Category: Time

• Elegy From The North Country

  The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.                                      -Thomas Gray Well, if you’re…

  patrickjegan

  October 1, 2015

  Blogging, Creativity, Fables & Folklore, Ghost Story, Ghosts, humor, Ireland, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, Mountains and Memories, North Country Life, Paranormal, satire, seniors, Spirit Photography, Time

  class reunion, GED, ghosts, halloween, inmates, north country, numerology, prisons, vampires, zombies

• Trying To Stay Forever Young

  I’m sitting on the deck of our home at Rainbow Lake.  A lone chickadee hops from branch to branch and then vanishes into the thicket of trees.  I can see the shimmer of the setting sun reflecting from the water below us.  Only patches of the lake can be seen, we need to trim a…

  patrickjegan

  September 18, 2015

  Blogging, Childhood, Friendship, History, Holding onto the Past, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, non-fiction, Real Personal History, seniors, Time

  aging, class of 1965, memories, Owego High School Reunion, owego ny

• My One And Only Superstition

  I taught science for over thirty years.  I have learned to separate fact from belief, real from unreal and rational thinking from irrational concepts. There is a world of superstition out there.  It is a danger to society to rely on unproven ideas.  This is why many people burned many women (and men) as witches…

  patrickjegan

  August 18, 2015

  Blogging, Fables & Folklore, humor, satire, son, Teaching, Time

  calendars, clocks, midnight, superstitions, time