A.M. a few minor changes in the “Elevators” – P.M. [Bertha] &I to Buffalo to see the movie “Idiot's Delight” – It was merely for entertainment...
Blizzard from the Northeast. Snow fine, and like heavy sand. Much had fallen in the night, and all day it kept coming down, driven by a strong wind..."
Robert Frost died today at the age of 89 –
Thru hollow wherein front the stream was partly covered with a thin layer of ice, free from water woven with curious frost designs or smooth flowing lines—in places the tinkle of the stream and the wind sawing thru a leafy maple...
Thinking of an artist who yearns to compose wonderful music, yet what he sees with his eyes is the overwhelming instinct – he fancies himself blinded by some accident which causes him to turn perforce to music – he almost covets such a circumstance. As I came home tonight over the country road in the damp dusk I heard such music in my mind, as he might compose.
In studio working on the 1921 journals transcribing the 1921 walking trip, Keller, Wilcox, Travis & I took along the Ohio River in June.
Evening B & I to see “Luck of the Irish” at the Strand. An amusing tale of an Irish leprechaun which followed the hero to N. Y. & guarded his life & love affair.
It is unwise to destroy a picture thru a whim – the whim may seem wise for 5 or even 10 years – but the time comes when we regret the destruction...
To Brandywine Falls...
In such a situation, after I had made my final peace with god I think I should, if time allowed, go over one by one all the special moments I can remember as a child on down to the present.