29   EVENTS:   December 29, Cambridge, MA: Poetry at the Cantab Lounge will feature the director of the 365/365 project Michael Monroe, in addition to an open mike and a poetry slam. At 8 p.m., Cantab Lounge (Click here; Click here).         BIRTHDAYS:        December 29th   Billy Mitchell, Click here -  aviation hero Gen (WW I)   Click here   Aarno Karimo (1886-1952) Finnish soldier, painter, writer,   Click here   Click here  (1893-1970)    British pacifist, feminist, poet, and novelist   Click here   Click here   Perhaps   Perhaps some day the sun will shine again, And I shall see that still the skies are blue, And feel once more I do not live in vain, Although bereft of You.   Perhaps the golden meadows at my feet Will make the sunny hours of spring seem gay, And I shall find the white May-blossoms sweet, Though You have passed away.   Perhaps the summer woods will shimmer bright, And crimson roses once again be fair, And autumn harvest fields a rich delight, Although You are not there.   But though kind Time may many joys renew, There is one greatest joy I shall not know Again, because my heart for loss of You Was broken, long ago.       Click here Charles L[eonard] Harness, Click here -  US, sci-fi author   Click here   Robert Ruark, 1915 -  U.S. writer of hunting and outdoors stories   Click here   Click here   Click here  (1919 – Click here/1998)  US columnist Click here   William Gaddis, American writer (Click here - 1998)   Click here   Stanley Tookie Williams, 1953 -2005 American author/murderer   Click here       PASSED        December 29th   Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1170;   Click here   Click here   Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet 1594-Click here   Click here   Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet 1742- 1785   Click here   Big Foot, Sioux Native Amer chief, / Wounded Knee Click here   Click here   Click here   (Click here/1830 –1894)  English poet (1894)   Click here   Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate 1845-Click here   Click here   Click here Click here  (Click here/1875 –1926) Austrias songwriter/writer   Click here   Don Marquis   (Click here/1878 –1937)  US writer, cartoonist  (1937)   Frustration                 The things that I can't have I want                     And what I have seems second-rate,                 The things I want to do I can't                    And what I have to do I hate,                     The things I want at once come late,                    I am not feeling gay nor gleg,                     I'm really in an awful state,                      My life is like a scrambled egg.                     If I should order elephant                   They'd put a camel on my plate,               If I should seek a wealthy aunt                   A poor old uncle'd be my fate,                   If I should say, "You amputate               My foot, and bring a wooden peg,"                   They'd probably cut off my pate;               My life is like a scrambled egg.                   The things I want most of are scant,                   The girls I really love won't mate,               The times when rage would make me rant                   My larynx won't articulate;                   Should I arrange some morn at eight               To beat my brains out with my leg                   I'd probably forget the date;               My life is like a scrambled egg.                   The simplest matters won't come straight,                   For once I wooed a maid named Meg               And very nearly married Kate;                  My life is like a scrambled egg.   Click here   Eden Phillpotts   (Click here/1862 –1960)  English writer    Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here Euell Gibbons, 1911-Click here  American outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets   Click here   Click here   Click here   Tim Hardin, US musician (Bird on a Wire), 1941-1980   Click here   Click here Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer 1899-1980   Click here   William Thomas Pennar Davies, 1996 -  poet, author/theologian,   Click here   Click here  (Click here/1928 –2003)  English comic, writer Click here               SITES:   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here                   HISTORY:       Click here - British burn Buffalo, NY during War of 1812       Click here       1862 - Bowling ball invented   Click here       The New Republic publishes Click here's "Once by the Pacific" (1926)   Click here           BONUS POEM:                                                  . Lie-Awake Song           GOD has a house three streets away,       And every Sunday, rain or shine,       My nurse goes there her prayers to say.       She's told me of the candles fine       That, burning all night long, they keep            5   Because God never goes to sleep.       Then there's a steeple full of bells,       All through the dark the time it tells.       I like to hear it in the night       And think about those candles bright.     10   I wonder if God stays awake       For kindness, like the Furnace-man       Who comes before it's day, to make       Our house as pleasant as he can...       I like to watch the sky grow blue,     15   And think perhaps, the whole world through,       No one's awake but just us three—       God, and the Furnace-man, and me.                                                            Amelia Josephine Burr                                                                     Click here