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Little Finnegan’s Wake

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Determination, Dogs, Heroism, James Joyce, Literature, Loyalty, Tenacity / November 29, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Finnegan’s Wake
is a model of travail over time

It took James Joyce 17 years to write
and might take you that long to read

Finnegan is also the name
of a little Jack Russell Terrier
who went hiking with her master
Rich Moore near Pagosa Springs Colorado

They found them seventy-two days later
on a rugged slope in the San Juan Mountains
Rich leaning dead against a yellow pine
and Finnegan still fiercely standing guard
Neither Finnegan nor Joyce knew how to give up

Click here to read more about Finney’s harrowing journey: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/richard-moore-jack-russell-terrier-pagosa-springs/

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Prairie Song

Audio Recordings / tagged Adversity, Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, Hope, Inspiration, Saskatchewan, School, Tenacity / May 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A link to the 1980 film The Hounds of Notre Dame – a glimpse of life at Notre Dame College in the 1940s and the extraordinary man who created it. Author also a former student.

Hope

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Adversity, Hope, Optimism, Struggle, Tenacity / April 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

World hard and harder
walls and paths build
stone by stone
in the cracks - flowers

Fear piled on pain
stone paths merge
with rock wall rise
in the cracks - flowers

Hard days and hard nights
path of pain joins wall of fear
in the cracks - flowers

Blooming Anyway

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Relationships / tagged Adversity, Art & Artists, Separation, Tenacity / March 14, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Stone walls do not a prison make - Richard Lovelace

Though we be apart
memory roots yet connect
and bloom in our art

Courage Down the Well

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Tenacity / January 27, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Arthur Fisher for example
who sold the ranch to Dad
and gave me my first name
and a lake-stone ring he’d made

All alone in
the twenties dug a well by the house
lowering himself into a dark dirt shaft
that could cave him dead at any second

100 feet down, an inch at a time
and how did he get the heavy bucket up

How did he feel when he hit the capstone
picked up the pickaxe and the shovel
moved a hundred feet and started again

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