walking away on the last first day of school
WALKING AWAY – Cecil Day Lewis It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day – A sunny day with …
WALKING AWAY – Cecil Day Lewis It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day – A sunny day with …
“And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old—or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.”
― Mary Oliver, Dog Songs: Poems
I’m remembering the fireworks that exploded into the sky over Slane Castle on a summer evening in 1985 when Bruce …
The 74-year old man in black still sounds like the Robert Plant in your memory … the one who never …