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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.

HJN, Untitled Watercolor

Posted on May 14, 2018 by JMN

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Eulogy on Mother’s Day

Posted on May 13, 2018 by JMN

[My mother died in 2016. This is from my remarks at her memorial.] PERSISTENCE: SING IT THIS WAY A memorial service unites you and us in a common undertaking to hold on, briefly, to someone who is departing. In some … Continue reading →

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“Rifleman”

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN
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Happy Words

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

I have taken a vow of poetry — I shall never be a Person of Wealth. Strong and Wrong ATT-Novartis Corporate Hedgequarters No Lordering (Copyright 2018 James Mansfield Nichols. All rights reserved.)

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From Memory

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

“The Second Coming,” poem by W. B. Yeats, http://www.poetryfoundation.org. Yeats, like Shelley in “Ozymandias,” associates folly and tyranny and self-aggrandizement with the desert lands. That happens to be where the trio of stern monotheisms were “revealed”: I’m the Only One, … Continue reading →

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“Shirtless”

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

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Didactic Doggerel

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

Space-Ball Note: Merkanooka is in Australia. Seguin, a town in Texas, is pronounced “suh-GHEEN.” Turley is in Oklahoma. A space-ball fell from nowhere on Namibia, A place more noted for a fossil tibia. Another one, the Merkanooka ball From Gemini, … Continue reading →

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“Physical person”

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

Law school was where I first met the term “physical person.” It puzzled me initially: What person would not be “physical”? That started my education about the bizarre legal fiction that asserts corporations to be people with rights and privileges … Continue reading →

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Tentative Signage

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

Kinda There –> <– A Little Bit Yonder (Copyright 2018 James Mansfield Nichols. All rights reserved.)

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Happy Words

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

Alabama Law, 1839: “An Act to Suppress the Evil Practice of Carrying Weapons Secretly” Adverteasement For Staying Powder: “Taters, Maters, Boodang Pudd’n, Black Strap ‘Lasses” (Copyright 2018 James Mansfield Nichols. All rights reserved.)

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