Maya, Dr. Fry, and Me
I seem to be a sucker for poetry in the wintertime. Last year it was Billy Collins. Today it was Maya Angelou. I'm thinking of making this an annual mental excursion. My brain is a-twitter with the rhythm and the rhyme and the grace and the depth of Ms. Angelou's words as spoken by William Fry, Ph.D. The Happy Ladies Club monthly luncheon speaker, Dr. Fry, according to The Learning Curve brochure, is an award-winning literature professor. From my personal experience this afternoon, I can add brilliant interpreter of the poet's words . It was a pleasure to be in the room with him. He read us They Went Home: They went home and told their wives, that never once in all their lives, had they known a girl like me, But... They went home. They said my house was licking clean, no word I spoke was ever mean, I had an air of mystery, But... They went home. My praises were on all men's lips, they liked my smile, my wit, my hips, the...