I mainly read science fiction and history novels. I once went to art school and keep that knowledge...
I heard the version of my name where the Y at the end of Gary lasted about five seconds. Unlike the three-second version, which means one of the kids did something wrong or the two-second version, which means we need to talk, the five-second version means something cataclysmic has occurred and requires immediate attention.
We had just returned home from a weekend at the beach. I went into the great room. Berneice went into the bedroom. Big mistake. Berneice came face to face with the mos. . .
I heard the version of my name where the Y at the end of Gary lasted about five seconds. Unlike the three-second version, which means one of the kids did something wrong or the two-second version, which means we need to talk, the five-second version means something cataclysmic has occurred and requires immediate attention.
We had just returned home from a weekend at the beach. I went into the great room. Berneice went into the bedroom. Big mistake. Berneice came face to face with the mos. . .
“Sea-beauty! stretch’d and basking!
One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce,
steamers, sails,
And one the Atlantic’s wind caressing, fierce or gentle--mighty hulls
dark-gliding in the distance.
Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water--healthy air and soil!
Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!”
-Walt Whitman, “Paumanok” from Leaves of Grass
Chapter 1: "Talk of the Begi. . .
“Sea-beauty! stretch’d and basking!
One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce,
steamers, sails,
And one the Atlantic’s wind caressing, fierce or gentle--mighty hulls
dark-gliding in the distance.
Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water--healthy air and soil!
Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!”
-Walt Whitman, “Paumanok” from Leaves of Grass
Chapter 1: "Talk of the Begi. . .