{"id":1422,"date":"2013-02-16T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:07:11","slug":"under-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=1422","title":{"rendered":"Under the Light…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s about 8:30 on a cold Saturday morning and I am surfing around looking for a blog topic. I tried “Word of the Day.” There were some interesting ones, if you take a look at the words around today’s word as well – peripatetic and mellifluous are two, I could work with. However, I also like to have a picture to go with the blog and nothing came to mind to go with either word.<\/p>\n

Then I went to “Event of the Day” and the only event I bothered to remember was that on this day in 1859 the French Government  – passed a law to set the A-note above middle C to a frequency of 435 Hz, in an attempt to standardize the pitch.<\/span> I don’t know enough about music to write at length about sound frequencies – other frequencies maybe \ud83d\ude42 I was surprised, though that it required a law. I thought that the musical scale just “happened” like flowers. I guess not.  It makes you wonder what music was like before 1859.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Me somewhere – maybe Britain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Next, I went to “Quote of the Day” and found the usual inspirational quotation, of which I receive several hundred a day posted to my FB wall. Finally I went to “Poem of the Day” and spent about an hour on a favourite site – Poetry 180<\/a> and decided to use the first of the 180 poems listed, as a blog topic. It’s by Billy Collins and says a lot about how we should approach poetry.<\/p>\n

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\nIntroduction to Poetry<\/span><\/h1>\n

\nBilly Collins<\/span><\/h2>\n
\nI ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide<\/span><\/div>\n
\nor press an ear against its hive.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nor walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBut all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThey begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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“Tyger Tyger burning bright…”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

My pictures were suggested by the first few lines of the poem. They are slides from a time – long ago and far away, when I used to teach poetry in high school. I held them up to the light!!<\/p>\n

Have an inspired day!!<\/p>\n

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It’s about 8:30 on a cold Saturday morning and I am surfing around looking for a blog topic. I tried “Word of the Day.” There were some interesting ones, if you take a look at the words around today’s word as well – peripatetic and mellifluous are two, I could work with. However, I also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}