On the Civil War battlefield where President Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that symbolized his presidency and the sacrifices made by Union and Confederate forces, historians and everyday Americans are gathering to ponder what the Gettysburg Address has meant to the nation.
Starting with his first apprentice pieces in the late 1830s, he had been testing and tweaking the rules of established art practice in a way that frequently piqued his critics and still gives his admirers much to ponder today.
And here's the problem for editors to ponder over the next two years of to-and-fro.
Even as a world's lonely eyes turn to Zurich, the unstoppable force of the Rumour Mill ploughs on, like a massive nonsense combine harvester, churning up everything in its path and making us all ponder what exactly it is we're doing here.
So when Crenshaw, an earnest historian of the game, looks back on the scenes on the 17th green, scenes that caused such an equable and respected character as Sam Torrance to express his disgust, he might, when the emotion has died down, ponder what he has done and whether it is too late to stop it.
One fact to ponder is that voters who declare themselves Ukip supporters are less likely to overestimate the size of the immigrant population than declared Labour voters.
I would ask the leader of the opposition and all members of parliament to consider this as we ponder these subjects in the weeks and months to come," Abbott said during question time on Wednesday.
All are things for Walter Smith to ponder on Saturday.
Lord Justice Leveson wasn't asked to ponder any such thing, nor given the expertise to advise him even if he had been.
I ponder how the grass is always greener.
Fianna Fáil's preoccupation with saving the Irish economy and in turn saving its own political skin has left the party with little time to ponder establishing a beach-head in the north.
