{"id":2580,"date":"2009-01-27T17:16:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T01:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2009-01-28T12:46:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T21:16:30","slug":"to-give-the-mundane-its-beautiful-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/to-give-the-mundane-its-beautiful-view\/","title":{"rendered":"To give the mundane its beautiful view"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Updike<\/a> died January 27th at 76. Middle class life, 2 Pulitzers for novels and engaging short stories. His article The Writer in Winter<\/a> is, if not exuberantly pro-aging, respectful of its wisdom. Luckily, painters often do their best work during this time.<\/p>\n

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And a poem by Wendell M Tomlin, Jr that speaks of the day’s loss. Tomlin lives in a cabin near Lake Norman, in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

In Memoriam<\/strong><\/p>\n

You knew our names and called them out as<\/p>\n

clearing as a beloved’s.<\/p>\n

You summoned our brightest beats from their hiding spaces;<\/p>\n

you held them up to view\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

with untrimmed delight.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

We will build a fire<\/p>\n

in the center of the night<\/p>\n

in the middle of a river<\/p>\n

that you not mistake us<\/p>\n

standing alone one by one<\/p>\n

yearning toward the sound<\/p>\n

of your voice, gone now<\/p>\n

but still wrapped around us,\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

proof against the chill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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