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    Why We're Here
    Why We're Here
    Why We're Here
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    Why We're Here

    By Owen Schultz

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    A poem in 800 lines of free verse, in six parts, regarding a father’s last days.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOwen Schultz
    Release dateJan 30, 2011
    ISBN9781458119988
    Why We're Here
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    Owen Schultz

    Born in Manhattan, Owen has worked loading garbage, digging graves, unloading boxcars, and diving below the waters of Long Island Sound to look for lost anchors. He bought his first Aqua Lung in 1962, and free-dives, kayaks, rows and sails with great pleasure. He mastered six languages sufficient to travel for five years around the world, studying in Mexico, Sweden, Austria, Kenya, India and Japan, learning to respect wildly different cultures, and then taught international students at the Quaker college that took him on this journey. After a stint as a theater manager and set designer in Berkley, California, he migrated to the hard-scrabble mountains of West Virginia, where he cut and loaded millions of pounds of pulpwood by hand and developed a deep appreciation for the grit, strong sense of community, and survival skills of the mountain folk. His more recent pursuits have taken him from designing museum exhibits about everything from salt water marshes. the D-Day invasion of the 29th Regiment, to dinosaurs, and commercial exhibits which included full-size brachiosaurs and huge, fanciful castles. For 18 years, he has designed and written successful grant proposals totaling nearly quarter of a billion dollars for anti-poverty programs to help reverse inequity and poverty in the US. We are in tough times; true stories, he believes, can inform and power our struggles. No one should be poor, undereducated or without a champion in this nation. While the first rule of life will always be Do Unto Others..., and the second rule, At Least Do No Harm, the third rule, he believes, should be Don’t Take Any Shit. Throughout all of these adventures, his passion has been reading good books and telling stories. He has written literary, sci-fi, adventure novels and poetry for thirty years and has never forgotten the power of the tale. He offers Three Buck Books because he believes that everyone should have easy access to a great read. He now writes full-time and lives in Virginia with his wife, Annie, who has brought wild love and sweet sympathy to bear over many years. His books are available through Amazon, Smashwords, AppleStore, Diesel, Barnes and Noble and others. Visit his website at www.OwenSchultz.com for links to his books, free stories, and other great stuff. Visit him on Facebook, Twitter, and blogs at Mindspring.com You can also contact him at ocschultz@gmail.com .

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      Why We're Here - Owen Schultz

      Why We’re Here

      The Quiet Banquet

      A Poem in Six Parts

      by Owen C. Schultz

      Published by Owen C. Schultz at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 Owen C. Schultz

      Cover Photo: istockphoto.com/Sisoje

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the work of the author.

      Why We’re Here

      The Quiet Banquet

      One

      Etymon

      Father, the word

      from:

      Sanskrit pirt, germanic and latin pater,

      old Irish athir, gothic and danish fadar,

      old norse fathir, anglosax faeder,

      to middle english fader

      (A wise son maketh a father glad, proverbial ten to one;

      Wise to gladden father,

      Or father gladdened at wisdom’s son)

      Father, the meaning

      from:

      The supreme

      Being theologically the first person:

      Our father who art,

      Or to heathen deity tree-boles,

      plangent rock, flowing agua purificada

      as in 0 Tiber! Father Tiber!

      to whom the Romans prayed;

      Also including but not limited to the early Christian

      fathers of the first centuries whose dispatches

      went unbound in the new testaments

      but who were nonetheless notable

      for the sanctity of they ways and right canny judgmentals,

      In time from Venerable Bede

      the last of the

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