<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Oy vey, boys and girls, didn't this start off about a chain link fence around trash cans at the vegetable bin?</div><div><br></div><div>Much more of these heady ramblings and we are gonna be reading Mao's take on Bob Long's failed Great Wall project. </div><div><br></div><div>Hey, there's always that project along America's southwest border wail/wall about...</div><div><br></div><div>Whose woods these are I think I "Noooooo!!!!"</div><div><br>Jeffrey Yorke<div>Yorke Partners</div><div><a href="mailto:Yorkedial@gmail.com">Yorkedial@gmail.com</a></div><div><a href="mailto:Jeffrey@YorkeRents.com">Jeffrey@YorkeRents.com</a></div><div>(301) 502-1243</div></div><div><br>On Jan 30, 2014, at 4:06 PM, Sarah Wayland <<a href="mailto:sarah.wayland@gmail.com">sarah.wayland@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>"<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Before I built a wall I'd ask to know </span></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">What I was walling in or walling out, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">And to whom I was like to give offence. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Something there is that doesn't love a wall, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">That wants it down.' "</span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>From: Robert Frost's poem, Mending Wall </div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_extra">
<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Something there is that doesn't love a wall, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">And spills the upper boulders in the sun, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">The work of hunters is another thing: </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">I have come after them and made repair </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Where they have left not one stone on a stone, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">No one has seen them made or heard them made, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">But at spring mending-time we find them there. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">And on a day we meet to walk the line </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">And set the wall between us once again. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">We keep the wall between us as we go. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">To each the boulders that have fallen to each. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">And some are loaves and some so nearly balls </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">We have to use a spell to make them balance: </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!' </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">We wear our fingers rough with handling them. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Oh, just another kind of out-door game, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">One on a side. It comes to little more: </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">There where it is we do not need the wall: </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">He is all pine and I am apple orchard. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">My apple trees will never get across </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">If I could put a notion in his head: </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Where there are cows? </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">But here there are no cows. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Before I built a wall I'd ask to know </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">What I was walling in or walling out, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">And to whom I was like to give offence. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Something there is that doesn't love a wall, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">He said it for himself. I see him there </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">He moves in darkness as it seems to me~ </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Not of woods only and the shade of trees. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">He will not go behind his father's saying, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">And he likes having thought of it so well </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."</span><br>
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Sarah Wayland | <a href="http://www.GuidingExceptionalParents.com" target="_blank">www.GuidingExceptionalParents.com</a><br>Supporting students with learning differences and their families
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