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Americana circa 1953
Recently back from Austria and Switzerland, where he was stationed during the Korean War, here are my father (right) and uncle circa 1953, both in their mid-twenties: Share This:
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Tagged Ed Litzenberg, family, personal history, photographs, Robert Litzenberg
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Almost Famous
To be respected by your family, those you like and know, is often not enough acclaim to satisfy; and so we seek to become famous in this lifetime or the next, a bigger fish than all the rest and so … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged achievement, daily poems, failure, family, recognition, respect, self-respect, success
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Daddy’s Little Girl
Sometimes it’s hard to know the right way to begin Too often words don’t get me past the might have beens The mistakes I’ve made that haunt me linger on And it’s hard explaining just where I went wrong Sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs, Statements
Tagged children, dedications, devotion, family, fatherhood, Jeff Rachall
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Weak Blood
The blood that courses through my veins has been diluted. I can sense its former potency at times: remembering my father’s strength, my great-grand sire’s blind wandering (which was itself a pale claret compared to further back in time when … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged daily poems, family, heredity, legacies, personal history, strength
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More on Sanity and Madness
Who could imagine their ancestors all stark raving mad, or at least each generation marking out as bad an apple flung far from the tree, opposed to status quo and causing much embarrassment, endless grief and woe? Yet isn’t it … Continue reading
The Wall
There is something in a family that doesn’t like a wall inside the boundary it constructs, its face against the world, that thin veneer of solidarity presented to conceal or pander to the social mores ranking its esteem. Behind the … Continue reading
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Tagged appearances, division, family, reunions, Robert Frost, separation, The Mending Wall
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