american life in poetry: column 092
by ted kooser, u.s. poet laureate, 2004-2006
Home is where the heart. . . Well, surely we all know that old saying. But it’s the particulars of a home that make it ours. Here the poet Linda Parsons Marion, who lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, celebrates familiarity, in its detail and its [...]

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I didn’t write yesterday because I was too nervous. Too nervous because fireguy was coming in to town to meet me.
And he did — come in to town and met me. We had a lovely dinner actually. We had good conversation. It ended rather early because we had plans to go [...]

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Dear Willow,
You were right. You asked if this photo would go up on my blog and I laughed and said yes. Then I reconsidered and said if not my blog, at least my flickr family account. Well, I couldn’t resist. It’s on both.
Let me backtrack.
First, I love you. You are [...]

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When I was a kid, living in Montana, there were times where we were barely holding things together. The economy was severely depressed because the lumber industry was taking a drastic turn. Concepts in how the lumber industry should be run were changing and more attention was being paid to the environment and [...]

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I think I have the best readers in the world.
Seriously.
Several of you sent emails wishing me happy holidays (and because I’ve been busy, I haven’t gotten back to you).
Several of you have wished me happy holidays in other ways (on flickr, in my photographs, through blog posts, etc.).
That you took the [...]

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american life in poetry: column 091
by ted kooser, u.s. poet laureate, 2004-2006
How many of us, when passing through some small town, have felt that it seemed familiar though we’ve never been there before. And of course it seems familiar because much of the course of life is pretty much the same [...]

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photo by me

I hate this time of the year and I love this time of the year. It’s a quandary for me, an unexplained phenomenon.
I think a lot during this time of the year, assessing everything that has happened over the past year and what I will look forward to doing in the next [...]

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photo by me

On Wednesday, my brother, Todd, came to town with his wife, Cathy. He has to work his holiday celebrations around his schedule at the fire department so we celebrate when he’s available.
It worked out well enough, actually. My other brother, Shadow, and his family (Jennifer, Willow, and Justice) celebrate Solstice. [...]

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photo by me

Okay. So, it turns out that fire guy isn’t such a bad guy after all.
Yeah, yeah. Bryan and sage, you were right. Color me embarrassed.
He had some family issues going on and didn’t want to call me when he was upset about them. He said he was pretty angry [...]

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photo by me

I was visiting daisies’ blog (as I try to do each day) and I noticed a few links on her site.
The first was Indie Bloggers, which I promptly joined. It seems like it will become an interesting community of bloggers. And I’m always up for a good social networking site. [...]

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