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Just gonna leaf this here.

My artisty-type friends are posting a lot of paintings depicting spring leaves — my mind keeps going to O. Henry’s “The Last Leaf.”  (And of course it takes place in November in New York City.)

You can find it right here at East of the Web, if you’re interested.

And East of the Web, with which I’m only now getting acquainted, seems like a terrific site.



Everyone’s cracking Ides of March jokes. It makes me want to take a stab at it.

And why not?  I’m a sharp guy.



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Illustration from “Castle St. Angelo And The Evil Eye: Being Additional Chapters to ‘Roba Di Roma,'” 1877

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It’s that time of year, Caesar.

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Feeling thankful for what I have.

Food, a nice place to live in a city that I love, a wonderful girl and loads of good friends. A good portion of the world is not so lucky.

Perspective is a good thing.

Eschewing the Oxford comma — that’s something else I’m thankful for.



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Poster for “Clear and Present Danger” (1994)

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“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” — Plato

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Source: The English Literature page on Facebook

“An Ode to Daylight Savings”

Your absence ever leaves me sour,
annual absconded hour —

that vexing day when March exhibits
sixty fewer sleeping minutes.

Subtract an hour of labor, please!
But leave to me my precious Z’s!

— Eric Robert Nolan



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“L’Aurore,” William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1881

“Dawn.”  Oil.

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“I will not stand to live in a world where love invisible.”

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