to change the world,to make it 'better',to be at peace?What can I do?War, sickness, oppressionseem stables of lifeeven beyond mankind.What can I do?What I can do isbe myself unapologeticallyfind my peace withinbring it to the worldto change this world,to make it a better place,a more peaceful placefor all I encounter,as best as can be done.Moira…
Two Men met over a Piano
Two men become friendsMaking music togethertheir Irish of courseMoira Levant © June 23 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avlOGya53IU In a way this to me is how community should be. Two new friends, just having fun together.
random thoughts
about life I believe that all lives deserves to be alive. I also believe that some life seems to have it easier than other parts. Take a well cared for garden with flowers that is watered and furtalized well. Happy flowers. What of the alley flower who has made it through the cement. I wonder…
Mom
April 1960 Virginia Mary (McMichael) Levant & Howard Stanley Levant 13 years dead soontoday she would be 90Virginia MaryMoira Levant June 22 2019She was born June 22 1929 and died August 2 2006. She had two children who lived to be adults, a boy (Jonathan Ross Levant: March 28th 1956-March 16 2004) and Katherine-Moira Leda…
The Importance of Play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHwXlcHcTHc My Play HistoryHow does one find play?I wish I could remember.Joy comes from playing. Moira Levant © June 18 2019
Shakespeare
The Bard has writteneasy and vulgar stuff, yesand so beautifully!Moira Levant © June 17 2019 Sonnet #54Posted:LIV.O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seemBy that sweet ornament which truth doth give!The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deemFor that sweet odour which doth in it live.The canker-blooms have full as deep a dyeAs the…
Family
A Father's fathera son's son's son, and beyondwith mothers, daughtersFamilyMoira Levant © June 16 2019
Joseph Vantilburg
Joseph Vantilburg was born in Ohio c 1831 and died in 1916. I know that he loved music, and songs, and poetry. He joined the Ohio 12th Volunteer Infantry in 1861, faught in battles mainly in Virginia, including 2nd Bull Run, South Mountain, and Antietam. He mustered out after his 3 years, and went home,…
Abigail Spring
Abigail Spring was born c 1840 and died in 1917. She is my great great grandmother on my mother's mother's mother's side of the family. I believe she was trained as a master dress maker. She married Joseph Van Tilburg after the Civil War in 1868. They had 3 children, Harry, Ann, and Mary. Mary…
Phony Word of the Day
Phony She stared at the phone, waiting for a reply not knowing if one was coming now. The crowded bus swayed as dusk decended. Many of the people on the bus were commuting home after the days work. Some sat, some stood, almost everyone stared at their phones. The one waiting for a reply looked…
