July in My Mind

Snow is falling

but July will not end:

it is dry and warm

and stays in the mind

when snow falls on the hair

and melts.

At 8 a.m.

on the coldest damn January day

I'm at my office

looking out at the expanding frozen blue

and I'm warmed by you,

July in my mind.

Blue is different in July.

The buildings and trees,

water and air absorb it,

transform it, into love.

Sometimes in July

I think that time has stopped

and there's no need

to dread the coming of the cold.

-- (c) 1996 Burton Randall Hanson

Announcement. We've finally gotten around to launching our new webzine/blawg: BurtLaw's The Daily Judge:

It is not an online newspaper and is not affiliated with or intended to be mistaken for any existing or previously-existing newspaper or journal. Rather, it is a so-called "blawg," a law-related personal "web log" or "blog," one with a subjective, idiosyncratic, and eccentric sociological and social-psychological slant that focuses not on the latest judicial decisions of supposed great importance but on a) the institution of judge in the United States and in other countries throughout the world, b) the judicial office and role, c) judicial personalities, d) the great common law tradition of judging as practiced here and throughout the world, e) judges as judges, f) judges as ordinary people with the usual mix of virtues and flaws, etc. We link to newspapers and other sources in order to alert the reader to ideas, articles, stories, speeches, law books, literary works and other things about "judges" that have interested us and that may interest the reader.

We don't promote our blawgs, but readers of this blog and of our affiliated political opinion blog, BurtonHanson.Com, may be interested in it. We don't think there is another blawg quite like it.