Odes of March Revisited

Okay, okay, I get it.  I 've divided my first blog post into three parts. Those with short attention spans or tired eyes can read as they wish.  Since it wasn't originally written as a blog, much less a three-part blog, I count on you to create continuity between the post parts (?) and am leaving up the original full-length post.

Also, I fixed the settings to allow comments from anyone.  If you are not part of any of the identities it lists, and don't want to become one, you can comment as Anonymous or Name/URL. You don't have to have a URL it just puts  parentheses after your name, like so: (). 

Again, thanks for reading and providing feedback!  I hope you'll continue to follow the blog and my somewhat randomly chosen and loosely-based theme of "time." (Kind of a can of worms, research-wise, but lots of interesting topics!)  And if you should run across anything interesting, however obscure, feel free to chime in. Not sure how much the comments will allow, but I'll make sure it gets posted somehow.