So glad you have signed up to receive the For Random Learning Comes Newsletter! This is the eighty-fourth 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 newsletter is full of travel posts. The first three installments of my series Travelogue England April-May 2023, about the three-week trip I recently took to the South of England with my husband, are below.
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Unfortunately, though they published consecutively on the blog, the list below shows them in reverse order. You will want to start with Introduction and then read Adventure and then read The Flight.
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I don't pretend to be a proficient traveler or expert on any of the subjects discussed here. But I do enjoy traveling and haven't done it in a long time, so the event must be commemorated, even if at your expense.
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Much of this writing is simply to preserve the memory for myself. But I hope you will get something out of it too.
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Each segment is about 1,000-1200 words, so a bit longer than my regular fare. And after three posts I only got as far as the flight there. Expect tangential musings a-plenty!
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Hope to have more by next newsletter. And future travel posts should have more photos!
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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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