Now we are getting’ to the really winter like weather.
Brings out the poesy in a person… This person happens to be Miss Sarah Doudney – who wrote:
“The quiet day in winter beauty closes, // And sunset clouds are tinged with crimson dye.
I’m certainly not affixed to the poets’s coattails (or in this instance her skirts) … but I do enjoy a couplet now and then. This one today seems particularly suitable.
I’m not familiar with the British countryside… but it appears this was a largely rural area but the nature is changing now. And I really don’t have the time to wander off into British politics or what’s happening in the countryside. But you’re welcome to if you wish.
Miss Doudney’s father was a candle and soap maker. She did not marry until about 30 – and the skimpy details I have available at the moment say that she wrote poetry and later children’s books. No at hand details about the family -- you ‘ll have to follow that up on your own. Let me know what you find. (J)
It just seemed to me this was like a walk in the park to get us away from the scratchy, retchy, itchyness of politics at this time. There are lots of nice things to think about and presents to contemplate. I’ll just let you fill in your own blanks. Miss Doudney’s picture… in a small frame on my computer – gives a little idea of what she looked like. Just an interesting excursion into the distance.
Don’t bother much with politics everyday… it gets terribly dry!
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack Buttram
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“JUST A MINUTE”
LET’S SET SOME REAL GOALS
Just a Minute: John Fund, formerly a Wall St. Journal columnist now with American Spectator, lifts our sights a bit on the development of Ronald Reagan. At age 11 his mother gave him an inspirational novel “That Printer of Udell's," which set goals for his life and morals.
Peter Hannaford, a long time Reagan aid whom I once met, agrees the story combines that of a young man who believed in "practical Christianity" and Horatio Alger-like grit. His biographer says the book epitomizes the moment Reagan's moral sense developed. He saw his goals and by age 21 had became a lifeguard with 77 lives chalked-up to his credit.
Reagan often said he was a sucker for heroes – and thus he’d willed himself to strive for those qualities allowing him to be one. For Ronald Reagan, the heroes he admired and the hero he aspired to be -- demonstrate what individuals in a free society can achieve. The essence of Ronald Reagan's personal American Dream was the next generation should strive to be better than the previous one. There's no mystery about that part of the Reagan's legacy. <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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