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For the past eight weeks, I’ve been immersed in French class at night and work during the day. I can speak basic — very basic — French now, yet I’ve barely looked at the local poetry reading calendar.

It’s dark at 4 or 5 p.m. now. When I used to live in Florida, I’d return to DC for winter holidays and be surprised at how dark it was so early in the day. How could people live with such darkness!? Yet, I’d lived with this early darkness year after year only a few years earlier.

When winter arrives, I enter hibernation mode. Those random 70-degree days in November completely confused me. How is it possible I wore open-toed sandals to a wedding on November 7 and then had my down jacket with hat and gloves on a mere 36 hours later?

During this hibernation of mine, I think I should be at poetry readings. I want to be at poetry readings. What I don’t want is to attempt to navigate this city at 6 p.m. when it’s dark. People drive much slower and at least 30 minutes must be added to travel time for any location in this area. That means at least an hour each way to said reading. I have to listen to a lot of Mozart to stay calm. I can’t bring myself to get in the car and sit there for an hour to get to a reading only to have to spend another 30 minutes searching for parking. If only the poets would offer streaming video of their readings, and I could watch from home.

For now, I’ll stick with French class and get back to attending readings later.

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Actually, those red shoes in the banner image appear in a Life Cook Book circa 1960 in my possession.

I searched for the image to no avail at the LIFE photo archive hosted by Google via J walk

But I did find some related images on a modernistic theme

one can easily jump around while watching television.

watering plants in the living room

Family and friends sitting in a modern home, with lots of glass

at his push-button house displaying guests sitting on the couch and playing bridge during a cocktail-party.

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Environmentally conscious blog for pond maintenance, organic gardening/ soil conditioning, cleaning and disinfecting and water treatment

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Many writers harbor the desire to become successful poets and rise to the top of their profession. To see one’s name on the cover of a slender paperback, to have tens and perhaps even hundreds of readers, to ascend to a lecture podium in a modest-sized auditorium after being introduced by the less successful poet who has been introduced in turn by an earnest graduate student unsure of the pronunciation of your name—these are heady rewards. Beyond these lie the true grail: generous grants, an endowed chair at a university, the big money that will allow you to write and remodel your kitchen, while freeing you from reading the incoherent ramblings of inferior wannabes. How can you realize your dreams? Follow this step-by-step advice.

Thanks to Eduardo C. Corral for letting me know, through his blog, about this essay.

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