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 The first full day of a new, old president and a light coating of snow is slowly melting away outside as I sit here in my cubicle reading old posts and feeling familiar emotions. That permeating sadness is back, but it's less urgent - I think because the end is in sight and, if not always visible, at least a known destination that is not feared. 

  POSTED BY MARKEL AT  10:19 AM   0 COMMENTS   WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2021 And so passed twelve and one half years – like a raging river, the hours, days, months and years swept me along through changes like a Styrofoam cup through whitewater.                               POSTED BY MARKEL AT  11:32 AM   0 COMMENTS   THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2009 Love comes at unexpected times from unexpected places. " Our ministering two angels look surprise on one another, as they strike athwart their wings in passing "; indeed, Browning says it best... I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young: And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision t...