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NOTES FROM AN ISLAND Day 322 – February 8, 2021 – Wotthehell

by Keith Mankin | Feb 8, 2021 | Uncategorized

In my youth, my family loved bookstores. No outing was complete without an hour or more browsing through the luxuriant shelves. We would fan out to our perspective pleasures: David would head to the Fantasy section or the Classics, Allison would beeline to SciFi, my...

NOTES FROM AN ISLAND, Day 318 – Feb 4, 2021 – Verse

by Keith Mankin | Feb 4, 2021 | Uncategorized

VERSE ON A FUTURE MORNING Hope lies Just beyond a windowpaneBeyond a momentbeyond a whisper or abreath Hope waits Bare-faced and welcomeBeyond a needlebeyond a touch or anembrace Hope sits At open tablesIn beery sudsin uncorked bottles and sharedglasses Hope bides...

NOTES FROM AN ISLAND Day 315 – February 1, 2021 – Unity

by Keith Mankin | Feb 1, 2021 | Uncategorized

Many, many months ago, when I was writing these notes daily, I turned to the old trick of alphabetical subject matters. I got as far a T before losing my taste for it. The intervening gap is serendipitous because it allows me to pick up where I left off with a timely...

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