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November 25, 2009 11:37 AM EST --
*To my Gather friends- This is something I wrote in 2002 as one of my newspaper columns. I can't remember if I've ever posted it before. But, I wanted to share it now as a celebration of my grandmother's . . .
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October 26, 2009 10:07 AM EDT --
* A repost of something I wrote several years ago and posted here on Gather in 2007...today I am thinking of my two grandfathers who passed away many years ago. I love them still and think of them . . .
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September 11, 2009 10:36 AM EDT --
A repost of something I wrote in 2007 with photos from a display on campus all week here on at UF.
We Remember
We remember.
We woke to a normal day.
Coffee . . .
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August 13, 2009 10:55 PM EDT --
Hidden Mr. Hyde
In the layers of our souls,
secrets hide never told.
Hidden from all prying eyes
covered here and there with lies.
Secrets . . .
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August 12, 2009 03:43 PM EDT --
My little bird has flown
the nest is empty, and I
find a crevice in my heart
that aches daily...
one that won't be , that can't be
soothed by any balm or
filled by any other.
I . . .
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July 07, 2009 11:02 PM EDT --
Soul Gardening
Even now, after all these years
I don’t know who I am.
I’m still learning.
Who knew
it would take . . .
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July 03, 2009 10:50 PM EDT --
Fireworks
A rocket splits the air;
it glares
against an ink black sky.
A choral crowd ooohs and aaahs,
the rocket bursts-
a baby cries. . . .
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June 18, 2009 10:27 PM EDT --
I wanted to post this for Father's Day a bit early because I'll be going out of town this weekend to GA to see my daddy. I decided to put a link here to a photo poem I did about him back . . .
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June 11, 2009 12:49 PM EDT --
Kimberly Ripley's Thursday Writing Essential prompt was to post something we've written in honor of someone else. This is a repost from way back when I was on Gather in early 2007. It's something I . . .
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June 10, 2009 01:24 PM EDT --
Submitted for Susan Budig's Wed Writing Essential-Poetry Revision
Something I wrote about someone I know...
Revision version:
Delusional Seclusion
Unable to deal with the harsher . . .
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June 05, 2009 12:54 PM EDT --
June 5th always reminds me of that awful day in 1968 when Robert Kennedy was assassinated. I was not quite 11 years old at the time, and it was only two months since the assassination of Dr. King, and . . .
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May 29, 2009 11:33 PM EDT --
The Cost of War
On Memorial Day my husband and I went to a park here in town where the local chapter of Veterans for Peace had set up an exhibit to give citizens a sense of the cost of war. . . .
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May 27, 2009 11:42 PM EDT --
All the rain we've been getting in FL the last week or so made me think of this poem I wrote several years ago after a long, wet drive my family and I made up Hwy 441 to my parents house. . . .
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May 25, 2009 09:46 PM EDT --
A Soldier's Promise
It is the pitch black dark of night, but fear not, for I am here.
It is the cold dead of winter, but fear not, for I am here.
It is the scalding heat of . . .
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May 17, 2009 07:55 PM EDT --
I just got some great news in an email!
My poem, Shanty Stories, which I submitted to the Eighth Biennial Southern Women Writers Conference has been accepted for presentation . . .
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May 11, 2009 04:30 PM EDT --
Spartan , photographer extraordinare, and a good friend to me here on Gather offered to take some of my photos from my B&W vs. Color photo essay and work some magic with them using some of his . . .
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May 10, 2009 07:33 PM EDT --
I posted this a couple of years ago when I first came to Gather and thought it was appropriate for a Resurrection Sunday post on Mother's Day. A story about how mothers love and look . . .
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May 07, 2009 12:58 PM EDT --
B&W or C o l o r ? Sometimes It's Hard to Choose...
I think I've become obsessed with my new hobby of photography. As I "play" with my camera I find new features . . .
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May 05, 2009 09:11 PM EDT --
As some of my connections already know, I write a weekly column for my hometown newspaper up in GA...this was what I wrote for the upcoming Mother's Day weekend.
From Birth to Adulthood, . . .
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April 25, 2009 10:33 PM EDT --
A repost of something for Resurrection Sunday that I wrote a couple of years ago. I've put some new photos with it this time. It's about the little village where I grew up and . . .
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