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About wordcloud9

Nona Blyth Cloud has lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for the past 50 years, spending much of that time commuting on the 405 Freeway. After Hollywood failed to appreciate her genius for acting and directing, she began a second career managing non-profits, from which she has retired. Nona has now resumed writing whatever comes into her head, instead of reports and pleas for funding. She lives in a small house overrun by books with her wonderful husband.

TCS: The Blood Shines Inside Us

Posted on June 14, 2021 by wordcloud9

Good Morning ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ______________________________ Blood is that fragile … Continue reading →

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Sunday, June 13, 2021

Posted on June 13, 2021 by wordcloud9

Ibn Battuta sets off on June 13, 1325, from his home in Tangiers on a hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca, a journey that would ordinarily take sixteen months. He will not see Morocco again for twenty-four years Fanny Burney born … Continue reading →

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Saturday, June 12, 2021

Posted on June 12, 2021 by wordcloud9

Charles Kingsley, born June 12, 1819, British clergyman, historian, novelist, and reformer in the Christian socialism movement; author of the children’s classic, The Water Babies;  correspondent and friend of Charles Darwin Brigid Brophy, born June 12, 1929, British author, critic, social … Continue reading →

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TCS: Two More Poets, Six Poems, Shared Birthday

Posted on June 7, 2021 by wordcloud9

Good Morning ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ______________________________ When … Continue reading →

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June 6, 1944 – The Sea Was White-Crested and Angry

Posted on June 6, 2021 by wordcloud9

June 6, 1944: D-Day Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, Operation Overlord, the biggest seaborne invasion in history, marking the start of the liberation of France, and beginning the final phase of WWII in Europe. Around 150,000 troops … Continue reading →

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Casey at the Bat

Posted on June 3, 2021 by wordcloud9

June 3, 1888 – The San Francisco Daily Examiner first publishes “Casey at the Bat” by newspaper columnist Ernest Lawrence Thayer Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863-1940) American writer, newspaper columnist, and poet. He graduated with a B.A. in philosophy from Harvard … Continue reading →

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A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By

Posted on June 1, 2021 by wordcloud9

John Masefield (1878-1967) was born on June 1, in land-locked Ledbury, a Herefordshire market town, the son of Caroline and George Masefield, a solicitor. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live … Continue reading →

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TCS: Dawn Was Theirs and Sunset – In Memoriam

Posted on May 31, 2021 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ______________________________ War does not … Continue reading →

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Before Memorial Day – for the Widows Left Behind By War

Posted on May 30, 2021 by wordcloud9

Aline Murray Kilmer (1888-1941) American poet, children’s book author, essayist, and from 1908 until his death in 1918, the wife of Joyce Kilmer, a poet who is mainly remembered for his poem “Trees,” and for dying young in the ‘War … Continue reading →

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G.K. Chesterton’s Birthday

Posted on May 29, 2021 by wordcloud9

May 29, 1874 – G.K. Chesterton born, English author, playwright, critic, poet, and philosopher; noted for his Father Brown mystery series. Chesterton attempted to break the poetic silence on the subject of cheese with a sonnet. I don’t find it to be … Continue reading →

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