So glad you have signed up to receive the For Random Learning Comes Newsletter! This is the seventy-fifth 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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This week, the blog post is long and the newsletter short.
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The first post attached is called A Literary Citizen, and it discusses all the ways we can and should support writers in our local communities. I know some of you are already very active literary citizens but I have not been active in that realm for quite a while, and I kind of have to talk myself into it.
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The second entry this week is a spoof on the old Gilbert and Sullivan song, "Modern Major General." It is called The Very Model. In my version, a writer is bragging about his feats of literary citizenship. Hope you enjoy the silliness.
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That's all for this week. See you next time around!
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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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