a limb so sturdy lush and green or the fate of the field mouse feasting on seeds as red hawk’s talons take hold the hiker’s boot carelessly crushing the castle of the dawdling slug or the fragile web that can only hold so much of dawn’s dew drop tears only love is infinite and ...
The Candle Tea is sponsored by the Women’s Fellowship of the Home Moravian Church. We also sang Christmas carols to the accompaniment of the 1797 Tanneberg organ, viewed the putz/miniature replica of early Salem, and listened to the Christmas story. As I absorbed this time in the Single B...
Yet, in the process, instead, their efforts caused the destruction of the lands of Atlantis, which eventually fully sank into the Atlantic Ocean from breakups of the land mass, and further destruction, by natural tectonic movements, which finished the job has helped to keep Atlantis lost from ...
When I first spotted this I thought it was an early edition ofTheNew Yorker’sfamed Christmas poem, but those were started byFrank Sullivanin 1932. Nevertheless, here is a clever “Saga of Somerset County” from our dearE.B. White: ...
In the wild, Draco volans eats only termites and ants. Some eat only ants. Generally, it doesn’t search for these insects but sits on a tree trunk or limb and waits for them to appear. Then, it will simply snap them up. On rare occasions, a flying dragon may forage for food at ...
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I got to the top of the stairs, where he stood looking at me. Blood pounded in my ears as this small squirrel took on features of a mountain lion ready to tear me limb-from-limb. He must have thought I was ready to do the same to him, because he took off with a shot into my...
You see the change most in the trees that leave the landscape, sometimes a limb at a time, sometimes in one fell swoop, toppled over by the increasingly heavy winds in Highland County. On a recent trip to Vinegar Hollow this past fall, I found an apple on the high table in the ...
Moving on to the tenth anniversary issue, we findE.B. Whiterecalling the world ofThe New Yorker’sfirst days. Given the massive economic and societal shifts that occurred from 1925 to 1935, those first days seemed distant to White, who felt old, “not in years but events.” ...