'Letters to Answer, and Logs to Split’

Pete Seeger
By MICHAEL WILSON
Published: October 1, 2010

At Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday celebration last year at Madison Square Garden, Bruce Springsteen called him America’s granddad, but with “a steely toughness that belies that grandfatherly facade.” Now 91, he has just written a new song addressing the Gulf oil spill and, in July, released a new album, “Tomorrow’s Children,” on Appleseed Recordings.More

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ONE MORE SECRET It’s a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with. - Pete Seeger

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Time for the fig tree to end its vacation and move back into the house.

My nose! My nose! A bucket for my nose. It's either a cold coming on or the last gasp of ragweed.

I wonder if I'd clear off my desk if it wasn't all hiding behind monitors? They're shiny...

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To all who do not want to leave a pretty corpse:

(Poem #1403) As the poets have mournfully sung
As the poets have mournfully sung,
Death takes the innocent young,
The rolling-in-money,
The screamingly-funny,
And those who are very well hung.
-- W H Auden