The house sat midway up the street and stuck out like a sore thumb compared to the surrounding homes. White peeling paint adorning its exterior. Every spring, grass made a futile attempt to grow on a barren dirt lawn. Despite three generations of one family living under its roof, few found time to care for […]
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When Gary Nicholson, conductor of the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony, first announced what our major project would be for the second semester, I admit that I wasn’t overly thrilled with playing the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony. At the time, I viewed the composer as one who drifted in limbo between the romantic era of classical music.
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Fueled by sun buffeted by air higher Water climbs higher and til seizing a speck of dust and then each other They freeze into hexagons of ice unique in shape size altitude. Finally they succumb to Earth’s siren call. Snow F A L L S . A tumbling billowing mass of white clutching sleeves eyelashes
“After babyhood self-improvement becomes a private matter. Physical, mental, or moral, please attend to it where I can’t see you if you care to avoid my disgust. Public primping with a vanity glass is not the worst of it, though bad enough.” –Robert Frost
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(for Emily Forand and the W119 Faculty and Staff) I envy you. Stamped with the names of all those exciting places. Turned on your side, you look like a squishy old-time Pullman porter’s trunk. Amsterdam London Paris Munich How did you end up here scrubbing dishes in the faculty lounge? No enticing aroma of French
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I “I want to know once and for all who did this to me!” hollered Hugh Jackson III, waving his stubbed hands dramatically for all to witness (and seeming to startle himself more than the rest of us). This was the climax of a speech he had prepared for me and the local policemen on
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