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Slow clap, standing.

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Oct 20, 2023·edited Oct 20, 2023Author

[Doffs top hat, takes a bow.]

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Meditating on this. Powerful imagery. Been trying to empty some of the bins here before they’re discovered, thinking maybe the kids deserve to know things after all.

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Thanks Patris. An interesting conundrum I've also wrestled with in recent years, especially since my father died.

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It is. Parsing what is mine to tell without telling the stories of others who were in it with us. Inclined to not censor. We’ll all be mostly gone by then anyway.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Jonathan Potter

Let the bon temp ruler with this one! Nicely written.

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Oui, monsieur!

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Wow!

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Thanks!

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Jonathan Potter

More marvelous every time I read it.

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Thank you, Mr. Jobe. You are the quintessential gentleman and scholar.

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Feels like I can see and feel by everything there

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That was my hope -- thank you, Stan.

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Like the sestina form for this poem. I think I'll experiment with it myself.

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Thanks, Phil. Yeah, give it a go!

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My hometown. ⚜️🖤💛

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A marvelous place.

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