Category: Friday Favorites

  • Friday Favorites: If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

    ~by Emily Dickinson~ If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can ease one life the aching,Or cool one pain,Or help one fainting robinUnto his nest again,I shall not live in vain.

  • Friday Favorites: I Have Not Tired of the Wilderness

    ~by Everett Ruess~ I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the…

  • Friday Favorites: the mother

    ~by Gwendolyn Brooks~ Abortions will not let you forget.You remember the children you got that you did not get,The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair,The singers and workers that never handled the air.You will never neglect or beatThem, or silence or buy with a sweet.You will never wind up the sucking-thumbOr…

  • Friday Favorites: Paul Bunyan

    ~by Shel Silverstein~ He rode through the woods on a big blue ox,He had fists as hard as choppin’ blocks,Five hundred pounds and nine feet tall…that’s Paul. Talk about workin’, when he swung his axeYou could hear it ring for a mile and a half.Then he’d yell “Timber!” and down she’d fall…for Paul. Talk about…