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Nancy Harris Mclelland

Poetry, Prose, Opinions about Aging from an Ex-cowgirl Octogenarian.

Madame Bovary, c'est moi

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."  Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary "La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fêlé où nous battons des mélodies à faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les étoiles."


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My all-time favorite quote

“All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.” - Grace Paley

 
 
 
So, you think you are special

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure...

 
 
 

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