Halcyon Days - Walt Whitman

Not from successful love alone,
Nor wealth, nor honor'd middle age, nor victories of politics or war;
But as life wanes, and all the turbulent passions calm,
As gorgeous, vapory, silent hues cover the evening sky,
As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the frame, like freshier, balmier air,
As the days take on a mellower light, and the apple at last hangs
really finish'd and indolent-ripe on the tree,
Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all!
The brooding and blissful halcyon days!

Friday, January 6, 2012

Vacant houses swamping city

Vacant houses swamping city

This is the type of problem facing many cities in the Midwest and beyond. Columbus has actually fared better than most in the real estate collapse. However, this problem, although maybe not to this extreme, is moving into the suburbs and other developments where foreclosures are prevalent. Vandalized homes can't be sold by the banks and are eventually left to continue to fall into disrepair until no one wants them and no one will pay to demolish them. Sad state of affairs.

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