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Thankful For the Pelican and Ogden

May we be blessed to acknowledge all the wonders in our life that have, for us, thus far accrued… and to begin each day with a word of thanks… and thoughts of gratitude. Today I an thankful for the pelican a bird of whom I have always been somewhat smitten and Ogden Nash for writing a poem much better than any I could have written. His poem: A wonderful bird is the pelican His bill can hold more than this belican… He can hold in his beak Enough food for a week… And I’ll be damned if I see how the helican

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Date: 8/12/2023 12:31:00 PM
Ha! The Ogden Nash poem is great (isn’t he wonderful?) but I enjoyed your poem very much as well, Jim!
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Date: 8/12/2023 11:38:00 AM
And I am grateful for this introduction to Ogden and his charming pelican poem!
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