Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Dear Friends All:


When one has so many friends in so many places as I am fortunate to have, necessity forces one to a general greeting. My apologies. Briefly: I'm still in Socorro, New Mexico as a visiting faculty at New Mexico Tech. I'm now on my way to Canada again for Christmas.

Same poem, same image as last year: some words are always spring, some images, always hope.

I have all the best hopes and wishes for you-all in the new year.

Good Cheer
David

It befell that one day in that season,
as I was in Southwark at the Tabard Inn,
ready to go on my pilgrimage
to Canterbury with a most devout heart,
at night there came into that hostelry
a company of nine-and-twenty people---
all sorts of people, who had met by chance;
and all of them were pilgrims
who were riding toward Canterbury.
The chambers and the stables were spacious,
and we were made most comfortable.
And shortly, when the sun had gone down,
I had spoken with every one of them
so that I had soon become one of their group,
and made an arrangement to rise early
to be on our way ...


---Geoffrey Chaucer: trans. Hieatt & Hieatt (1964)
From the "The Prologue" of the "Canterbury Tales" (circa 1400)

Maintained (if that is the word) by David J. Jeffery, Tel: 615-898-5946, Email: jeffery@kestrel.nmt.edu

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