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January 2025
Eaton Fire Information
01/21/2025
Status - January 21, 2025
01/21/2025
Escape to San Diego
01/19/2025
Finding Courage Amid Tragedy
01/19/2025
Needs - January 18th, 2025
01/18/2025
Responses - January 18th, 2025
01/18/2025
Needs as of Today - January 17, 2025
01/16/2025
A Tale of Three Fires
01/14/2025
Pictures From Brueghel by William Carlos Williams
By Jim HendrickPosted: 11/15/2024
THE PARABLE OF THE BLIND
This horrible but superb painting
the parable of the blind
without a red
in the composition shows a group
of beggars leading
each other diagonally downward
across the canvas
from one side
to stumble finally into a bog
where the picture
and the composition ends back
of which no seeing man
is represented the unshaven
features of the des-
titute with their few
pitiful possessions a basin
to wash in a peasant
cottage is seen and a church spire
the faces are raised
as toward the light
there is no detail extraneous
to the composition one
follows the others stick in
hand triumphant to disaster
😙😎😎😳😳😳🤔 This poem was read by Gary Smith at A Poetry Gathering