Terry Pace
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Personal I was born in 1957 to the life of a small- town rural farm kid on the southern plains of west Texas. My mom also grew up as a...
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Terry Pace
Mar 3, 20201 min read
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (2002) by Ted Kooser (1939) is a gentle journey among the hills and people of east central...
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Terry Pace
Mar 2, 20201 min read
Lives Other Than My Own
In Lives Other Than My Own (2009), Emannual Carrere (1957) writes of how empathy and understanding for others can provide healing and...
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Terry Pace
Mar 2, 20202 min read
Snowflakes
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Out of the bosom of the Air. Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and...
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Terry Pace
Feb 23, 202011 min read
Behavioral Cardiology/Cardiac Psychology: Translating research into practice.
Robert Allan1, Terry M Pace2* and Yaser Dorri Weill Cornell Medical College & New York-Presbyterian Hospital, University of Oklahoma &...
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Terry Pace
Feb 18, 20201 min read
Frogs
A frog may be our spirit animal Who else celebrates so wildly Loves more determinedly Than a frog emerging from Sleep and prayer Released...
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Terry Pace
Feb 14, 20201 min read
Nebraska
It’s enough To be alive Near the end Of October In a small town In Nebraska And wander To the edge Of town And look Into the fields And...
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Terry Pace
Feb 14, 20201 min read
Dreams While Waiting
And yet this morning I sit alone in my car At a roadside motel Listening to Jazz Charlie Parker and Ella Fitzgerald Whose songs have...
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Terry Pace
Feb 7, 20201 min read
From A Limestone Ledge
From a Limestone Ledge (1977) by John Graves (RIP 1920-2013) is a collection of essays about rural life in Texas in the 20th Century. ...
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Terry Pace
Feb 7, 20201 min read
Hardscrabble: Observations on a Piece of Land
John Graves (RIP 1920-2013), Hardscrabble: Observations of a Piece of Land (1974) describes Graves coming home to Texas and his building...
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Terry Pace
Feb 7, 20201 min read
Goodbye to A River
Goodbye to a River (1959) by John Graves (RIP 1920-2013) is a classic story of the fading historical life of Texas in the 20th century....
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Terry Pace
Feb 5, 20201 min read
WINTER
This is from the winter of 2016 in Oklahoma. The little fox looking dog is Frisco at age 17. She passed only a month after this photo. ...
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Terry Pace
Feb 5, 20201 min read
THE IMMENSE JOURNEY by Loren Eiseley (1946).
Loren Eiseley (RIP 1907-1977) writer, poet, scientist, anthropologist; born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, teaching most of his career...
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Terry Pace
Feb 5, 20201 min read
OLD JULES by Mari Sandoz (1935).
The sharp and profound story about the author’s father, Old Jules, who immigrated to Niobrara County in western Nebraska in 1884, from...
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Terry Pace
Feb 5, 20201 min read
MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather (1918).
Willa Cather (RIP 1873-1947). Cather, known for her novels about life on the Great Plains and for her childhood home in Red Cloud,...
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Terry Pace
Feb 5, 20208 min read
One Day in My Garden
Terry M. Pace (2002) One of my earliest memories is playing with toy soldiers; the green GI Joes sold in packages in the 1950’s and 60’s....
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Terry Pace
Feb 4, 20202 min read
BLACK ELK SPEAKS by John G. Neihardt (1932 with reissue in 1961).
I moved from Texas to Nebraska for graduate school in 1983. There I began to discover Nebraska writers, many of whom became favorites of...
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Terry Pace
Feb 4, 20201 min read
Testament
In this land Where winged spirits Haunt the night Flying in great circles Moving out cross the plains Beyond touch Day breaks Animals...
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Terry Pace
Feb 4, 20201 min read
I am a Dog
I am becoming more dog-like As the years age and pass I sleep in or get up as I please I eat when I'm hungry I watch clouds and stars for...
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Terry Pace
Feb 4, 20201 min read
Night Visit
They were telling their children about the guardian angel of plants; about a nightingale that had flown there at dawn to sing in the...
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