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I have not been swept away, fallen into the earth’s core or drenched by 5 days of torrential rain. I am fortunate, others have not been. I grieve their loss.

Mother nature has not been kind, here or around the world.

Yet I survived. So this is my latest post. Not a long one, not an interesting one, just a post. First for 2011.

Over and out.

Dedicated to Paula/In Memory of her Fella

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W.H. Auden Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public
doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

DC is white and it ain’t racial

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Between 20 to 36 inches of snow fell on Washington DC and the metropolitan area. This is unthinkable. It closed all airports and subways. No one is leaving home. That is probably the only thing we all have in common these days. We all stayed home. Even McD and Dominoes were closed. You could walk on the highway. For once in 20 odd years, there was no traffic. None, zip, nil. All parked cars were blanketed with snow. No one could find their own car or even where it was parked. Our mailbox is three feet tall. No mail. Can’t find it. Probably never will. The Postman did not ring once. The Post Office was closed.

I have been watching TV, catching up on reading and cleaning, having slow showers, watching the Millionaire Matchmaker, Animal Planet, DVDs, enjoying slow sex for the first time in years, etc. I can take it easy. For now.

I’ll be back by the spring thaw.