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HAIKU 5*7*5* Spring's curtain is going up...

My eye focuses Spring’s curtain is going up Yellow crocuses

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APRIL's Greatest Hits!

1) Baseball! 2) 53 Fahrenheit at 2 P.M. 3/30/2024 3) Dietary change to spring feeding which features lots of raw spinach. 4) NBA and NHL getting interesting. 5) Rabbits in the East Fens neighborhood of Boston. 6) “April showers bring May flowers…” Well… we have definitely gotten the showers. 7) Women wearing shorts and mini skirts. 8) Mallard ducks bobbing about in the Muddy River. 9)…

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PASSING: Bud Harrelson, January 11, 2024

A fond remembrance.

Derrel McKinley “Bud” Harrelson passed on January 11, 2024 in his home in East Northport, N.Y. of Alzheimer’s disease. Harrelson was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2016 and went public with his malady in 2018. At the time of his passing Harrelson was a partner in the Long Island Ducks North Atlantic Independent League, Islip, Long Island based team team he helped to found in 2000. The link below…

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DEFINITION: Stereotype; steh-ree-oh-tipe

A stereotype is when a teaspoon of truth becomes a mountain of mythology.

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Know more than you need to...

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HAIKU 5*7*5*: AARP

No more ‘woe is me’. Think of the benefits of Me! AARP!

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A sad day whose sadness is exceeded only by its grimness...

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G.L: HOMELESS?

G.L. is a neighborhood woman I became almost acquainted with about 12 years ago. Our paths crossed at a Fenway CDC meeting concerning the Huntington Ave. branch of the YMCA’s plan to demolish their old gym and enable Northeastern to expand with the blessing of Mayor Menino in spite of the fact that the mandated Institutional Master Plan(IMP) had been circumvented and Northeastern was disregarding…

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HAIKU 5*7*5* Autumn calling

Brown leaves on cement The days are growing shorter Fall is heaven sent

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Woo!

BASEBALL: Los Wepas(Woo Sox) vs. Scranton Railriders, 8/18/2023

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BASEBALL: Los Wepas(Woo Sox) vs. Scranton Railriders, 8/18/2023

Minor league baseball has always occupied a niche in my mind, even before my brain became partially digitized. As a youth I pored over the fine print in the back of STREET and SMITH’S BASEBALL 1970 detailing the exploits of the Mets AAA Tidewater team and pondering whether Ed Kranepool would make it back to Flushing? Yes. Would Rod Gaspar would make it back to Flushing? No. This was a stark…

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HAIKU 5*7*5* Air conditioner