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Nordic skiing on a cold Winter's Day

By jxmartin on Mon, 19 Jan 2026

Nordic Skiing on a cold Winter’s Day The air is gray and heavy with frost. The snow makes a crunching sound as you trod upon it. It is cold out, at...

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Memories of our own

By jxmartin on Fri, 05 Dec 2025

Memories of our own Grieving for our lost loved ones is a powerful yet natural process, that envelops us like an emotional tidal wave. Psychologists...

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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...

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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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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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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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David, Paul, Celtic Man,

Posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2022

David, Paul, Celtic Man,

Thank you all for taking the time to read and comment. I appreciate your comments in the spirit in which they were given.

JXM

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Jen,

Posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2022

Jen,

Thank you for ethereal visions of a land of make believe, that we all wish we could visit. Sugar plums abounding in small minds, faeries alight on the wind. Butterflies, colorful and flutttering, ditsracting to the eyes. It is...

Posted in Journey Into Fairy Woodland Part One

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The blended imagery, of old

Posted on Tue, 22 Feb 2022

The blended imagery, of old and worn out bldgs, with the visage of poor and blighted souls, relegated to being old and worn out, works. The gray and life-worn countenance is like a weight upon the soul of those observing both. One wonders what...

Posted in Blustery Day In Town

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In great democracies, lke the

Posted on Sun, 06 Feb 2022

In great democracies, lke the U.S, Britain and Canada, all things are possible if the citizenry takes corrective actions to heal itself. The rascals don't always win. Let's hope common sense and decency steer us in the right direction. Thanks for...

Posted in Kabuki Theater or The Twilight Zone?

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It is a tale, well told, of

Posted on Sun, 16 Jan 2022

It is a tale, well told, of reverie and longing for a past now far away. Mr Lee is all of us looking back at who and what we are, a composite of those who have come before us. I enjoed the story.

JXM

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Whinsical and entertaining

Posted on Fri, 14 Jan 2022

Michael,

Wonderful mix of whimsy and mythology, drifting back and forth through different temporarl references. I much enjoyed the tale. A slud!

JXM

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May the falling waters be

Posted on Fri, 31 Dec 2021

May the falling waters be gentle and the rush soft on your life, Jen.

JXM

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Paul,

Posted on Fri, 24 Dec 2021

Paul,

Dickens would have been flattered:) Well scripted. It stands alone as a wonderful, interesting vignette!

JXM