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Joseph Xavier Martin
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Part V "Paddy" Putting Paddy to rest
Part V- Requiem for Paddy Putting Paddy to rest June 8 th , 2004 All Hands, Patrick M. Martin was buried this morning, Tuesday, June 8th, 2004, at...
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Part IV - struggling with the bureaucracy
Part IV- Requiem for Paddy Struggling with the bureaucracy. Original Message----- > From: JXMartin > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 10:03 AM >...
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Part III- telling the family of Paddy's passing
“Telling the family of Paddy’s passing” Practical matters set in order, after I was advised that Paddy had passed on. I sent e-mail missives to a few...
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Part II -Requiem for Paddy. -Talking things over with the siblings
“Talking things over with siblings.” Dear Joe, > I wasn't going to call the Veteran's Hospital today, but the more I thought about it, it was...
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A Requiem for Paddy
Part I “A Requiem for Paddy” The passing of a sibling is a seminal event in one’s life, that registers deep within the psyche. These illustrious...
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Airy,
Posted on Sun, 07 Jul 2024
Airy,
I have always placed my faith in the common sense, decency and wisdom of the average voter. They have the right values and usualy follow through with them at the ballot box.
Now, I don't know what to make of the evil one's...
Read full commentPosted in Agism or chicanery?
We do Insert, but sometimes
Posted on Fri, 26 Jan 2024
We do Insert, but sometimes we forget "thingamajig." :(
JXM
Read full commentPosted in Forgetting something? Just say London Bridge.
Interesting sketch, Paul. I
Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023
Interesting sketch, Paul. I am reminded of Wolfe's dictum, "you can't go home again." Principally, because it isn't there any more. The river of time has carried away alll traces of that remebered visage. New people and new lives inhabit the time...
Read full commentPosted in The Other Side of Paradise
Thoughtful piece, Penny. I
Posted on Sun, 13 Aug 2023
Thoughtful piece, Penny. I could almost see the young lad materialize and talk with the young Miss. I wonder if she ever came back by herself to continue the conversation?
JXM
Read full commentPosted in "Hug-a-lass"
Great portrait of the lads
Posted on Sun, 20 Aug 2023
Great portrait of the lads ata school, Paul. I could almost see Mr. Chips in the background, wishing the lads well.
JXM
Read full commentPosted in Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part One of Two)
Interesting observation, Ewan
Posted on Tue, 22 Nov 2022
Interesting observation, Ewan, We explain their audacity and their clueless state of understanding abhorent behavior with the saying "You can't shame the shameless." It is an awful confluence of nuanced messianic vision, outsized egos and avarice...
Read full commentPosted in Remembering John Fitzgerald Kennedy- 60 years later
verbal portrait worthy of a Winslow Homer
Posted on Sun, 24 Jul 2022
Great verbal portrait, Paul. I could "see" what you described as well as feel the wind and the ocean spray sweeping across the moors on a chilly dusk. Winslow Homer tried to capture what you have written and did so artfully, as you have done. A...
Read full commentPosted in The Artist of Swanage Downs
I couldn't summarize it any
Posted on Sun, 29 May 2022
I couldn't summarize it any better, David.
Thanks,
JXM
Read full commentPosted in Novel solutions on gun control
David, Paul, Celtic Man,
Posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2022
David, Paul, Celtic Man,
Thank you all for taking the time to read and comment. I appreciate your comments in the spirit in which they were given.
JXM
Read full commentPosted in Corona Log Entry 25/4/22
Jen,
Posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2022
Jen,
Thank you for ethereal visions of a land of make believe, that we all wish we could visit. Sugar plums abounding in small minds, faeries alight on the wind. Butterflies, colorful and flutttering, ditsracting to the eyes. It is...
Read full commentPosted in Journey Into Fairy Woodland Part One
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