Volume 17 , Issue 17

NW Okie's Journey

Hope is what sings wordless songs inside us all. Hope is the thing of feathers. It gives you encouragement; makes us brave - so we can weather any storm. This is for a dear friend that went through thyroid surgery for possible cancer.

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Walking With Sadie

Woof! Woof! We made it down to the Northwest parts of Houston, Texas, a few days ago. No flooding in our area and the rain has stopped, leaving sunshine as the first days of hurricane weather begins.
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100 Years Ago, 30 August 1915, Monday

One hundred years ago, 30 August 1915, Monday, The Seattle Star, page seven, we find a baseball player, Fred Toney, was going to be wonder for six years finally becoming a star.

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Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

What is hope? How does it relate to feathers as it is implied in this Emily Dickinson, Poem: "Hope Is The Thing With Feathers (254)?" We all need hope to perch in our soul, don't we?

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Emily Dickinson Poetry

In The Courier, out of Lincoln, Nebraska, dated 6 April 1895, page 3, we find this Concerning Emily Dickinson. We know, living, Emily Dickinson avoided all observation and was a recluse. But dead, Dickinson's volume of poetry reveals her more than her portrait, or daily converse with her, would have done.

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Emily Dickinson Believed In "Art For Truth"

This news article appeared in The San Francisco Call, Sunday September 20,, 1896: Letters And Poems Of A Lonely New England Woman Who Believed In "Art For Truth". Of the late American poets there was none worthy to go down to posterity except Emily Dickinson.

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One Hundred years ago, 2 June 1915, Wednesday

It was Wednesday, 2 June 1915, that we found the following headline in the Chickasha Daily Express: "Mobilize Here For Harvest." It stated Chickasha was threatened with overflow of Enid invaders applying to county agent Cooper for jobs. The calls resulted in labor surplus. Those looking for work came from far and near to find work in the wheat fields, but meet only disappointment.

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