Passing #200: Perks and Puppy Pants

Passing #200: Perks and Puppy Pants To mark just passing the 200th article in The Magic Library Card! series, The Anonymous Poet insisted that I take the week mostly off and let him play his song. He chooses in his poetry, if such it is, to remind me of the other retreats from actual work that came our way periodically in corporate life before retirement. So, I have permissioned and commissioned him to do his thing. Think bucolic ridgetop retreat of an early spring day in a cozy and clapboard-sided private lodge for a dozen or so in the mountains of Pennsylvania. The lodge is mirrored in a placid, stream-fed lake rippled only by swans and occasional casts for corporate trout. A place to read, but cynically. Perks and Puppy Pants (by The Anonymous Poet) The court convenes near a clear…