New Hampshire
State Motto
piss and vinegar
juices that animate
those with real bark
on their hides
stern stuff of
the northern
New Englander
perish the tender
come and visit
but don’t plan to stay
if you can’t
take the oath
Writer Lynne Sargent
Poetry Puttering by Pax & Company
Sometimes everything has to be enscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you. Sometimes it takes a great sky to find that small, bright, and indescribable wedge of freedom in your own heart. David Whyte
"drink from the well of your self and begin again" ~charles bukowski
no dust here
Looking ahead, without looking back (too often)
flights of fancy from New Zealand
You're never alone, if you've something to share
All you touch and all you see / is all your life will ever be
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I am where the valleys are deep, the mountains are high, and the wind moans through trees...
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A hard, but worthwhile oath indeed! We too often forget that Living Free is not free, but that freedom has been paid for with blood. “Live free or die” might also be interpreted as “To maintain your freedom, are you willing to die?”
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I’m glad to know you understand
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“The tree of liberty must be refreshed, from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson
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don’t sit on the sides, do something, dead right, too many waiting to take sides in life, hedging their bets as they say, fine words
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much appreciated
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I grew up in New Hampshire. It wasn’t until a cross-continent drive through Canada that it became apparent just how batty this statement appears to non-New Englanders… and non-Americans.
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alas, I’ve had bats in my belfry for a long time
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Seriously! That’s tellin’ ’em!! I wonder if we’re not becoming less “free” daily….just a ponder, but if so, then there’s so much wasted loss of good lives…maybe?
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yes – less free and more wasted
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Beyond sad and tragic, leaps to sickening.
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Befreind the stranger is ours!
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as you have done to me
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Pithy and I love it. From people of stern stuff and grit I’ve learned some of my most worthwhile life lessons. ‘Live Free Or Die’ cuts right to the chase.
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no doubt deeply ingrained in your Highland yearnings
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Absolutely wonderful!
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much appreciated, Eric
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