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Take a moment to kick off your shoes, relax, and refill your cup. Enjoy some poetry and a bit of art.
Browse through the assorted offerings, and hopefully you'll find something helpful, informative, or just fun.
Oh, And chocolate!Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.comBlogger3813125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-34274807593416413112017-07-08T00:00:00.000-07:002017-07-08T00:00:38.079-07:00It's A Garden Party! - Have A Rosy Saturday, All<div style="text-align: center;">
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This feature, originally known as <i><b>Saturday Farmer's Market</b></i>, was created by <i><b>Heather</b></i> at <a href="http://www.capriciousreader.com/?p=10034&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+capricious+%28Capricious+Reader%29">Capricious Reader</a>, and was then hosted by <b>Chris</b> at <a href="http://www.dream-stuff.com/2013/06/saturday-farmers-market-61513.html">Stuff as Dreams are Made on</a>.</div>
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My Roses started blooming early this year too. In fact, my bushes were full before the last frost hit. (Sorry, I was out of commission, so no pics.)<br />
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As the weather warmed up they continued to flower, but something strange started to happen. (Now I'm sounding like all those click bait headlines. Lol) As the weather continued to warm, the flowers stayed fine and abundant, but the bushes lost most of their leaves.<br />
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At first I thought something was wrong with my irrigation, (a not infrequent occurrence) but they were getting plenty of water. Then . . . <i>dun dun dun</i> . . . I found that others were having the same issue.<br />
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Turns out that, best guess is they are shedding their leaves to better tolerate the dry, relentless heat.<br />
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This feature, originally known as <i><b>Saturday Farmer's Market</b></i>, was created by <i><b>Heather</b></i> at <a href="http://www.capriciousreader.com/?p=10034&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+capricious+%28Capricious+Reader%29">Capricious Reader</a>, and was then hosted by <b>Chris</b> at <a href="http://www.dream-stuff.com/2013/06/saturday-farmers-market-61513.html">Stuff as Dreams are Made on</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>If anyone would like to share their own gardening adventures with me - large or small, inside or out - </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>I would love to see them.</b></i></span></div>
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-57004916004112107902017-06-30T00:30:00.000-07:002017-06-30T10:47:13.198-07:00How many years has it been now . . . somewhere around 200?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">If you go to Etsy, you will find a shop called <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/186071110/happy-annibearsary-anniversary-greeting"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b>ButterTogether</b></i></span></a>, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">belonging to a very talented <i><b>Kim Keitner</b></i>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">She offers an assortment of sweet greeting cards with hand drawn designs.</span><br />
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-8400591734448520472017-06-30T00:00:00.000-07:002017-06-30T00:00:20.827-07:00Please . . .<b>Let America Be America Again </b><br />
- <i>Langston Hughes </i><br />
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Let America be America again.<br />
Let it be the dream it used to be.<br />
Let it be the pioneer on the plain<br />
Seeking a home where he himself is free.<br />
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(America never was America to me.)<br />
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--<br />
Let it be that great strong land of love<br />
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme<br />
That any man be crushed by one above.<br />
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(It never was America to me.)<br />
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty<br />
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,<br />
But opportunity is real, and life is free,<br />
Equality is in the air we breathe.<br />
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(There's never been equality for me,<br />
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")<br />
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Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? <br />
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?<br />
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I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,<br />
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.<br />
I am the red man driven from the land,<br />
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--<br />
And finding only the same old stupid plan<br />
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.<br />
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I am the young man, full of strength and hope,<br />
Tangled in that ancient endless chain<br />
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!<br />
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!<br />
Of work the men! Of take the pay!<br />
Of owning everything for one's own greed!<br />
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I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.<br />
I am the worker sold to the machine.<br />
I am the Negro, servant to you all.<br />
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--<br />
Hungry yet today despite the dream.<br />
Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!<br />
I am the man who never got ahead,<br />
The poorest worker bartered through the years.<br />
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Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream<br />
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,<br />
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,<br />
That even yet its mighty daring sings<br />
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned<br />
That's made America the land it has become.<br />
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas<br />
In search of what I meant to be my home--<br />
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,<br />
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,<br />
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came<br />
To build a "homeland of the free."<br />
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The free?<br />
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Who said the free? Not me?<br />
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?<br />
The millions shot down when we strike?<br />
The millions who have nothing for our pay?<br />
For all the dreams we've dreamed<br />
And all the songs we've sung<br />
And all the hopes we've held<br />
And all the flags we've hung,<br />
The millions who have nothing for our pay--<br />
Except the dream that's almost dead today.<br />
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O, let America be America again--<br />
The land that never has been yet--<br />
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.<br />
The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME--<br />
Who made America,<br />
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,<br />
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,<br />
Must bring back our mighty dream again.<br />
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Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--<br />
The steel of freedom does not stain.<br />
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,<br />
We must take back our land again,<br />
America!<br />
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O, yes,<br />
I say it plain,<br />
America never was America to me,<br />
And yet I swear this oath--<br />
America will be!<br />
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Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,<br />
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,<br />
We, the people, must redeem<br />
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.<br />
The mountains and the endless plain--<br />
All, all the stretch of these great green states--<br />
And make America again! <br />
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-10637410998991668212017-06-29T00:00:00.000-07:002017-06-29T00:00:34.966-07:00As true today as ever . . .<div style="text-align: center;">
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-66958753778679940392017-06-28T00:00:00.000-07:002017-06-28T00:01:01.634-07:00Quote of the Day<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">A tragedy has taken place on our land, and even though it did not take
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- Dan, <span id="quote_book_link_8362876">Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder</span></div>
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-86858007660947661932017-06-27T00:00:00.000-07:002017-06-27T15:09:17.781-07:00If only we could learn by example . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>How happy is the little Stone </b><br />
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How happy is the little Stone<br />
That rambles in the Road alone,<br />
And doesn't care about Careers<br />
And Exigencies never fears -<br />
Whose Coat of elemental Brown<br />
A passing Universe put on,<br />
And independent as the Sun<br />
Associates or glows alone,<br />
Fulfilling absolute Decree<br />
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-83591225627286964292017-06-26T00:30:00.000-07:002017-06-26T00:30:19.221-07:00Kilt Monday!<div style="text-align: right;">
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-54239717091726578572017-06-23T00:00:00.000-07:002017-06-27T15:28:42.598-07:00A Cradle Song - <i>William Blake </i><br /><br />
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O'er my lovely infants head.<br />Sweet dreams of pleasant streams,<br />By happy silent moony beams<br /><br />Sweet sleep with soft down.<br />Weave thy brows an infant crown.<br />Sweet sleep Angel mild,<br />Hover o'er my happy child.<br /><br />Sweet smiles in the night,<br />Hover over my delight.<br />Sweet smiles Mothers smiles,<br />All the livelong night beguiles.<br /><br />Sweet moans, dovelike sighs,<br />Chase not slumber from thy eyes,<br />Sweet moans, sweeter smiles,<br />All the dovelike moans beguiles.<br /><br />Sleep sleep happy child,<br />All creation slept and smil'd.<br />Sleep sleep, happy sleep.<br />While o'er thee thy mother weep<br /><br />Sweet babe in thy face,<br />Holy image I can trace.<br />Sweet babe once like thee.<br />Thy maker lay and wept for me<br /><br />Wept for me for thee for all,<br />When he was an infant small.<br />Thou his image ever see.<br />Heavenly face that smiles on thee,<br /><br />Smiles on thee on me on all,<br />Who became an infant small,<br />Infant smiles are His own smiles,<br />Heaven & earth to peace beguiles.<br />
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-7583467639808481452017-06-22T00:00:00.000-07:002017-06-27T15:16:29.780-07:00I find myself using this sentiment more & more everyday.<div style="text-align: center;">
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-77443119351947384782017-06-21T00:00:00.000-07:002017-06-26T10:05:35.318-07:00Quote of the Day<div style="text-align: center;">
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-19895246864547968102017-06-20T00:00:00.000-07:002017-06-26T10:27:39.119-07:00Poetry & Politics . . . a familiar pairing<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK6WvVasnu9A-QoVZvqYFMu1QbJCx7E7aDMNMSluwB86mKC2cBsM7mfAgQBHdbeMhs45-JKtdLR_RmuEY7vTdQ_G4X0XL4vVhkhxRupWEC5Jj1A8HPkzLp90JoIZOdhbwPw_bayz5Vqo1N/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK6WvVasnu9A-QoVZvqYFMu1QbJCx7E7aDMNMSluwB86mKC2cBsM7mfAgQBHdbeMhs45-JKtdLR_RmuEY7vTdQ_G4X0XL4vVhkhxRupWEC5Jj1A8HPkzLp90JoIZOdhbwPw_bayz5Vqo1N/s1600/2.jpg" /></a><br />
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-47034174483411462472017-06-19T00:30:00.000-07:002017-06-19T00:30:42.687-07:00Kilt Monday!<div style="text-align: right;">
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-90983307191282937882017-06-16T00:00:00.000-07:002017-06-16T15:04:35.080-07:00Factory of Souls
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whose grotesque beauty is what we adore,</div>
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whom some people call love, whom we</div>
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venerate because it consumes us, slim pickings</div>
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for its huge soul. My people say, don’t look</div>
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or you’ll go blind. You say the end was always</div>
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just around the bend. I say all we have</div>
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is unconditional surrender to the future.</div>
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So unreliable is the past that I feel compelled</div>
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to leave unmourned the blind, relentless loves</div>
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that may have scorched into our hearts</div>
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the way the saints accepted stigmata. My people say,</div>
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look back or lose your way. Or, walk backwards,</div>
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if you can. So I found myself on a bus to New York City</div>
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to lose myself completely. Past Hunters Point</div>
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we hit the factory of souls—a thousand tombstones</div>
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from which a silk-like canopy of smoke rose to meet</div>
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God knows what—a spacious emptiness, the end.</div>
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I’ve heard the world’s never going to end.</div>
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I’ve heard it will go on and on, and we will be</div>
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as nebulous as Nebuchadnezzar, our live</div>
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not worth a footnote, our grandest schemes</div>
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no more than feeble whispers, all memory</div>
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shifting like the continental plates. In the future,</div>
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all science will finally come around; genetic</div>
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engineering, I’ve been told, will be all the rage,</div>
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and we will be a super race in a world</div>
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infallibly perfected, where trains run on time,</div>
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love never dies, and hope can be purchased</div>
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by the pound. It’s called <em>immortalization</em></div>
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<em>of the cell lines. </em>We will choose what will survive.</div>
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Our destiny made lucid, we will find the world</div>
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contemplating itself, like the young Narcissus,</div>
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one hand about to touch the pool, his body</div>
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lurched towards that marvelous reflection.</div>
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I suppose we’ve always felt compelled</div>
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to desensitize our failures. My people say,</div>
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to go unnoticed, you play dead. I myself</div>
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may have chosen to forget a face, a name,</div>
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some cruel word uttered carelessly, but not,</div>
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after all the harm is done, intending any pain.</div>
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And many others may have chosen to forget me.</div>
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It works both ways. My people say, <em>nasa huli</em></div>
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<em>ang pagsisi: </em>regret is the final emotion.</div>
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It’s what you see when you look back.</div>
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It’s what’s no longer there.</div>
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from:
<em>Zero Gravity,</em> Copyright 1999.
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is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public
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<span style="font-size: small;">- Attributed to George Orwell </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(Post by: Robert Reich)</span></div>
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-4675778693983812042017-06-13T00:00:00.000-07:002017-06-13T14:12:48.969-07:00For your contemplation. . .<br />
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Summer night -<br />even the stars<br />are whispering to each other.<em><br /><br />- Isaa</em></blockquote>
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-42455430880434593822017-06-12T00:30:00.000-07:002017-06-12T00:30:07.834-07:00Kilt Monday!<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><b>'Cause let's face it,</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><b>Mondays can be so <strike>rough</strike>, <strike>hard</strike>, difficult.</b></span></span></span></div>
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Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-37110377325185081362017-06-10T00:00:00.000-07:002017-06-10T00:00:10.529-07:00This poem is rattling around on fb, but I can't find much on the author.<div style="text-align: center;">
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(<a href="https://www.poemhunter.com/erin-hanson/poems/">Erin Hanson</a>)</div>
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