Tony Woodlief | Author

Steadfast to this turn

This in memory of Peggy Rabb, who I knew only a little and a little while, but who was all kindness to me. In our first conversation we talked about things I have written and things she has written and writers we know, and she told me where she would be buried, and she spoke of it as a far away thing, which is how we all think of it, I suppose. Then she was all of a sudden sick and not getting better. She went home to die and I thought I would write to her once the holidays were past and perhaps even send her a gift, though what do you send? Now she is gone and plenty of people are poorer for it, which has to be the measure of a life.

My friend Ruth M. sent around one of Peggy’s poems, “Stone to Stone,” from her book, Old Home, and here is how it begins:

No bright star, and I not steadfast, lone,
Not leaning at the last, not in the least.

Abide in peace, Margaret Rabb.

On Key

Related Posts

And another thing

Some of you may enjoy my radical suggestion in today’s Wall Street Journal that the First Amendment doesn’t authorize teachers to indoctrinate children. It’s getting

Some more things

Well, it’s been a hell of a summer. Pestilence, economic destruction, bitter partisanship, and now, the politicians descend from their lairs to commence the quadrennial

A few things

I’ve published a few things over the past few days that perhaps you’ll like: This is about a largely forgotten Oklahoma curmudgeon who foretold both

Politics

Fiction

Parenting

Appearances

Politics

Fiction

Parenting

Appearances