http://friendsofchana.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by Chana's Friends en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:23:44 GMT 2010-01-04T21:23:44Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975994&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace There wasn’t a sign of a rain cloud In that clear Montana sky But you could hear a sound like rolling thunder From canyon walls so high. You could feel . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:19:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975994&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-04T18:19:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975986&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Saw this on my way to work one morning:     Notice that the same warning is written correctly in large print on the mud guard? Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:13:16 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975986&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Dennis Gilman 2010-01-04T18:13:16Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975836&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace A Catholic school was a half a block down from my grandparents house in Miamisburg, Ohio.  My sisters, cousins, and I would play on the playground behind the school.  The playground, for . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:34:54 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975836&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Chris Brockman 2010-01-04T16:34:54Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975495&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Author:  Michael Crichton this book was published after he died - the complete manuscript was found in his files. After some of the other books I'd read recently, it was good to read one by . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:58:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975495&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Leslie ~ from NYC ~ R. 2010-01-04T11:58:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975066&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace     On a mountain ledge that the white man Would someday call Inspiration Point Overlooking a lake that would be known as Jenny Sat a boy.   No longer really a boy But . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:27:18 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975066&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-04T05:27:18Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975045&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace     Lady Diana riding across the winter sky Casting her beams enticingly on the sleeping earth Wandering into a bedroom and onto slumbering lady Caressing her face, her neck, her . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:12:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975045&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-04T05:12:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974980&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Evony is a free online game that you can play indefinately and enjoy daily. Much like Age of Empires in many ways, this fantastic game offers many opportunities to have friends and fun and to conquer . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:16:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974980&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace David N. 2010-01-04T04:16:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974827&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace It is that time of year where those of us who write reviews of films, look back and discuss the cinematic mistakes that were.  Since I’m not a professional I’m stuck knowing that I . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:52:42 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974827&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace La Lady Lisa Westerfield 2010-01-04T01:52:42Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974777&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Bitter taste of an afternoon A moment streams down the roof. The noise of rain enters. The northern window opens its thirst. Is it you homing? is it you a drenched bird is . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:01:37 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974777&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2010-01-04T01:01:37Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974753&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace     Ordinarily, I would suggest to you that political gay baiting is an unconditional evil, and submit that it is an unqualified evidence that the gay baiter is uncivil to the point . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:31:35 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974753&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Georgiana S. 2010-01-04T00:31:35Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974745&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace My Dallas Cowboys are the Eastern Conference Champs!!!   They beat the Philadelphia Eagles 24-0!!   They play them again, next week, for the beginning . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:28:32 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974745&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Janie E. 2010-01-04T00:28:32Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974681&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace No, I AM NOT AN ATHEIST! I have had it up to here with a small percentage of crazies here on Gather. I apologise to my fellow creative and artistic friends on here, I was looking through my posts . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:06:21 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974681&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Georgiana S. 2010-01-03T23:06:21Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974589&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Buffalo dancer, buffalo dancer, Dancing in the fading twilight. Clad in head and hide and horns. Spirit reaching to find the herd. Bobbing weaving, charging, . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:39:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974589&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-03T21:39:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974585&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace I post many of the articles by a Scott Bidstrup. Some of his things I agree with, some i do not, but they make for interesting discussion.       I (Scott) can recall, as a . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:32:50 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974585&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Georgiana S. 2010-01-03T21:32:50Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974480&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace I ran across this picture going through my family photo album and I thought you might enjoy it!!!     Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:55:59 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974480&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Janie E. 2010-01-03T19:55:59Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972202&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace As is the case with many, I like to think of a new year as a fresh start of sorts, even though days are just marks on a calendar, and any resolution should begin not based on a date, but the need to grow . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:41:26 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972202&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Lewis (keeping those fires burning) K. 2010-01-03T19:41:26Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974385&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace The Yule cycle was spent The twelve days of darkness since the Solstice And the Bard could feel it   He could feel the light filling his mind He could feel it enlivening and awakening . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:06:20 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974385&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-03T18:06:20Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974340&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace     Star shine on the prairie and the dark of the moon Deep silence shrouded, yet not so silent Wind stirs the Buffalo grass A coyote howls and a distant train whistles   . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:44:22 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974340&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-03T17:44:22Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974189&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace       A million stars light the bowl of the sky A thousand “beefs” bedded down for the night Night hawk takes up his rounds, softly crooning. High in the sky . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:44:26 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974189&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-03T15:44:26Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974123&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace we make humans out of flimsy paper and gods out of every blood drop spilled for nothing at all we make up egos and crush between  impossible standards we justify everything and lose . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:58:45 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974123&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Purrrrrrrrrrr~Genki dashite~Nantoka naru-yo! S. 2010-01-03T14:58:45Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973585&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Overall, I would have to say that 2009 was a pretty good year for movies.  I think that Hollywood, more so than ever, is trying to diversify the films that they release.  I think the most . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:50:16 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973585&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace La Lady Lisa Westerfield 2010-01-03T04:50:16Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973512&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace                                                              . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:23:30 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973512&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Thomas W. 2010-01-03T03:23:30Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973468&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace There’s a word used by rodeo cowboys That’s as vast as the western sky. It’s a noun and a verb and attitude. And that single word is Try. It’s . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:26:42 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973468&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-03T02:26:42Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973447&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace   In the biting cold of the December night The Bard looked up at the full moon, the Blue Moon But she said nothing to him Perhaps he was Druid after all And it was still Yuletide . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:06:18 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973447&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-03T02:06:18Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973408&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace  There is an increase, just here on Gather, of these people, stirring up others to riot and to live in fear of what isn't going to happen, this is how coups and revolutions of the bad sort take place. . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:22:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973408&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Georgiana S. 2010-01-03T01:22:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973403&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace   The child we leave I go down gradually; go under. Drown. The pregnant river radiates my soul.   I know I am waiting on the pier; a child. Two boats playfully . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:10:00 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973403&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2010-01-03T01:10:00Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973258&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace    From 1478 to 1834 the reign of terror known as The Spanish Inquistion struck fear and death throughout Spain. Much like today, with fervent . . . Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:51:00 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973258&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace Georgiana S. 2010-01-02T23:51:00Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973253&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace   Ringing the Changes     Seconds of afterlight, Sun lapsed into horizon Quiet of new snow, cold blanket to trees, roofs, road Gentle twilight, before . . . Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:36:03 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973253&grpId=3659174697256407&nav=Groupspace libramoon C. 2010-01-02T22:36:03Z