My dad has a listserv that sends out old stories and letters that my grandfather wrote in the last several years of his life. It's always nice to get them and remember him. Of all my grandparents, he was the storyteller ( Read more... )

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

--  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethe should know.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Just the sort of thing you'd expect the author of "Ozymandias" to say!  Considering that is one of my favorite poems, you'd think that I have sought out more of Shelley's works by now...and yet I'm fairly certain I've never read any of his other poems or ( Read more... )