Adgita Diaries

December 2008



American Spectacle

Tuesday, 30 December 2008 12:35 P GMT-04
“Self-consciousness exists in itself and for itself only insofar as it exists in and for another self-consciousness; that is, it exists only by being recognized and acknowledged.”—Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit  Another yea

Goodbye

Monday, 29 December 2008 6:01 P GMT-04
Jim Yeager (Mimus Pauly) of "Mockingbird's Medley" has closed down. His insights, writing, plain speaking and passion for justice will be missed. And, we hope in time he will come back, visit, or blast out the truth from other places (l

The Betsy

Friday, 26 December 2008 10:07 P GMT-04
Old gray Betsy ain't who she used to be.

Waiting for the Magi

Wednesday, 24 December 2008 11:54 A GMT-04
A New England Christmas Carol

The Hound Report~ 'Fa...la...la'

Friday, 19 December 2008 2:33 A GMT-04
    

Poet Laureate Pat Ryan

Wednesday, 17 December 2008 12:33 A GMT-04
Poetry is a mystic and inaccessible idea for many, or worse, hard and inscrutable like calculus. Yet, in dreams many of us can sometimes sit down at a piano and play beautiful music. When we wake up and realize we don’t know one note or key fro

Moment

Sunday, 14 December 2008 12:56 A GMT-04
With moon on the brinkDawn comesWith cold pink Air, Where dusk,Still insideThe day,Hides awayIn late afternoon,  Soon, To bring nocturnalStirrings,And the air whirring OwlsWho troll,Watch and wait For mice and voles,As they leaveTheir

Driveway

Friday, 5 December 2008 5:23 P GMT-04
The white screen door,With olive cracksIn worn pedimentoOpens when----Nudged at the smudged spot----The shiny placeOn the old brass handle,Locking or releasingUnto----The granite porch,Which, every day,Leads downTo sunken rounds of stone,Buried in th

Amen!

Monday, 1 December 2008 7:40 P GMT-04
DRUMS!!