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StoryLooking for yesterday jxmartin43 months 3 weeks ago
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StoryOn the Duoro, approaching Porto, Portugal jxmartin24 months 2 weeks ago
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StoryWedding and a possible ending??? your opinion, please. jxmartin74 months 3 weeks ago

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Remembering John F. Kennedy

By jxmartin on Thu, 20 Nov 2025

The Fall of an American Camelot It was a time of chivalry, of knights and ladies, performing like actors in an ethereal Brigadoon, evoking visions of...
Spiritual
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Going Home

By jxmartin on Fri, 07 Nov 2025

Going Home We visited Holy Cross Cemetery today. The cemetery is timeless in its appearance. The weather-worn limestone grave markers signal your...
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Maximum Utilization

By jxmartin on Fri, 24 Oct 2025

Maximum Utilization It is a simple economic maxim that means an owner tries to “get the most use” out of a place he/she owns or operates. It seems...
Rant
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Let them play golf

By jxmartin on Sat, 18 Oct 2025

“Let them play Golf” Millions of Americans gathered, in multiple locations across America, beneath a clear October sky, on Saturday, October 11, 2025...
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Bend a knee to no one

By jxmartin on Fri, 17 Oct 2025

On bended knee to no one It was the 1880’s in Buffalo. Shipping and commerce of all types made the city a trade center for the world. Grain, iron ore...
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Short answer. "It is."  

Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2025

Short answer. "It is."    Thanks for reading and commenting. We are who we are now. We maybe whom we thought we were in our past. We hope that we will be what we aspire to be in the future. And in the greater scheme of things, no one will...

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Posted in Looking for yesterday

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                  That  is a

Posted on Wed, 16 Apr 2025

                  That  is a good observation,Insert. And norrmally, I would employ a summery like this as a denouement at an ending. What I wanted to do, was to clear and set aside  a whole matrix of succeeding families, who are actually real...

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Posted in Vancouver- City of Adventurers. Ch. # XXI

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Airy,

Posted on Sun, 07 Jul 2024

Airy,

I have always placed my faith in the common sense, decency and wisdom of the average voter. They have the right values and usualy follow through with them at the ballot box.

Now, I don't know what to make of the evil one's...

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Posted in Agism or chicanery?

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We do Insert, but sometimes

Posted on Fri, 26 Jan 2024

We do Insert, but sometimes we forget "thingamajig." :(

JXM

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Posted in Forgetting something? Just say London Bridge.

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Interesting sketch, Paul. I

Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023

Interesting sketch, Paul. I am reminded of Wolfe's dictum, "you can't go home again." Principally, because it isn't there any more. The river of time has carried away alll traces of that remebered visage. New people and new lives inhabit the time...

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Posted in The Other Side of Paradise

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Thoughtful piece, Penny. I

Posted on Sun, 13 Aug 2023

Thoughtful piece, Penny. I could almost see the young lad materialize and talk with the young Miss. I wonder if she ever came back by herself to continue the conversation?

JXM

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Great portrait of the lads

Posted on Sun, 20 Aug 2023

Great portrait of the lads ata school, Paul. I could almost see Mr. Chips in the background, wishing the lads well.

JXM

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Posted in Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part One of Two)

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Interesting observation, Ewan

Posted on Tue, 22 Nov 2022

Interesting observation, Ewan, We explain their audacity and their clueless state of understanding abhorent behavior with the saying "You can't shame the shameless." It is an awful confluence of nuanced messianic vision, outsized egos and avarice...

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Posted in Remembering John Fitzgerald Kennedy- 60 years later

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verbal portrait worthy of a Winslow Homer

Posted on Sun, 24 Jul 2022

Great verbal portrait, Paul. I could "see" what you described as well as feel the wind and the ocean spray sweeping across the moors on a chilly dusk. Winslow Homer tried to capture what you have written and did so artfully, as you have done. A...

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Posted in The Artist of Swanage Downs

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I couldn't summarize it any

Posted on Sun, 29 May 2022

I couldn't summarize it any better, David.

Thanks,

JXM

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Posted in Novel solutions on gun control

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