Temecula, or thereabouts?

[MarkS]

originally posted by Robert Dentice:

originally posted by hawk_wakawaka:
Also, if anyone is still having to visit family around Temecula and wants to know if there are any wineries worth visiting... if you can get just a bit south to Escondido, Vesper and J. Brix share a tasting room and the two are worth a visit. You have to schedule with J. Brix in advance, but I think Vesper keeps tasting room hours.

I have been and I agree its a great tasting and a fantastic surprise for San Diego.

Except it is kind of out of the way if you are in San Diego. But decent wines all the same. Just don't go on a holi-day, as they could be closed.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Florida Jim:
I am very pleased that Frost wrote the poem. He is valuable to me.
And more valuable still because I can relate to his work.
I never met the man.
Best, Jim

The poem is valuable to you for the meaning you construe it to bear. Since you don't care what poem Frost thought he wrote, he is only valuable to you as a kind of accident that brought that arrangement of words about.

I will now tell the only Robert Frost story I know, related to me by a former colleague who was at a Writer's Conference with him when he was young and Frost was very old. As you may or may not know, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening can be sung to the tune of Fernando's Hideaway. By this time, like The Road not Taken, the poem had long become one of those teaching texts trodden over by clumsy allegorical readings that made it famous and unrecognizable. As an entertainment at the end of the conference, a group proceeded to sing the poem to that tune. Frost, who was standing next to my colleague, bemused, said, "My God? They're singing it now?"

 

[Sharon Bowman]

I personally like to go the Emily Dickinson/"Yellow Rose of Texas" route.

"Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me!"

Etc.

 

[Florida Jim]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by Florida Jim:
I am very pleased that Frost wrote the poem. He is valuable to me.
And more valuable still because I can relate to his work.
I never met the man.
Best, Jim

The poem is valuable to you for the meaning you construe it to bear. Since you don't care what poem Frost thought he wrote, he is only valuable to you as a kind of accident that brought that arrangement of words about.

I will now tell the only Robert Frost story I know, related to me by a former colleague who was at a Writer's Conference with him when he was young and Frost was very old. As you may or may not know, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening can be sung to the tune of Fernando's Hideaway. By this time, like The Road not Taken, the poem had long become one of those teaching texts trodden over by clumsy allegorical readings that made it famous and unrecognizable. As an entertainment at the end of the conference, a group proceeded to sing the poem to that tune. Frost, who was standing next to my colleague, bemused, said, "My God? They're singing it now?"

Nice story.
And of course your analysis has convinced me of the error of my ways.
Best, Jim

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
I personally like to go the Emily Dickinson/"Yellow Rose of Texas" route.

"Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me!"

Etc.

Hymn rhythm. They can also all be sung therefore to Amazing Grace and the Christian version of Rock of Ages. I like Because I Could not Stop for Death to Amazing Grace.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Florida Jim:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by Florida Jim:
I am very pleased that Frost wrote the poem. He is valuable to me.
And more valuable still because I can relate to his work.
I never met the man.
Best, Jim

The poem is valuable to you for the meaning you construe it to bear. Since you don't care what poem Frost thought he wrote, he is only valuable to you as a kind of accident that brought that arrangement of words about.

I will now tell the only Robert Frost story I know, related to me by a former colleague who was at a Writer's Conference with him when he was young and Frost was very old. As you may or may not know, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening can be sung to the tune of Fernando's Hideaway. By this time, like The Road not Taken, the poem had long become one of those teaching texts trodden over by clumsy allegorical readings that made it famous and unrecognizable. As an entertainment at the end of the conference, a group proceeded to sing the poem to that tune. Frost, who was standing next to my colleague, bemused, said, "My God? They're singing it now?"

Nice story.
And of course your analysis has convinced me of the error of my ways.
Best, Jim

And even if I didn't, graciousness always trumps logic, even in my book.