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May.19.2013
I love movies. I'm a sucker for a great romance. Truth is, I'm pretty silly for even a hint of romance. I like it when things work out. I don't mind the journey or the ups and downs, but I need a happy ending. I've watched romances with less than happy endings...
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May.19.2013
This poem approaches the creative process in a visual and intimate way. The poem is about her work, she is alone which is necessary for her writing, but she the speaker uses both the "I" and the "you" in a masculine form. They are both involved in the creative process in which "you'...
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May.18.2013
1Corinthians 15:37-38 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body (KJV).
While this passage of Scripture pertains...
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May.18.2013
Two of my favorite characters are Miss Spinster and Judge I.M. Oldenbald. I like them because they wear the same clothes much of the time. Judge Oldenbald has lots of liver spots on his bald pate and smells musty. Miss Spinster teaches school. Their conversations are boring. Until Judge Oldenbald...
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May.17.2013
Flashback Fridays! I'm very much enjoying ruffling through the old crate of notebooks. These poems are better than a journal. Less minutiae, more emotional memory. This one goes back to late undergrad and speaks of a young man who is having a hard time wrangling someone he cares about. Poor...
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May.16.2013
A Nova program last night on PBS questioned if humans and Neanderthals might have ever mated in Europe, oh, some 40,000 years ago. Several anthropologists said it was doubtful. I said, to the television screen, ``Are you kidding?'' Sex is powerful, and someone having a different shaped brow is not...
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May.16.2013
My response to Red Room's challenge to blog about the best parenting advice:
Parents are forever giving needed and unneeded advice to their children: we always remember Polonius’ advice to Laertes:
"Give your thoughts to yourself,
And don’t act without thinking. . .
Listen to what every man...
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May.14.2013
The scent of hyacinth from the windowsill draws down into the pit of my belly and the core of my drained brain begins to lift to wake my senses. I’m standing by my eye into the soul of life and want to trap the scent of the flowers that trails out through a small opening.
It’s through this eye that...
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May.12.2013
A Different Time
When Natalie was young, not many mothers worked outside the home, and my parents had raised their daughters to accept the responsibility of motherhood as their first priority. It wasn’t a choice we were given; it was considered a sacred duty from God. We were taught to live...
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May.12.2013
2Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (KJV). In order for our relationship with God to be pure, we must be free. Without freedom, we are still in bondage to the things of this world. If the spirit of...
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