Adgita Diaries

May 2007



Stuff Happens in Bush World

Tuesday, 29 May 2007 3:10 P GMT-04
“Stuff Happens” is one hell of a way to run an Empire. As foreign policy in perpetual war it’s down right madness, surpassing even the contempt of incompetence. One wonders what might have happened to the Roman or the British empire

Voices on Memorial Day

Sunday, 27 May 2007 4:12 P GMT-04
Captain William J. Browne; Viola Keeler; Cal French; Hal Norton Jr.; Bill Williams; Hoppie; Marcia Condo; A. Pacitto; Peter Pacitto I; Viola Olin; ; T.J. Russell; Sam & Trina McCune; Elsie Enright; Thomas Enright; Patrick & Marie Browne; Clar

Ruby's Memorial Day

Wednesday, 23 May 2007 11:38 P GMT-04
Ruby’s Memorial DayRuby and her husband Hercules Valentine Anderson were my grandparents. Memorial Day always brings them up. For many nowadays that special day is usually reserved for bloviating chicken hawks, who never served anything but sel

In Better Days

Tuesday, 22 May 2007 4:10 P GMT-04
We tried so  hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my  grandchildren, I'd like  better.   I'd really like for  them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream an

Hurricane Cal

Monday, 21 May 2007 10:30 P GMT-04
 Swept awayThat day,In the kitchen against the wallOn a wave of you.  A first-time raft in a hurricaneTwo so different and the sameFor hours, for days----The craze of love. Long years agoAnd ever sinceThe heart escaped, Being greaterTh

T'd off SISTER

Sunday, 20 May 2007 9:17 P GMT-04
Forgive me- Mother Superior, for I have sinned.

GLORY

Thursday, 17 May 2007 4:40 P GMT-04
'Glory, Glory, Glory' is what Katherine wrote on the days of her calendar---except for the last three. A neighbor found her two weeks later, dead on the kitchen floor. Except for rigueur, the old girl seemed perfectly preserved as if a mummy.

House Sitting Max

Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:17 P GMT-04
Tribute to our dear friend's dog Max.

Geese Morning

Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:45 P GMT-04
Canadian geese outside the door.

Spam and Eggs~ The Anniversary of Spam

Sunday, 13 May 2007 10:36 P GMT-04
25 Year Anniversary of Spam

Vermont Country Journal~ Friday on the Farm

Friday, 11 May 2007 8:14 P GMT-04
Springtime in Vermont...Local Color

Neologisms of the American Spectacle

Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:40 A GMT-04
Neologisms of the American SpectaclePart OneWhat is a neologism? On one hand it means “a new word, usage or expression” and on an other, “a meaningless word coined by a psychotic.” When used as a standard complexity of semanti

Home'in

Tuesday, 1 May 2007 10:15 P GMT-04
That road to whereIs no way homeAs you roamTo the open of a broken gateAnd wait. A pause of lightFlickers shadows over the space Where there was a door. Across the old,Gray board floor,No feet have walkedNor voices talked Of ordinary timesA

Savannah

Tuesday, 1 May 2007 1:34 P GMT-04
  Come and goneAnd its done done.I heard your callTo rise and fall When at my sightYou would not see the lightWithin my dayWithin my night Old voyager at your doorKnocking at hope With a treasure bagAnd lag Of years Wide OaksDrape