Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall” springs up over morning coffee in winter time. It’s white outside, dark, and cold. I think of “Mending Wall” where, after a hard winter, two neighbors repair the gaps in the stone wall between the pine side and the apple orchard side of the wall.
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down."
-- Robert Frost, "Mending Wall" lines 24-37
From the pine side of the wall, Christmas Eve, 2018:
"I am all alone (poor me)
in the White House
waiting for the Democrats
to come back and make
a deal on desperately needed
Border Security,"
- Gordon C. Stewart, Chaska, MN, December 27, 2018.
Views from the Edge 
Yes, you nailed it again Gordon, thank you and amen!
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.”
~ Nancy ❤
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Gotta love Mr. Frost, right? He was another Thoreau.
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Dang dogs & their owner’s need for fences. When I moved here 28 years ago we had no fences but now have them on 2 of 4 sides because of dog owners next door. I had dogs most of the time but never put up a fence. It provided me with exercise when they ran away.
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Was one of your dogs a Border Collie, or a bossy named Elsie?
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No, just Wirehairs and a Schnauzer. Schnauzer is German for bark I think.
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Do you watch Ray Donovan? He wore a wire in the latest episode. Just gets more and more bizarre.
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Just what I needed this morning, thanks Gordon.
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Glad it hit the mark, Don. We need the poets! Leonard Cohen, Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry.
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Excellent!! Love this and you for giving it to us.
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Thank you, Jean and Bob. We need more poetry to feed our souls in wintertime. Blessings and Peace for the new year.
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