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Belated Birthday Wishes To the US Army!!
Happy 244th! Thank you to all the men and women who have served our country in this branch of our military. Life would, assuredly, not be the same without you fine people!!
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Tagged 244th, Gratitude, Happy Birthday, Military, Service, Thought For the Day, US Army
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Finding Restorative Balance
Lately, though taking quite a hit in my life, I have also found through the good times and lessons given and learned some hints at new approaches for my health and peace. For that, I will always be eternally grateful. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Address, Balance, Beautiful, Being, Bliss, Calm, Cause, Changes, Clarity, Conditiion, Convention, Corrective, De-Stress, Deliberate Intention, Distract, Effect, Embrace, Find, Fluid, Focus, Gratitude, Happiness, Health, Improve, Joy, Life, Mind and Body, Moment, Mystery, Overwhelm, Pauses, Peace, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Reconnect, Reinvention, Relax, Restorative, See, Slow and Steady, Tai Chi, Thoughtfulness, Time and Space, Treasure, Wonderful, Yoga
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In Observance of Memorial Day 2019
May each and everyone of the readers of this blog and all American service persons past and present have a blessed, safe and as happy as can be as we observe this Memorial Day 2019. Some of us gave some, … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Duty, America, Gratitude, Memorial Day, Observance, Service, Some, Some Gave All, Sorrow, Thought For the Day, Veterans
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First Principles: It Is the Duty of All Nations To Acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God In Humble Gratitude
“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.” – George Washington
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Tagged Acknowledge, All Nations, Duty, First Principles, George Washington, God, Gratitude, Humility, Obedience, Providence
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A Pillow’s Talk of Things
The ninth day of Na/GloPoWriMo is based on the lists found in Sei Shonagon’ s The Pillow Talk. As the hour has grown later than I had hoped and only just recently finished a show along with a late dinner and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adore, Attention, Attitude, Beast, Beloved, Best, Best Intention, Breeze, Bring, Busy Day, Care, Chase, Chase Circles, Cloud, Confide, Confusion, Conquer, Cry, Delight, Depression, Despise, Difference, Diffidence, Enchantment, Eye to Eye, Face, Fascination, Find, Fruits, Game, God's Daughter, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Heart, Heart Sing, Hope, Hour, Imagination, Impression, Intention, Keep, Knowledge, Known, Lady Love, Last, Late, Laughter, Lifetimes, Love, Memory, Mesmerize, Mind, Moon, Na/GloPoWriMo, Night, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Power, Precious, Prove, Pure, Questions, Raindrop, Reason Why, Rendition, Respect, Rule, Save, Sei Shonagon, Share, She, Sigh, Smile, Solitary Power, Soul, Sparkle, Spell Caster, Tantalize, Tear, Tears, Test, The Pillow Talk, Thought, Times, Tree House, Trouble, Upset, Voice, Vow, Way, Word, Words
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Joy In the Gifts of Hard Times
The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 7 is to write a poem about gifts and joy. Above this challenge was a bit about how poetry can prove quite the therapeutic tool. I can see this easily from my own life. From this … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Above, Abundance, Agony, Alive, Believe, Bleak, Celebrate, Circumstance, Clarity, Concieve, Dark, Daughters, Day, Depend, Despair, Devotion, Difficulty, Each Day, Earth, Employ, Faith, Family, Find, Focus, Gift, Gifts, Good, Good Friends, Grasp, Gratitude, Hand, Happenstance, Hard Times, Heaven, Hope, Joy, Key, Little Girls, Love, Moments, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nature, Negate, Out of Control, Passing Moment, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Rejoice, Salvation, Seasons, Situation, Soul, Spiral, Sublime, Support, Survive, Thankful, Today, World, World Turned Upside Down
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Living Memories of A Man Taking the Name of Chip Takacs
May you rest in peace, Mr. Michael Robert Taska! Heaven has gained a mischieveous, wonderfully humored, good hearted musician for it’s honor guard band. While you walked among us, you made so many smile with happiness. Always so ready with … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Study Tools, Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alive, Beautiful Child, Beloved Family, Bible Study Tools, Chip Takacs, Compare, Convention, End, Flair, Forgive, Friend, God, Gratitude, Heaven, Human Being, Intent, Joke, Learn, Life, Living, Love, Loving, Meet, Memory, Michael Robert Taska, Musician, Original, Prayer, Remember, Sing, Song, View, Well Meaning, Worth
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Parallel Parking Haibun
Poem A Day #5 has the Haibun as it’s form. The word prompt is ‘parallel’. That led to some creative thinking on my part. What does one write about with parallel.. geography or basic driving…. “A Haibun = a prose … Continue reading
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Tagged Blank Spot, Blind Faith, Experience, Faith, Gratitude, Haibun, Haiku, Islands, Journey, Judgment, Lessons, Life, Mainland, Nail, Parallel, Parallel Park, Poem A Day #5, Poetry, Prose Poem, Seams, Strain, Surf, Teen
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Memory of Fireworks Haiku
I keep stumbling around trying to catch up with this whole Milkwood Poem of a Day event. Mainly, it seems that when bits and pieces are done out of sequence, it confuses me to where to go from there. With … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Behind, Cherish, Chill, Close, Color, End, Eyes, Fade, Fireworks, Gone, Gratitude, Haiku, Heart, Hurt, Japanese, Laughter, Left, Linger, Lost, Love, Memory, Milkwood, One, Other, Past, Path, Poem, Poem A Day, Poetry, Safe, See, Smile, Summertime, Sweet Dream, Understand, Us, Will, Wish
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