So glad you have signed up to receive the For Random Learning Comes Newsletter! This is the eighty-eighth edition.
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Previous editions can be found on the blog's Newsletter page. I send it out weekly, so if you don't get my email on Saturday morning, please let me know! (Check your junk and spam folders too.)
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I hope you will forgive me for taking a week or two off from the newsletter. This time of year lends itself to minivacations. I have also been waylaying some of my poetry and sending it off first to see if anyone would care to publish it. So I'm holding a little back at your expense.
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This week I'm trying my hand once again at the travel post. It's called Beginnings, for short, as it deals with the first day or two of our organized tour.
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I hope you will enjoy my rendition of our continued travels, if only for the lovely spots you get to see in my pictures while thumbing through the words.
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Hope your summer is as lazy and enjoyable as mine so far. Stay cool!
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So Close and Yet So Far
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This essay discusses the Semiquincentennial celebration and compares it with Fourths of Years gone by.
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Drawing
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A poem on redistricting, the drawing of new districts to serve the ruling party's political purposes, with the blessing of the Supreme Court and with enthusiasm unchecked by either the people's will nor the State's Constitutional provisions.
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Attempt
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A poem describing the swirling emotions on and offline provoked by the attempted assassination of President Trump at the dinner for the press. Caveat: I do not doubt the attempt on his life was real. P.S. The photo is an attempt at beauty.
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Approaching May 1st, 2026, Anniversary of The Great Fire, Jacksonville, FL
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A poem about a very dry spring in Florida which calls to mind the terrible fire which consumed Jacksonville early in the 20th century.
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Smiles
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This poem analyzes the loss of reputation of the US in the eyes of its closest allies, and the attitude it projects, about that loss.
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