Chess for Oldtimers --- Good Idea !

Thanks for the new posts.

A rather encouraging quote from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: " It is too late ! Ah, nothing is too late till the tired heart cease to palpitate ... Chaucer at Woodstock with the nightingales at sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are indeed exceptions, but they show how far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow into the arctic regions of our lives.  

Heart warming quote Badenwurtca. I have always advised my children to follow their dreams. I need to remember that I still have dreams too.

Hey, whose quote is that?!  The one about "how far the gulf-streams of our youth may flow into the arctic regions of our lives."  That's a pretty cool one!  Could that be our very own ---- you?

Longfellow Sandy . He was cool!

Thanks, Pam! -- and what ignorance on my part!  Does it count that I can Still remember the first two lines of "Song of Hiawatha," and at Least Six Lines from "Paul Revere's Ride?" 

..... no, I suppose not ....

As he is an American poet and one of your very best, no Sandy it does not. Relearn the whole of "Song of Hiawatha " as your homework! Enjoy! lol

Grading on a curve, I give you both an A.  I would lay money that in the politicized liberal arts of today, students don't know who Longfellow is (probably think it's a extra long reefer) and would vilify anyone who is not Native American, preferably an Iroquois, composing a poem about a pre-colonial chief named Hiawatha because it's "cultural appropriation."   Heck, they'd probably write "Hi ya want ta" as a sign of their spelling and linguistic proficiency.

I have to cut down on those cynical pills I've been taking.

Thanks for my A. I love poetry and have done since I was a young child.

Thanks, fightingbob, for grading on the curve.  How else could I pass a poetry class?  Well, it's true that I have written several very clever limericks ... in fact, Some might say I'm a regular "Dorothy Parker."  Yes, that's it --  Dorothy Parker -- That's the ticket! 

Can we have an example of one of your clever limericks Sandy?

Thanks a lot for all of these new posts.

Said a lovely young co-ed named Laurel

To her teacher -- a chap quite amoral --

     "I just can't write reports,

     But I love backseat sports!"

And she passed, based on work that was oral.

Very funny Sandy. Scores a 10 from Pam!

love it. 

what makes it funnier is that mil posted it!

Thanks for the new posts.

A quote from Writer Henry Miller: " I really thought I could do something to change the world. I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is learn to live with it. "

Now that's an excellent quote, badenwurtca, much better than I thought before reaching the end.  I anticipated it ending, "The best you can do is change yourself." My response was going to be, "and most of the time you can't do that," though, quite frankly, I never wanted to.  I'm con-tent' with my con'-tent, so to speak.

I believe special individuals have the courage to change the world eg Martin Luther King,Nelson Mandela etc. Also we all have the power to make a difference by the way we choose to lead our lives and treat other people.

Thanks for the posts.