Tag: ordinary
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June 08, 2008 03:31 PM EDT --
"Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary."
-- Magdalen Nabb (British writer)
From The Little Book of Women's Wisdom
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September 05, 2007 10:56 PM EDT --
Just after the most awful moment of the miracle of the Mass, before the people recieve the Bread of Heaven, the faithful recite these words:
"Domine, nom sum dignus et intres sub tectum meum; . . . more
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December 26, 2007 11:45 AM EST --
Past and Present ©
Jeannie loved to walk by the old houses on her mail route. She wondered how life was when they were just built as many of them appeared quite old. She . . . more
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January 24, 2008 04:20 PM EST --
What do you value most? What would be hardest to live without?
Thought it over?
Now what do you take for granted? What do you accept as no more than expected?
Tell me, didn't . . . more
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July 29, 2007 07:25 PM EDT --
Recently at a yard sale I found a copy of Laura Ingalls Wilder's LITTLE HOUSE IN THE OZARKS: THE REDISCOVERED WRITINGS, edited by Stephen W. Hines. These are short pieces she wrote earlier . . . more
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February 28, 2007 07:47 PM EST --
Meaning of ordinary (adjective)
regular; common
To me ordinary is scary.
That is the last thing on earth I want to be.
If I was ordinary ...I wouldn't be me .
And that would suck.
I . . . more
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September 04, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
As most of you know, I have a problem with people, dumping animals where I live...This Sheltie pup wondered in 2 weeks ago today, hungry, burrs, in his wonderful hair. I came home the next day, and . . . more
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August 27, 2008 10:06 AM EDT --
Here is the Yard Art, where I work, I enjoy looking at it everyday, thought I would share some pictures with you...
This is a very popular small town Coffee shop and Resturant...
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February 13, 2007 09:46 AM EST --
In a small district of Paris, known as the Clock District, we find a most unusual monument hanging on the wall of an ordinary apartment building. Let me be your guide and introduce you to this monument, . . . more
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July 26, 2007 10:40 AM EDT --
I've been watching the Tour de France the past few weeks. I'd been a casual fan in the past but became a loyal watcher after a bout with breast cancer at age 36. It's darn near . . . more
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August 07, 2008 01:09 AM EDT --
Sometimes I get these emails and forwards from friends and they are just really fun. This is a link to a personality quiz. I don't know how they do it, but the results really struck me . . . more
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July 30, 2007 01:36 PM EDT --
Some of you have requested more from Laura, so here's another from Little House in the Ozarks.
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When the Blues Descend
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
(August, . . . more
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August 08, 2007 08:13 PM EDT --
This week's report from Rob Gogan's Nature Watch:
COTTONTAIL RABBIT hops leisurely through the grass by the Business School's Cotting Hall.
RED-TAILED HAWKS perching on light towers hunt . . . more
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July 24, 2006 02:29 PM EDT --
<h3 class="post-title">George Elliot..........
"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like having the grass grow and the squirrel's heart . . . more
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October 24, 2007 05:09 PM EDT --
I know, I know. You're asking, who would want to eat a llama? You only thought people used them to pack stuff around in the Andes, right? Well, they also use the wool, skins, and . . . more
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August 27, 2008 02:27 PM EDT --
gather
SYLLABICATION: gath·er
PRONUNCIATION: gthr
VERB: Inflected forms: gath·ered, gath·er·ing, gath·ers
TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To cause to come together; convene 2a. To accumulate (something) . . . more
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March 14, 2006 04:35 AM EST --
This is indeed an ordinary day.
Ordinary clouds roll over us
And usual tragedies are happening
While the choir sings, the children pray.
Within the dense dark tenor of our time
Sattered common . . . more
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March 21, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
When it was first published in the early 1980s, Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero was dubbed "Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation" by that all-knowing literary oracle USA Today (snark). . . . more
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March 21, 2007 12:38 PM EDT --
I'm thrilled to join the literary community here on Gather, and am arriving at an exciting time in my writing career. In the beginning of April, my novel Ordinary Ghosts hits bookstores and will hopefully . . . more
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June 18, 2008 03:09 AM EDT --
Ask of me some grand gesture,
Something to produce with courage and aplomb,
Dying for my cause--giving my last dime--
Such heroic sacrifices are my forte.
But do not ask me something common. . . . more
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