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   On this President Lincoln's Day, which is also the seventh day of Lent,
the radio station I was listening to/ played John Lennon's "Imagine"; and
here in Missouri's Springfield ice and cold and the flu rule.  Over 5000 are
presently without power, and just as in January of 2007/ tree limbs have
snapped.  Temps today will remain below freezing, and though the storm
has traveled east, whatever mists occur about will freeze.  Took several
photos through my window.  Not sure about venturing outside with my
camera.  Yesterday around 4:40 PM this system's broadband connection
to AOL disappeared.  So I unplugged it again, spent the rest of the day
reading and fantasizing, and did not try to return to this realm until after
9 AM.  It is now 10:19 AM.
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What I read first were the "Be Grateful" through "I Feel Your Pain"
selections in Make Room for LIFE!, a Daily Meditations, Actions,
& Prayers booklet for Lent 2008 published by Twenty Third 23rd
Publications / Copyright ©2007 Joseph Sica.  A priest friend sent
this booklet to me.  I then went back to reading The Prelude and 
rereading "Preface to Lyrical Ballads"--had read it years ago--but 
did not read the whole of it as that was when I fell into fantasizing.
Did, however, gain some new insights.  One was: "The Poet writes
under one restriction only, namely, that of the necessity of giving
immediate pleasure to a human Being possessed of that information
which may be expected from him, not as a lwyer, a physician, a
mariner, an astronomer or a natural philosopher, but as a Man."
p. 420  The Selected Poetry and Prose of Wordsworth
a Signet Classic 451-CJ854   New American Library
Copyright © 1970 by Geoffrey H. Hartman, editor
The Signet Classic Poetry Series General Editor: John Hollander
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 74-126353

2 PM
Another event involved the respected Nebraska poet and short story writer,
William Kloefkorn.  In 1972, after Doug Flaherty had passed Road Apple
Review and Road Runner Press to Terry Smith and me, one special issue
we pleasurably published was Alvin Turner as Farmer, William's first book
of poems, a work which included 8 pen and ink sketches by Bill Evans, a
friend and colleague.  Logan House Press, which I e-mailed just before I
began this event note, has since republished that book and has published
Kloefkorn's first book of short stories.  Atop my dictionary rests a copy
of Bill's 1972 book.  In it is a signed note to me from Bill Kloefkorn.  I
probably had the copy with me on my aberrant short-lived separation to
San Francisco.  I know I stopped in Lincoln to see Bill and Greg Kuzma
and Joel Belland.  I know I slept at a cheap motel there.

At 2:41 PM it is snowing.  Earlier this afternoon when I looked out I saw
snow on the icy yard; so I took several more through-my-window photos.
Just took another one, but the snow is light and mostly nearly horizontally
zipping by.  Only a few flakes here and there hang and dance.

4:50 PM  -  A side result of a personal    esophageal sphincter    search
was an article about foods.  If this interests you, I suggest this search:
10 best foods you aren't eating          Men's Health provides the article.      



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Brian A. J. Salchert