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      • The Scheherazade Chronicles
      • A Conversation with Samantha Mozart
      • About Samantha Mozart …
    • Blog Journals & Other Stories
      • Sitting on a Juice Crate
        • REQUEST
        • What Am I Reading?
        • What Am I Reading? II – An Unwitting Journey
      • Mornings with Mozart
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          • Randy Oviedo
        • The Robin’s Return
        • A Musical Feast … on Dirty Napkins
        • Mozart’s 250th Birthday Celebration
        • Evgeny Kissin Performs Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23, allegro non troppo
        • Glass Harp and Mozart
        • Mornings in Czarist Russia
      • Blogging Challenges & Awards
        • A-Z Blogging Challenges
          • A-Z Challenge 2015
            • A-Z Challenge Theme Reveal: Dementia Caregiving
            • Agitation
            • Butterfly
            • Caregiver
            • Drop Cloth
            • Empty
            • Falling
            • Grasping for Candelabra
            • Help & Hospice
            • Intention
            • The Journey
            • Kindness
            • Lion at the Gate
            • Moriarty
            • Nutmeggy
            • The Osprey
            • The Phantom and the Blue Deer
            • Quintet Ending, Neverending, Beginning …
            • Round Table Nights
            • Spizzle Jitney
            • Tapestry of the Storyteller
            • Unconditional Love and Support
            • The View from the Cupola
            • The Woman in White
            • Xmas
            • Yet … It May Not Be What You Think It Is
            • Zephyr at Dawn – Round Table Nights II
            • A-Z Challenge Reflection 2015: One Thousand and One Tulips
          • A-Z Challenge 2016
            • A-Z Blogging Challenge 2016 – Theme Reveal
            • Arizona
            • Beaches: Avalon & Ocean City, New Jersey
            • Chiricahua Wonderland of Rocks
            • Delaware Pastoral Scenes
            • Eastern High Sierra Nevada Mountains
            • Ferryboat — The Cape May-Lewes Ferry
            • Great Atlantic & Pacific Tour Company
            • Harpers Ferry
            • Iron Horse
            • June Lake Scenic Loop & Lundy Lake, California
            • Kaibab Plateau
            • Lunch on the C&D Canal
            • Mammoth Lakes, California
            • Naples, Florida — Part I
            • On Marco Island — Part II
            • Piers
            • Question: What Will Be the Verse You Contribute?
            • Restore Hetch Hetchy
            • Southern California Surf and Sunsets
            • Tufa Towers of Mono Lake
            • Up Along the Appalachians
            • Victorians & Menhadens – Cape May, New Jersey
            • Wrigley’s View
            • X Marks the Spot – Bodie Ghost Town
            • Yosemite
            • Zen
            • A to Z Challenge Reflection 2016: Without Silence
        • More Blogging Challenges & Awards
          • 3-Day-Quote Blog Challenge
            • Day One of 3-Day-Quote Blog Challenge
            • Day Two of 3-Day-Quote Blog Challenge
            • Day Three of 3-Day-Quote Blog Challenge
          • 5 Photos / 5 Day Blog Challenge
            • 5 Day / 5 Photo Blog Challenge — Bodie Ghost Town
            • 5 Day / 5 Photo Blog Challenge — Redondo Beach Pier & Harbor
            • 5 Day / 5 Photo Blog Challenge — The Maggie S. Myers
            • 5 Day / 5 Photo Blog Challenge — The Quest for Human Equality and Dignity
            • 5 Day / 5 Photo Blog Challenge — Yosemite
          • Liebster Award 2016
          • Liebster Nominations
      • Nights at the Round Table
        • XXXIII. Nights at the Round Table
        • Round Table Nights
        • Round Table Nights II: Zephyr at Dawn
    • Blog Essays
      • Delaware Stories
        • F. Scott Fitzgerald at Ellerslie
        • The Maggie S. Myers
          • Fish Package
          • Maggie Gets Her Sail
          • The Low Whistle of the Wind
          • A Song to Maggie
          • Thanksgiving
          • Let Freedom Ring
        • Environmental Stewardship & Education
          • Horseshoe Crab Preservation
          • The View from Taylor’s Bridge
          • Delaware Wild Lands, Inc. – History
          • Food for Thought … A Conversation with Michael McGrath
          • The Coastal Zone Act and the Blackbird
          • From Delaware Wild Lands
          • Education, St. Andrew’s School & Environmental Sustainability
            • St. Andrew’s School 75th Anniversary
            • St. Andrew’s School: A Precarious Outlier
            • Dan O’Connell – Teacher, Scientist, Lawyer, Activist
            • Appoquinimink River Association: How You Can Help
            • On Noxontown Pond
        • History & Culture
          • Smyrna
            • CXXVI. Duck Creek Historical Society Burger Night Fundraising Dinner
            • The Gathering Place
            • Smyrna by Candlelight
          • Odessa
            • Historic Odessa: A Living Time Capsule
            • What If Mr. Darcy Came to Dinner?
            • The Appoquinimink Meeting House
            • Chemistry History Detective
          • Middletown
            • The Everett Theatre
          • CXXIX. Fugue
        • Human Interest
          • CXXIV. The Quest for Human Equality and Dignity
          • Domestic Violence Awareness
            • Linda Lovelace: The Deeper Implications
            • Witney’s Lights
      • Environmental, Human Interest & Profiles
        • CXXIV. The Quest for Human Equality and Dignity
        • The Low Whistle of the Wind
        • Arts & Culture
          • Robin Preiss, Principal Dancer of the Pennsylvania Ballet
          • Sari Staggs, Watercolorist
        • News Links/Human Interest/Advocacy
          • Against All Odds …
          • Chasing Rainbows
          • Contemplating the Butterfly
          • Nov. 3 Event: 40 Years of Delaware’s Coastal Zone Act
          • “On Reverie” by Raphael Enthoven
          • Relaxing, Touching the Memory, Music Helps With the Final Transition
          • Without Words – New York Times Video
      • The Humanities
        • CXXIV. The Quest for Human Equality and Dignity
        • CXXIX. Fugue
        • CXXX. Under the Sun
        • CXXXI. Music: Part 1 — Syncopating Jackhammers
        • CXXXI. Music: Part 2 — Rhapsody
        • CXXXI. Music: Part 3 — “The Wallflower” and the Saga of Annie and Henry
        • CXXXII. “Under the Trees It Was Green and Cool”: F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • Recipes
      • What Should I Do with This Green Thing…?
        • Fathoming Melons: Inside Cantaloupe and Honeydew
        • Recipes
          • Baked Ziti
          • Basic Green Salad
          • Butternut Squash Soup
          • Chicken Enchiladas
          • Green Drink
          • Guacamole
          • Mango Salsa
          • Watermelon Smoothie
          • Whole Cranberry Sauce
          • Salmon Salad
  • Dementia Caregiving Journals
    • Introduction & Prologue
    • Journal – Vol. I
      • Journal — Part 1
        • I. Introduction and Prologue
        • II. Are You Doing This on Purpose?
        • III. Lowrider
        • IV. Why Salmon Salad and Mozart
        • V. “Der Müller und der Bach”
        • VI. Gone with the Wine in B-Flat Major
        • VII. Brownouts
        • VIII. Moving
        • IX. The Last Drawing
        • X. The Human Condition
      • Journal — Part 2
        • XI. Alone
        • XII. Les Preludes
        • XIII. Maybe I Shouldn’t Eat Chicken, but Some Veterinarians Eat Dogs
        • XIV. Grasping for … Well, Candelabra
        • XV. A Song to Maggie
        • XVI. Rolling Out the Dough
        • XVII. The Help
        • XVIII. Ahh, but It’s a Dry Heat
        • XIX. Must Love Peanuts
        • XX. Spizzle Jitney
      • Journal — Part 3
        • XXI. In Her Own Words
        • XXII. Jellyfish
        • XXIII. Good Night! Irene!
        • XXIV. Woman in White
        • XXV. Airing the Laundry
        • XXVI. Shelter from the Storm
        • XXVII. The Horn Section
        • XXVIII. Revel with a Cause
        • XXIX. The Overture
        • XXX. Pulling the Rug Out and Other Amusing Stories
      • Journal — Part 4
        • XXXI. The Last of the Crickets
        • XXXII. The Phantom of the Blog
        • XXXIII. Nights at the Round Table
        • XXXIV. Spindles
        • XXXV. Why I Think the Lemmings Get Pushed
        • XXXVI. Farther Away
        • XXXVII. The Wind Whispered Stories Through the Trees
        • XXXVIII. The Green Light Across the —-
        • XXXIX. The Far Shore
        • XL. Jetta
      • Journal — Part 5
        • XLI. Offerings of the Wise
        • XLII. She’s Back
        • XLIII. Ya Gotta Have a Drop Cloth
        • XLIV. How Do I Get Home from Here?
        • XLV. Riding the El to the End of the Line
        • XLVI. The Magic Candle
        • XLVII. For Whom the Bottle Tolls
        • XLVIII. The Owl
        • XLIX. The Age of Senility
      • Journal — Part 6
        • The Backstage Quartet
          • L. Backstage – Act I
          • LI. Backstage — Act II
          • LII. Backstage — Act III
          • LIII. Epilogue
        • LIV. Eleventh Hour Bleed Out
        • LV. My Furry Valentine
        • LVI. Falling Star
        • LVII. Keats
        • LVIII. I Am Keats
        • LIX. My Life on Parchment
    • Journal – Vol. II
      • Journal — Part 7
        • LX. Les Retours
        • LXI. Mother
        • LXII. It’s What We Are
        • LXIII. The Caregiver Experience
        • LXIV. The Caregiver Gift
        • LXV. The Caregiver Alone
        • LXVI. The Caregiver Family and Thoughts
        • LXVII. The Caregiver and Reincarnation
        • LXVIII. The Butterfly
        • LXIX. Pole Barbies
      • Journal – Part 8
        • LXX. Where Am I Now?
        • LXXI. Mother’s Day
        • LXXII. The Downsourced
        • LXXIII. Mirror, Mirror …
        • LXXIV. The Blue Deer
        • LXXV. The Centipede
        • LXXVI. The Men in My Life
        • LXXVII. The Party’s Over
        • LXXVIII. The Price of Freedom
        • LXXIX. Let Freedom Ring
      • Journal – Part 9
        • LXXX. The Lion at the Gate
        • LXXXI. Dinner with Moriarty
        • LXXXII. A Paperback Is Born
        • LXXXIII. The Fourth Walnut Tree
        • LXXXIV. Potato Chips
        • LXXXV. Emma’s Return
        • LXXXVI. Our Town
        • LXXXVII. War, Suffering and Blame
        • LXXXVI.II Our Town Revisited
        • LXXXVIII. The Seasons
        • LXXXIX. Early Morning Prose
      • Journal – Part 10
        • XC. The Swinger
        • XCI. The Distressed Gentlewoman
        • XCII. The Phantom Dialog
        • XCIII. Thanksgiving
        • XCIV. The Serenity of the Turquoise
        • XCV. Tales from the Family Tree
        • XCVI. It Came Upon a Night So Clear
        • XCVII. The Iris in the Snow
        • XCVIII. Bag of Scones
        • XCIX. A Sense of Place
      • Journal — Part 11
        • C. Last Kiss
        • CI. Who Cares?
        • CII. All the Forgotten Faces
        • CIII. A Hug and Kiss at the Gate
        • CIV. The Water Goblin
        • CV. Toccata
        • CVI: Beneath the Laughing Willow: Physics Rendezvous with History
        • CVII. The Unstable Wind
        • CVIII. Moriarty’s Way
        • CIX. Wallie-isms
    • Journal – Vol. III
      • Journal — Part 12
        • CX. To What Green Altar
        • CXI. We’ll Always Have Paris
        • CXII-i. With Every Note
        • CXII-ii. Giving Meaning to Life: Bartering
        • CXIII. Sebastian’s Flight, Part 1 — The Folly
        • CXIII. Sebastian’s Flight, Part2 — Masquerade
        • CXIII. Sebastian’s Flight, Part 3 — Perigee
        • CXIII. Sebastian’s Flight, Part 4 — Flight Path
        • CXIV. A Treat for the Senses
        • CXV. The White Grape
      • Journal — Part 13
        • CXVI. The House of Seven Staircases
        • CXVII. Snow Comes Softly
        • CXVIII. In the Christmas Tree
        • CXIX. A Ticket to Sochi
        • CXX. Battering and Abuse
        • CXXI. Pensées
        • CXXII. The Caterpillar and the Butterfly and the Caterpillar
        • CXXIII. Tea at the Opera House
        • CXXIV. The Quest for Human Equality and Dignity
        • CXXV. Pouring Milk on the Ceiling
      • Journal — Part 14
        • CXXVI. Duck Creek Historical Society Burger Night Fundraising Dinner
        • CXXVII. Snake in the Grass
        • CXXVIII. Once Upon a Time
        • CXXIX. Fugue
        • CXXX. Under the Sun
        • CXXXI. Music: Part 1 — Syncopating Jackhammers
        • CXXXI. Music: Part 2 — Rhapsody
        • CXXXI. Music: Part 3 — “The Wallflower” and the Saga of Annie and Henry
        • CXXXI. Music: Interlude
        • CXXXII. “Under the Trees It Was Green and Cool”: F. Scott Fitzgerald
      • Journal – Part 15
        • CXXXVI. Snow Comes Softly
        • CXXXVII. The Gateway
        • CXXXIII. Zinfandel
        • CXXXIV. Snow Comes Softly II
        • CXXXV. Memories, As They Cast Their Long Shadows Before Me
  • The Phantom of the Blog
    • One. The Phantom of the Blog
    • Two. Backstage – Act I
    • Round Table Nights II: Zephyr at Dawn
  • The Ocean Bar and Seaview Grill
    • Afternoons of an Author
      • Essays
        • A Watermelon of the Hindenburg Variety
        • Dewdrop Refractions: In the Wink of a Moment
        • EVERGLADES CITY … or, The Idiot Who Wore Shorts
        • I’m New in Town
        • On Becoming a Bluehair
        • The Broccoli Episode
        • The Great Gadabout
        • The Professor
        • The Raptor
        • What If Mr. Darcy Came to Dinner…?
        • White Sock Marks
      • Short Stories
        • THE SEBASTIAN QUARTET
        • The Tea Bag Incident
        • CONNELL: These Eyes
      • Poetry
        • A Dusting of Snow
        • At the Shore
        • Flight Over the Badlands
        • Ragged Days
        • Squirrel Breakfast
        • Tangerine Tea
        • The Dust of a Flower
        • The Fog
      • Blue Deer Writers Workshops
  • Image Gallery
    • Cape May, New Jersey
    • Grand Canyon & Arizona
    • Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia
    • Mammoth Lakes, California
    • Southern California Beaches
    • Yosemite National Park, California
    • Emma’s Watercolors Gallery
    • Steele Family Photos – Historic
      • Steele Family Photos – Historic
    • Avalon, NJ
    • Bodie State Historic Park, California
    • Florida
    • 1995 Roadtrip Through the Appalachians
    • Yosemite, Mammoth Lakes & the Eastern High Sierra Nevada Mountains
  • Great Authors’ Storytelling
    • Essays
      • Jane Austen – By Carol Child
    • Jane Austen Readings for Readers Theater
    • Great Authors’ Stories
      • “The Great Gatsby” Passage – F. Scott Fitzgerald
      • “The Steppe” Passage – Anton Chekhov
      • Bernard-Henri Lévy: “Jews, Be Wary of Trump”
      • CXXXII. “Under the Trees It Was Green and Cool”: F. Scott Fitzgerald
      • Darcy Proposes
      • F. Scott Fitzgerald at Ellerslie
      • The Gift of the Magi
  • Contributors
    • “The Unseen Traveler” — By T. J. Banks
    • 3 Ways of Being Creative Like van Gogh – By Susanne van Doorn
    • A Memory, a short story by Silvia Villalobos
    • Coming Home to the Self – By Jean Raffa
    • Gwynn Rogers
      • Lulu, The FurReal Kitty
    • Only Kindness Makes Sense – By Elaine Mansfield
    • Poetry by Contributors
      • Just a Few Poems by T.J. Banks
      • Run the Symphony Backwards – By Deborah Gregory
      • Robert Pennington Price Poetry
    • Val Rainey
      • Just How Did I Get Myself into This?
      • Val’s Story — Part Two: Caregiving 2009
  • Awards
  • About
    • The Scheherazade Mission
    • About the Staff
    • Contact
  • Bookstore & My Books
  • Funny Farm Stories
    • Gringo Stories: Introduction
    • Highpockets
    • Sprinkling Strawberries
    • Fry ‘Em and They Get Tighter
    • Strawberry Planting
    • Strawberry Table

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Look Homeward, Angel

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... a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces.

Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh have we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth.

Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

O waste of loss, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this most weary unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?

O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.

Thomas Wolfe
Look Homeward, Angel
1929

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"Tell me the way," she said, "and I'll search you out." "East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon," Norwegian Fairy Tale, illustration by Kay Nielsen.
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The Blue Sultana

“Chasing Cars,” by Snow Patrol

We’ll do it all
Everything
On our own

We don’t need
Anything
Or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don’t quite know
How to say
How I feel

Those three words
Are said too much
They’re not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we’re told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that’s bursting into life

Let’s waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we’re told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that’s bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they’re all I can see

I don’t know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Songwriters: Nathan Connolly / Gary Lightbody / Jonathan Quinn / Tom Simpson / Paul Wilson

Chasing Cars lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

"The flowers are beginning their masquerade as people. Sir Jonquil begins the fun." Walter Crane (1845-1915) from "Flora's Feast: A Fairy's Festival of Flowers in Full Color."

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