyment (lovely), the darkness of
ignorance (dark) as well as the dark inner self of man (deep)</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">.
The last two lines mean that the poet Robert Frost has to fulfill his promises
and has to travel a lot of distance before he can rest.</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4d5156; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The speaker's thoughts and reflections on this
"darkest evening" </span><span lang="EN" style="background: #D3E3FD; color: #040c28; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">reflect his sense of isolation and contemplation in the midst of nature<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p><p><br /></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-52191704228915434132024-03-18T11:49:00.007+00:002024-03-18T11:51:20.048+00:00Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening <p> </p><p><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Whose woods these are I think I know. <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">His house is in the village though; <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">He will not see me stopping here <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">To watch his woods fill up with snow. <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">My little horse must think it queer <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">To stop without a farmhouse near <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Between the woods and frozen lake <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">The darkest evening of the year. <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">He gives his harness bells a shake <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">To ask if there is some mistake. <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">The only other sound’s the sweep <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Of easy wind and downy flake. <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">The woods are lovely, dark and deep, <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">But I have promises to keep, <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">And miles to go before I sleep, <br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">And miles to go before I sleep.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-51111053097657633762024-03-18T11:49:00.002+00:002024-03-18T11:49:07.118+00:00St. Patrick's Day - 17th March <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-X195TXWa1nwyU5Df95JKVP3gFbKt6gulBHmxLH4GTaQPCLDuWewjvz3_kuFhhZHBAb58ZoaOdwcyzZKknWUoC04l1FnE-ZzEL8pCfz0SWIfCnA1IThUMWB3Y2pfmJqoopDqvMU7jgUA6r0jl4rbkFtFxiovpWSFj8W2hWVcP2r-oN0KYlJcXHjh4L6A/s800/zzz111.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="800" height="337" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-X195TXWa1nwyU5Df95JKVP3gFbKt6gulBHmxLH4GTaQPCLDuWewjvz3_kuFhhZHBAb58ZoaOdwcyzZKknWUoC04l1FnE-ZzEL8pCfz0SWIfCnA1IThUMWB3Y2pfmJqoopDqvMU7jgUA6r0jl4rbkFtFxiovpWSFj8W2hWVcP2r-oN0KYlJcXHjh4L6A/w486-h337/zzz111.jpg" width="486" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-29272322820818235992024-03-16T18:52:00.002+00:002024-03-16T18:52:38.977+00:00<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">A wise man never tries to warm himself in front of a painting of a fire.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-56830348370047293452024-03-16T18:50:00.004+00:002024-03-16T18:54:23.238+00:00<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: #ebedef; color: #383838; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 13.3px;">A wolf that takes a peasant to supper probably won’t need any breakfast.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ebedef; color: #383838; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 13.3px;">A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ebedef; color: #383838; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 13.3px;">It’s harder for the spider to catch the fly, than for the fly to catch the horse.”</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ebedef; color: #383838; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 13.3px;">Only someone with nothing to be sorry about smiles at the rear of an elephant.”</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ebedef; color: #383838; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 13.3px;">“When the wolf is chasing your sleigh, toss him a raisin cookie but don’t stop to see if he eats it.”</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #ebedef; color: #383838; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 13.3px;">If the butterfly has teeth like the tiger, he’d never make it out of the hangar.”</span></p><ul style="background-color: #ebedef; box-sizing: border-box; color: #383838; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 13.3px; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em 2em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-top: 0.4375em;"><br /></li><li style="margin-top: 0.4375em;"><br /></li><li style="margin-top: 0.4375em;">“Though the hippopotamus has no stinger in his tail, the wise man would rather be sat on by the bee.”</li><li style="margin-top: 0.4375em;"><br /></li><li style="margin-top: 0.4375em;">“When an owl comes to a mouse picnic, it’s not there for the sack races.”</li><li style="margin-top: 0.4375em;"><br /></li><li style="margin-top: 0.4375em;">“No matter how warm the smile on the face of the sun, the cat still has her kittens under the porch.”</li><li style="margin-top: 0.4375em;"><br /></li><li style="margin-top: 0.4375em;">“The chicken that clucks the loudest is the one most likely to go to the Steamfitter’s Picnic.”</li><li style="margin-top: 0.4375em;"><br /></li><li style="margin-top: 0.4375em;">“A duck with three wings and a loaf of bread is brother to the turkey.</li><li style="margin-top: 0.4375em;"><br /></li><li style="margin-top: 0.4375em;">If your socks are not in your shoes, don’t look for them in Heaven.</li></ul><div><span style="color: #383838; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3px;"><br /></span></span></div><ul style="background-color: #ebedef; box-sizing: border-box; color: #383838; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 13.3px; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em 2em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-top: 0.4375em;"><br /></li></ul>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-55266593806580530622024-03-16T18:45:00.003+00:002024-03-16T18:45:24.503+00:00<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">For those who believe, no proof is necessary. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">For those who don't believe, no proof is possible</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-49948913115044232322024-03-15T14:48:00.003+00:002024-03-15T14:53:24.674+00:00Spring <p> </p><p><span face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 16px;">By the meteorological calendar, spring will always start on 1 March; ending on 31 May.</span></p><p><span face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif;">Spring is </span><span style="background-color: #d3e3fd; color: #040c28; font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif;">the season after winter and before summer</span><span style="font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif;">. Days become longer and weather gets warmer in the temperate zone because the Earth tilts relative to its orbital plane around the Sun. In many parts of the world it rains for hours. This helps the plants grow and flowers bloom</span></span></p><p><span face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Spring and "springtime" refer to the season, and also to ideas of rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection and regrowth. </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtropical" style="animation-delay: -0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; scroll-behavior: auto !important; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0ms !important;" title="Subtropical">Subtropical</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical" style="animation-delay: -0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; scroll-behavior: auto !important; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0ms !important;" title="Tropical">tropical</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> areas have climates better described in terms of other seasons, e.g. dry or wet, monsoonal or cyclonic. Cultures may have local names for seasons which have little equivalence to the terms originating in Europe.</span></span></p><p><span face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">During early spring, the axis of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" style="animation-delay: -0.01ms !important; animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; scroll-behavior: auto !important; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0ms !important;" title="Earth">Earth</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> is increasing its tilt relative to the Sun, and the length of daylight rapidly increases for the relevant hemisphere. The hemisphere begins to warm significantly, causing new plant growth to "spring forth", giving the season its name</span></span></p><p><span face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-2151862984692327352024-03-15T14:45:00.003+00:002024-03-15T14:46:06.892+00:00Spring <p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;">Spring</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;">stirs the clouds</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;">in the sky's teabowl</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;">Spring has come:</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;">the nameless hill</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;">lies shrouded in mist</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;">The spring sea</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;">rocks all day long:</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;">rising and falling, ebbing and flowing ...</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-size: 14px;">Ring out the bells again</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face="arial, sans-serif" jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-size: 14px;">Like we did when spring began</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-46705675427586183312024-03-15T14:36:00.003+00:002024-03-15T14:36:50.207+00:00March<p> </p><pre id="poem" itemprop="text" style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.35em; max-width: 580px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="background-color: #20124d; color: #38761d;">March
I Martius am! Once first, and now the third!
To lead the Year was my appointed place;
A mortal dispossessed me by a word,
And set there Janus with the double face.<br />
Hence I make war on all the human race;
I shake the cities with my hurricanes;
I flood the rivers and their banks efface,
And drown the farms and hamlets with my rains.</span></pre><pre id="poem" itemprop="text" style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.35em; max-width: 580px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="background-color: #20124d; color: #38761d;"><br /></span></pre>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-10400875169301585482024-03-09T14:46:00.005+00:002024-03-09T14:46:25.682+00:00<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> We are the custodians of life's meaning. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> If we crave some cosmic purpose, </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">then let us find ourselves a worthy goal</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-42756120880312935382024-03-09T14:44:00.003+00:002024-03-09T14:44:36.290+00:00<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-44000199673332032132024-03-09T14:43:00.002+00:002024-03-09T14:43:08.114+00:00<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">The Bible tells us to be like God,</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-56517692164429218302024-03-09T14:42:00.003+00:002024-03-09T14:42:23.722+00:00<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Gravity explains the motions of the planets, </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-45658034521153448612024-03-09T14:36:00.004+00:002024-03-09T14:36:42.381+00:00<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Saint Anthony said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-24311686190607326172024-03-09T14:35:00.006+00:002024-03-09T14:35:30.105+00:00<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">if a god created the universe, </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">the question itself makes no sense. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Time didn’t exist before the big bang,</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> so there is no time for god to make the universe in.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> It’s like asking directions to the edge of the earth; </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">The Earth is a sphere; </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">it doesn’t have an edge;</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> so looking for it is a futile exercise. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">We are each free to believe what we want, </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> the simplest explanation is; there is no god. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">No one created our universe,and no one directs our fate.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">There is probably no heaven, </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">and no afterlife either. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe,</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">extremely grateful</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-91347093528040326382024-03-09T14:31:00.005+00:002024-03-09T14:31:42.976+00:00<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Religion is still useful among the herd </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">and there is every biological reason why they should be.</span></p><p><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Take away his god and saints, </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">and he will worship something else..</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-38556835981164470662024-03-09T14:29:00.004+00:002024-03-09T14:29:50.935+00:00<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> Evil is always possible</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> goodness is eternally difficult.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-57060236366915096592024-03-09T14:28:00.005+00:002024-03-09T14:28:30.397+00:00All gods who receive homage are cruel <p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> All gods dispense suffering without reason. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Otherwise they would not be worshipped. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Real gods require blood.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946520520646088725.post-31122194029770840942024-03-06T14:35:00.003+00:002024-03-06T14:35:38.818+00:00the reason we sometimes have the sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him <p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> We have kept him at a distance, </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">He is exactly where we left him</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>Vassagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07899279483586474442noreply@blogger.com