Thanks, Doug. The whittling goes on ...
Bill
On 03/04/2014, at 2:32 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Yes, you do...
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> Like the whittling down of the lines...
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> Doug
> On Apr 2, 2014, at 2:15 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> O Bill, preparing to move house??
>> Sounds like a downsizing - less space for one's precious possessions.
>> all very painful.
>> You evoke the feel of sorting well.
>>
>> Max in Melbourne
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>> On 02/04/2014, at 3:38 PM, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>
>>> Selecting / discarding.
>>> Retaining / consigning.
>>> Staying / going.
>>>
>>> Has worth / worth expired.
>>> Could be / will never be.
>>> Must /might.
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>>> Useful / You must be kidding.
>>> Essential / peripheral.
>>> Desirable / obsolete.
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>>> It's like writing a poem
>>> preparing to move house.
>>> All that accretion
>>>
>>> requiring whittling down.
>>> Uneasy decisions.
>>> Arrangements.
>>>
>>> And in the end
>>> what stands
>>> still shakes.
>>>
>>> bw
>>
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