[Flash poem in response to prompt: Letter to Self, 26 April 2025:]
Dear me!
What are you doing back here again,
After 50-plus years?
Do you think you can go back in time?
Is there something unfinished
From your last time here,
Something that needs fixing,
After such a life in between?
Is it that you fear
You might have become,
A dreary me? A weary me,
Who longs to return
To their source?
Who hopes for a renewal, a restoration
Of the lost time: that lost self?
But don’t you know:
You have always been enough,
Then, so many years ago,
At this college in the redwoods,
And, yes, even now.
-Robert Elliott
Crown College, UC Santa Cruz, class of 1972
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Marc Alexander send the following in response to this entry:
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Musical Coda:
The Byrds
https://youtu.be/LBfW8U8Or8E?feature=shared
Warm greetings from someone who shares your surname...Elliott. I am a baby boomer, 68, living in Montreal, Canada. You have a nice blog.
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