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Just Chillin’ March is Green!
Santa Rosa, CA. ~ Green may be the color for all of us “wan- nabes” on St. Paddy’s Day for sure. But, white snowstorms blanket the eastern states while in Santa Rosa our storms con- sist of lovely white and pale pink petals drifting all over from plum and flowering cher- ry trees. Am truly sorry now for the cousins, their chil- dren, grandchildren, plus a few “great-grandies,” still shoveling out of the harsh white stuff in the east. Remembering the San Francisco born Robert Frost’s poem, “Stop- ping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and when I taught col- lege lit classes, I recalled, we can wish Frost, a hap- py 141st birthday on March second! Shrewd Frost presented himself as a simple sort
of
farmer while he really wrote us- ing strict traditional forms and utterly disdained “free verse” by claiming that “was like playing tennis without a net.” That was about as cheery as he ever got.
Poor fellow had se-
vere depression. The poet/critic Randall Jarrell pointed out ad- miringly that Frost wrote with “absolute mastery” and with “the rhythms of actual speech.” The last verse of “Stopping
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. ~Mark Twain dif fer - ent meanings, still
poses a challenge to all readers.
Considered today, “the most popular literary poet since Frost,” Seamus Justin He- aney of Ireland, the 1995 No- bel Prize recipient, also used complicated nostalgia, never simple, because he too “under- stood the cost of love too well.” When he died in August, 2013,
it.”
Columbia University, NYC, created a new position for the American-British neurologist/ writer, when he served as pro- fessor of neurology and psy- chiatry, and they honored Dr. Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE, with the much deserved title: “Co-
by Woods..”: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep,/But I have promises to keep,/And miles to go before I sleep,/ And miles to go before I sleep.”/open to many
By Ellie Schmidt •
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his family lovingly recalled his parting words of “noli timere” Latin for “be not afraid.” Much beloved, the fine poet William Logan wrote how Heaney’s po- etry is not the “poetry of long- winded bombast that makes schoolchildren run screaming from poems ever after” but it is the stuf f of pa- tience, wis -
d o m, and love of the natural
world.” The first of nine children,
he
never forgot his youth, as in “Digging” he wrote: “…living roots awaken in my head,/But I’ve no spade to follow men like them./Be- tween my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests./I’ll dig with
lumbia Artist.” Born in 1933 in London, the youngest of four children, his parents were both physicians
(his mother, one
of the first female surgeons in England). He received degrees from The Queen’s College, Oxford. For residencies and fellowship work he was a Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco and at UCLA before NYU and Columbia.
Sacks perhaps best personi- fies that extremely rare combi- nation of a scientist who also is a humanist and combines all of his acquired knowledge within his extraordinary talents in writing. In his case, he is the finest proponent of narrative medical writing. Best known of his numerous best-selling books is his 1973 “Awaken- ings,” adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film in 1990, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. Sacks always writes in ex- ceptionally elegant, compas- sionate, and exquisite narrative writing on medical topics of huge importance. However, on February 19, 2015, Dr. Sacks contributed a most beautifully written, eloquent essay to the op-ed page of the N Y Times, unfortunately announcing to the world that he learned a month before that he has termi- nal cancer. The whole essay is ... continued on page 14
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