These bucolic references always remind me of “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame and of…

A day so happy.
Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I wa…
The American Life Is Killing You
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Erik Rittenberry
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Feb 6, 2020
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These bucolic references always remind me of “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame and of the poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W.B. Yeats.
What I mean is… your “American life” is not so different from our “European life”… unfortunately!
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