Bob Vilt

A poetic moment at a Czech festival

There was a poetic moment at a Czech festival, south of Myrtle last Saturday at the Brick Hall. ...

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Mello is mellowing out

“Some say that the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul ...

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Saying goodbye

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking ...

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A spring trip to bluff country

You’ve got to know a lot about our past in order to know how to proceed successfully into ...

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Reunions offer us the chance to look back

“The only true guardian of peace lies within: a sense of concern and responsibility for your own future ...

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Film festival highlights stories of life

“We have, in short, the right to ask — but never to insist or blithely assume — that ...

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Mello takes a romp through the muddy ditch less traveled

“The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts ...

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Books on a moral life

“In some general ironic way we know that white-collar crime done by Americans of the most privileged backgrounds ...

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Presentation fails to leave impression

“We can have a democratic society or we can have great concentrated wealth in the hands of a ...

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Sometimes the matter is all about not making the decision

“When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.” — ...

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Putting to paper the words that need to be said

“The impulse of every writer is to keep out of politics.” — George Orwell

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Watching me type

“The terrible thing about public schools is they take young children who are natural poets and story writers ...

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The cost of losing a book

“The soul virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own ...

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Thoughts on year-round school

“The first problem for all of us is not to learn but to unlearn.” — Gloria Steinem

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Book speaks of the need to be mindful

“Buddhists are as concerned with power as anyone else, but we are interested in the kind of power ...

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