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The Opposite of Bad

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Ruth Heil / 3 Comments

To every thing there is an opposite. You can’t go up without a down. Every front has a back. And without light, there would be no dark. In that vein, I have always held fast to the notion that for every bad there is a good. No doubt this idea is being tested. Current events…

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Facts (scientific knowledge)

Nocturne Chiroptera

Posted on August 6, 2020 by TheWriteBeat / 1 Comment

A walk outside at night reveals that something is missing: bats. I am a pianist. In my entire classical music collection, I do not believe there is a single composition written for a bat. I could be wrong, of course, because history rarely records the inspiration behind the songs. But if I had the talent…

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Observations (life-related metaphors)

Diary of a Lady

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Ruth Heil / 2 Comments

When my husband and I walked the battlefields of Gettysburg, PA a few years ago, I kept wondering what it had been like for the town’s residents to live there during the horror of the Civil War. Thus, I bought the “Diary of a Lady,” a thin pamphlet that contained the journal writings of Sarah…

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Events (cyclical or unusual)

Spring Still Arrived

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Ruth Heil / 1 Comment

Today I awoke to find the sun rising as usual. The robin’s early song was the loudest heard … as usual. An overnight rain had tainted the air with the scent of damp earth … as it usually does. Puddles obediently reflected the scene in the sky in which clouds rolled away and trees swayed…

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Where did the snow go?

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Ruth Heil / 4 Comments

The header image on the home page of this blog, which switches to a snowy scene from late December until late March, has in no way applied to the winter of 2019-2020. Some believe we’re going to get walloped soon, which has happened in March or early April before. Others are writing about the consequences…

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