tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post6139547216620064726..comments2023-07-25T09:14:24.599-04:00Comments on Transit Notes: HOPE FOR THE PASTGeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-2481270045555661452016-05-01T07:38:11.206-04:002016-05-01T07:38:11.206-04:00Good luck on your move. As noted in my reply to y...Good luck on your move. As noted in my reply to your comments on the barred owl posting, we live just below the Blue Ridge mountains and love the area. I spend a lot of time hiking and pursuing my photography in the mountains, especially in the area between Brevard and Highlands.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-36907954642307620282016-04-30T23:11:26.589-04:002016-04-30T23:11:26.589-04:00Yes, we are busy - and moving to the App mountains...Yes, we are busy - and moving to the App mountains in June (NC) Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00007201357693227614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-12116568079366561612016-03-10T11:54:41.074-05:002016-03-10T11:54:41.074-05:00You're welcome, Loran.You're welcome, Loran.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-63824409955716050762016-03-10T11:49:16.684-05:002016-03-10T11:49:16.684-05:00This is the idea I need for my research paper writ...This is the idea I need for my research paper writing! I was searching for something like that, but it wasn't the <a href="http://awriter.org/essay-writing-services/" rel="nofollow">http://awriter.org/essay-writing-services/ </a> thing I need. Thank you very much for this blog and postingAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09183453024192072639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-78612257994017312372016-02-27T07:24:03.668-05:002016-02-27T07:24:03.668-05:00Nice to hear from you, Margaret. All is well, tho...Nice to hear from you, Margaret. All is well, thought I'm haven't blogged for the past year. Just enjoying life, as I hope you and your family are as well.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-73689359142354137362016-02-26T17:13:10.449-05:002016-02-26T17:13:10.449-05:00Stopped by as well. Hope you're enjoying life...Stopped by as well. Hope you're enjoying life. Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00007201357693227614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-12760408453240093862015-11-25T15:50:23.750-05:002015-11-25T15:50:23.750-05:00Thanks for your good wishes, George. All is well;...Thanks for your good wishes, George. All is well; just taking a little break from blogging.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-21352194979501212572015-11-25T15:32:07.808-05:002015-11-25T15:32:07.808-05:00I miss your blogging. Hope all has been well.I miss your blogging. Hope all has been well.George Andreouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14526780865395139338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-38210732854381563142015-07-10T07:47:52.294-04:002015-07-10T07:47:52.294-04:00Thanks so much for your lovely comment, Chris. Gl...Thanks so much for your lovely comment, Chris. Glad you found something here that resonates with you. Please feel free to join in the conversations you find here. I haven't posted too much in recent months, but hope to post more often in the coming months. I took a look at your blog and found it inspiring. Walking, silence, solitude, listening — these are the watchwords by which I guide my life.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-17122548145501763722015-07-09T22:57:17.873-04:002015-07-09T22:57:17.873-04:00This is so poignant... just so aligned with the we...This is so poignant... just so aligned with the welcome message in your blog!<br />Thank you for sharing!<br />Kindly<br />Cris MCris Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08444507758618168982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-11840665786444231652015-07-04T07:31:47.617-04:002015-07-04T07:31:47.617-04:00Hi Dominic!
Good to hear from you. Yes, I've...Hi Dominic!<br /><br />Good to hear from you. Yes, I've been relatively quiet for the past three or four months. Hard to explain, really. There seem to be times when I need down time to figure out where I'm going with the next stage of my life. It seems that many of my other blogging friends may be going through the same thing.<br /><br />In the first two weeks of June, I walked about 150 miles (about 80%) of the Offa's Dyke Path. Started out in Chepstow and ended up in Llangollen. Much tougher terrain than I would have imagined. The biggest problem I had, however, was with bulls. On my second day out, I was charged by a mean bull and was lucky to get out of the situation with my life. It was a good time to have my trekking poles with me.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-7683351694394647422015-07-04T04:20:20.226-04:002015-07-04T04:20:20.226-04:00Just thought I'd drop by. Looks like you'v...Just thought I'd drop by. Looks like you've been blogging about as much as me! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-22699210978490440652015-04-27T17:55:50.922-04:002015-04-27T17:55:50.922-04:00Thanks for your comment, Friko. I agree entirely....Thanks for your comment, Friko. I agree entirely.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-9321192961657719362015-04-27T17:29:32.069-04:002015-04-27T17:29:32.069-04:00It is a great thing if you can forgive yourself fo...It is a great thing if you can forgive yourself for your past.<br />Expectations, promises, mistakes and wrong turnings, it’s good to take the mellow view.Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-82764984904400116542015-04-11T17:22:22.035-04:002015-04-11T17:22:22.035-04:00Thanks, Dominic. Glad you liked this poem.Thanks, Dominic. Glad you liked this poem.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-15888823556869649692015-04-11T16:45:19.764-04:002015-04-11T16:45:19.764-04:00That poem reminded me of TS Eliot:
Time present a...That poem reminded me of TS Eliot:<br /><br />Time present and time past<br />Are both perhaps present in time future,<br />And time future contained in time past.<br />If all time is eternally present<br />All time is unredeemable... etc.<br /><br />David Ray is less abstract and less highfalutin', which I like.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-88320205186440217702015-03-31T19:53:30.767-04:002015-03-31T19:53:30.767-04:00Thanks, Gwen. Glad you liked the poem.Thanks, Gwen. Glad you liked the poem.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-13896800875675983372015-03-31T19:42:48.736-04:002015-03-31T19:42:48.736-04:00That was Lovely.That was Lovely.Gwen Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13410235558740636534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-28455295166421753292015-03-26T14:44:51.123-04:002015-03-26T14:44:51.123-04:00Thanks for your lovely and thoughtful comments, Ru...Thanks for your lovely and thoughtful comments, Ruth. This poem resonated deeply with me as well. I think it is especially poignant for those of us who have been around the track a few times. With each passing year, there is the deepening need to not only be completely authentic, but to also honor that authenticity. Being faithful to one's authentic self, however, often comes at a price. In short, the "mistakes made by the selves we had to be" often cause collateral pain to others. Notwithstanding the best of intentions, many of us have unwittingly placed albatrosses around the tender necks of those we cared about, which makes it all the more important that we find a way toward the dying of the light to share Frost's hope that the past "will turn out to have been all right for what it was, something we can accept . . . something we can bear."Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-72007442129657628692015-03-26T10:49:54.061-04:002015-03-26T10:49:54.061-04:00I have chills reading and responding to this poem,...I have chills reading and responding to this poem, George. Tears too. I think of those "promises to keep" and the poignancy connected here in the last couple of lines. There was a sad weariness in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," and a strong sense of present and future, written 41 years before Frost died. Here, we feel him looking back, forgiving all those promises, kept or not, submitting to something larger and yet very, very personal. <br /><br />I love it.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-61389716578078560492015-03-22T12:02:59.361-04:002015-03-22T12:02:59.361-04:00Glad you liked the poem, Pat. I also love Frost&#...Glad you liked the poem, Pat. I also love Frost's poetry, and when I revisit those poems, I always discover new insights.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-55026154783647741202015-03-22T11:41:58.535-04:002015-03-22T11:41:58.535-04:00I love this poem George, as I love all Frost's...I love this poem George, as I love all Frost's work. Visiting his grave in the US was a highlight of one of my holidays.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-27624326715116828612015-03-22T09:20:56.937-04:002015-03-22T09:20:56.937-04:00Thanks, Bonnie. Like you, I found the most though...Thanks, Bonnie. Like you, I found the most thought-provoking line to be the one about "mistakes made by the selves we had to be . . ." Glad this poem resonated with you.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002454922784880258.post-70803293266701717102015-03-22T08:58:26.162-04:002015-03-22T08:58:26.162-04:00What a gentle, sweet soul housed in the body of de... What a gentle, sweet soul housed in the body of dear Robert Frost - "...mistakes made by the selves we had to be ...". Thank you for sharing Ray's poem, George. Hope Spring 2015 finds you well.Bonnie Zieman, M.Ed.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00282469017360136275noreply@blogger.com