James patrick kinney biography of williams

by Susan Hawkins

If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run…

The imagery is incredibly profound.

James patrick kinney biography of williams

In his poem “If”, Rudyard Kipling eloquently declares it one of the hallmarks of manhood, and we understand the analogy. RK cleverly left the details to us. We each choose what makes those sixty seconds worthwhile. The late James P.

Kinney ran the distance fueled by a sense of justice, and he changed the world for the better.

His most famous poem, “The Cold Within”, is simple, straightforward and powerful, which, as you’ll soon learn, also describes the man who wrote it.

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When you understand the man, you’ll see why he wrote the poem. First, the story, then the poem. Thanks to Timothy Kinney, James Kinney’s son, we have insight into the man behind this now-classic poem:

The story I’m about to tell you is from my memory of the story that my mothe