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The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke
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Joy's Updates - Straight from the Horse's Mouth.
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Friday, May 16, 2003
Passages
June Carter Cash will be missed. As sick as Johnny Cash has been, I wasn't expecting June to die before he did. I'm not sure how well he's going to make it since he's said he wouldn't be alive without her and didn't want to live without her now. I remember seeing her when I was a teenager when Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters came to Dickson to perform. This was a big deal since we didn't have concerts like that here and still don't. Some people went to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville (we didn't), but I can remember hearing it on the radio when I was a child. I also remember Baby Snooks, a character Fanny Brice did, on the radio as well as the family sitting around the radio listening to President Truman. This was before televisions.
Yes, I can remember before there was TV. Our neighbors had the first one, so the rest of us would go there after school ocassionally to watch Hopalong Cassidy. We went to each other's houses after school to play games if the weather was bad or played outside before coming home for homework and dinner.
We got our television during the summer after the neighbors got theirs. It was the day of the bee funeral, which I'll write about next. I'm not sure how old I was but probably around 8 years old. I can remember those first shows during the early 50's such as Howdy Doody, Jimmy Durante, Spike Jones, Doodles Weaver, Sid Ceasar's Show of Shows, Milton Berle, Playhouse 90, I Love Lucy, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Hour, Gary Moore, and other shows that are listed here on this site which is pretty interesting. It was a different kind of entertainment from what we'd been used to, so we'd turn it on to watch what we wanted to and then turn it off. There weren't but a couple of channels and it was in black and white. It would take a while for the TV to warm up, so we'd have to turn it on a while before the show was scheduled to come on. Test patterns were on it when the programming began and ended.
How many of you remember the Burma Shave signs along the highway?
12:47:00 PM
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