{"id":2231,"date":"2007-08-20T11:08:26","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/around-the-sphere\/"},"modified":"2010-09-12T11:19:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T17:19:30","slug":"around-the-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/around-the-sphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the &#8216;sphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>Been catching up on some blog reading and, in the custom of our cohort, have some recommendations for you.<\/p>\n<p>I feel for the sense of injustice over at ABQrising (http:\/\/abqrising.wordpress.com\/). As one listed twice (in your face!) in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alibi.com\/index.php?scn=feature&#038;di=&#038;story=20047\">the Alibi&#8217;s recent list of local blogs<\/a>, I extend a welcoming hand to another local blog with potential. This, even though none of my blogs appear in its blogroll. (Is there a blogroll big enough for me and Mario Burgos?)<\/p>\n<p>It says something that I enjoyed the cartoons more than anything else at irReligion.org (particularly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irreligion.org\/2007\/07\/02\/jesus-meet-prometheus\/\">Jesus &#8211; Meet Prometheus<\/a> from russellsteapot.com). Unlike Believers, atheists don&#8217;t seem to congregate, even virtually. This site looks like it gets a lot of visits, FWIW.<\/p>\n<p>This one is just too cool and I wonder how long it can keep it up: <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/\">strange maps<\/a> (hat tip to my homie <a href=\"http:\/\/inkstain.net\/fleck\/\">jfleck<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Harry Potter: Pronunciation Guide | Scholastic<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/harrypotter\/books\/pronunciation.htm<\/p>\n<p>GRE Vocabulary Word Scramble<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.studystack.com\/iwordscramble-9097#?secret=DsD5Uevy8j\" data-secret=\"DsD5Uevy8j\" width=\"474\" height=\"263\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>National Novel Writing Month &#8211; National Novel Writing Month<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/<\/p>\n<p>Finally, via <a href=\"http:\/\/albloggerque.blogspot.com\/\">Albloggerque<\/a>, a Sunday Poem. I was ready to forget this until I read the last 4 lines. Damn, that&#8217;s fine.  <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Found Letter, by Joshua Weiner<\/p>\n<p>What makes for a happier life, Josh, comes to this:<br \/>\nGifts freely given, that you never earned;<br \/>\nOpen affection with your wife and kids;<br \/>\nClear pipes in winter, in summer screens that fit;<br \/>\nFew days in court, with little consequence;<br \/>\nA quiet mind, a strong body, short hours<br \/>\nIn the office; close friends who speak the truth;<br \/>\nGood food, cooked simply; a memory that&#8217;s rich<br \/>\nEnough to build the future with; a bed<br \/>\nIn which to love, read, dream, and re-imagine love;<br \/>\nA warm, dry field for laying down in sleep,<br \/>\nAnd sleep to trim the long night coming;<br \/>\nKnowledge of who you are, the wish to be<br \/>\nNone other; freedom to forget the time;<br \/>\nTo know the soul exceeds where it&#8217;s confined<br \/>\nYet does not seek the terms of its release,<br \/>\nLike a child&#8217;s kite catching at the wind<br \/>\nThat flies because the hand holds tight the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been catching up on some blog reading and, in the custom of our cohort, have some recommendations for you. I feel for the sense of injustice over at ABQrising (http:\/\/abqrising.wordpress.com\/). As one listed twice (in your face!) in the Alibi&#8217;s recent list of local blogs, I extend a welcoming hand to another local blog with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/around-the-sphere\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Around the &#8216;sphere<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-voices","tag-fleck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}