April 2012
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“I’m tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the...”
– Michael Clarke Duncan as “John Coffey” (The Green Mile)
That Dash Represents All the time...
The Dash Poem
by Linda Ellis
I read of a man who stood to speak
At the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on her tombstone
From the beginning to the end.
He noted that first came the date of her birth
And spoke of the following date with tears,
But he said what mattered most of all
Was the dash between those years.
For that dash represents all the time
That she spent...
“This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was...”
– Ernest Hemingway, True at First Light (via last-broadcast)
Ernest.
