Tuesday, June 14, 2022

MUCH LIKE GRAVITY?

 

What one time was "up"

Has now slithered down...

Our once giddy smiles

Have morphed into frowns...

Only the few folk

With insider data

Can guess at a strike price

Of positive theta...

L.P.-G.

Saturday, June 4, 2022

ANOTHER TYPE OF SILENT SPRING?

 

And this is why I sojourn here
  Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is withered

From the lake,
  And no birds sing.

  Does the above verse invoke images of a silent Spring?




Penned by the Romance poet John Keats ( as part of the beautiful ballad  “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”), it was the evident inspiration for Rachel Carson when she sought an appropriate title for her epic book, "Silent Spring", in 1962.

I well remember selecting Carson's book for a book-report I put together in grade school...



Ukrainians are no doubt living through a 'Silent Spring' of their own this year, and one NOT of their own making...

... as regards Ukraine: what a very sad sojourn this will be in the years to come


Wednesday, June 1, 2022

IN TRUTH, NO PATENT WINNERS EMERGED IN THE END

                                                       



Was 'the story'

Worth printing

In light of the grief?

 

[The latter which followed,

To our disbelief...]



Monday, May 30, 2022

“HOME OF THE FREE, BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE.”

 



“Never throughout history has a man who lived a  life  of ease left a name worth remembering.”

                                                                                         -Theodore Roosevelt

 




"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust, their courage nerves a thousand living men.”          -Minot J. Savage



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...and on a totally different note, a Happy [slightly belated] Birthday Wish to my sister-in-law who recently celebrated a milestone...

                                           

"Those were the days, my friend; we'd thought they'd never end !!!

 

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

IT'S OFFICIAL!!

 

Our future daughter-in-law

is now a doctor!

There's now a total

of 4 in our family...

      ... and what a great profession it is !!!




Congrats to Dr. Kaitlyn D. !


May 2022