Thanks, as always. One of my favorite spring poems is Wordsworth’s “I wandered lonely as a cloud.” The poet is grieving the death of his sister when he sees the daffodils dancing in the sun, renewing his hope. I lost my sister a year ago & I read the poem at her funeral. Sending prayers & blessings.
I'm sorry if this upset you. I was stunned by this reporting and so posted it on Dan's most recent post. It is not my harshness, it is the report itself. I merely posted what Greg Palast wrote as an investigative journalist for The Guardian and Rolling Stone. He has done remarkable work and I have great respect for his journalism as I have for so many years with Dan Rather. Perhaps there was a better place to post and ask my question than on his beautiful posting about spring but I couldn't find where. Thank you for your feedback
Greg Palask is an investigative journalist with The Guardian and Rolling Stone. I have always loved Dan Rather which is why I subscribe to this substack but was surprised and alarmed by this reporting yesterday. I receive Greg's newsletter.
How exciting! See "A Wife of Bath 'biography' brings a modern woman out of the Middle Ages," Neda Ulaby, NPR, 2-4-23. This is an interview of Oxford Professor Marion Turner.
I do like spring, although fall and winter are my favorites. And I adore Louis Armstrong. I used to have copies of the first two recording he made. What a great man, and a great musician.
BLOSSOM open all of these outdated lies, rules, codes, mandates and policies that perpetually need our oppression, ignorance, and illiteracy to remain in tact. BLOSSOM all of these known, willful, intentional, purposeful and legislatively immoral, unjust, dehumanizing and racist tactics that America need and rely upon to remain afloat. BLOSSOM all of the lies, disrespect and negligence in the way of benign neglect that give those we pay a pass to continue it, be it and do it. BLOSSOM like never before.
I read this today from Greg Pulaski and wonder if you’d be willing to comment?
“who is Dan Rather? He’s a former TV star and one-time reporter who took my story of Bush’s draft dodging, stuck it on 60 Minutes and, in violation of any sense of ethics and decency, exposed a whistleblower, Texas Air Guard Col. Bill Burkett, a man of inestimable courage and integrity.
Rather’s exposure ruined Burkett. No Texan would sell him feed. His cattle were dying, so he lost his ranch.
Dan Rather was fired by CBS for getting the network in hot water with the Bush White House. Then, by his own admission, Rather agreed to backtrack on the story of Bush the draft dodger in return for a promise of a return to the CBS airwaves. CBS screwed Rather—but that often happens to feckless recreants.
Neither I nor the BBC nor The Guardian retracted a single word of our story of Dubya the Draft Dodger nor the tale of the $23 million questionable payment.”
There are zeroes—and there are heroes. The story of Reagan and his “October Surprise” was first busted open by Robert Parry – who also uncovered the Iran-Contra scandal. Instead of getting a Pulitzer, Parry’s career was destroyed. For uncovering too many uncomfortable truths, he was bounced from the Associated Press, Newsweek, Bloomberg, and The Nation.
Why is there a need to post this here? What is your purpose? What do you hope to achieve. Where might it better reduce your harshness rather than on a page celebrating spring at a time we all need joy and positivity?
Who is Greg Pulaski? What date did he write this? Was this published? How did this come to your attention? What is your opinion of his commentary about Dan Rather?
Beautiful reminder. Thanx‼️ GOD BLESS 👏🏿👏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Love Louis Armstrong! Imagine him singing that when it most definitely was not a wonderful world for he and other Black folks in this country.
Thanks, as always. One of my favorite spring poems is Wordsworth’s “I wandered lonely as a cloud.” The poet is grieving the death of his sister when he sees the daffodils dancing in the sun, renewing his hope. I lost my sister a year ago & I read the poem at her funeral. Sending prayers & blessings.
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I’ve always liked Copeland’s “Appalachian Spring”. Now that I’ve retired to Black Mountain NC I can feel what the composition says to us.
Sign of better things to come......enjoy everyone!
This song and singer combo brings me to a lovely place. The season seems immaterial.
I'm sorry if this upset you. I was stunned by this reporting and so posted it on Dan's most recent post. It is not my harshness, it is the report itself. I merely posted what Greg Palast wrote as an investigative journalist for The Guardian and Rolling Stone. He has done remarkable work and I have great respect for his journalism as I have for so many years with Dan Rather. Perhaps there was a better place to post and ask my question than on his beautiful posting about spring but I couldn't find where. Thank you for your feedback
Greg Palask is an investigative journalist with The Guardian and Rolling Stone. I have always loved Dan Rather which is why I subscribe to this substack but was surprised and alarmed by this reporting yesterday. I receive Greg's newsletter.
The smell of Spring! That hint of fresh. Our front yard area full of robins feasting on worms!!!!
Middle English is lusty and joyful—just like spring:
Lenten ys come with loue to toune,
With blosmen ant with briddes roune,
That al this blisse bryngeth.
Dayeseyes in this dales,
Translation
Spring has arrived, with love,
With flowers, and with birdsong,
Bringing all this joy.
Daisies in the valleys,
Notes suete of nyhtegales,
Vch foul song singeth.
The threstelcoc him threteth oo;
Away is huere wynter wo
When woderoue springeth.
The sweet notes of nightingales,
Every bird sings a song.
The thrush is constantly wrangling;
Their winter misery is gone
When the woodruff flowers.
This foules singeth ferly fele
Ant wlyteth on huere [wynne] wele
That al the wode ryngeth.
Use the three dots to add the end translation and source. Where did you learn Middle English?
I was lucky enough to go to Oxford one summer and study under a Chaucerian professor.
How exciting! See "A Wife of Bath 'biography' brings a modern woman out of the Middle Ages," Neda Ulaby, NPR, 2-4-23. This is an interview of Oxford Professor Marion Turner.
Thanks. I definitely will.
That is lucky!
MARY MAPES DODGE, 1879
"Now the noisy winds are still;
April's coming up the hill!
All the spring is in her train,
Led by shining ranks of rain;
Pit, pat, patter, clatter....."
A poem about my favorite flower that blooms in spring. And March 20 is my niece’s birthday.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
– William Wordsworth (1802)
I do like spring, although fall and winter are my favorites. And I adore Louis Armstrong. I used to have copies of the first two recording he made. What a great man, and a great musician.
BLOSSOM open all of these outdated lies, rules, codes, mandates and policies that perpetually need our oppression, ignorance, and illiteracy to remain in tact. BLOSSOM all of these known, willful, intentional, purposeful and legislatively immoral, unjust, dehumanizing and racist tactics that America need and rely upon to remain afloat. BLOSSOM all of the lies, disrespect and negligence in the way of benign neglect that give those we pay a pass to continue it, be it and do it. BLOSSOM like never before.
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I read this today from Greg Pulaski and wonder if you’d be willing to comment?
“who is Dan Rather? He’s a former TV star and one-time reporter who took my story of Bush’s draft dodging, stuck it on 60 Minutes and, in violation of any sense of ethics and decency, exposed a whistleblower, Texas Air Guard Col. Bill Burkett, a man of inestimable courage and integrity.
Rather’s exposure ruined Burkett. No Texan would sell him feed. His cattle were dying, so he lost his ranch.
Dan Rather was fired by CBS for getting the network in hot water with the Bush White House. Then, by his own admission, Rather agreed to backtrack on the story of Bush the draft dodger in return for a promise of a return to the CBS airwaves. CBS screwed Rather—but that often happens to feckless recreants.
Neither I nor the BBC nor The Guardian retracted a single word of our story of Dubya the Draft Dodger nor the tale of the $23 million questionable payment.”
There are zeroes—and there are heroes. The story of Reagan and his “October Surprise” was first busted open by Robert Parry – who also uncovered the Iran-Contra scandal. Instead of getting a Pulitzer, Parry’s career was destroyed. For uncovering too many uncomfortable truths, he was bounced from the Associated Press, Newsweek, Bloomberg, and The Nation.
Parry died in 2018, in journalistic exile.
Why is there a need to post this here? What is your purpose? What do you hope to achieve. Where might it better reduce your harshness rather than on a page celebrating spring at a time we all need joy and positivity?
Who is Greg Pulaski? What date did he write this? Was this published? How did this come to your attention? What is your opinion of his commentary about Dan Rather?