by Jane Percy | Oct 22, 2025 | posts
Walt Whitman’s Poem, “Crossing Brooklyn Bridge,” reminds me in Stanza 6 to be conscious of my river in a new way: “Just as you are refreshed by the gladness of the river, and the bright flow, I was refreshed.” First, a short reverie about my river, The Mystic River...
by Jane Percy | Jun 18, 2025 | posts
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is arguably the most often performed play in the canon and the subject of an endless array of scholarly papers. So it’s not surprising that many of its most famous lines are still in use today. A few come to mind: “Brevity is the soul of wit” (Act...
by Jane Percy | Jan 15, 2021 | posts
I’ve always had a sixth sense. Like many children, I had little feelings about people and situations and most often dealt with this sometimes uncomfortable sensitivity by escaping into nature. I was lucky to grow up in a small, rural town surrounded by rolling hills,...
