"The horse is possessed of intelligence, sensibility, and affection." C.H. Nelson

"THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US; LATE AND SOON"

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.

William Wordsworth, 1806.

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THE WORLD THAT WE HAVE FORGOTTEN
It is that we have forgotten
the age when the horse was king.
What we saw was real.
We did not twitter.
We did not friend on Facebook.
If we spoke someone would answer.
We touched. We smelled. We felt the earth.
Today we step away from what is real.
We need to be face to face
with who we are --with what we feel.
We have forgotten the spirit of the age
when we touched -- we felt the earth --
The age when the horse was king.

Stephen Thompson, 2010.

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The newspaper clip below informs us of

C.H. Nelson's opinion of the automobile.

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Newspaper clip image courtesy of Clark P. Thompson