So glad you have signed up to receive the For Random Learning Comes Newsletter! This is the eighty-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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More travel posts this week, this time with pictures. I have two installments--Windsor and Great Dixter, in reverse order below. This continues my series Travelogue England April-May 2023, about the three-week trip I recently took to the South of England with my husband.
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I'm quite amazed at how difficult it is, not only to gather together memories for a travel piece, but then to select the pictures, which seem most suited to the content, and then download them and reduce their size in terms of data, so as not to drag the site to a complete halt.
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I have gone for so long, using only a single picture for each post, that I had forgotten the time it takes to really share, with multiple photos.
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I hope the result is worth the effort, yours and mine! Anyway I am happy to have these mementoes to cherish as the memories fade away. Enjoy your week and I'll try to share about Sissinghurt and maybe Hastings or Rye next week.
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FYI: Each segment is about 1,000-1200 words, so a bit longer than my regular fare. Not for the faint of heart!
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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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