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Notes from a Melody: March 2013
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Notes from a Melody. Sunday, March 3, 2013. Saving the world for the rest of us. I’ve figured out what the problem is. Who starts and perpetuates wars? Who become terrorists, dedicated to destroying themselves and as many innocent people as they can take with them? Who shoot little girls in the face because they are scared to death to allow females equal rights and opportunities? Who go on murderous, assault-weapon rampages, killing dozens of innocent people? Who commits most of the crime, period? Men &#...
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Notes from a Melody: Onward and Upward
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Notes from a Melody. Wednesday, February 26, 2014. I’m sure those of you who were following my Italian saga with some. Interest, at least, gave up hope long ago that I would continue. This failure to get on with it, to finish. A writing project, has long been a problem for me. I admit to lacking the expertise to explain this phenomenon, unless it is that I am just plain lazy. At any rate, to “get on with it” at last: I would have to say that Siena is a must-see, if you’re going to Italy. The first, San D...
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Notes from a Melody: May 2014
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Notes from a Melody. Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Even if you aren't Catholic II. From the Sistine Chapel we were led to the Basilica of St. Peter. For which there are almost no words. It is absolutely stupendous. Huge and gorgeous, and of course, crowded with tourists, so that getting a picture without heads or shoulders or whole bodies was a challenge. Anyway, the Holy Door is kept sealed except for Jubilee years - usually every 25 years - when there’s an elaborate opening by the Pope. You simply are not ab...
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Notes from a Melody: January 2013
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Notes from a Melody. Sunday, January 20, 2013. Making my voice heard, for all the good it will do. I finally got my letters.well, my emails.off to my congressional representatives on the hot topic of stricter gun laws. It was hard to get myself to do this, even though I. To do this, felt it was important to add my voice to those who are clamoring for changes in our gun laws, to at least. So yes, we have the big deal Second Amendment that declares that,. In order to preserve the safety of its citizens.
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Notes from a Melody: February 2014
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Notes from a Melody. Wednesday, February 26, 2014. I’m sure those of you who were following my Italian saga with some. Interest, at least, gave up hope long ago that I would continue. This failure to get on with it, to finish. A writing project, has long been a problem for me. I admit to lacking the expertise to explain this phenomenon, unless it is that I am just plain lazy. At any rate, to “get on with it” at last: I would have to say that Siena is a must-see, if you’re going to Italy. The first, San D...
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Notes from a Melody: An unburied treasure
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Notes from a Melody. Friday, April 11, 2014. As we approached Mt. Vesuvius, what really got me were all the houses and hamlets climbing its sides. Living on the flank of a live volcano - is this ignorance, indifference, a death wish, or what? I felt the same way about the people living on the island of Santorini, when I visited there. Its last eruption was 1950, and the sleeping dragon could awaken at any time. Ah well, we all have to live someplace. And is anyplace really safe? 8220;No mirror.”. 8221; h...
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Notes from a Melody: February 2013
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Notes from a Melody. Monday, February 18, 2013. The old gray mare she ain't what she used to be. We have had three days of very cold and windy weather, here in central Maine. Saturday night, all day Sunday, and Sunday night it was a matter of “gale force winds,” as they say, up to 51 miles an hour in nearby Augusta. Even today, though it has been sunny (Saturday and Sunday It was overcast, and on again off again snow) it has remained cold and windy. I’ve been cold. So I was trying to be frugal Saturday a...
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Notes from a Melody: Ah, Roma
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Notes from a Melody. Thursday, March 13, 2014. Rome took me completely by surprise. I usually reserve that word for mountain vistas, but this is one magnificent city. Everything is on a grand scale. Beautiful, big, old. Lovely, tree-lined boulevards, the real, live Colosseum. To the Italians), which is crossed by numerous lovely stone bridges, both palm trees (which surprised me) and what we learned from one of our guides are called umbrella trees, because they look like opened umbrellas (we saw many of ...
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Notes from a Melody: March 2014
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Notes from a Melody. Thursday, March 13, 2014. Rome took me completely by surprise. I usually reserve that word for mountain vistas, but this is one magnificent city. Everything is on a grand scale. Beautiful, big, old. Lovely, tree-lined boulevards, the real, live Colosseum. To the Italians), which is crossed by numerous lovely stone bridges, both palm trees (which surprised me) and what we learned from one of our guides are called umbrella trees, because they look like opened umbrellas (we saw many of ...