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On Getting Old Poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

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On Getting Old.

It’s a strange sensation, being sixty.

Feel as I have won a battle

struggling up a mountain of years,

Now that I’ve captured the high

Grounds I can look back and smile

sans regrets.

Look ahead and see a new

beginning, ’cause I now that I’ll be

a flower on an almond tree.

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Lucy Oh the Difference to me Poem by William Wordsworth

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“SHE DWELT AMONG THE UNTRODDEN WAYS”
SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:

A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
–Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!

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Group Mural Painting and Guitar Rag in Scottsville

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This is a great video from The Allen County Arts Council in Scottsville, Ky. Beautifully filmed and the music is good. The art is worth the effort. I like the ending.

I found this video while surfing links to this site. Some come through our associations, this one through my friend, Chris Carmichael. I looked over at the wave next to my surfboard and ended up somewhere in Kentucky listening to Eddie Pennington and Tommy Emmanuel playing Guitar Rag. Surfing, surfing, end up where? Oddly enough wherever you land you sometimes find talent, this time in Kaintuck, and these guys can play!

If you watched the other video, you’ll have to turn the volume up for this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXVKayok0ig&feature=player_embedded#!

Scottsville is cool.

Tommy Emmanuel on Youtube      Eddie Pennington on Youtube 
 
 

david michael jackson on internet    july 22,2012 editors@artvilla.com send more music