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March 27, 2009 12:03 AM EDT --
Thank you all that let me know they were thinking about me and praying for me. The hernia surgery went well (Monday 3/16) and I've had a week and a half to recover. I haven't had any . . .
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March 14, 2009 01:12 AM EDT --
Hey, I need your prayers. I'm going to go in for inguinal hernia repair surgery on Monday, 03-16-09. I've already had 2 inguinal hernia repairs; one on the right in '88, and one . . .
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October 10, 2008 01:36 AM EDT --
Autumnal Requiem (Poetry Please single word prompt)
That particular blue, the darkling sky,
Not yet pierced by the evening star,
Briefly captured a single moment
Before . . .
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September 13, 2008 01:33 AM EDT --
I just want to share observations I made while watching coverage of Hurricane Ike. Friday afternoon, September 12, 2008, and Ike is still several hours offshore, but gas price rumors started flying . . .
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August 08, 2008 01:34 AM EDT --
OK, I was reading a post from Sheila ~the hapless housewife~ j. in which she claims her husband didn't know how to change the air filter on their home's A/C. Funny stuff, but it also got . . .
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August 07, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
the smell of dead mouse
from the corner of the room
i toss and turn between
. . .
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July 25, 2008 09:41 PM EDT --
Dawn splits the sky with vivid hues
Revealing him as he wanders among
His friends, watering.
From 5:00 to 10:00 he feeds the masses
Phlox and foxglove, rose and daisy;
. . .
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February 09, 2008 02:00 AM EST --
Signs that I probably have ADD/ADHD:
I have actually written long comments to people and gotten distracted by a "shiny object" and forgotten to click on the post button. My oldest son . . .
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January 28, 2008 02:29 AM EST --
Lest We Forget - Two Views
(Reflections on Pompeii & Dachau)
The clatter of stones on the roof tiles
giving way to the creak and groan of
beams. Still she sat, praying, waiting, . . .
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January 26, 2008 01:40 AM EST --
Today's "featured conversation" on the Gather homepage, Are we ready for President Obama? by Martin Solomon is a very good article. Everyone on Gather should read it. And it made me think . . .
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January 20, 2008 02:24 AM EST --
Force of Habit
I sit here with my mind as blank as this page,
Listening intently for the next scrunch, scrunch,
Scrunch to tell me a new group of ladies is
Speed-walking past . . .
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January 20, 2008 02:16 AM EST --
dublin bed and breakfast
the smell of dead mouse
from the corner of the room
i toss and turn between
. . .
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December 20, 2007 12:53 AM EST --
Unto us a child is born,
Unto us a son is given.
Now fed and swaddled,
Held close by his mother
As her blood pressure drops
And her monitor screams.
Nurse appears, then leaves,
Then . . .
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December 19, 2007 12:57 AM EST --
I know that everyone has different tastes, that's why there's pistachio ice cream. But there are just some movies that it seems everyone else on the planet loves that I just CAN'T STAND! . . .
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December 19, 2007 12:36 AM EST --
On October 5 th of this year I slipped and fell on the stairs at work. It was 5:15 pm and I was a little late leaving the office. It as a typical day and I had a briefcase in one hand and a coffee mug . . .
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December 08, 2007 01:58 AM EST --
A man of sorrows
He was acquainted with grief
We esteemed him not
This is a "found" haiku from Isaiah 53:3 that I wanted to share with you at Christmas-time.
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December 08, 2007 01:26 AM EST --
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself . . .
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December 05, 2007 01:50 AM EST --
Well Don Imus returned to the airwaves on Monday. He reiterated his apologies to the Rutgers women's basketball team. He spoke to John McCain, James Carville, and Mary Matalin. And . . .
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December 03, 2007 01:52 AM EST --
On vacation in Dauphin Island, Alabama, I stepped out of my van in a parking lot and found a broken and rusted flat file in the gravel. I remembered reading an article in a woodworking magazine . . .
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December 03, 2007 01:33 AM EST --
Judean star rise
Where is the king to be born?
Bethlehem’s the place.
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