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Kenton-on-Sea, EC, South Africa

I sketched out the following moody Tanka several days ago. It sat on my desk, overwhelmed with thoughts of how to change it: alternate lines; different wordings; scrapping the whole damn thing. So this morning, I not only typed it -- keeping most of the poem as first scrawled -- but, as I completed it, suddenly felt an urge to translate it into Japanese. An interesting impulse, for the translation "finds the balance" missing in the original, and winds up beautifully optimistic. So, here they are, original and Japanese version. -------------------------------------------- Tanka: Proud moon from behind The now too-cloying cloud rolls, Once you gave me hope That I’d find a place to shine, When young, many moons ago. 短歌: そら そら を、 月の風見るば、 うれしい で 明日言葉は 輝く出るば。 Tanka: Sora sora wo, Tsuki no kaze miruba, Ureshii de Ashita kotoba wa Kagayaku dereba. https://translate.google.com/?sl=ja&tl=en&text=%E3%81%9D%E3%82%89%20%E3%81%9D%E3%82%89%20%E3%82%92%E3%80%81%E6%9C%88%E3%81%AE%E9%A2%A8%E8%A6%8B%E3%82%8B%E3%81%B0%E3%80%81%E3%81%86%E3%82%8C%E3%81%97%E3%81%84%20%E3%81%A7%20%E6%98%8E%E6%97%A5%E8%A8%80%E8%91%89%E3%81%AF%E8%BC%9D%E3%81%8F%E5%87%BA%E3%82%8B%E3%81%B0%E3%80%82&op=translate

Graff Reinet, EC, South Africa

Nieu Bethesda, EC, South Africa

Gelvendale, EC, South Africa

East London, EC, South Africa

Xaxazana, EC, South Africa. isiXhosa, the language of most inhabitants of the Eastern Cape, uses the letter X a lot. It sounds like a click, that you make on the side of your mouth with your tongue and cheek.

We follow Tom and George Vincente-Hall as they start at Binghampton University.

. Difficilis, facilis, jucundus, acerbus ed idem; Nec tecum possum vivere, nec sine te. —Martial Difficult, facile, jocular, acerbic is he; Impossible to live with, he’s impossible to live without. —Martial _

We're expecting 88% here. Might hop outside and check it out between patients if the clouds clear.

Thank you @Summerabbacat ... I'm glad I could take you back to those times. Sounds like we are about the same age ... I finished Year 12 in '81, then started full time work in '82. Schoolies, as I recall, was in its infancy back then. I know some of my classmates went, but not me or any of my close friends. Last time I went to the GC would have been late 80's I think. T'ville is loosely based on a town called Lake Cathie, while Mac Harbour is a mash-up of Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour ... all places I visited quite a few times in my youth. Hope you enjoy the rest of these stories. Thank you!

Head Waters, Virginia -- population 88 in the 2020 census.

St. Vincent's illness must be short-lived. I believe he replaces Spencer as First Lord in a couple of years. He had an extraordinarily long lifespan for this time, dying at 88.

Great chapter and yet again Don is fairly absent. Yet not. Clearly he has control over Sue and by proxy, Robbie. The Alex selfie issue will cause some drama bc I don’t think Robbie will be able to talk to Nathan before hand. He will fold and ultimately regret it. I think Nicola will be the one to vouch for Robbie here and save his and Nathan’s relationship bc this will break Nathan’s heart at first before he learns the truth. Something tells me Don isn’t done trying to force a split too. I don’t him any more than I do Alex

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Devlin-Major was one of the lucky hospitality companies post Covid, in that business bounced back relatively quickly. For the first few weeks after the two lodges in Cape Town reopened, Andrew and Ryan spent a great deal of their time at Blue Bay and The Cameron. Every day, from 8am to 10.30am and again from 4pm to 6pm, one of them would be in the foyers of each lodge, chatting to departing and arriving guests. And the overwhelming response from their guests highlighted the reason. Ambience, hom

Poor Ian. It’s hard to have so many expectations at just five years of age. He may have the smarts, but he doesn’t have the maturity yet, as witnessed b6 his meltdown about learning the technicalities of the language of music. I don’t quite get the determination to make Gaea like Earth II. Things had gone so wrong there, I would think they would want a completely fresh start. Name your cities and locations after places on Earth I. That’s fine. But make a break and make a new society with more care for each other and the world on which you are now living!

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IMO it’s Comsi‘s best work even better than GFD because it is biographical sorta. Unfortunately Comsie passed before completing GFD bc it’s truly a great story, it isn’t THIS. It’s hard to explain what I’m trying to say. He’s done others that are a damn near close to it complete with spin off stories of his friends but this one, this one stands by itself. Even GFD can’t do that.

drsawzall You posted several good questions, I hope many are answered soon. I want to know who is directing the BC. The ones faced so far do not appear to have the intelligence to plan and direct attacks. I remember seeing Starship Troopers years ago and the enemy was composed of different type insects with various roles. They searched and found a head beatle and the fight on the planet was lost by the insects

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September 5, 2004 Escorial Palo Alto, CA Will After dinner I walked out to the garage with my father and Jake, glad to spend some time alone with them. “I was really impressed with the way you dealt with Claire tonight,” Dad said. “Thank you,” I said cheerfully, basking in his praise. “Why do you say that?” “You were right about Jack,” he said. “I remember how pissed off I was at Robbie, and how it was hard to get past that to see that he was struggling

April 25, 2004 The Pacific Coast Highway Pacific Palisades, CA Will “Nice that traffic is light,” Travis said. “I’m usually fighting it going the other way.” It was 8:00 in the morning, and we were heading to Malibu so Travis and I could get situated, and so we could surf. “That’s because it’s Sunday, dipshit,” I said, giving him crap. “Whatever,” he said, which made Stef smirk because he’d said it just like I did. “I am wondering how you are planning t

Hey, all! A mild 9C here.