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Na/GloPoWriMo Day 17: Wrapped Around Her Little Finger
The Na/GloPoWriMo Day 17 challenge is to “write a poem re-telling a family anecdote that has stuck with you over time”. There is not a person on this Earth (or any other for that matter), who knows me and … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Daughters, Family, Father, Little Finger, Love, Magical, Na/GloPoWriMo, Perfect Fit, Poem, Poetry, Wrapped
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Frigid
Looking down into the heart of the frigid winter Hoping to find maybe some kind of hint there Why so many find the starkness of winter dead Perhaps it’s the quietness they hold in dread? The chill can ache deep … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Bleakness, Bones, Children, Chill, Daily Prompt, Dickens, Dread, Frigid, Play, Solitude, Star of David, Starkness, Winter, Wisemen, Wordpress
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The Eyes of the Lord
Based on Psalms 34:15-17 The Eyes of the Lord by Michael Romani Over and over the Bible tells What the eyes of God reveals Every way that we might turn There in every lesson learned All of His children are … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Children, Christianity, Cross, Favor, Grace, Humility, Integrity, Kindness, Legacy, Measure, Omnipresence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Psalms, Shelter, The Eyes of the Lord, Treasure
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Betrayed
Looking at essence of the cold winter ever Of a nuclear disaster that will recover –never It’s hard to see how Chernobyl might else be portrayed But to see it in the stark terms of children betrayed The isotopes released … Continue reading
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Tagged Betrayal, Betrayed, Chernobyl, Children, Daily Prompt, Disaster, Milk, Nation, Nuclear, People, Poison, Thyroid Cancer, Wordpress, Zone of Mass Alienation
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Thought For the Day: The Concerns of Childhood Are Life Sized To Children
“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.” – Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet (b. 1939)
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Tagged Children, Life Sized, Little Girls, Margaret Atwood, Perspective, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: The True Heroes of This World Share Responsibility For Caring For Our Children
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Community, Fred Rogers, Heroes, Issues, Problem Solvers, Responsibility, Responsive, Thought For the Day, World
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Thought For the Day: Children Require Nurturing and Cultivation
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.” – Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)
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Tagged Attention, Children, Cultivation, Jungle, Luther Burbank, Neglect, Nurturing, Plants, Thought For the Day, Weeds
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First Principles: The Foundations of National Morality Rests In the Family
“The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. … In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose principles and licentious habits are impressed upon children in their earliest years. … The vices and examples of … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Education, Example, Families, First Principles, Foundation, Habits, National Morality, Parents, Principles
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The Perfect Nanny
The Perfect Nanny by Michael Romani She didn’t know how to die Only how to give away death The story revolves as to why Perhaps, it is all she had left The modality of a perfect nanny For two quickly … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Death, Die, Family, Grisly, Immigrant, Parents, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Red Flags, Return to Work, The Perfect Nanny, Travesty
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