When you chase something
You might not catch it until
You let it happen.
Added by Jami Ward on October 26, 2010 at 6:00pm —
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You speak to my heart
Without uttering a word.
Soul to soul we share.
Added by Jami Ward on October 23, 2010 at 10:00pm —
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Ribbons in a box
With a dusty tiny dress
Are all that are left.
Added by Jami Ward on October 22, 2010 at 10:00pm —
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When I was little, I thought thunder and lightening were God's punishment for telling lies. Growing up has only served to reinforce this notion.
Added by Sheree on October 25, 2010 at 6:01pm —
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I had one of those amazingly simple childhoods that, at the time seemed somewhat bleak, but in hindsight was wonderful and magical and what I wish my own kids had experienced. Mother and Daddy married in 1945 after he'd been wounded in the war and sent home. They started a dairy farm in southwestern Arkansas and things went pretty well for quite a while. But by the time I came along (number four in the five-member sibling group) they'd lost the farm to drought and had moved back to North Texas…
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Added by Sheree on October 23, 2010 at 9:51am —
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Things may be bad now.
Things not only get better,
They get downright great!
Added by Jami Ward on October 20, 2010 at 8:00am —
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The little numbers on the line,
Behave so well for me.
As they grow bigger they travel left,
and smaller-right you see.
But if you want to know the scale,
make all the powers equal.
Then when they are drawn out on a line,
their distance will be sensible.
Added by William Joseph George-Stilianess on October 23, 2010 at 7:51am —
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This started to be about what it might feel like to be the last flock of chickens, the last outhouse, the last milk man - in town. Thinking of the time when the milk man would walk right into the house in the
morning and re-stock the refrigerator for us. His name was Danny
Pinson.
And the last outhouse in town was on ninth street down by Cleveland street. The last guy to raise chickens in the city limits was Richard Mathes and that wasn't too long ago. A couple of locals fit…
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Added by Rick Reiley on October 22, 2010 at 10:30am —
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Therapists and friends -
Good ones will keep your secrets,
But friends are cheaper.
Added by Jami Ward on October 19, 2010 at 8:00pm —
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My ears begin to pop as the pressure changed during our descent into the atmosphere directly over the green mountains. Having grown up in areas predominantly near a city I was overwhelmed with the amount of green
that I saw beneath me. I can recall turning to my new wife and saying, where
are we going to land, there's nothing but trees down there? We'd made a slight
left banking out over Lake Champlain and began our downwind run into…
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Added by William Joseph George-Stilianess on October 20, 2010 at 9:32am —
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The speed of time is
Inherently linked to the
Level of boredom.
Added by Jami Ward on October 18, 2010 at 8:08pm —
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Autumn is coming.
Cooler, darker earlier.
Colored leaves falling.
Added by Jami Ward on October 14, 2010 at 7:30pm —
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When did they get big?
They've grown to be real people.
Stop their vitamins!
Added by Jami Ward on October 17, 2010 at 8:00pm —
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What is it? I've been back from vacation six weeks, and I can't get back to ANY groove that feels "right". The problem is likely, I'm still about 3,000 miles away in my home town of North Pole/Fairbanks, Alaska.
We bought our tickets at the end of January 2010 to go home. Our second trip in six years, my husbands second trip ever. We were flying home August 19 and returning to Hot-Texas on September 5. Somewhere around February,…
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Added by Kimberly on October 19, 2010 at 2:00pm —
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Plumbing is such fun.
Using can be, anyway.
Fixing - not so much.
Added by Jami Ward on October 16, 2010 at 7:30pm —
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I’ve never met a garden I didn’t like, although some I’ve taken to more than others. Growing up, we always had a huge vegetable patch, which we had to toil in, so on hot, sweaty days I didn’t favor that kind.
There is another…
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Added by Dorraine Darden on October 15, 2010 at 8:00pm —
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He left long ago
But his old baggage remained.
She just threw it out.
Added by Jami Ward on October 10, 2010 at 9:30pm —
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Skipping ahead a bit but this one was just "there" this morning and I needed to get it out of the way.
Her side:
“A ghost?”
Spoken more as a statement than a question with that look he reserves for my more “whackadoodle” comments and ideas.
“Yes. A ghost. I don’t know any other way to describe it. I was out in the garden…”
I might as well have been talking to a…
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Added by Sheree on October 14, 2010 at 12:00pm —
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Convoluted thoughts
Arrive in the night's wee hours
And crowd out slumber.
Added by Jami Ward on October 13, 2010 at 8:30pm —
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So much stuff to do!
Running hard to stay even.
A short nap might help.
Added by Jami Ward on October 7, 2010 at 9:30pm —
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