Sunday, December 11, 2011

Where do you hope the path is leading?

12 comments:

  1. Howard's the very first on this *very* cold morning!!

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  2. Alan, "snow fawn" is extrapolated from a poem of Phil's ~~


    but by the light of the hungry moon
    a smooth bean field
    with a northwest aspect
    had captured the fury
    of the winter storm as white caps
    that with all the surrounding now bare ground
    had now modulated
    into the exact pattern of fawn spots

    last month's wolf moon never saw her lying there




    Phil*from*Iowa.
    Sat, 02/26/05

    It has become part of the way I see spring and fall. . . .
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JqaXA41pvNc/R2NyziEDVdI/AAAAAAAABb0/gFGG3gEZlmY/s1600-h/Lance+Schelvan.jpg

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  3. puddle, I wish you and Phil would collaborate and put your poems into a book. I've never read a single poem from either of you that didn't touch my heart. I would love to have them together in one place. I would buy such a book as soon as it was available. I dream of a feast of feeling. It would be so wonderful to have them together in one place.

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  4. I second the idea!! And I want a dozen copies!

    Seriously, submit it to Passager Books (which is for poets over age 50!)...
    http://www.ubalt.edu/passager/Passager_Books.htm

    Jean L. Connor has published two books of poetry with Passager. She lives near here and her first book included poetry she wrote in her 80's.

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  5. Now if it were published, Google might become helpful! Interesting visual metaphor, indeed.

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  6. Which will it be? Hello Higgs, or Bye-Bye Boson?

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/11/higgs-boson-cern-jeff-forshaw

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  7. Chocolate IS at stake, after all:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/science/with-chocolate-at-stake-physicists-bet-on-whether-the-higgs-boson-will-be-found.html

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  8. Love the two of you for even suggesting it, lol! All of Phil's poetry that's public is at Baby. But I did a search, and it only brought up this year's worth. Don't know if that's a google change, or a glitch. I love the combo of the pics and the poetry, and *that* would be hellishly hard to publish (permissions and what all -- and I don't even remember the sources of most). One may certainly feel free to *print* from baby. . . . iffen you wish.

    listener: sweet idear. I just have this thing about communities of age. Don't much like 'em. I recall the first time I heard about "retirement communities" (in my 30's) they made my skin absolutely *crawl*. . . .

    I've been thinking about doing a book from at least 2005 -- but this is the direction I'm thinking: http://www.lulu.com/publish/index.php?cid=en_tab_publish

    There's also a blog to book something or other on blogger, and I was thinking about doing the cookbook that way. Or just on its own blog, and giving directions to peeps on how to get there, lol! I watched the blog cookbook just about kill Thankful, and have NO desire to go that way.

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  9. Thanks, Alan. One thing that I'm having trouble with is that I've heard the Standard Model has a number of adjustable parameters that, among other things, can give widely differetnt masses for the Higgs. The mass range for the "standard Higgs" comes just from the simplest, most basic version. And the masses of the nonstandard versions could be well beyond the range of the LHC. But maybe moving to one of these "nonstandard Standard Models" is what the physicists mean by "something entirely new."

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  10. Follow your heart.

    I agree about communities of age, and wasn't thinking in terms of your audience but in terms of narrowing your competition! LOL! If you want awesome competition and the most discerning audience, try Graywolf Press! http://www.graywolfpress.org/

    Please know that any photo you've seen me post here is open to your needs, if anything suffices.

    I'm very glad you're not following the style that Thankful managed to make work.

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  11. Late this afternoon, nearing sundown, I was watching and listening to geese landing in the river bottom; in addition to several flocks of maybe a hundred each that landed below our place, I could see other flocks landing upriver--and it was a little foggy/misty, so I couldn't see far and that not clearly, maybe three or at the most four miles. The geese must have numbered in the thousands. Then I saw what appeared to be a group of four deer slowly walking through shallow water from an island to the shore, and quickly had Miyoko bring the binoculars. She and I thought the same thing--the big ears made them look like moose despite their much smaller bodies! Wikipedia confirmed my suspicions that they were mule deer:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odocoileus_hemionus_californicus

    I don't think we have ever seen any before. They slowly made their way to the riverbank and disappeared into the willows.

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  12. That all sounds stunning! My wildlife biologist son once (during high school) described seeing thousands of Snow Geese landing and taking off as "like being inside a snow globe."

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