File photo ~ Neil Paul with Fan Mrs. Huitema

Please join Neil Paul on Thursday, March 21, 1:00

Reading:  Shakespeare's Hamlet

Neil published A Small Volume, a book of Poetry

"Coffee pot's always on..."

Bring me the sunset in a cup,

     Reckon the morning's flagons up,

   And say how many dew;

Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the waver sleeps
   Who spun the breadths of blue!

Write me how many notes there be
In the new robin's ecstasy
   Among astonished boughs;
How many trips the tortoise makes,
How many cups the bee partakes, ~
   The debauchee of dews!

Also, who laid the rainbow's piers,
Also, who leads the docile spheres
   By withes of supple blue?
Whose fingers string the stalactite,
Who counts the wampum of the night,
   To see that none is due?

Who built this little Alban house
And shut the windows down so close
   My spirit cannot see?
Who'll let me out some gala day,
With implements to fly away,
   Passing pomposity?

~ Emily Dickinson, "Problems" Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson.

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A Reminder ~

This Thursday, March 21, at 1:00 p.m.  An Afternoon with Authors.

Neil Paul will be in The Neat Little Bookshop.  Those of us who have heard Neil's readings never miss an opportunity to listen to his latest unpublished work.  His book of poetry A Small Volume is available in the bookshop.

This week Neil will read from Shakespeare's Hamlet.  Join us for a fun afternoon.

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...Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

~ From the Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi., the Saint after whom Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his father were named.

~ Saint Francis of Assisi, A Life of Joy, Hyperion Books for Children, 2005.

Thoughts on Change ~

"So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing your life, and denying the possibility of change.  This is the only way, we say;  but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre.  All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant."
~ Henry Thoreau, Waldon