{"id":10654,"date":"2009-02-26T21:07:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T02:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/?p=10654"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:08","slug":"rivers-sunset-metaphors-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2009\/02\/26\/rivers-sunset-metaphors-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"rivers, sunset, metaphors galore"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> February thaw
\na new patch of orange
\non the river<\/p>\n

… by dagosan<\/em><\/p>\n

C<\/em><\/strong>atching another sunset or two in photos before we “archivize” this weblog on Saturday seemed like a good idea, as the afternoon waned today. [click “more” below to see some of the photographs]\u00a0 Naturally, I managed to dawdle so long at this keyboard that I only caught the last few moments before the sun dipped behind nearby hills.\u00a0 My timing was a metaphor of sorts for much that has happened (and not) lately in my life.\u00a0 Of course, the sunset itself was a too-obvious symbol (along with the promised sunrise after a long dark night) for the ending of an important era in my life. <\/p>\n

.. \"\"<\/a> ..<\/p>\n

– sunset along the Mohawk River, Schenectady, NY, at Cucumber Alley, Feb. 26, 2009; dedicated to Arthur P. Giacalone<\/a>, who would have been 90 years old today –<\/p>\n

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the river
\nfull of ice
\nbroken free<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. Tom Clausen<\/a> – Upstate Dim Sum<\/em> (2005\/II)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Once I got the lay of the land, I knew I had to go nextdoor to the Cucumber Alley yard of Bob and Sylvie Briber, if I wanted to capture the sunset reflecting off the newly melted waters of the Binne Kill (creek), where it joined the Mohawk.\u00a0 At that point, the metaphors for my life-after-f\/k\/a<\/em> multiplied.\u00a0 From ice on the Mohawk breaking up, and traffic heading across the Western Gateway Bridge,<\/p>\n

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to the two fools walking near broken ice ..\u00a0 .\"\"<\/a>.<\/p>\n

.. \"\"<\/a> .. and the newly uncovered picnic table, the sunset set the stage for new stages, dangers, and opportunities.<\/p>\n

first day of winter
\nmy walk extends
\nto the middle of the river<\/p>\n

\u2026 by Yu Chang – from \u201cSeason\u2019s Greetings 2009 Letter: Stream – River<\/em>\u201d (Ed., Mohammed H. Siddiqui, Baltimore, MD, 2008)<\/p>\n

Of course, living in the present moment means realizing that communing with sunset was not getting my final posting done as f\/k\/a<\/em>‘s self-imposed March 1st deadline looms near.\u00a0 So, it’s time for me to get back to fretting over lawyer fees.\u00a0 I do hope to return to this post to add a few more river-sunset haiku over the next couple of days.<\/p>\n

rivermoon
\nwe run
\nout of words<\/p>\n

\u2026. by Roberta Beary – \u201cSeason\u2019s Greetings 2009 Letter<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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p.s. <\/strong><\/em>.. \"\" .. As I wrote a couple months ago, there is definitely something about sunsets<\/a> that holds my attention and affection.\u00a0 Click that link for a few more shots along “my” stretch of the Mohawk River, in Schenectady, and more sunset poems.\u00a0 Two nights ago (Feb. 24, 2009), I found a winter sky with a bit more sunset color than this evening.\u00a0 Here are two shots from the end of my block taken that evening.<\/p>\n

.. \"\"<\/a> ..<\/p>\n

– – photos by David Giacalone, Schenecady, NY, February 2009 —<\/p>\n

waking too late
\nfor dawn
\n– he pencils-in sunset<\/p>\n

.. by dagosan<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

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afterwords<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0 This is the “last f\/k\/<\/em>a sunset,” shot from my backyard, along the Mohawk in Schenectady, on February 28, 2009, just before I wrote the last posting for this weblog.\u00a0 Looks rather bittersweet, don’t you think?:<\/p>\n

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February thaw a new patch of orange on the river … by dagosan Catching another sunset or two in photos before we “archivize” this weblog on Saturday seemed like a good idea, as the afternoon waned today. [click “more” below to see some of the photographs]\u00a0 Naturally, I managed to dawdle so long at this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[555,2927],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu","category-schenectady-synecdoche"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2LQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12027,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions\/12027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}