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About JMN

I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.

Parting Looks — HJN

Posted on June 9, 2019 by JMN

Harold J. Nichols (1924 — 2013) (c) 2019 JMN

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Mistakes Were Made

Posted on June 8, 2019 by JMN

I’m haunted by that sentence in Lincoln’s second inaugural: “And the war came.” (David Brooks, “The Racial Reckoning Comes,” NYTimes, 6-6-19) David Brooks is well haunted. Lincoln could make words punch above their weight. His mastery lends killing clout to … Continue reading →

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Parting Looks — HJN

Posted on June 8, 2019 by JMN

Harold J. Nichols (1924 — 2013) (c) 2019 JMN

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Elephant

Posted on June 8, 2019 by JMN

I’m no connoisseur of illustration, but this one strikes me as having a distinctively painterly quality to it. It has introduced me to the work of J.S. Pughe (1870 – 1909), who is well documented in Wikipedia. The graphic appears … Continue reading →

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Vindication of Stuttering

Posted on June 8, 2019 by JMN

The battle with speech impediment can equip persons like Darcey Steinke with fascinating insights into language. It was around this time [in elementary school] that I started separating the alphabet into good letters, V as well as M, and bad … Continue reading →

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Poet Brand

Posted on June 7, 2019 by JMN

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Didn’t Speak English

Posted on June 7, 2019 by JMN

The Catholic leader changed the phrase “lead us not into temptation” to “do not let us fall into temptation”… Francis explained… “It’s Satan who leads us into temptation, that’s his department.” Fox News religion correspondent, Jonathan Morris, told Martha MacCallum … Continue reading →

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Parting Looks — HJN

Posted on June 7, 2019 by JMN

Harold J. Nichols (1924 — 2013) (c) 2019 JMN

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Guide by the Perplexed — More Inconvenience

Posted on June 6, 2019 by JMN

“It seems I am choosing words that will stand, and you are in them, but if I blunder, it doesn’t matter — I must persist in my errors. (Boris Pasternak, “For Anna Akmatova,” translated by Robert Lowell in “Imitations”) The … Continue reading →

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Parting Looks — Buck Schiwetz

Posted on June 6, 2019 by JMN

Edward Muegge “Buck” Schiwetz (1898 — 1984) (c) 2019 JMN

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