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Old 20-06-2008, 01:28 PM   #6001
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I don't know what this means but it was front page news today and had a few "key words"

Our home is girt by sea....our good ole national anthem which was implemented in 1984. According to below links "girt by sea" means Schleswig-Holstein meerumschlungen... Bismarck link ???

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2000/398/24100


http://www2.kb.dk/elib/noder/hcamusi...e/index_en.htm

What do you reckon Tin Tin? Looks weird ROESKILDE >>> ROSEKILDE



And the headline:
9 million Austrlians are a ticking
FAT BOMB


The first shots in BOTH world wars were AUSTRALIANS....

FAT BOMBS, AUSTRALIA and FAT MAN...

123.000 premature DEATHS is mentioned.
Again, what a ridiculous number.
But 123 is the 123rd day, the day MADDIE was kidnapped.
A new beginning. And 123 means.......



Cardinal PELL and a
new beginning....the youth....




YOUTH and AUSTRALIA....
The first OLYMPICS of the MILLENNIUM, not in ATHENS
but in SYDNEY.

On that first link here I saw
Professor

O'DEA

DEA......



DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION



DEA Agents, Nuke
Colors And user is:
SAN ANDROS


Further is see 47 and 113 on top of that NUMBERS.
FAT BOMB ticking and number 113. MADRID BOMBING.

GIRT BY SEA.
SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN




Flag Schleswig Holstein.
file date: 14 SEPTEMBER
User: MADDEN


All kinds of links.
SEPTEMBER and SEPTEM.
14 SEPTEMBER. FLIGHT 714 to SYDNEY.
Shcleswig Holstein Flag is the Dutch Flag UPSIDE DOWN.
And MADDEN, MADDIE, new Birth....



Coat of arms Schleswig Holstein.
Two dates: 6 MAY and 19 July


10 JULY was the date WILIAM of ORANGE
was assassinated. 6 May was when the dutch Kennedy PIM FORTUYN
was killed.

first user MADDEN
Second user ghas a size of 23 KB.
and is called Drbashir 117.

BASHIR and the BUSHIR nuke plant in IRAN.
23 and 117. WILLEM ALEXANDER of ORANGE.



A night in RODSKILDE
(ROTHSCHILD) and we see LULU....


ROTSCHILD and WATERLOO.
WATERLOO and ABBA, have shown the links from LULU
to MALLORCA and ABBA. DRUMS of WAR. DRUMER ABBA died
in MALLORCA after falling through GLASS.
PHILIP GLASS and TIBET HOUSE. (TIBBETS).
LULU from LENNOX TOWN, Annie LENNOX and MALLORCA
and her album SONGS of MASS DESTRUCTION.

Two days ago LULU was prominent on the BBC.



BOOM BANG and BANG.


Interesting to Know that the coach of
the GERMAN NATIONAL TEAM
was sent off in the final group match and was
sitting almost next to BORIS BOOM BOOM BECKER
on the LOGE area after he was sent off. Celebrated the
GERMAN goal with BOOM BOOM becker, who is also
closely associated with MALLORCA.....



ROSKILDE Tragedy.
Pearl Jam Performed at
the ROSKILDE festival in
Denmark and nine people
were crushed to DEATH.

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Old 20-06-2008, 02:21 PM   #6002
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I don't know what this means but it was front page news today and had a few "key words"

Our home is girt by sea....our good ole national anthem which was implemented in 1984. According to below links "girt by sea" means Schleswig-Holstein meerumschlungen... Bismarck link ???

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2000/398/24100


http://www2.kb.dk/elib/noder/hcamusi...e/index_en.htm

What do you reckon Tin Tin? Looks weird ROESKILDE >>> ROSEKILDE



A bit more on that ROSKILDE TRAGEDY.
Must be one of the biggest tragedies in ROCK history.

PEARL JAM was performing with their ICON EDDIE VEDDER.



Eddie Vedder on the cover
of TIME. RAGE....7 years later
the ROSKILDE tragedy....




In 2000 PEARL JAM released BINAURAL which was the debut
of drummer

Matt CAMERON

DRUMS of WAR. wiki has him drumming in BOLOGNA (city of
the biggest terror attack in Europe until MADRID)

Date of that CAMERON pic.

14 September.

AUSTRALIA.
Have posted about BOLOGNA few days ago.
TERROR, ROSKILDE tragedy, TIME MAGAZINE rage....

MATT CAMERON comes from

SAN DIEGO

And notice the THOR on his shirt.



Stone Gossard, Pearl Jam.
Wiki has him in MADRID 9-6.
Born 20 JULY. (Big One)


All kinds of links to TERROR, SAN DIEGO, MADRID, DEATH.....



BINAURAL.
album released by PEARL JAM
just prior to the ROSKILDE
TRAGEDY. All seeing eye....


BIN LADEN
LAURA BUSH
PEARL HARBOR


BIN and AURAL. LAURA.
BINDI IRWIN and mother TERRI born 20 JULY.
As PEARL MEMBER Stone Gossard born 20 JULY.
TERRI IRWIN and the BIG ONE.
LAURA BUSH and the FINAL KILL.
Laura Bush is ROSEBUD. The KILL.

ROSEBUD
ROSKILDE


ROSEKILL



LAURA ROSEKILL
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Old 20-06-2008, 03:04 PM   #6003
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Jasper native named Indiana poet laureate

Jasper - An author who writes about his youth in the southern Indiana city of Jasper and his German heritage has been named the state's second poet laureate.

Norbert Krapf, 64, was selected from among 19 nominees to the post by the Indiana Arts Commission on Tuesday.

Krapf has lived in Indianapolis since retiring from teaching American literature at Long Island University in 2004.

As poet laureate, Krapf will help promote poetry in schools and libraries throughout the state.

Krapf is the second person named to the post created by the Indiana General Assembly in 2005. He succeeds Joyce Brinkman and will serve until December 2009.

Krapf has written seven books of poetry and one book of prose, "The Ripest Moments," which was released this year.
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The story of Charlie Mae, the flood baby

Johnson County - Near Bargersville, newborn Charlee Mae Cramer is resting peacefully. But her birth day was anything but peaceful.

Her mother Emily says "we were worried when we started seeing the hospital on TV and it showed the bottom floor flooding and we were on the second floor." Her OBGYN, Dr. Emily Cline says "I got a phone call that said 'you've got to get out now the dam is going to go.'"

Dr. Emily Cline, patient Emily Cramer and two forces of nature that could not wait. Doctor Cline says "I threw my dogs into the car and drove down to the dam, but it was already gone." The doctor can usually drive from her Lamb Lake house to Johnson Memorial Hospital in about 20 minutes, but June 7th there was no road to drive.

Dr. Cline says "We were told we were going to be evacuated by the Trafalgar Fire Department which took loads of us across in boats." Once across she told a firefighter "We've got to get to the hospital. I had a nurse with me and she was needed at the hospital as well."

Firefighter Joe Waltz put them in his truck "and we ended up literally going back and forth across the county until we could find roads that were clear so that we could actually get to the hospital," said Dr. Cline.

Dr. Cline's 20 minute ride took two-and-a-half hours. In her hospital bed the other Emily, the expectant mother - waited.

Emily Cramer says "It was a little nerve wracking and then she showed up and everything got calm. I just wanted to hug and kiss her I was so excited to see her."

Emily and John's first baby arrived safely. Mom says "Someone told me my water broke and caused the whole town of Franklin to flood." The doctor says "Her husband wanted the baby to be born on 6/7/08 and so they got the baby on 6/7/08. He was happy. They have a flood baby."

Sitting on her front porch Friday the new mom said "Everybody keeps asking for our next baby what's going to happen. And they all say they're going to stay away from the hospital if we go there."
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Old 20-06-2008, 04:12 PM   #6005
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'My Little Pony' gets star treatment for charity

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - LeAnn Rimes is putting her own stamp on My Little Pony. The singer is among celebrities and artists who've agreed to design some new versions of My Little Pony, the plastic toy that has captivated girls since the 1980s. Pawtucket-based Hasbro Inc. will auction the special ponies for the Give Kids The World charity as part of a celebration of the toy's 25th anniversary.

The pastel-colored ponies — with names like Rainbow Dash and Daybreak — usually sport decorations on their hind quarters, often of hearts, balloons or stars. The celebrities and artists were given blank, 18-inch versions of the usually 4-inch-tall ponies to decorate, Hasbro spokesman Dan Benkwitt said.

Also designing a pony is 1980s teen idol Deborah Gibson, said Susan Storey, a spokeswoman for the charity.

Hasbro initially announced that the stars of ABC's "Boston Legal," including William Shatner and James Spader, would decorate ponies. But Stacey Luchs, a spokeswoman for the show, said Thursday that Shatner and Spader were unaware of the venture and would not participate.

Artists designing ponies include illustrator Catalina Estrada from Spain, New York graffiti artist-turned-designer Claw Money and Japanese manga artist Junko Mizuno.

A pony designed by Estrada was expected to be unveiled at a collectors' fair this weekend in Providence, Benkwitt said. The others will be unveiled during a gallery event in Manhattan in September, when they also will be auctioned.

PONIES, PONIES, MADELINE&HER SHETLAND PONIES... LEANN RIMES, born 28.08.1982 in PEARL, MISSISSIPPI, real name MARGARET LEANN RIMES. Double pearl...


Leann Rimes.
Pink...




My Little Pony wiki.
Pink...




Maddie and Pink...

LEEANN RIMES, born MARGARET from PEARL.....

PEARL from PEARL.....



The girl with a PEARL
earring, referred to sometimes as
the MONA LISA of the North...


Painting by Johannes Vermeer.
Baptized 31 OCTOBER. (Van Basten).



Book by Tracy Chevalier.
File date: 2 February
Size:33 kb


2 February is day 33.






Scarlett Johannson is the
girl with the EARRING.
born 22 NOVEMBER.


The "PEARL HARBOR" kiling of the American President.

SCARLETT has a relation with RYAN RODNEY REYNOLDS. RRR. (letter 18)
SCARLETT has a TWIN brother called HUNTER.

Movie released in HOLLAND on TITANIC DAY. 15-4.



Pearl Opticiens. Wiki has
a shop in BOXMEER


VER-MEER
BOX-MEER


SCARLETT JOHANNSON who was the girl with the PEARL EARRING
is the fiancee of RRR who was a semi professional BOXER.
BOXER and BOXMEER.

This RRR comes from VANCOUVER CANADA. (GORDON CURRIE, ANTI-CHRIST).
RRR is 18-18-18.



Scarlett was LAURA

North is an anagram
for THORN


Release dates:

Premiere 22 July. day 203
Released in France: 9 August
UK: 5 February. Day 36.


SCARLETT as LAURA...



In the North movie Jason
ALEXANDER is the father
of NORTH. Wiki has ALEXANDER
on a pic taken on 6 JULY.
Mother of NORTH was Julia
SCARLETT DREYFUSS.


SCARLETT JOHANNSON as LAURA.
ALEXANDER as father NORTH (THORN and 6 July, BUSH)
SCARLETT DREYFUSS as mother THORN.........
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The story of Charlie Mae, the flood baby

Johnson County - Near Bargersville, newborn Charlee Mae Cramer is resting peacefully. But her birth day was anything but peaceful.

Her mother Emily says "we were worried when we started seeing the hospital on TV and it showed the bottom floor flooding and we were on the second floor." Her OBGYN, Dr. Emily Cline says "I got a phone call that said 'you've got to get out now the dam is going to go.'"

Dr. Emily Cline, patient Emily Cramer and two forces of nature that could not wait. Doctor Cline says "I threw my dogs into the car and drove down to the dam, but it was already gone." The doctor can usually drive from her Lamb Lake house to Johnson Memorial Hospital in about 20 minutes, but June 7th there was no road to drive.

Dr. Cline says "We were told we were going to be evacuated by the Trafalgar Fire Department which took loads of us across in boats." Once across she told a firefighter "We've got to get to the hospital. I had a nurse with me and she was needed at the hospital as well."

Firefighter Joe Waltz put them in his truck "and we ended up literally going back and forth across the county until we could find roads that were clear so that we could actually get to the hospital," said Dr. Cline.

Dr. Cline's 20 minute ride took two-and-a-half hours. In her hospital bed the other Emily, the expectant mother - waited.

Emily Cramer says "It was a little nerve wracking and then she showed up and everything got calm. I just wanted to hug and kiss her I was so excited to see her."

Emily and John's first baby arrived safely. Mom says "Someone told me my water broke and caused the whole town of Franklin to flood." The doctor says "Her husband wanted the baby to be born on 6/7/08 and so they got the baby on 6/7/08. He was happy. They have a flood baby."

Sitting on her front porch Friday the new mom said "Everybody keeps asking for our next baby what's going to happen. And they all say they're going to stay away from the hospital if we go there."
EMILY Cline
EMILY Cramer





ROSE for EMILY
Faulkner. Dead:
6 JULY.


BUSH....



EMILY BREMERS.
Long time girlfriend Prince
of Orange.....


People though they would marry.
Didn't happen.
There was a play written about EMILY.

EMILY and the secret of HUIS TEN BOSCH.

EMILY was played by
ROOS


ROOS SCHLIKKER.

WILLIAM FAULKNER and a ROSE FOR EMILY...
FAULKNER died DUTCH QUEENSDAY, 30 APRIL.

This ROOS SCHLIKKER married a guy called PERRIER. Francois PERRIER.



Perrier means
WATER


ROOS who played EMILY marries a real life WATER GUY.
EMILY was the girlfriend of ALEX the WATERMANAGER.
ALEX of ORANGE is the real DAMIEN THORN.
You know, the movie, and the famous

6-6-06 date



THE OMEN. Released on 6
june 2006. 666. On that
EXACT same DAY, there
was a marriage.


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0772375/bio



The girl who played EMILY
The lover of the WATER PRINCE
married her own (Perrier)
WATER PRINCE on
6-6-06
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The story of Charlie Mae, the flood baby

Johnson County - Near Bargersville, newborn Charlee Mae Cramer is resting peacefully. But her birth day was anything but peaceful.

Her mother Emily says "we were worried when we started seeing the hospital on TV and it showed the bottom floor flooding and we were on the second floor." Her OBGYN, Dr. Emily Cline says "I got a phone call that said 'you've got to get out now the dam is going to go.'"

Dr. Emily Cline, patient Emily Cramer and two forces of nature that could not wait. Doctor Cline says "I threw my dogs into the car and drove down to the dam, but it was already gone." The doctor can usually drive from her Lamb Lake house to Johnson Memorial Hospital in about 20 minutes, but June 7th there was no road to drive.

Dr. Cline says "We were told we were going to be evacuated by the Trafalgar Fire Department which took loads of us across in boats." Once across she told a firefighter "We've got to get to the hospital. I had a nurse with me and she was needed at the hospital as well."

Firefighter Joe Waltz put them in his truck "and we ended up literally going back and forth across the county until we could find roads that were clear so that we could actually get to the hospital," said Dr. Cline.

Dr. Cline's 20 minute ride took two-and-a-half hours. In her hospital bed the other Emily, the expectant mother - waited.

Emily Cramer says "It was a little nerve wracking and then she showed up and everything got calm. I just wanted to hug and kiss her I was so excited to see her."

Emily and John's first baby arrived safely. Mom says "Someone told me my water broke and caused the whole town of Franklin to flood." The doctor says "Her husband wanted the baby to be born on 6/7/08 and so they got the baby on 6/7/08. He was happy. They have a flood baby."

Sitting on her front porch Friday the new mom said "Everybody keeps asking for our next baby what's going to happen. And they all say they're going to stay away from the hospital if we go there."
Lot's of WATER....

In my last post you can see the connection
from the EMILY's and especially EMILY CRAMER to EMILY BREMERS.

The long year ex-girfriend of
the real life Damien Thorn, the water prince.

Story here is from JOHNSON COUNTY.

Only one pic on the JOHNSON COUNTY wikipage.



Courthouse Johnson
County. File date:
27 APRIL


that's the birthdate of the WATER PRINCE.
Courthouse is in FRANKLINm, named after BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
born on 17 JANUARY.

117

ALEXANDER of Orange born 117th day.
Franklin died 17 APRIL.
The johnson county are is exactly

322 sq miles.

Density population:

360

Per square mile. 666.....

CLINE. Can think of KEVIN KLINE.....



Kevin kline is married to PHOEBE CATES.
He has two younger brothers.

ALEX and CHRIST

CHRISTOPHER. And a sister called KATE.
Phoebe Cates is KATZ.



Half of the PHOEBE CATES
pics show her in BIKINI.
(Nukes). Phoebe was born
16 JULY. Day of the TRINTY (Nuke)
TEST and day SAN DIEGO
was founded.


Double NUKE link and SAN DIEGO.
Her uncle is GILBERT CATES.



Gilbert Cates born on
OMEN day


You can see in my last post they take that day VERY SERIOUSLY.

The 6th of JUNE stands for ANTI-CHRIST and SATAN.
Means they don't believe in GOD and think this life is
ALL there is. WRONG. Big mistake.
Anyway, they don't care. GILBERT CATES showed that
in a movie he directed.



I NEVER SANG FOR MY
FATHER. (They mean GOD)




Movie Stars MELVYN DOUGLAS
who died 4 August.
DAY 216
TIME: 01:19
Date: 2 February


User is THIRD SHIP.
TITANIC and CARPATHIA. two SHIPS.
216 is CARPATHIA's number.
There was a THIRD SHIP close to the TITANIC,
the SS CALIFORNIAN......



And surprise! another
EMILY


MELVYN DOUGLAS.
MELVIN stands for RED BUTTONS and the TITANIC........



EMILY Movie wth Julie
Andrews (Born WELLS) who
has a clear 666 printed.
666 Julie Andrews was
EMILY


Have discussed this pic before. NIKE shoe
and the BIG ONE. (michael moore).
File date of this 666 pic is 19 April. (waco)
Dimensions are 3072 X 2304 wdich is multiplied

7077.888

So in this little pic you have 666, 777, 888, NIKE, WACO all combined....

JULIE ANDREWS descibed this EMILY film as her FAVOURITE....
See that DUTCH "EMILY" that married on 6-6-06.



Julie Andrews first Movie.
ROSA di BAGDAD


Debut (as voice) in ROSA DI BAGDAD and
favourite is EMILY....



EMELY, AMELIE, AMALIA, TAUTOU, TOUTOU, TATTOO.....


Arthur Hiller directed the
EMILY novie. Born
22 November....
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Another Rose and Emily...



EMILY ROSE



Jennifer Carter is EMILY, born

PEAR HARBOR DAY.



Crown Princess AMALIA, born
PEARL HARBOR DAY


JENNIFER CARPENTER is EMILY.
She plays a main part in the series DEXTER.



File date: 31 January.
Birthday QUEEN BEATRIX.
QUEEN B.


The BEE QUEEN from HOLLAND. All the people have to work
for the BEE QUEEN.

Jennifer Carpenter was KRISTIN in

QUEEN B.

ALICIA SILVERSTONE was QUEEN B, which stands for BEATRICE...



EMILY Quartermaine in
General Hospital was played
by AMBER ROSE Tamblyn




EMILY written ny Montgomory
who died on 24 April.
Birthday william of ORANGE


She had 3 Chidren

Chester CAMERON McDonald.
Hugh ALEXANDER McDonald


And anorther one.

CAMERON was born 7 JULY. (the 7-7-7 Bombing)



Grave Lucy Maud Montgomery
McDonald. Dimensions
777 X 563




Tv Series as well.
46 Episodes. Last aired on
OMEN DAY.




The final of the EURO
2008 Championships is 29 June.
Prinses Amalia will be exactly
1666 days old....



I am not Predicting a
Victory for the team of coach
MARK of the BEAST
but they might deliver
a surprise....
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Sri Rahayu Wins Utusan Literary Award

KUALA LUMPUR, June 20 (Bernama) -- Novelist Sri Rahayu Mohd Yusop has won the main category of the Utusan Group 2007 Literary Award.

Siti Rahayu, 22, from Tanjung Karang, Selangor won the teenage novel category with her novel "Warisnya Kalbu" and walked away with RM7,000 in cash.

Meanwhile, Sarawak writer Seliong ak Wau won the English teenage novel category with his novel entitled "Peace Child" which earned him RM7,000 in cash.

Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop presented the awards to the two winners tonight as well as to 30 other writers who had also won the various categories in the annual literary award.

Also present were Utusan Group Executive Chairman Tan Sri Mohamad Hashim Ahmad Makaruddin, Utusan Group Executive Director Mohd Nasir Ali and Financial Director Exxon Mobil Subsidiaries in Malaysia, Zain C.Willoughby.
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Poet eyes life in Vietnam, Big Thicket

Vietnam and the Big Thicket of Texas are worlds apart, but San Antonio poet H. Palmer Hall has been a conscientious observer and scribe in both, and these places are at the core of “Coming To Terms.” Thirty personal essays are chronologically sequenced and have the effect of a memoir, beginning in and returning to the Big Thicket in Southeast Texas.

Even before Hall became a poet, he remembers rowing a boat alone at age 7 (in his introductory essay): “Poetry is like this for me much of the time,” he writes. “I am alone in a large body of water and I put the oars in the locks and pull the water past me,” perceiving “that single moment of awareness,” when “pushing yourself and your words out there into water so deep that a single wave can drown you.”

The next 10 essays touch upon growing up in the Big Thicket — family, church, jobs, education, teaching. There's a charming portrait of his parents in “Dancing in the Thicket” and an embarrassing tale of becoming a Baptist (“Washed in the Blood”), in which Hall confesses that “I was an insufferable little prig, snotty and devout at the same time. I was, in short, a true believer and, paradoxically, proud of it.”

Hall traces his growth beyond the limitations of Texas rural culture, gradually withdrawing from religion, honing his speech beyond country music lyrics, to graduating university and becoming an English teacher, a librarian and a writer. He writes a quietly conversational prose with insight, self-criticism and truthfulness, extolling the natural wonders of the Big Thicket while criticizing clear-cutting loggers, characterizing the charm of small towns but admonishing their racism.

After these early years, there are 40 pages (of 158) about Vietnam. “I got my draft notice shortly after I quit teaching high school in 1965,” he writes “and before I got my student deferment for grad school at UT.” He could have “gotten out, but what the hell, I figured it was fate and I was so apolitical I don't recall even having thought of Vietnam at that time.” However, once he had served a year's tour — as a linguist who spoke Vietnamese but rarely leaving a large military installation — he published many essays and poems about it and was involved with veterans groups that protested that tragic, wasteful war.

What distinguishes these essays are Hall's honesty and humility about interacting with Vietnamese civilians, especially the wounded children. And also there are humorous takes about his own part in the war: “The whole time I am in Vietnam, we are mortared only three times. I get a small scratch on one of my toes ... that's it. I don't report it, don't want a Purple Heart for a tiny cut on my big toe.”

After the Vietnam section, the final third of “Coming To Terms” features a variety of essays on relationships with women — driving cross-country to end one, immersed in another while studying German and getting married and raising a family, as well as a fascinating dreamscape, “Driving Through Milwaukee,” about a city he has never visited.

Two others — “Coming To Terms with Dad” and “A True Story about an Old Woman and Poetry” — are the most tender and poetic pieces in the entire collection.

Perhaps the most stunning set of essays are Hall's walking meditations in the Big Thicket, an elegy for James Byrd Jr., who was brutally murdered in Jasper by three white racists, as well as several lovely sojourns along the Gulf Coast. Some are reminiscent of fellow Texan Elroy Bode, since both explore the natural environment with a poet's eye and an amateur naturalist's sense of ecological ethics and both are keen observers and listeners, who know the names of fauna and flora essential to delineating a deep sense of place. They would write as lucidly about Paris or Rome had they been Europeans, but they often are labeled “Texas writers” when, in fact, they are universal writers who happened to be born here.

These 30 essays were published in literary magazines and national anthologies, including “Places to Grow” in “Best Texas Writing.” A librarian and a professor of English at St. Mary's University, Hall has been a significant figure in the “poetry scene” in San Antonio for two decades as publisher of Pecan Grove Press.

Throughout this book there are single sentences and paragraphs paralleling the immediate essay with thematic anecdotes — flashbacks and reprised details from earlier essays — all weaving loose threads from the past into the present, giving readers the sense of an evolving continuum. “Coming To Terms,” which embeds a half-dozen excellent poems in appropriate contexts, tells us a poet's remarkable life story in splendid prose.
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