tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207950777554529372024-03-05T13:14:07.476-06:00Orange is the Colour of WordPoetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration. - Carl SandburgDebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.comBlogger772125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-83991075154861037172020-05-28T15:32:00.000-05:002020-05-28T15:32:03.189-05:00Sign the Petition for Floyd<span style="color: blue;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: blue;">https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-george-floyd</span></div>
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<br />Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-82090927674706943072020-04-30T15:32:00.001-05:002020-04-30T15:55:28.562-05:00The Province of Manitoba in Canada Covid-19 Update<span style="color: #660000;">I am very pleased and proud of Manitoba and its residents.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">By the time Covid-19 hit Canada, the rest of the world was already experiencing the tragic effects of this virus, we were ramping up our strategies to contain it. Unfortunately the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta were hit hardest and by the time we had our first case in Manitoba it was March 12th. Most of the business sector voluntarily closed their doors and went home<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>which greatly helped to contain the virus. We are now at April 30 and to date we have 273 cases with 6 deaths, our cases are currently growing by 1-2 cases a day, sometimes 0. Premier Brian Pallister announced yesterday that Manitoba will begin to re-open on Monday, May 4th and the list is vast enough to get people back to their jobs and restart the economy. He has done an absolutely smashing job along with many other folks to get us up and running in order to save the economy from complete collapse. Here is our re-opening plan! And people joke about Winnipeg all the time as being one of the most undesirable cities to live in, but hey, am I glad I do!</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.gov.mb.ca/covid19/restoring/phase-one.html">https://www.gov.mb.ca/covid19/restoring/phase-one.html</a><br />
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Everyone knew the water would rise,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">but nobody knew how much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The priest at Santa Croce said, <i>God<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">will not flood the church.</span></i><span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">When the Arno broke its banks, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">God entered as a river, let His mark high<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">above the altar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">He left nothing untouched:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">stones, plaster, wood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">You are all my children.</span></i><span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The hem of His garment, which was<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">the river’s bottom sludge,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">swept through Florence, filling cars and cradles,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">the eyes of marble statues,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">even the Doors of Paradise. And the likeness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">as clouds of salted crystals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">on the faces of saints, until the intonaco<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">they had been resurrected. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">This is what I know of restoration:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">in a small room near San Marco,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">alone on a wooden stool<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">nearly every day for a year,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">I painted squares of blue on gessoed boards—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">cobalt blue with madder rose, viridian,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">lamp black—pure pigments and the strained yolk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">of an egg, then penciled notes about the powders,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">the percentages of each. I never asked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">to what end I was doing what I did, and now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">I’ll never know. Perhaps there was one square<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">that matched the mantle of a penitent, the stiff<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">hair of a donkey’s tail, a river calm beneath a bridge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">I don’t even know what I learned,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">except the possibilities of blue, and how God enters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Tomas Tranströmer</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">A man feels the world with his work like a glove.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />He rests for a while at midday having laid aside the gloves on a shelf.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />There they suddenly grow, spread<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />and black out the whole house from inside.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">The blacked-out house is away out among the winds of spring.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“Amnesty,” runs the whisper in the grass: “amnesty.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A boy sprints with an invisible line slanting up in the sky<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />where his wild dream of the future lies like a kite bigger than the suburb.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Further north you can see from a summit the blue endless carpet of pine forest<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />where the cloud shadows<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />are standing still.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />No, are flying.</span></div>
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Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-87735839592644828922020-03-27T11:47:00.005-05:002020-03-27T11:48:58.906-05:00Hope<div class="elementor-element elementor-element-b212983 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-element_type="widget" data-id="b212983" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 682.891px;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Hope is with you when you believe</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">The earth is not a dream but living flesh,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie,</span></div>
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That all things you have ever seen here</div>
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Are like a garden looked at from a gate.</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">You cannot enter. But you're sure it's there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Could we but look more clearly and wisely</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">We might discover somewhere in the garden</span></div>
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A strange new flower and an unnamed star.</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Some people say we should not trust our eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">That there is nothing, just a seeming,</span></div>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">These are the ones who have no hope.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">They think that the moment we turn away,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The world, behind our backs, ceases to exist,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As if snatched up by the hands of thieves.</span></div>
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Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-58846372762789775922019-12-08T14:10:00.005-06:002019-12-08T14:10:43.513-06:00Seasonal<span style="color: #20124d;">Such short summer;</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">fish on the hook.</span>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-25947202067676709522019-12-08T14:03:00.000-06:002019-12-08T14:07:12.171-06:00Flash Back<br />
<span style="color: #660000;">I remember when</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">my dreams</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">wouldn't let you -</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: #660000;">G</span>o.</span><br />
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Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-29148187577299826342019-08-13T11:43:00.002-05:002019-08-13T11:43:39.865-05:00Happy 95th Dad!! August 9th, 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-42983285286422494362019-05-03T10:20:00.002-05:002019-05-03T10:20:32.009-05:00<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">I've been looking so long at these pictures of you</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">That I almost believe that they're real </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I've been living so long with my pictures of you</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">That I almost believe that the pictures </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Are all I can feel</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Remembering you standing quiet in the rain </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">As I ran to your heart to be near </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And we kissed as the sky fell in</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Holding you close </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">How I always held close in your fear</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Remembering you running soft through the night </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You were bigger and brighter and wider than snow</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And screamed at the make-believe </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Screamed at the sky</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And you finally found all your courage </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">To let it all go</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Remembering you fallen into my arms </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Crying for the death of your heart </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You were stone white</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">So delicate </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Lost in the cold </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You were always so lost in the dark</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Remembering you</span><span class="S0KpLd">…</span></div>
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<span class="S0KpLd">The Cure</span></div>
Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-89285066283128658462019-01-19T08:48:00.001-06:002019-01-19T08:48:09.378-06:00Moment<div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Thunder only happens</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">when it's raining -</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">she flips her long black hair</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Debbie Calverley</span></div>
Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-26940177471644179152019-01-19T08:45:00.003-06:002019-01-19T08:46:54.326-06:00Walk-ku<br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">I</span><span style="color: #0c343d;"> remember when we walked</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">through cities</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">like we owned the</span><span style="color: #0c343d;">m</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Debbie Calverley</span>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-47589904992531068992019-01-17T19:41:00.003-06:002019-01-17T19:43:39.872-06:00RIP Mary Oliver your brilliant writing lives on<br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "calibri,bold"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><b>Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End? by Mary Oliver
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">Don’t call this world adorable, or useful, that’s not it. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">It’s frisky, and a theatre for more than fair winds. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">The eyelash of lightning is neither good nor evil.<br />
The struck tree burns like a pillar of gold.
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">But the blue rain sinks, straight to the white<br />
feet of the trees<br />
whose mouths open.<br />
Doesn’t the wind, turning in circles, invent the dance? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">Haven’t the flowers moved, slowly, across Asia, then Europe, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">until at last, now, they shine
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">in your own yard?</span></span><br />
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Don’t call this world an explanation, or even an education.
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">When the Sufi poet whirled, was he looking </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">outward, to the mountains so solidly there </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">in a white-capped ring, or was he looking
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">to the centre of everything: the seed, the egg, the idea</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">that was also there,<br />
beautiful as a thumb<br />
curved and touching the finger, tenderly,
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">little love-ring,
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.000000pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">as he whirled,<br />
oh jug of breath,<br />
in the garden of dust?
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "calibri,italic"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Mary Oliver </b></span></div>
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Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-78863836412002801742019-01-01T20:08:00.000-06:002019-01-17T19:44:47.693-06:00<span style="color: #073763;"><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TUD4CQT33w4">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TUD4CQT33w4</a></span>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-1329088581956460542018-10-07T14:52:00.001-05:002018-10-07T14:52:49.082-05:00Little Wanderer - Death Cab for Cutie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-71312088092196056132018-04-15T21:08:00.002-05:002019-01-17T19:45:14.371-06:00INXS Stairs<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1qd6gKM9oU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1qd6gKM9oU</a>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-4824339739805941202018-02-19T12:15:00.003-06:002018-02-19T12:15:59.759-06:00Peace Out Winter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-47171972799352937992017-09-04T13:36:00.003-05:002017-09-04T13:37:45.846-05:00Thanks Mr. Trudeau for proposing to kill small business - Sign the Petition Canadians!<a href="https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-1239"><span style="color: blue;">https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-1239</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Complete and utter Socialism at its very best. I'll take the guy back with the bad hair any day.</span>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-27662369952936529282017-02-11T15:55:00.004-06:002017-02-11T16:02:24.181-06:00Elevation<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #660000;">Love, lift me up out
of these blues<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #660000;">Won’t you tell me
something true<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #660000;">I believe in you<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #660000;">-U2<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">The day their sky exploded </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">the radio wasn’t on</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">she was playing a home-made cassette </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">a friend had mailed to her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Elevation was on top volume</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">she was singing top volume</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">and driving full speed </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">down a country road.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">A sky blue Tuesday</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">one of those autumns</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">that carried no pricetag</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">in the middle of a January white-out.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">The version of Elevation </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">was not official </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">one she had never heard</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">lots of flute and that made her happy.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">When she arrived at her client’s door</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">one she had never met before </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">she was greeted with</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #660000;">It’s a disaster<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">Laughing, she indicated she’d seen</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">a lot of homes in a state of disaster.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">The woman looked at her strangely;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #660000;">No, A plane just hit
the twin towers<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></i>
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<span style="color: #660000;">It’s funny what you remember</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660000;">when the world changes forever -</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">It’s funny what you remember.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">- Debbie Calverley</span></div>
Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-13475385372752798912016-12-10T21:50:00.002-06:002016-12-12T15:06:21.649-06:00LP - Pride in the Name of Love - wow what a voice<span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UExvBBOO238</span>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-16607351923127988852016-12-03T14:42:00.002-06:002016-12-03T14:44:25.594-06:00Barefoot Abandon - Mona T. Lyndon-Rochelle<div id="page_title" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; white-space: nowrap;">
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<span style="color: #990000;"> To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the<br /> greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.<br /> <span style="font-size: 11.199999809265137px;">—FEDERICO <span class="caps">GARC</span>ÍA <span class="caps">LORCA</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Last night we were free the moon you me.<br />Our lips of spiced cinnabar burned through the dark<br />and in barefoot abandon we dove into the sea. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #990000;">You an azurite combustion me the Rose of Tralee.<br />We swam clear coastal waters with a great white shark.<br />Last night we were free the moon you me. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #990000;">An offshore breeze seduced us so innocently.<br />We shed shift and shirt and ran to the seamark<br />in barefoot abandon we dove into the sea </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #990000;">and rose so breathless I would not foresee<br />so fickle a kiss. Why leave me in the dark?<br />Last night we were free the moon you me </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #990000;">for my heart and love were eternal you see.<br />You singed my lips burned your watermark<br />when in barefoot abandon we dove into the sea. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #990000;">You haunt my dreams with wild anxiety<br />I yearn for the years I lost you my Irish anarch.<br />Last night we were free the moon you me.<br />Barefoot abandoned I dove into the sea. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span id="byline" style="text-transform: uppercase;">MONA T. LYDON-ROCHELLE</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span id="book_title">The Southern Review </span><br /><span id="issue">Autumn 2016</span></span></div>
Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-39888650562198787042016-11-18T20:49:00.001-06:002016-11-18T20:49:07.846-06:00After All<span style="color: #20124d;">After all the poems I wrote</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">After all the times I said</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">After all the times you didn't</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">After all the times we did</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">After all the times there weren't</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">After all the times there were</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">After all the times I almost</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">After all the times you didn't</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">After all the times we wasted</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">After all the times we lived</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">After all the times we died</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">After all the times we almost made it</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #20124d;">But there is no after all </span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">After all there is no more</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">But there is no after all</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #20124d;">-Debbie Calverley</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I've worked at my work<br />I've slept at my sleep<br />I've died at my death<br />And now I can leave<br />Leave what is needed<br />And leave what is full<br />Need in the Spirit<br />And need in the Hole<br />Beloved, I'm yours<br />As I've always been<br />From marrow to pore<br />From longing to skin<br />Now that my mission<br />Has come to its end:<br />Pray I'm forgiven<br />The life that I've led<br />The Body I chased<br />It chased me as well<br />My longing's a place<br />My dying a sail </span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828;"> </span><span style="color: red;">Leonard Cohen</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;">
<span style="color: red;"> Book of Longing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Delete too easy -</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">It's all about perspective.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">- Debbie Calverley</span>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12510202744182801061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920795077755452937.post-39495615915068739592016-10-29T15:18:00.000-05:002016-10-29T15:18:24.731-05:00Chicago<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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