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Trees 🌳🪾🌲

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

~Joyce Kilmer

Dedicated to Ada Foster Murray Alden, 02 February 1913.

Mother and I agreed, when we talked about it, that Dad never meant his poem to apply to one particular tree, or to the trees of any special region. Just any trees or all trees that might be rained on or snowed on, and that would be suitable nesting places for robins. I guess they'd have to have upward-reaching branches, too, for the line about 'lifting leafy arms to pray.' Rule out weeping willows.

Joyce himself was felled by a sniper's bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne on July 30th 1918, at the age of 31. He was survived by his wife Aline Murray, and five children.

#tallship #beauty #poetry #warfare #The_Soldiers_Poet

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@mattblaze

Decentralization is what keeps the fediverse free and weird.

Some folks, you just caen't reach...

So you get what we had here just last week, this week, and it's exactly why I denegrate those who would be so obtuse as to suggest an interview over Zoom or a weekly business meeting when we've got really great #FOSS solutions far superior to those proprietary offerings that mine your #privacy.

I personally recommend Self-hosting BBB, but Pikapods suggests Jitsi, yet both are pretty awesome and won't be caught data mining your medical records and selling them later.

What we have here is failure, to communicate...

#tallship #Big_Blue_Button #Jitsi #BBB

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@Pikapods

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/Pikapods/statuses/117263205624883428

Some folks, you just caen't reach...

So you get what we had here just last week, this week, and it's exactly why I denegrate those who would be so obtuse as to suggest an interview over Zoom or a weekly business meeting when we've got really great #FOSS solutions far superior to those proprietary offerings that mine your #privacy.

I personally recommend Self-hosting BBB, but Pikapods suggests Jitsi, yet both are pretty awesome and won't be caught data mining your medical records and selling them later.

What we have here is failure, to communicate...

#tallship #Big_Blue_Button #Jitsi #BBB

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@Pikapods

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/Pikapods/statuses/117263205624883428

Some folks, you just caen't reach...

So you get what we had here just last week, this week, and it's exactly why I denegrate those who would be so obtuse as to suggest an interview over Zoom or a weekly business meeting when we've got really great #FOSS solutions far superior to those proprietary offerings that mine your #privacy.

I personally recommend Self-hosting BBB, but Pikapods suggests Jitsi, yet both are pretty awesome and won't be caught data mining your medical records and selling them later.

What we have here is failure, to communicate...

#tallship #Big_Blue_Button #Jitsi #BBB

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@Pikapods

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/Pikapods/statuses/117263205624883428