I Can't Go All My Life Waiting

Sometimes Frank Sighed, Thinking He Had Caught A Tropic Bird, All Flame And Jewel Color, When A Wren Would Have Served Him Just As Well. In Fact, Much Better.

Crackers Are Short On Sparkle.

The Old Guard Dies But It Never Surrenders.

Land Is The Only Thing In The World That Amounts To Anything.

If Gone With The Wind Has A Theme It Is That Of Survival. What Makes Some People Come Through Catastrophes And Others, Apparently Just As Able, Strong, And Brave, Go Under? It Happens In Every Upheaval. Some People Survive; Others Don't. What Qualities Are In Those Who Fight Their Way Through Triumphantly That Are Lacking In Those That Go Under? I Only Know That Survivors Used To Call That Quality 'gumption.' So I Wrote About People Who Had Gumption And People Who Didn't.