Oh, yes, you should dabble amateurishly With sketchbook, pen, guitar, and crescent wrench With telescope and hiking boots and love With verse that scans and prose that strongly speaks
For a dabbler, all the world is his adventure: A coffee cup is as Old Santa Fe A stroll in the garden a pilgrimage To Canterbury or Santiago
And you should draw and write and sing these things Oh, yes, you should dabble amateurishly
Your ‘umble scrivener’s site is:
Reactionarydrivel.blogspot.com
It’s not at all reactionary, tho’ it might be drivel.
Lawrence Hall’s vanity publications are available on amazon.com as Kindle and on bits of dead tree: The Road to Magdalena, Paleo-Hippies at Work and Play, Lady with a Dead Turtle, Don’t Forget Your Shoes and Grapes, Coffee and a Dead Alligator to Go, and Dispatches from the Colonial Office.