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Thanksgiving state of mind

We've all got a lot to be thankful for.

I think I've blogged enough today.

Life goes on.

Nov 15, 2011

~ OK Now.

Summer is nice on Horseneck Beach!

The Susquahanna River, Pennsylvania from
last fall.

Thoughts of Blue.
 
         Which blue did you mean
     because there are very many of them
    all of them with potenially trademarked names.
   The multiplicity of them 
      could make anyone exclaim
  how could I ever know 
     which blue to expect from you?

  That crystal glass blue?  The color
       of an old bottle, blue?
   the otherside of the sky at sunset blue?
       The blue of Farmer's eyes?

   And when the lights are out
     in the middle of the night
  walking up the hill through the trees
      I'll know where to go,
        where to sit down and rest.

  Midnight blue with you blue?
   which blue?
    Because there are very many blues.

from poem page 137