tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80985680357503146572024-02-20T10:14:36.678-08:00My Whatever Que CeraAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.comBlogger260125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-68413339069444211272017-12-05T12:03:00.003-08:002017-12-06T12:26:57.435-08:00One Sunny Day<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="9eh55" data-offset-key="6fiit-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Crows cawed, circling in a sparsely clouded sky as a breeze spoke through erect pines, that shared their fragrance with the statues in City Park. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Couples and solos meandered, stopping to snap a shot here and there. A group of schoolgirls in uniform following their teacher paused to giggle at a nude. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">From what seemed like the zenith of the atmosphere two vertical vapor trails appeared. A solitary white swan floated past and the rat-a-tat-tat of a woodpecker could be heard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A pair of plumes grew from each object hurtling out of the sky, as a lady contentedly sat on a park bench taking a deep breath after which she sighed in a long, slow exhalation, while a chameleon scurried across the path of bricks. “Thank you, God, for this beautiful day,” I heard her say. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The vapor trails stretched from heaven descending in the distance. A woman stood under an umbrella staring at the golden goddess with one foot perched on a globe aiming an arrow for eternity. The woman twirled her umbrella as she walked away. The earth shook, a wall of heat raced across the land, and life as we knew it ended that day.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Dewy spiderwebs sparkled </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Behind this cypress, palms, and pines</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Gave way to amazingly vast expanse,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">God terrie’d in swamp grass </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Feeling like a penal colony guest,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I chopped a tomato and </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Smashed an avocado,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I quickly drowned in buttermilk.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Strolled the grounds, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Finding respite from the road.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Dreading the final miles,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-88776869995710905132017-07-28T08:32:00.000-07:002017-07-28T09:32:24.128-07:00Just Another Pint<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Tired of sad and lonely, tired of depressed; want to make it go away. My love left an ache that just doesn't quit, not one little bit. I loved my life with my honey; we were both assholes from time to time, but other times we clicked along beautifully. We were the average people of this planet in love; because of love, I believe in God. Love takes a hard day’s work and transforms it into a gift for someone more important, yeah, someone more important than you. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Do you know how many people haven’t felt that? People tell me to let go of the past so I can enjoy my now, but I cling to the time when love lived in my life. Now, too many angry people want to hurt each other; who wants to go near? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Place, the other great character in any story needs to provide for the plot. I live on a tropical island bitching about being sad and lonely; why don’t I move? Where would I go? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">July, the month my honey died, proves painful annually; the month of widowhood picks the scab off wounds not healed. In July lifting weights only hurts, I feel inches away from crying, but it’s my job to make myself feel better. All I can say is repeated applications of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia and hot fudge topping does wonders after four years. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-3108691040122140982017-07-09T08:25:00.000-07:002017-07-09T08:35:56.880-07:00What's It Gonna Be<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">At twenty I married your mother’s brother; he liked to hang with the guys at the bar, so I went to the library because I like to read. We were young and in love so we picnicked and made love in the woods, but twenty years later, I’d say,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">“I’m going to the movies; you want to come?”</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Never had I gone to the movies alone; I held the notion that we should do things together, but had to honor that if he didn’t want to go, it was his right, so when I opened the front door, with my heart pounding, I called, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">“See ya later.”</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Looking back, I wonder why all the drama; the thought of being a married woman alone in a movie theater upset me, but determined to for once do what I wanted to do even if he didn’t, I left.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I remember my fingers being all sweaty, wanting to sob, but being me, I thought, fuck him and started the car, threw it into reverse and backed out of the driveway. Before I could get into forward gear the front door opened; he threw his shirt on while heading to the car. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">was all he said in his best nonchalant, cool dude style. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Honey, I don’t know anyone’s life but my own, but I have learned to love and value myself enough to do what pleases me. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Your mom and her brother were tight; she’d tell me stories of things she and her brother did. Oh, my, your family had love. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I remember you with long blond hair and bangs; it seems you were one of the taller kids. What a sweet girl, I thought, you took after your mom. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">This much I know; a man who loves you may not go to the ballet with you, but he’ll join you on things he likes because he wants to be with you. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The times I went to things without him, surprisingly, I’d come home smiling. Learning I could have a good time alone helped me get out on my own after he passed. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">With or without the love of my life, I must try to enjoy my life or be a miserable old bitch; what’s it gonna be, honey? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-28784003146530395912017-07-08T09:27:00.001-07:002017-07-08T09:27:39.811-07:00Life's Questions and Lessons<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We think; we wonder why we’re here or why this or that happened in childhood. Every age challenges us to grow or decline. Pain, suffering, joy, and happiness color our lives.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Each unique journey weaves in and out with others creating the cacophony of our cultures. When life becomes too painful some reach for booze or drugs, some become mean, others turn to religion. We all have a personal solution; even helplessness is a way of dealing with harsh reality. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In one of the neighborhoods I lived in as a young adult, “Take it easy” or “Don’t work too hard,” people said frequently. Their mantra reflected how they limited themselves; from the south side of Chicago, many had never even ventured into the Loop. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Being a driven soul, I bristled at this advice; being young I argued for my opinion as a better way not yet realizing what mental masturbation means.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Over the years we’re exposed to an amazing amount of energy that we absorb and reflect or deflect; through personal choice, we create who we are. Looking back on a life, wondering how well it served my soul, I’m kinder about my mistakes than when I was young. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Not judging others, do we find that difficult? Come on, don’t add lying. Whether we find them wonderful or awful, we judge. Superior or inferior, we see ourselves in that linear way or safe versus frightening; we find valid reasons for judgment. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In my twenties, I doubted that God exists. If you created us couldn’t you take better care of your creations? Who are you kidding? You created everything; that means you created evil. That’s no kind of god I could wrap my head around, so one day for no reason there was this big bang. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Many nights under the stars with cold wind on my face put my thoughts in a different order to glimpse how complex life is and that order began with God. The understanding I have gives me respect for all life whether I like them or not. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">How we live now creates our heaven or hell, so it’s not a stretch to think we’re creating our future (life) according to the law of karma. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">So now I’m wondering, how do I best set myself up for my next existence? If this life could be a bank account of knowledge I could send to myself, what wisdom would I impart? What questions should a soul preparing for life ask?</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Wouldn’t it be nice to know how we pick our families? How many misplaced zygotes are there? Why was I one? Or was I? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And thanks for this life; it’ been a trip.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">If people want advice, they ask for it, right? What do you think about this? What do you think I should do? If you were me, what would you do?</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It’s reasonable and even prudent to get other points of view. Often rather than accepting advice a la carte off the menu, I re-think and revise my plans, but value the input that sparked a new path. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Thanks, I’ll think about what you’ve said,” has become my closing line because I’ve found it better to consider gradually; I’m really slow like that. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A tale of similar woe response can be bonding, but a monolog on what I should have done annoys me to the point I find myself sharing less with friends, which means I listen to their gripe-moans without my part of the sharing that cements these relationships. Finding my place in a group of friends has been problematic. Either I piss them off or; don’t get me wrong, I have friends. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I hung out with a woman whose immediate response to whatever anyone talked about was I followed by her experience whether related or not, even this never changing non-empathetic conversation I found better than the you shoulds.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Yes, we must take our friends as we find them or move along, but why don’t people understand that if I don’t ask for your advice, please, don’t keep volunteering it; it’s not the gift you believe it to be. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Shortly after my husband died, in one day, I ran into three women I know, each said, “Your husband would want you to be happy,” followed by some variation on the theme. Not a one asked how I was doing. That day my eyes crossed and I wanted to bang my head, my tolerance surpassed; surprisingly, I remained polite but went home aggravated. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Advice givers don’t know how annoying that is because they are well intended. Heaven forbid that the advice is eye-roll worthy like recent advice to get out of my closed mind by taking hallucinogenics. Value to this advice was that great scientists from the 70’s opened their minds with drugs; this is apparently the gold standard for tripping your mind, which firmly asserted could cause one to feel remiss, but I didn’t do it in the 70’s; why would I try now that I’m approaching seventy. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-79685440631771059322017-06-30T10:40:00.000-07:002017-06-30T10:43:51.712-07:00Senior Lady Dating Manifesto<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.6600; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 19.9000pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I'm looking for someone to spend a pleasant day with, who has a zest for life. We don't have forever; each day needs to have a little sparkle. Do you spoil yourself? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">My day begins with thanks for another chance and a stretch to bring my soul back into the body followed immediately by coffee. Two hours later coffee and I are on the internet before I head for the gym. My days are lovely, my roads wind through tropical forests with sheer facing rock walls before showing me the ocean. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">A handsome man to look into my eyes, who enjoys my wit and finds me attractive spells a fine afternoon, but a man with humor and candor makes a day too short. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The laundrymen listing all they have and what their friends have from the moment we meet are in the top five of those to avoid; what do I care? I’m not a young chick in nesting mode. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">An interesting attractive man may command my attention for a while, but drone on and on without wondering about the woman you’re with becomes too braggadocio for my taste; I’m not a chick just out of the nest. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">When your stories match his, you feel like you’ve met a male kindred spirit. You could do a freaking happy dance because you’re sharing your stories with someone who has the same sense of adventure. Little by little you question, disbelief dampens the flames of desire. Ladies, you know how deflating a liar is, right. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">A man with a passion for almost anything, I prefer to the guy who lists his assets, upon deciding that those assets should be enough to attract you slides rather rapidly into fault finding, a constant complainer. Yuck. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I’ve had real love and I’ve had forever, at least forty-five years of it. As I recall, we built that a day at a time. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">A man who loves his job can tell me stories about something I don’t understand; I’ll ask questions while admiring the twinkle in his eyes as he speaks, but he must ask about me. I don’t spew or interrupt a man waxing eloquent on himself. A man who doesn’t ask about the woman he’s with doesn’t care who you are; screw that and bye-bye.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">A lively conversation, friendly banter and a bit of innuendo don’t mean a thing, but time well spent; I could enjoy that, but too many woe-be-gone faces want to tell me their problems. They remind me of a very talented woman who applied for a job as my secretary. I was liking her for the job, told her I’d call her, and on the way out the door she said, “I suffer from melancholia.” </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Companions, partners, or mates should bring us up; some days we struggle to enjoy our day. Before we’ll help each other; we must care. Time well spent together brings that, so don’t tell me about forever; let’s just make a beautiful day and see what happens. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">By the way, I’m a spoiler; do you know what that is? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">It’s a woman who when she’s happy, she spoils you silly. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-8834630173710777282017-06-23T07:39:00.000-07:002017-06-23T07:39:29.262-07:00Whose Government<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Chances are few Americans remember the bread lines of the Depression. Since WWII we’ve had a prosperous middle class and unions enabled </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">workers</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> a decent wage and benefits, so we’ve had a good life. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Slowly the rich organized behind the scene in government; first came lobby money. Bac</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k then we knew it was a bribe to give money for a vote; lavish trips were given to legislators so they could see what big money wanted, all perfectly legal. Swag bags ensured that legislators looked favorably; who doesn’t like a nice gift?</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Election campaigns became more expensive because deep pockets usually win. Integrity doesn’t win elections; money does. Both sides made concessions to the same master. Integrity is always a scarce commodity, but they’re having a sale.</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Laws changed to allow PACTS so umpteen dollars could be donated to a cause. Zealots of all makes celebrated, but it’s like Monopoly, sooner or later the biggest pot wins. I heard that one of the Koch bros said that. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Statesmen, a largely honorable class, have been replaced by people like the carpetbaggers of the time after the Civil War, people who see government service as a career path to riches. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">With money legally shifting votes from the benefit of we, the people, to the rich and powerful few, we don’t stand a chance. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The loyal opposition, Dems hold out their hand to tell us they will fight for health care, hold the line on Social Security, support the EPA, and nutritious meals in schools, just send them some money so they can fight big money, whose funds are in their pockets, after all, they can’t win without it.</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Does anyone see a problem with this system? What’s the goal? </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Yes, we health care, Social Security, and all of that, but until we reverse this system, we will be mired in a swamp of big money, pulled under by the weight of heavy dough. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Unless we get PACT, lobby money out of government and change our election laws so our representatives may not be influenced by big money without facing jail, we will lose. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-82348869810480442962017-06-19T07:06:00.000-07:002017-06-19T07:10:16.819-07:00What Do We Want?<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The world I want runs on compassion, respect, and love; it’s all here. When we behave in harmony with the lessons of Christ, which is my frame of reference growing up in the Catholic Church, life holds some sweet days. I believe in karma and that we’re growing into spiritual beings. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Admittedly, my understanding of the yin and yang concept needs fine tuning, but the Ouroboros symbol of the snake chewing its butt appalls me; can’t we do better than that? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Why does the snake eat its tail? Why is Congress consistently doing things that hurt the people? I can be blind to the obvious sometimes; why do I assume that people want to do good? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">A friend of mine, a mafioso type from Chicago once said,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">“As smart as you are, how come you’re no further along than you are?”</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">“I’m honest and do things legit.”</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">“Oh,” </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I could hear disappointment and more in the one word. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">This reminded me that many big businesses were funded by criminal endeavors; what does it take for me to get it that all the goodness and love in the world won’t change the greedy willing to do anything for money and power?</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">A career in government has become the latest path to riches and grand lifestyle with big business buying votes on both sides of the aisle. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Remember marching in the 60’s and the 70’s?</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">“What do we want?”</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">“When do we want it?”</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Mitch McConnell is right Congress will never against big business influencing elections; why would they?</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">We, the people, need to be clear about what we want, one human, one vote. We don’t contribute all our working lives to have Social Security taxed or robbed by the rich. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">As I recall from my studies a long time ago, we have the right of referendum to put something on a national ballot. Getting lobby perks, pact money, and free trips out of government will have to come from us or it won’t happen. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt;">And then we’ll be heading in a direction where respect and compassion might thrive. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h3>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-86493760822167070162017-06-18T09:28:00.000-07:002017-06-18T09:28:19.482-07:00The Saggy Remainder Years Challenge<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Most days I know what I believe, I think about it quite a bit. On what if days, who knows what will cross my mind? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">I can see myself as a fat old lady stuck on a broke island waiting to die, which is true or as the adventurous daredevil traveling to beautiful places alone in her spare time, also true. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">In between all these good times, I sure can feel sorry for myself. There’s no getting over you, my darling, even after four years. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">God, thanks for the opportunity to have the tribulations that balanced my trials. One’s life should be a wild ride; oh, the shit, you do over the years. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Opting out on children means you don’t get to be grandma. It was my husband I never planned on living without. This majorly sucks and how do I let go of the loss enough to enjoy the saggy remainder years of my life? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">That’s exactly the challenge; make the best out of the remainder when every day is bitch or brag and the best may be a pain-free day. Our days no longer hold wide open promise; a day working in the garden means happiness. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Daily, my husband suffered physical pain but managed to love his life and bring joy to others; he was one of those guys. I’ve seen a great spirit live a humble life in torture. I can quit complaining. This is me shutting up, accepting the saggy, remainder challenge.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-28513378867207337182017-06-14T06:53:00.000-07:002017-06-14T07:22:23.980-07:00Always, My Love<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">“Get over it,” </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">some have had the guts to say. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">“Move along with your life,” </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">others counsel.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">“He’d want you to be happy,”</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">A few console.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Fourth anniversary here in a bit</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I miss being your wife</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The showers of love poems</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Sweet and sappy</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">People who like me, a small council</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">But no one on Earth to touch my soul</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Alone, no you to hold my hand</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Sampling life’s wares</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Many shores to meander</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Sunsets seen with toes in sand</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Postcards wishing you were there</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-16166144474596197962017-06-11T08:48:00.000-07:002017-06-11T09:27:41.379-07:00New Days, Old Ways<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Game of Thrones, The Last Kingdom, and The Tudors are some of my favorite shows. Perhaps it’s my overactive imagination, but sometimes I picture the cast of our Congress in medieval attire and our president with a crown banishing and tweeting with abandon waiting for the beheading to begin or maybe it has and I just don’t know it. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">In the age of political correctness, we held our tongues and made a stab at considering the other guy’s feelings. Some people took that rather hard. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Given our history, we should understand by now that accepting others isn’t easy and figure out how to get over ourselves, but no, we’re the snake eating its own behind. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">In the beginning of the age of political correctness, we learned about how win-win negotiation might actually be better for everybody than the historic win-lose warriors adore. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Paying lip service to respect for your opponent, giving value to the other guy’s wants couldn’t have been all that difficult; could it? What’s the worse that might happen; we gain empathy? Or heaven forbid we appreciate the other guy’s point of view. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Humans considering the wants and needs of others would be so utopia, so Renaissance. We strive for an age of enlightenment; what the hell happened? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Elected official freed to tackle citizen to the floor, power broker sends witch who laughed at him to the stockade, and a first son declares, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">“Democrats aren’t even human.” </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Lords and ladies in charge of public programs figuring out how to keep the lower classes barefoot, dumb, and pregnant. If they wore their regal garb, we’d see them for the offspring of aliens they are. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">A return to the Dark Ages doesn’t benefit people. If the one percent, the lords have no respect for the needs of the serfs, what are citizens going to do about it?</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">If we, the people are going to have any power of negotiation, perhaps we ought to do it before robots replace us in the workforce. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Whose Utopia would it be if the 1% outsourced the rest of the human race? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-34203975895564963312017-06-10T12:31:00.000-07:002017-06-10T12:53:36.219-07:00Stay Focused<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Is beat up on Bill Maher time over? Who else wants to get the last lick in before we call it enough?</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">We, the ninety-nine percent need to keep our eyes on the prize, to borrow a phrase. Don’t waste time fighting with friends because rich people want to hurt us. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Bill, a rich white liberal, who actually appears to like black people f---’ed up; he’s not a closet enemy. People who turn on friends ready to pick some bones end up friendless. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">He referred to himself as a house nigger, so after the whipping, you’re going to school Bill that the word nigger originally a pejorative for Negro used by whites has been taken back and may now only be used by black people. Holy smokes, I didn’t know there was a memo. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">To me, the saddest thing in the world is to hear one black call another a nigger because that’s the worst thing he can think to call him. You know it happens. That word belongs to the devil, no good comes from its utterance. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Black comedians eased the sting and black people overcame the word, but continued use desensitized your white friends to the horror that word is. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">That’s our word you can’t use it; when has that ever worked? Oh, please, he didn’t seriously say that. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I can tell you that the day after a Wanda Sykes performance the word nigger crossed my mind three times about no particular thing; it’s that kind of word, just like when I first learned fuck. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Good for us but not for you is a double standard that goes nowhere good. Oh, and just as a clarification point, do Latinos get to say, nigger? What are the rules on that?</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">We need to get all of the funds, pacts, and soft money out of government; stay focused like we’re all fighting the aliens. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">As a comrade, if not a friend, and friend I hope, may I suggest the bitch slapping be done; remember a humbled friend is seldom a better friend for it. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">People in the media will need our support to push for a national referendum to get graft (my opinion) out of government. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-28443472437219769542017-06-09T10:59:00.000-07:002017-06-10T06:21:05.090-07:00It Is a Big Deal<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sometime in my early sixties thoughts switched to retirement. As part of that process, one takes the loo</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> over the shoulder to see the accomplishments of a lifetime. For me, it was the moment of loo</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ing myself in the eye to </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">now that I had earned my respect. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So many things in life aren’t as big a deal as we ma</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e them out to be, but li</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ing who you are at the end of your career is important. It</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’s not a number thing li</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e he who dies with the most toys wins; they</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’re just toys. I’d rather have integrity than more money, but no mista</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> I wanted to earn a comfortable living and wor</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ed hard. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Over the years there</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’s always bad times, but I pluc</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span>ed along relentlessly. Earning a big salary may be its<span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> own reward, but spending years doing something I didn’t li</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e never made me happy, so I followed the rule of love what you do. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Dogs have perfected the art of presence; in silence, they loo</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> at us and perhaps wag their tail with no obvious </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">judgment</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Since childhood, I have loved dogs; than</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> you, God. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">After jobs and businesses I enjoyed, the last thirty years of my career I wor</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ed with dogs; what could be better? I played with dogs for a living until I ran a dog business that played with dogs, which is almost as much fun but paid better. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Nobody wants to leave a thriving business, but age ain</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’t easy, so you contemplate and consider before </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">rebelliously declaring, </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“I have another good ten years in me, maybe more.”</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">But the property and the business appraised at a tidy sum, so best thin</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> about it; it made so much sense to quit in time to enjoy life. My husband suffered from chronic pain, so he voted to go; we put it on the mar</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">et and buyers came, but nobody could get a loan. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ban</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ers lead the news each evening, they called it, the </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Great Recession.” Too big to fail, that was the slogan, followed by bailout and lay off. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">My modest dog business didn’t count for shit when regular clients can’t afford daycare for the </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ids and dog, so the dog lived in the yard all day and other clients, I carried. My clients, my neighbors were upside down, as they called it, meaning they owed more than the property was worth. I wasn</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’t in that boat, but found myself wor</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ing way harder for a lot less; it was an ugly time, I pic</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ed to absolutely need to rest. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">We</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">'re beaten and bro</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">en over time, so when we</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’re done there’s no debating. I hated to give up everything when we were covering for ban</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ing croo</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">s by decree of GWB and company because they caused my pain. Who gives a f---, right? </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Greedy ban</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ers invented new products to sell for more than it was worth, oops. We, the people, had to pay; I had to pay when I needed my lifetime payout, another oops. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Dodd-Fran</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Act became law to prevent these same greedy ban</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ers we bailed out less than ten years ago from doing the same thing to us again. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I am disgusted by a legislature that would consider repeal of Dodd-Fran</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Does the abuse of the people need to become a real ass whipping before we say, </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“No.” </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">People in power tal</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ed around the problem until I felt dizzy, but superb performances from a stellar cast in The Big Short and Margin Call shine a light on the bad behavior of </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">reputable robbers/ban</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ers. These movies are the modern day equivalent of Redford and Hoffman getting the goods on Nixon. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">What is my generation supposed to say to the next?</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Every generation gets its ass beat by government whores with fat wallets of big business money, shut your mouth and ta</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e it.</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">”</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Please, don’t.</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-59311494758220787462017-06-03T11:09:00.000-07:002017-06-03T11:09:57.389-07:00Hello Mary<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Early in the morning, gray-filtered into the valley, light showed up later, about when Mary made morning coffee. With no rush to hurry her about her day, Mary looked past the trees to the fluffy white clouds in the sky lost in thought until she smelled the coffee. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Coffee, chocolate, bread, Mary thought she must have always liked those, but wondered; that’s all she does is wonder. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">She felt as if she’d been dropped into a stranger’s life; nothing felt familiar. People spoke to her as if in the middle of a conversation, but she didn’t know them or what they were talking about, it frightened her.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“You’re high. You’ve been drinking. You’ll be fine in the morning. It was a great party. Goodnight, Mary.” </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And with that, there was Mary, alone in the night with no memory of a moment before. She sat on the porch staring at Orion’s Belt, saw a shooting star, and then coqui-coqui, coqui-coqui caught her attention until she found a tiny frog that made the sound. It’s odd how faced with something monumental a person will focus on something inconsequential. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Utterly confused, Mary wandered into the living room and down the hall to a bedroom where she dropped onto a bed and sobbed herself to sleep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Nobody needed to tell Mary to go to the bathroom in the morning, but she started at the mirror. “Who is this woman?” She stared at the face not knowing who stared back. “I need help,” she mumbled. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Who am I? What am I doing here?” </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Mary raced out the door to find out. A couple of dogs greeted her warmly. A rich texture of green overwhelmed her eyes.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Oh, my, it’s beautiful, “ she thought as she looked across the valley. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Just then she saw an older lady walking on the road. Mary scrambled down the driveway determined to find out what was going on. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Hello,” she called.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The woman walked into a yard across the street; the gate swung closed and locked behind her. She turned to Mary.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Buen dia. Como esta? Todo bien? Todo bien.” She said, smiled and walked into her house; the door closed.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Mary stopped at the bottom of the driveway. “Huh?”</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“What was that? Where am I?”</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“God help me.”</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">She searched the dense green foliage and found colorful houses peeking out; a couple of dogs barked. Cows on a hillside munched and a car went down a road. Mary retreated to the bedroom, where she tried to calm down enough to think; mercifully she fell asleep, only waking after dark. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A dome of sparkling lights set in dark blue ink reflected the twinkling lights of in the bowl of a valley. Tired of the terror, the befuddlement of her situation, Mary sat forbidding herself to think. She stared at clusters of stars when one shot across the sky. “Like me,” she thought and began wondering again. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The next morning the phone rang, caller ID read: Miranda.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Hello,” Mary answered.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Hey, Colt’s having a party tomorrow night, wanted you to come. Stop by my house. We’ll walk over together. Bye.” </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Mary stood looking at the phone in her hand; what just happened? Miranda sounded friendly perhaps she could help, but then Mary got lost in the pictures on the walls, each one seemed to tell a different tale and one picture looked like the woman in the mirror, not her. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The woman looked happy in the picture, so did the man with her, even the dog with them looked happy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Who was looking for her? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Mary examined the cell phone, surprised at how easily she navigated from contact list to the internet and the treasure trove of information, messaging. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-16583175656239994642017-05-31T09:02:00.000-07:002017-06-03T08:03:19.616-07:00Meet Miz Mary<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Mary felt melancholy wondering what would make her cheer up after an evening of stories and jokes with a couple of men she barely knew. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Conversation, Mary found herself starved for the give and take of thoughts. The two friends traded quips to her delight, their well-matched wits worked overtime as one fellow stole the spotlight while his buddy waxed eloquent. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Beyond a doubt Mary enjoyed male company; they assaulted each other verbally in mock battle with her laughter encouraging. Men, Miz Mary thought, talk differently, the raucous ribbing never punctuates a conversation with the girls; men are funny. They challenge and retreat talking over the other to demonstrate prowess with Mary’s attention the symbol of superiority. The coffee and conversation buzzed in her brain on the way home. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Mary doesn’t remember the event that led to her memory loss as if she fell out of the sky landing in someone’s house. How she manages her life is anyone’s guess. Some say she sleepwalks through her life, but really nobody much talks about her. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">You see her at the gym sometimes; she smiles and nods. The expression on her face tells the world she’s lost, but no one seems to notice. Vaguely, she thinks she remembers exercising in a younger body, but she paused, wondering if that’s the body she imagines having. There aren’t enough repetitions in the world she thinks as she does another set. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Why can’t I remember who I am? Why am I here? This world seems strange but familiar. A wispy veil separates Mary from others; brief moments like last night she reached through the veil. Mary analyzed every second as if it would help her remember.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings soothed her disorientation; she likes men, but the man who grabbed her, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">“For the warmth of human contact, “ upset her.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">“Keep your f’ing hands off me,” she snapped.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">“Calm down.”</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Did men always tell you to calm down after doing something upsetting? A familiar chord, perhaps she is remembering her life on Earth. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-81213017160107475932017-05-30T07:41:00.000-07:002017-05-30T08:12:34.793-07:00A Tale of Two Men<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Today look to see a young man in a wheelchair, his face contorted with anger ranting at another man speaking to his mom in Spanish in San Juan airport of all places. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The hellfire torture a person feels over the loss of mobility can only be inadequately imagined, my heart felt for this soul, so I watched him rave a second time. Nothing justifies his behavior to people who were minding their own business, but my heart hurts for him none the less. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Only those who have lost a limb or mobility have any idea of how this young man hurts over the life that might have been his or what he could have done. You’re right; it’s no excuse for bad behavior, if you watch it again it’s a cry for help. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Look in the ranting man’s face; do you see rage? You’re speaking Spanish in the airport is getting on my last nerve rage? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Picture the scene that set the rage monster off, a mom chatting with and cooing over her fit and fine young military son in a way Latina women have of adoring their sons. Looking whole and wonderful her son reflected her adoration, and in hellfire, he sat dwelling on his loss; you can say, how sad or man up, but neither change that this man needs help and more compassion than he showed. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The raging man in a wheelchair may be the focus of this story, but on the flip side, we have a young man who I’d like to recognize for his cool and appropriate behavior. Way to go!!</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The young man off camera spoke in reasonable tones telling him he too was military; he was talking to his mom who spoke Spanish, hoping for the angry man to empathize. Blessed are the peacemakers. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-37411345339666884692017-05-29T08:28:00.000-07:002017-05-29T08:28:12.541-07:00Earth School<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Souls come to the Earthly plane to learn. I’ve read that frequently; haven’t you? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Why am I here?” She asked at age seven, a tender age for so many encounters yet to come. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Self-control, a practice, a goal became her wish, her lesson; what child does this or don’t we all? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">No one had the right to hurt her; beating a small child, that should be prohibited in all holy books. All the hate and evil an Earth person does is inversely proportioned to what they suffered in childhood. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Tag on a tad extra just because and you have hell fire. Little bodies quench parental fires feeling the licks of bonfires, not their doing. Outwardly the child learned control, studied her parents to understand what triggered their volatile behavior. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">No matter what I do you hit me, why can’t I ever get things right?</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">From the pain of creation came hell fire; everything is about quenching hell fire’s pain. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The little girl survived her childhood to search for her place and respect; she has many lessons to learn. We learn them or don’t; life is still ours to mold to perfection or screw up royally. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The little girl’s mother shielded herself from hell fire with her daughter's tiny body; karma comes for her, as will compassion. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-70730362475128345622017-05-28T11:12:00.000-07:002017-05-29T17:56:16.743-07:00Impossible, Unlikely, Oh, No <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Note to army: as long as you guys are out there under Martial Orders you can rape if you want. Or was it more of a get out there and rape somebody memo?</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">What democratically elected president of a country would say that? Officers may start with my campaign volunteers; they’re young and stupid. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Not many world leaders vie to knock the US President off the big jerk platform, but the leader of the free world butting ahead in line paled in comparison. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Young men murdered defending young women in Oregon; that’s too sad. Tell me this is just another day on planet Earth. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">World events, the news reads like fiction. Can we own that something’s not right? Greed and stupidity rise from the swamps like a vapor taking over power and populace simultaneously; welcome to the age of the Atavist. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Republicans may trace back on ancestry.com to Atilla, but I’m beyond the pale unhappy with Democrats; the down the aisle difference of opinion doesn’t cut this schism. Everybody has kicked the can into the gutter. People are pissed. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Bernie is the only politician I trust anymore; in fact, I like the way he thinks, but he’s one person. When the government goes against the population we have tremendous problems, so scary we talk around them. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Lying and pot stirring replaced common sense and caring some time ago. Recent events seem like a return to medieval times with jousting for position and raping and pillaging on deck. A return to the dark ages with technology; what does that look like? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Notes with agendas float past on Facebook, saying dear white friend, I</span><b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">know with a bigotry list attached. Mr. Obama would not have been elected twice without the support of white people; these are the people you react with chiding lists claiming we don’t know how great a president he was. You’re bitch slapping the band. Do you think a single Big T supporter read it? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Smart people don’t kick their dear white friends out from under the covers; I don’t care how pissed about history you may be, you’re too smart to do that, right? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">As a longtime Obama mama, the dear white friend post twisted my whiskers. Next, they’ll be telling whites and blacks that we don’t revere Gandhi because we’re not in touch with the Indian experience. Do you see how this goes back up the toilet? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">A former Speaker of the House charged with pedophilia, again, while Congress holds a party dismantling protections to the environment and every damn thing they can. Choose black and white or living color, the image of them breaking it off in our behinds remains. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Greed and evil versus everybody else, epic battles dating to forever set the mold for continued battles if we don’t learn; angels, demons, and demigods only fight in the movies anymore. Why not us?</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">How does the working class grab hold of our government? How do we take charge? Historically a hero rises from the ranks with character; I remember John, Bobby, and Martin. I still cry for their loss. An LBJ about now would be welcome. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Rich people have to actually pay tax for the government to survive as an entity protecting the public good. As a middle-class business owner during the Clinton years, I complained when I wrote the check for my taxes, but ponied up and lived a good life. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Rich people ready to kill for the last quarter greedy doesn’t make sense any more than elected officials body slamming people to the floor. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Are they alien? Is something in the water? I have my own reasons for believing beings from elsewhere are here. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Things happen that people sitting on corners see, that if ever they got together Earth would learn something, but we all know it’s never going to happen. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Ancient family owned banks running roughly over unfortunate people would have more empathy run by humans. Educated Earth men know that the best agreements are the win-win model; win-lose always ends in a rematch.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I believe that people are better than this; that after so much fighting we put our fists down and make peace, so we can get on with life. Always, we made things work.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Who but an alien not depending on our atmosphere wouldn’t mind destroying the environment? All the Earth kiddies turn green and die and you don’t mind; what? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-85784879611151551852017-05-27T12:38:00.000-07:002017-05-27T13:13:20.077-07:00My Life Purpose Really<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Lately, nothing pleases me. I spent all morning searching for a jazz festival in the Caribbean; the Cuban Jazz Fest cheered me somewhat. How bummed must you be when planning a trip to one of the great jazz experiences on the planet doesn’t hit your yahoo button? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Maybe my biggest fault is that my love is not unconditional. I’m sorry, but it seems to me that the biggest spouters of unconditional love frequently treat each other li</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e shit, alternating between hugging and hitting. The verbally un</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ind bring out the worse in me; sooner or later my mouth flies open and damage done. </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot of </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ind people in the world. Every day I encounter lovely human beings. I have people I love and who love me up to the point of, </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Oh, gee, that’s sad; I’m going to miss her. What’s for dinner?” </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Entering that final act scares me, but not li</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e I thought it would when I was young. The worse part of now isn</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’t being alone; it’s being without my husband. Without him, death will ultimately be welcomed. Thin</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ing about it helps, as long as I don</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’t dwell on it. What’s funny is that I could never contemplate my husband’s death, but my own I can bear.</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Even on those bad days when my honey’s death feels yet unbearable, I manage to occupy myself with a movie or planning a new adventure. Today nothing helps, I miss my man in my life; I could howl and cry. If you’ve ever gotten sic</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> and tired of something, you </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">now how this feels. Being tired of the hurt may be helping because I trying harder, yes, there I am; that</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’s me. </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I believe in God, who teaches me to laugh at the bizarre happenings such as </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the president brea</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ing past world leaders li</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e he</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’s in grammar school. </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Each life has lessons and purpose; God waited, for now, to give me my biggest life purpose. That’s funny. </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Alien observers</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> posed for pictures drawn in stone; we can</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’t imagine how far their technology has come. Thin</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> about it. Intergalactic travelers could be covertly immersing themselves in life on earth for fun and adventure while </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">eeping the earthlings busy fighting each other. </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Things we see throughout life, pausing to sha</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e a head for a moment before moving on didn</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’t ma</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e sense until everything in my life had gone; I saw something else. </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">We </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">now the universe is too large for there not to be </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">intelligent life somewhere, if not here. If our ancient civilizations depicted astronauts, I</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’m guessing they didn’t leave never to return; who does that? </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">What would it be li</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e to discover aliens with really nothing in common with us in charge? If they owned the world ban</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">s and controlled our food supply what else could they do without our realizing that their behavior isn</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’t normal for earth people.</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Fran</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ly, in America, we don</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’t care who runs the show as long as we get a fair sha</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e. Other countries allow citizens a nice life with opportunity and health care. Who with so much has so little heart to ta</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e away from the disadvantaged and elderly? </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">If beings from another planet were caught harming earth all people of our planet would be in the trenches together. Our differences would matter little. </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Why at a time when people have the capacity to live peacefully and somewhat comfortably do we war? What do six billion dollars buy? Could a guy live on a little less for the sa</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e of others? </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In our history, we</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’ve always been explorers; why are we more focused on repeating our barbaric history than going into space? </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I’ve ta</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">en many courses and learned of the </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">knowledge</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> and intelligence on this planet; we do better. Why all the out of control bad behavior? Who benefits by stirring the pot? </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Worrying about this is not how I should be spending the last years of my life. What I</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’ve seen; I </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">now, whether anybody believes, well, quien sabe? God has given me a purpose. Than</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">k</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">s. </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-27351079682361897382017-05-24T12:02:00.000-07:002017-05-24T14:35:52.229-07:00Take a Look<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Old age, the new frontier of my life, I didn’t believe I’d live this long. With this coming birthday there is no politely thinking of myself as older, but somehow still hip or cool; I’m an old lady. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Goodbye days of admiring glances as I walk past; hello, nobody notices. I’m just another granny weaving my way through the crowd. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">My brief escape to Condado and beyond gave me another glimpse into life alone and on the go. In this part of the story, I dined on the beach, straining to hear snatches of conversation, but couldn’t.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">A repeating loud, phony laugh regularly caught my attention. Bitterness dripped from the edges of each ha-hah-hah and each time three. I heard the call for help from the next table, a family gathering of a man and a woman with offspring’s young families all dressed to the teeth, a fine legacy to be sure. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The family, the picture of success made me doubt the hollow laugh could come from there. I searched the water for cruise ship lights. Ha-hah-hah, there it came again a plaintive howl. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Affluent young locals laughed near the bar, while families or couples chatted at tables, some body language better than others; I saw no one who went with the lonely laugh. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Caught in mid-laugh, I saw from a wide open mouth, dry sound ejected; only the corners of his eyes confirmed the sadness, the remainder of his countenance radiated pride. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I sent a flicker of light in his direction as I wished to God for more nights with my honey. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">A nearby couple caught my eye, you know the ones so into themselves that any contact invading their energy, they suffer. The waiter after receiving the order from the man in his fifties, who immediately turned his full attention to his lady, seemed stunned to be so completely shut out, so quickly; it was fun to see. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">In restaurants, we commonly see people’s energy entwine creating a cocoon or you see the ones glancing about the room hoping for someone to relate to other than present company. I have never seen a couple create an energy vortex that looked like a black in a restaurant before; have you? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Soft light, club jazz, the hum of conversation, I scan the scene for clothes I like; a beautiful dress or a well-draped man demands notice. Simple outfits, the woman in black pants and an olive loose knit sweater and the equally lean man in shades of khaki, attracted my attention about two o’clock in my sight line. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The calamari melted on my tongue, the party of one at my table blissed out; I hate it when older people grunt when the food is good, but I’m afraid I may have. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I glanced at two o’clock which went dark, like black hole dark in a circle just big enough for them. This disconcerted me, but another piece of calamari calmed me down. The waiter walked past their table with the order; no energy called to him. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I trained in some soft tissue energy methods, which is why I can sometimes see or feel the energy. That’s pretty weird at first, for a long time I thought it had bullshit written all over it, and then, I felt it. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I’m not some crazy old lady telling you that these were aliens; no human couple I know could pull the light in around themselves achieving that level of privacy in public. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Believe me, I don’t want to be telling you that folks from far-far-away dined with me on Saturday, but unless technology exists to build personal walls what else could it be? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Am I crazy? This question surfaces now and again, but I don’t believe so; in less than a decade I lost my husband, business, nest egg, best friends, and now I’m an old lady. It wouldn’t be an understatement to say I’ve been through a lot, but healing. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Regular exercise and frequent travel feel positive; I mean I’m still fat and sad, but not as much. That’s way better than I felt before and I have hopes and goals again, so I believe in my mental health. Of course, side effects can be a bitch, so judge for yourself.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">What seems nuts to me is taking away the needs of the poor for the wants of the rich. How many human beings can look at another who hasn’t harmed you and say, die? People who become rich frequently give back; it’s the human thing to do. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Without someone to stir the pot I find people to be kind. Is it crazy to question those with the unfair advantage, who treat us as the next old tail they want to eat? Or is greed just another substance abuse? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">With a short life expectancy enjoying my day became personal. Working people paid into the Social Security Fund, which is one of our best benefits for this time of life. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Am I crazy to believe that the aberrant elite controlling our planet aren’t like the rest of us because they’re not from here? It’s easier to believe I’m bat shit bonkers than that aliens have quietly invaded us. What do we do? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I mean, if they’re in a position of absolute power and they don’t like us, we’re screwed. We need to know who we’re dealing with before we don’t like the terms of engagement. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">We should have evolved beyond oppressed masses and pagan parties at the top. Greed beyond the boundaries of satisfaction is not healthy or normal, like schoolboys running through a store grabbing. That’s the same shit that got us in trouble around 2008; we’re falling for it again. Doesn’t that seem too stupid to be real? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">When times are good as they are now for the rich, people have fun, maybe, do something good for the community; who continues to plunder with full coffers? I’m not saying all greedy bastards are aliens, but something’s not right. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Released from a life of regular beatings at eighteen, I wanted the pain to stop. Welcome to adulthood, you’re out of the house. With other teens, I celebrated by drinking and drugging. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Nobody will ever hit me again, my fiery resolve reverberated in every cell; I still feel the resolve, but minus fire. The law was finally on my side, I had recourse if my father hit me again. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">That should have felt better, but it didn’t because every hit on my baby body stored a rotten energy ready to rebound in fury. I could have been beaten into submission, but I drew a defiant resolve to survive. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The hurt and betrayal a child feels at the hands of parents tilts how you feel about the world. I believed everyone would hurt me sooner or later. Of course, that’s true, but there are limits and we can all be assholes at one time or another, but pretty much we can forgive and move on in different directions or make up. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Lucky for me, I met a man who loved me truly, held on tight and never let go. I wish life would have been simple; no, actually dealing with childhood issues became the foundation of my adult dysfunctions. S.N.A.F.U. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I’d pedal upstream like crazy, trying to bring positive things into my life only to be pulled under. I developed a hyper-spastic duodenum; that’s part of my small intestine. Life swung back and forth between good and horseshit. Did I get better?</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Oh, hell no, by twenty-five, I had what they called a nervous breakdown. The out of control feeling that goes with falling apart made me think I was losing my mind. Thinking about going insane really made me crazy if you know what I mean. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">In a nervous breakdown, days end by crying yourself to an exhausted sleep only to awaken to more crying. Pull it together to go to work, cry on the drive to the office, check face in the mirror before exiting the vehicle, and life goes on like normal. I remember how miserable I felt and only knew worse the day my husband died.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">He told me straight out that he didn’t understand people who treated their children like that, but he held me through many tears. With him, I learned to appreciate the beauty in even a bad day. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Life punches and jabs, but then there are the moments with your head in someone’s lap and they’re stroking your face. To appreciate the strokes, I’ve had to give up focusing on the jabs. Do you have any idea how long that takes? I’ll let you know when I arrive.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Joy inhabits a day focused on even the smallest positive details; eventually, it overrides the pain. That may be one of the biggest lessons of my life; it’s a favorite. I like healing a lot.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Today, San Juan here I come with plans to go to a dog show. It’s funny but, when I told a friend at the gym, she rolled her eyes to say, “Who would want to do that?” </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I would to celebrate my birthday. For years I didn’t celebrate; how sad is it when your birthday doesn’t make you happy? I hear it from others all the time, so it’s not just me.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">During his life, I treated my husband to dinner or parties and gave the best gifts, including our first Rottweiler; or we went to a resort. Good God, I love that man. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Since his passing, my goal is to love myself as well as I loved him. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">A lifetime of repairing self-worth follows a shamed child. What I’ve done in my lifetime says who I am; wow, who’d have thought it? I’m proud of me. Happy birthday.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-90730334703634478532017-05-15T09:08:00.000-07:002017-05-15T09:08:24.040-07:00Act Three<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I am a Plebeian woman in many a marketplace examining the wares. Being of humble means I look much and purchase little. As I go I look into eyes and see the world; many souls look back, sharing their truths in a passing moment. I see hurt, love, and humanity, as well as, shame inflicted, but mostly not deserved. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I am proud of my cast, commonplace people, the salt on our table. During my productive age, I seldom looked directly into eyes; I didn’t trust, nor wanted to learn their secrets, or them to see my shame. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">When you begin with little or nothing you have a plan and stay focused to get something. I believed in business old school, which meant doing my best each day, having integrity. I worked hard and managed to live a life that pleased me. I was blessed by opportunity. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Most of us don’t want to rule the world, just let me do something I can be proud of at the end of the day; it doesn’t matter what. My husband was proud to be a truck driver. He held respect within his company and his boss trusted him. As a Teamster in 705, he played his part in life, as I did as his wife. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The curtain rises on my third act: old age alone. Compliments of unscrupulous bankers, one of my least favorite presidents, and bad timing I have nothing, but thanks to Social Security am able to survive. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ever wonder if walking off into the sunset means we die together? It didn’t; here I am. Does it matter? Why am I still here?</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Act three, old and alone, who wants to see that? But wait a minute, each day holds promise, maybe not like my younger years, none the less, I see a beautiful sunrise and feel the arms of God under stars. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">On the internet, I read inspired words from poets responding to their call and see what talented artists produce. I live on a tropical island, driving roads canopied with orange, purple, and white flowers in trees with trunks so wide I can but wonder what changes they’ve seen. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Enjoy the day, each day, one day in the not too distant future will be my last; this much I know. Those I loved, the comfort I strove for is gone, but there is so much value in the humble. I’m blessed when the bones don’t ache. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Travel alone I never thought I could, but adventure need not include tachycardia. Planning, budgeting, and learning about a destination give as much pleasure as the trip, well almost. So often I hit the financial wall with no way written all over it; my challenge to take a break, do something else, and come back with fresh eyes relishes the moment when doable pops into view. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-36238542971755107722017-05-12T07:42:00.000-07:002017-05-12T14:12:52.812-07:00My Angel<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Dearest Sister,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Very happy you’re better. Please, be healthy! I need you in my life. We cling to each other as girls in a raft. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">To be with you again soaking up your loving care, I can’t wait. Last I saw you was during the worse time of my life. I never could look at life without my husband; you made me feel safe and not alone. It felt like the first growth of life after devastation. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">How many times in a lifetime do you recognize a soul mate across a room crowded or otherwise? And, yet, there we were. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Can we doubt God has a plan? You were the angel whose caring reminded me that God cares. Your presence united us; being mad with God doesn’t feel nice. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I miss our conversations and am eager to get to know your country better. Who am I kidding? I can’t wait to hear the jazz, while I hear music I visit my happy place. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Two lifelong dog lovers attending an international FCI dog show; I shiver with delight; can’t wait. To stay with you until the book expo in January would be unfair, so we’ll limit my stay; you say how long. Between now and then I’ll be budgeting. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">An unscrupulous company has been burrowing into my checking account, almost caused a huge problem when I was in New Orleans. I bought something on the internet, a cosmetic company began sending and charging for cosmetics that went to my post office box. The purchase as understood by me was a one time deal and I’ll let you know if I want more. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">On my trip to New Orleans I encountered difficulty, of course, I budget for some but stood at the counter with not enough in my account to work already done. By the grace of God, I had just enough cash on me to cover. I don’t normally carry more than a twenty or two. My heart beat crazy counting. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I’m too old for this stress. I’m going to the bank to find out how to stop this. Nothing I saw on the cosmetics company website lead me to believe we had an ongoing relationship. I’ll bet this happens frequently. This seems like a sharp business practice, huh!</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">I could have been so screwed because big business didn’t play fair again. I’ve had a hard time since my return home; health comes with nourishment and exercise. As long as my government doesn’t default on me, I can handle my life. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">When you’re up for it please send the correct name of the dog show and dates, town, etc. And the same for the jazz fest. Costs. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Let’s pray we’re not too old for fun; huh, Sister! </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13633430210745779151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8098568035750314657.post-22698124415395740962017-05-11T07:40:00.000-07:002017-05-11T07:44:26.511-07:00How About It<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 5.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 60.0000pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">When things don’t make sense, when behavior seems too insane to contemplate, we must look outside the box. I know you don’t want to hear this on a day elected officials run amok in the halls of Congress, a school teacher rips off the head scarf of an eight -year-old student, a vacationing family is assaulted on the beach in front of their hotel by a man beating his chest like an ape shouting the Trump will stop this, or a woman shooting a man in the act of raping an animal. Yeah, I see where the last one could be tempting, but, honestly, a miss would have scared the stuffing out of him.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Tell me your life has gone to hell since the Great Recession, well, my world fell apart during that time when bankers bad behavior caught up with the rest of us.Normal creatures lick their wounds and move on; it’s hard as hell, I know. I lost my business, my investment, my lifestyle, and then, my husband died. I know what hair-on-fire feels like and pissed off runs around in the outfield. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Politicians photographed with gleeful, let’s stick it to them expressions doing harm to us; I mean, are they photo-shopped? Why do one thing after another against our interests, even when ultimately they hurt their own families? I lived in a Republican county; Denny Hastert lived down the road. I get Republicans; on many issues, I see their point. This is double bubble, toil, and trouble in green and with warts. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Soon I’ll be sixty-nine, almost ancient, but I feel like I did in the sixties when my friends died in Vietnam. Negative energy abounds and I struggle. But, older and, yes, wiser, I see the cauldron being stirred. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Life isn’t as good; I live on a pittance. In my neighborhood that’s a chronic condition, but we spend our days trying to make the best of it. Being kind or at least nice keeps meet-ups friendly or cordial. You’ve heard the expression: poor, but happy; let me introduce myself. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Before you conclude that I’m down on Republicans, let me tell you that a lifelong Democrat has quit. I’m not happy with them either. Baffle them with bullshit if you can’t impress them with brilliance somewhere down the line became both parties motto. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Why would we elect representatives toxic to us? Our representatives are neighbors; do your neighbors treat you like idiots? Sell off your kids playgrounds? Pay to play mentality benefits the rich and powerful; no doubt, but is it in our DNA or God’s plan that man upon becoming rich and powerful turns into Ivan, the terrible. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">When you ruin Earth, what will you do? Hop a rocket to Mars? The rich and powerful, the all powerful Os knows even better than we do that aliens have been here. Even aliens have accidents; other than those, we are hardly aware of the signs that they’re here. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Children of Earth don’t become children of the stars while we’re busy behaving like Neanderthals. I’ve read the writings of the brilliant and hung out with the most humble. I’ve known crazy and seen evil and I truly believe someone is stirring the pot. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">An ecosystem doesn’t purge itself, a forest doesn’t naturally burn unless it becomes unhealthy. There’s a natural point at which the snake stops chewing its behind or death ensues. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The rich and powerful exploit Earth like they have a getaway vehicle or they’ve lost control of their headsets. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">How many ways could we be manipulated? Think about it. Fifty years ago we were in a race into space; what happened to that? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">A new frontier would benefit this generation just as opening American did for our ancestors, but here we are wanting to dig more coal. What’s wrong with this picture? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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