Fall TV-NBC Schedule

Looking forward to the shows coming back – and new- on tv this fall. Prime Suspect looks most promising.

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Tell us your favorite TV Show, film. We would love to hear your likes – and dislikes

Forbrydelsen and Wallander

Two Swedish TV series I love

Forbrydelsen (The Killing in the USA on AMC)

Wallander – NOT Branagh, but Krister Hendrikssen, though I love the Branagh ones too

Some poets I like

A favorite poet – Gerard Manley Hopkins

Some others:

Mary Oliver

Rudyard Kipling

T.S. Eliot

Billy Collins

This from a favorite poet..Mary Oliver

Continuing the old age theme… I promise tomorrow I will move to happier topics – books and films and favorite actors. (Yes, that is Russell Crowe with me in the side bar picture)

When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse

to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measles-pox;

when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth
tending as all music does, toward silence,

and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.