Robert Frost

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Around the time of his seventh birthday, Frost himself began to hear voices and experience a touch of clairvoyance. His mother found this unsurprising, and comforted him with stories of other gifted people who could see and hear things that “ordinary” people could not. “To the end of his life,” said one friend, “Robert believed he could hear voices, real voices. His poems came to him like voices from nowhere. He liked to be alone just to listen, to communicate with the spirit-world.”

-- Jay Parini, “Robert Frost: A Life”

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Little Wintry

A little taste of winter overnight. This morning I switched the ceiling fan into winter mode. Maybe it's a little early for that, as we may still have some good summery afternoons in front of us, but it is easy enough to switch the fan back. I still haven't broken out the sweats yet.

LiveJournal

Stan Lee, the Spider-Man creator, has opened an LJ account. It is nice to think that some life might be sparking back up here on LJ, but as one ONTDer commented, "Ten years too late, Stan. Ten years too late." Both funny and sad.

[Source: OhNoTheyDidnt]

Pop

As an example of Pop's hungry-for-life mood, he is talking to himself in the kitchen as he has some dinner or dessert. "It's Saturday night! I should be at the clubs!" A number of repetitions of this, of course. He did not have so much of this vibe in his sixties, fifties, or forties. It is better than enfeeblement, make no mistake! But it is a little odd, too.

Chilly

I had to break out the sweatpants this evening. I doubt I will need them tomorrow, but it is quite chilly and the evening is young.