tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51321674071252425242024-02-07T22:18:41.027-07:00PLAY WIT ME NANA!Reflections on the fun and games of being Nana,
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger521125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132167407125242524.post-56906648241579356722019-06-26T21:10:00.001-07:002019-06-26T21:10:05.674-07:00A Leading Scientist Has Just Warned About the Serious Dangers of 5g – an...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/euszrWewAA4" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132167407125242524.post-41856778308940128812017-12-03T08:21:00.001-07:002017-12-03T08:21:25.093-07:00Merry Morgan<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Merry Morgan getting a taste of her first Christmas season which her brother Brody will blow out of the water. </div>
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She is nine months old!</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132167407125242524.post-64433742407816797762017-09-13T07:41:00.001-07:002017-12-03T08:07:28.642-07:00The best thing about 2008!<br />
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I can almost tell time by the color of my room, especially when I wake up. The southern exposure allows the sun to slowly creep through the blinds. Today it was about 630 AM, I guessed, as I reached for my spectacles on the table next to the bed. After all, I am a granny. Grannies wear specs. In my thick red framed glasses, I headed for the kitchen to brew up my big cup of coffee. As I french pressed the organic french roast into the cup, the sun greeted the whole countertop and slanted against the wall ---smiling.<br />
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Something was special about this morning. I felt a strong sense of gratitude. Maybe I slept well, maybe I ate well yesterday. I passed up the morning paper, which I usually read before prepping for work. It must be the cooler mornings and the end of summer, a promise that is coming to the desert in October, I mused while reaching for my journal.</div>
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But then, low and behold, as I wrote the date <i>September 13th</i> on the top of a fresh blue lined page, I remembered. My heart rejoiced.<br />
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<b>Today is Brody's birthday!</b> Today is his real birthday. We had celebrated on Sunday with a family party, but today belongs to him.</div>
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<i>A note</i>: Brody was born in 2008 and he was the best thing ever that happened that year! Somehow, I feel like the last nine years has gone faster than it did with Kenzie. </div>
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<i>Another note</i>: The thing about grand parenting is that you know these children have chosen your family. This may sound metacrazy, (made this word up) but, so many times, I have experienced such a kinship with both of these kids. A kinship of souls. Daba would tell you the same. I am forever grateful to my children for their children! Let the birthday begin!</div>
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As promised, I am back to report that I did not keep my promise. We returned to the Halloween Spirit store on our next play date. And as luck would have it, Brody's '<i>most favorite anatromic, the very one he waited his whole life to ow</i><i>n</i>' was on --- CLEARANCE. Shotgun Blast Zombie had been a 2016 display and was waiting to be bargained for. <br />
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So here we were on a Friday evening (after a forty hour week in the office) and Brody and I are watching the sales person Ken in his bright orange uniform kneeling on the cement floor rewiring the Zombie, proving to us that this creepy creature still did fall to the ground, when the umm-- hate to say it, gun was pointed at the right spot. Actually, there were two Shotgun Blast Zombie's left in stock and Ken was taking parts of one and piecing them in with the other. Brody can describe the whole process. He has a mechanical mind coupled with a love of action, sound, electricity and light. His Halloween bedroom is nothing less than spectacular. It's a recreated Halloween store complete with webs (spider ones) and a line up of less than attractive, what we used to call, in the old days--- monsters. A sign on his bedroom door says <b>Enter at your own risk</b>. I say it's a risk worth seeing. Brody is a creative genius!<br />
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After paying way less than he cost last year, we got the Shotgun Zombie back to my house. Brody was eager as ever to show Daba how it worked, a kind of live pin ball machine. The thing did fall to the ground and then came back up on his hidden plastic device, but that was it. Then Daba was down on his knees (on the carpet) with Brody, both searching for the connecting wires that might not be connected. Brody soon came to the conclusion that Ken put the wrong Zombie or maybe the wrong Zombie parts in the box we had bought. <br />
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As I mentioned, it was Friday night and Kenzie's first high school outing to a football game. It was time to drop her off, so the three of us, I mean four (counting the broken Shotgun Zombie) got back in the Friday Night Nana Mobile and headed to the high school which was traffic ---jammed. After Kenzie texted and finally found her friends, Brody and I drove to the SPIRIT store, excited to get the Zombie back in order. As we neared the store,we were surprised to see the parking lot darkened. We jumped out of the car and raced to the window. We looked in to see Ken counting his drawer (that's register talk.) He waved a 'we are closed wave' while Brody and I stood there feeling very disappointed about the broken creature and--- the salesperson. As we were walking back to the car, Ken opened the store door and said "Hey, come back in the morning and I can help you."<br />
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That night Zombie slept in my car and bright and early when the doors opened Saturday morning, we were back. The Zombie was rechecked and after some shuffling about we were on our way. I love this part of the story. As we were driving away, I asked Brody what had gone wrong with the Zombie. He told me Ken had mixed up the parts. <i>Nana, you know what Ken told me? He told me 'my bad.' </i><br />
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It was a sweet ending. Brody didn't have to lose trust in the retailer he so admires. And as the saying goes the customer was right and this time the salesperson knew it. (Smile)<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132167407125242524.post-994487993321647942017-08-17T22:04:00.001-07:002017-08-31T22:39:20.077-07:00Grand Opening/OvernightHello to my 52,000 plus visitors.<br />
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It's Thursday night, one day away from Brody staying overnight. His recent announcement was that every other Friday night he plans to stay at our house. The other Fridays he'll stay at Mame's, his other grandma's house. <br />
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Tomorrow night he and I are planning to go to the grand opening of the Halloween Store, the national seasonal attraction--- SPIRIT. I was thinking today how I really don't like anything in the store, really I don't like anything <i>at all</i> in the store. But Brody, loves everything, mostly the anatromics, or the electric things. Some are so gross and ugly, so gross and ugly I have to not look at them! On the other hand my eight year old grandson Brody loves almost all of them, which is so contradictive to his personality. He is kind and sweet! He doesn't see the SPIRIT store things as evil or ugly or scary, to him it is just plain old interesting and entertaining. Do you know that there is actually a thing that is meant to be displayed on Halloween called the <i>Limb Eating Zombie Boy?</i> Yes, Brody owns it and he already has it displayed in his bedroom (now Halloween room). You will never guess who bought it for him. I don't want to tell you, but it was me. I don't think his mom will ever forgive me for that purchase. And I can't believe I did such a thing. This year I told him I am not buying any of them. I hope I can hold to my promise!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132167407125242524.post-78152845510278435552017-05-03T08:29:00.001-07:002017-08-31T20:43:10.882-07:00 Fantastic February!<br />
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Morgan Grace is here. She arrived in late February, a few days earlier than expected. Here are a few first photos. Check back to watch her grow.<br />
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Is that you dad? Yeah baby girl, it's me dad a little tired but oh so happy!<br />
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Our Mini beauty born 4 pounds 13 ounces.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132167407125242524.post-49100282115721393492016-10-27T21:45:00.002-07:002016-10-27T21:55:44.601-07:00Pinch Me Thoughts<br />
Today I checked on <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">PLAY WIT ME NANA </span><br />
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and lo and behold I have surpassed 50,000 views!<br />
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Oh, but it has been a long time since my last post. A long time again.<br />
My blogging hobby has become like my vacations, once or twice a year. <br />
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<i>I will not let this continue. I will take more vacations. I will blog more. Submit my poems. Read a poem or more a day......</i><br />
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I have been working hard at work like the rest of the working world. I didn't forget my blog, just haven't made time for it.<br />
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<i>I know when I sit down to blog it takes time and I love it so I sit for a long time tapping out words and looking at my pic files for something that might inspire someone else.</i><br />
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I will blog again. I will blog again.......<br />
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For sure, I will blog again.<br />
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A third grandchild is on the way. I can't wait to see her. Sometime in March of next year she will make her debut on this very blog.<br />
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<i>Yes, pinch me.</i><br />
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<b>It's true. This is real life. Another round of Play wit me Nana is about to begin and continue....</b><br />
<b>And now for that picture......</b><br />
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OK, so this clip was a year ago. Not much has changed. I still have the hat. It was a gift from Grandparents.com after I contributed to their then new blog site.<br />
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And it is Saturday, a year later. (Kenz isn't asleep in my bed today. But a week ago today the two of us were having our annual vacay in San Diego.) Today I was up and at em, took a walk around the neighborhood, came back and wrote a poem. What I really want to post today is something I clipped from a journal entry from long ago. My family members and friends will know the names and places. I don't know the year because I tore this page from a journal and put it in my clippings box, but I think it was 1979. Michelle was a toddler. The two of us traveled to Chicago from the desert. I have pictures from that trip, but this snapshot below is something I treasure. All the more reason not to destroy my old journals.<br />
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<b>Friday June 6th 1978, 79 or 1980</b><br />
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Chelle and I have been in Evergreen Park with MA, Denise, Marcia and Joni. We've been out to dinner with dad for a smorgasbord. Today to Brookfield Zoo. Last night over to Jeanie Roche and Kevin's with Carmen for a nice visit. My God. Grandma Peg has died. I had a last visit with Peg at Toy and Bills. It was quiet and contemplative. I will always remember and want to remember her shriveled body, her chin, here beautiful white fluffy hair, her long gorgeous fingers. Peg. Such a monumental woman. Her life long enough for her. It's strange how she died two days after we arrived June 2. My running has diminished regretfully and I am smoking again. Modify these behaviors. Sunday, Paul graduates from 8th grade. Chelle, Marcia and I will move ourselves up to Big D's for a few days. I think I need three weeks for this visit.<br />
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<i>I love my job. I love my life.</i> </div>
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Can you say this? Can I say this? Something to think about. My daughter Facebook posted an Oprah soul session today that was really good! Oprah was saying... there are <i>no failures</i>. There are only lessons to be learned. She said if you are feeling uncomfortable doing what you are doing and being like uggggggggg, it is a sign that you should be doing something else. I am not quoting it exactly, but that was the essence of the message. She was preaching <b>RELAX</b>! Even in the difficulties of jobs and life we are all moving ahead. We are where we need to be to learn. We need to relax and learn the lessons we need to learn. I'll listen again and post it to my home page, if you want hear it. </div>
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<i>The heat is on.</i></div>
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My best laid plans to get up and go to the Canyon today were set aside. At 6AM it was 79 degrees, will be 98 at noon and 101 at 6pm. Ah, that's hot stuff. We are in the winter of desert. This is the seasonal flipside of living here. If it were someplace like Chicago or Buffalo we'd be trapped indoors unable to wander in fresh air for several months of the year. Even when I tell myself <i>I like the heat,</i> part of me is screaming y<i>ou have got to be kidding me! </i>I remember years ago a neighbor telling me that she was looking out her big picture window into the back yard. She said everything looked so beautiful, but it was all an illusion. Her children could not go outside to play. It was all so beautiful but too uncomfortable to enjoy. I do try to make the best of summer. The best of it is to take little trips away from it. I have one coming later this month. The pictures I take will be ones I can actually be present in and the smiles will be real. <i>Hail to the snowbirds!</i> Will I be one someday? </div>
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Just got a call from my grandson Brody. <i>Nana, can I come over today?</i> Haven't seen him since last Sunday. Here's a recent his parents posted. </div>
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The lizards scamper up trees, over walls.</div>
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Atop the tall cactus mourning doves</div>
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<i>Lodore Falls shown within <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria" title="Cumbria">Cumbria</a></i><br /> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid">grid reference</a> <span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a class="external text" href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/os/coor_g/?pagename=Cataract_of_Lodore&params=NY265188_region%3AGB_scale%3A25000">NY265188</a></span>)</div>
<b>"The Cataract of Lodore"</b> is a poem written in 1820 by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England">English</a> poet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Southey" title="Robert Southey">Robert Southey</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hillard1861_1-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataract_of_Lodore#cite_note-Hillard1861-1"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[1]</span></a></sup> which describes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodore_Falls" title="Lodore Falls">Lodore Falls</a> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watendlath" title="Watendlath">Watendlath</a> Beck just above <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwent_Water" title="Derwent Water">Derwent Water</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria" title="Cumbria">Cumbria</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>. The poem is a masterpiece of onomatopoeia, employing some of the most clever and evocative language ever used to describe a natural feature. When seen in its entire form, the body of the poem does look like a waterfall.<br />
The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_Geographic_Expedition_of_1869" title="Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869">Powell Expedition</a> named a canyon on the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_River_(Utah)" title="Green River (Utah)">Green River</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_of_Lodore" title="Gates of Lodore">Gates of Lodore</a> after this poem<br />
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<span style="color: red;">(A note from Nana) I know Poetry Month is over, but I found this poem in THE MAGIC GARDEN volume 7 of the Book House collection. I am very grateful to my mother Joanne who passed this collection to me a long time ago. She read her children many stories, fairy tales and poems from these books. So grateful to have been under her desire for her children to know literature.</span> CM<br />
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<strong>THE CATARACT OF LODORE</strong><br />
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<em>"How does the water come down at Lodore?"</em><br />
<em> My little boy asked me.</em><br />
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Advancing and prancing and glancing <br />
and dancing,<br />
Recoiling, turmoiling, and toiling <br />
and boiling,<br />
And gleaming and streaming and steaming <br />
and beaming,<br />
And rushing and flushing and brushing <br />
and gushing,<br />
And flapping and rapping and clapping<br />
and slapping,<br />
And curling and whirling and purling <br />
and twirling,<br />
And thumping and plumping and bumping <br />
and jumping,<br />
And dashing and flashing and splashing<br />
and clashing,<br />
And so never ending, but always descending,<br />
Sounds and motions forever and ever are <br />
blending,<br />
All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar,<br />
And this way the Water comes down at Lodore.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">million dollar smile<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">what greater love <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In my niche<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">shoeless on the playroom floor<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bears Buzy Day </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There's a Monster In My Closet</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And <i>that Grinch</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he had a wonderful awful idea.</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have a <b>Love Song For A Baby</b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that's getting so big<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All these mornings I run circles <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">around the orange tree, hearing you growl<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">listening to you fuss, I want to stay at
Nana's</span><br />
<i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Boohoo, we want our appendix out too!</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans) </span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have found paradise, my Paris <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that pays big bucks </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in hugs and in laughter<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">so fruitfully full of<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">storybook ending,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">little words with big meanings<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">brand new crazy nouns<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(dars and frucks)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sad goodbyes then nice quiet <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for Nana,
a granny, an ole girl <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that needs a rest <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">from your round brown <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">beautiful eyes, reflection<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a chance to piece
together <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">your future your smartness <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but mostly your now. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> A<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">n oldie, when Brody was 2 and spending mornings with his Nana.</span></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132167407125242524.post-59078616089066080602016-04-18T22:38:00.002-07:002016-04-19T21:32:50.532-07:00POem MOnth day 18<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <strong> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">a</span> <span style="font-size: small;">bed pretending</span></span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; font-size: large; mso-themecolor: text1;">And each house had its</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">particular role to
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Old guy, I better </span></span></span></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">get us a cleaning
person.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">You do try, never</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">a sink full of dishes,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">but crumbs & enough dirt<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">to turn our soles
dark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am out the door
early,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">then back for sleep.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">A house is very good<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">at pretending<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">to be<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132167407125242524.post-36488449335195106642016-04-14T21:49:00.003-07:002016-04-18T22:30:25.563-07:00A Poem from Kenzie<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brody</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You smile at me, toothlessly,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">like a jack-o’-lantern does on </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Halloween night.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You laugh at me, happily,<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">like a tickled baby monkey<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">does at its mothers sight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You cry at me, uncontrollably,<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">like a human being does<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when he loses a fight.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You wonder at me, unknowingly,<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">like a curious cousin does <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to one of a greater might.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by Kenzie</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a long time ago that really wasn't that long </td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132167407125242524.post-74936069861766991842016-04-12T07:20:00.000-07:002016-04-12T19:52:32.519-07:00e.e. cummings to you<span style="background-color: white;"><em></em></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><em>Today, my celebration of poetry comes form <strong>100 selected poems </strong></em></span></div>
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<em><strong>by e. e. cummings. </strong>I cannot make it through many of his poems </em></div>
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<em>being diverted by my lack of connection to his world. Others </em></div>
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<em>sit real pretty. Here's one that resonates. I did not adjust the temperature</em></div>
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<em>of his punctuation. He was clever that way used the space the lower</em></div>
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<em>case vs. upper cases. Love the parenthesis! CM</em></div>
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Spring is like a perhaps hand<br />
( which comes carefully<br />
out of Nowhere )arranging <br />
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a window,into which people look ( while<br />
people stare<br />
arranging and changing placing <br />
carefully there a strange<br />
thing and a known thing here )and<br />
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changing everything carefully<br />
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spring is like a perhaps<br />
Hand in a window<br />
(carefully to <br />
and fro moving New and <br />
Old thingswhile<br />
people stare carefully<br />
moving a perhaps<br />
fraction of flower here placing <br />
an inch of air there)and<br />
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without breaking anything.<br />
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e.e.Cummings<br />
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<em>yes Word ignore these rolledtogether words</em><br />
<em>These unlikely spaces( I see you have red-lined them)</em><br />
<em>Learn what I keep learning noteverything in life</em><br />
<em>spills the same and some things don't evaporate.</em><br />
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<em> CM</em><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132167407125242524.post-68605636502023061782016-04-09T15:02:00.001-07:002016-04-09T16:09:24.119-07:00poem day 9 /Mega phone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Daffodils laugh<br />
out loud<br />
love trumpets<br />
golden yellow<br />
spoonfuls<br />
Only know joy<br />
Know joy only<br />
megaphone<br />
Whoever is listening<br />
Whoever can hear<br />
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Go have some fun <a href="http://www.poets.org/">www.Poets.org</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132167407125242524.post-88088143346700558382016-04-06T22:20:00.001-07:002016-04-06T22:28:34.885-07:00POEM 6 <div>
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Another decade will end</div>
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1200+ days and it will be time to toss away another</div>
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wall calendar armchairs in white sand a pink sunset </div>
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still setting across a deep ocean you have not written.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132167407125242524.post-23023211215090585342016-04-05T22:13:00.000-07:002016-04-05T22:13:22.472-07:00Floored by flowersDay 5 poem <br />
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Floored by flowers<br />
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I need canyons<br />
blue skies<br />
warm mica mostly<br />
I need flowers any flowers<br />
all flowers send me to<br />
nowhere, mesmerized in a <br />
piston a polka dotted petal<br />
lilac lavender rose aromas<br />
so crazy I want to scream<br />
at the flowers, you better tell me<br />
right now where did you come from<br />
and what are you? They stare<br />
back not bothered I watch them looking<br />
sideways looking for my pen.<br />
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C. M.<br />
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Dusk Ride </div>
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commute bar none</div>
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swirl s of whipped cream</div>
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rolling road rolling sky</div>
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almost home<br />
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<strong> Day 3 poem</strong><br />
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<strong>Museum Visit</strong><br />
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Thinking putty guy<br />
keep calm favorite tee<br />
eat a banana<br />
bark on a tree<br />
lizard on the wall<br />
Shock Pen<br />
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My grandson's here .<br />
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We are headed to the <br />
children's museum.<br />
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The world of a seven<br />
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a museum!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132167407125242524.post-31465619518460018462016-04-02T22:41:00.001-07:002016-04-02T22:54:34.055-07:002nd day NaPoWriMo <em>A Poem a Day</em><br />
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This is National Poetry Month.<br />
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I will post a poem a day Will tell you more about this tomorrow. <br />
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This one I wrote awhile ago. I gave it to a nurse. Several months later she told me she reads it everyday. What? Wow! I was so happy she could feel it. <br />
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<strong>Day Shift</strong><br />
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The thrill of hope <o:p></o:p></div>
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the weary nurse rejoices<o:p></o:p></div>
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day shift is almost done.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Her beloved patients <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
clean, dry and drugged;<o:p></o:p></div>
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(medicated is a better word)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">will soon belong </span>to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>evening.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Report is passed and</div>
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out the door <o:p></o:p></div>
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goes the day nurse.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am<i> frickin</i> incredible,<o:p></o:p></div>
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she says to herself.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have juggled<o:p></o:p></div>
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so many balls! I have not had<o:p></o:p></div>
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a single break,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my feet ache.</div>
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Oh night divine!<o:p></o:p></div>
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And then, after a few<br />
crazy dreams</div>
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the weary nurse rises.</div>
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<o:p></o:p><br /></div>
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She hurries to<o:p></o:p></div>
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another day shift.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am <i>frickin</i> incredible,<br />
she says to herself<br />
<i>I can do this</i> and </div>
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in the door<br />
she goes where</div>
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up and down<br />
the shiny halls<br />
call lights blink</div>
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urgent and bright<o:p></o:p></div>
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urgent and bright.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Report is passed and<br />
out the door<br />
goes the night nurse,<br />
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singing the praises of<br />
a new and glorious morn<br />
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a new and glorious morn<br />
when once again<br />
the incredible<br />
day shift<br />
is born.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Roses are not my favorite flower. They have too much baggage always hanging around romantic holidays, funerals, weddings and the grocery store florist near the produce isle. Some gals and some guys think that getting a big vase of roses delivered to the office on a special occasion (like an anniversary) is the envy of all. I think roses can be--- annoying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But this week, all that may have changed. Out of the dry dusty desert Lou has delivered gorgeous blooms every morning. In that little hour before I hit the road for the office, he and I have been arranging them in vases, sniffing them, discussing the colors (the blue black edges on deep maroon) Ah! just look at the way the light hits them on the kitchen table. These desert roses have delivered cheer! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">And to top off the fun, our paper person has been delivering a trial Wall Street Journal. I know it is to entice us to spend the 80 a month on the good rag, but it also has brought me cheer. The articles are well written, and the layout is superb. I love the smell and feel of the newsprint. (Maybe it would be worth it.) Of course, there are the thorny stories about wars and rumors of wars. Such is life. Lou has gotten a few sticks this week while trimming the foliage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My brain with Rose synapses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">rose water, rose petal, rosy, a rose by any other name, red red rose</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These roses won't last more than a handful of days. My spiritual lesson for the week has been the same. Everything blooms and dies and comes and goes. I have to say the illustrations have</span></div>
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