tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63746608656178158852024-02-19T01:31:37.514-08:00BLUE TOMATO JOURNALCREATIVE WRITING:
POETRY . . . PHOTOS . . . JOURNAL SKETCHES . . . MUSINGS . . . MUSIC. . .MEMOIRSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6374660865617815885.post-52442605660218504442021-03-29T10:58:00.001-07:002021-04-21T09:47:10.264-07:00DRENCHED IN HAPPINESS!<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i>H E L L O, F R I E N D S ! !</i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPu4zllIO_xuHcHi5SZKRvPBHq2ALjU_wpu0U_rjZRhBAPYB7sufOlf52BA1IUtJ3l3NcBf7unKTRZKzqWBfdvdKjwinUMM8dps4ziV052oV6vss44n9DAvZDsjeMsgf6MKUcFqh9bbovE/s1280/92FCF4F7-703D-4E5E-8778-D5AC67CDB5AE.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1054" data-original-width="1280" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPu4zllIO_xuHcHi5SZKRvPBHq2ALjU_wpu0U_rjZRhBAPYB7sufOlf52BA1IUtJ3l3NcBf7unKTRZKzqWBfdvdKjwinUMM8dps4ziV052oV6vss44n9DAvZDsjeMsgf6MKUcFqh9bbovE/w400-h330/92FCF4F7-703D-4E5E-8778-D5AC67CDB5AE.jpeg" width="400" /></a></b></div><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><b><br /></b></b></p><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>Yeah, Life could be a dream . . . but</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i>"The future ain't what it</i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i>used to be!"</i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>said ol' Yogi Berra</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>It's sure true now with</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>COVID - 105, 205 & 281 </b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>just around the corner.</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>I've had two shots, but</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>I still wear a mask! </b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i>~ ~ ~ </i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGykC0rcRosd8idymWX9cPhgHY4E9J7458q_cZi4zMFThSjfZ-3ZiC4q83zMZ6Rbhq7lhFhyphenhyphenuk9rYG3qXayAmtDIRL1qONWi6xr59utIU9bMwzCP2tlPCTuBGwhRSMKinB0QOcGH5UN6Ub/s2048/0C6E4BEE-686E-4F73-B3C3-8B8DD70896D2_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGykC0rcRosd8idymWX9cPhgHY4E9J7458q_cZi4zMFThSjfZ-3ZiC4q83zMZ6Rbhq7lhFhyphenhyphenuk9rYG3qXayAmtDIRL1qONWi6xr59utIU9bMwzCP2tlPCTuBGwhRSMKinB0QOcGH5UN6Ub/w400-h300/0C6E4BEE-686E-4F73-B3C3-8B8DD70896D2_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /><i><br /></i></b><p></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b> Looking back</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b> </b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>at OLD journal </b><b>sketches. </b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij887bZdDGXvevkKRAdx1GCq0VCeEa1r1K97edj37fjSpNyF0pzEy4k2VFg6KfsM3mKjV1RiuVAnlyZ_pCaBmikmJg6pqBuihRsc2tBE6SIMQ0fzfiX0EYxAPJQYlEbbxJfq6vUpNfmYK2/s2048/47450E22-6FBB-4467-97FE-41CF1D56ADF2_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij887bZdDGXvevkKRAdx1GCq0VCeEa1r1K97edj37fjSpNyF0pzEy4k2VFg6KfsM3mKjV1RiuVAnlyZ_pCaBmikmJg6pqBuihRsc2tBE6SIMQ0fzfiX0EYxAPJQYlEbbxJfq6vUpNfmYK2/w400-h300/47450E22-6FBB-4467-97FE-41CF1D56ADF2_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>I'm suddenly </b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Drenched in Happiness!</span></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>over sketches I'd forgotten.</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf3SwIVK5F-HzzFgluRPbBbf2b_TRWTSxKOZdwDG3uR1aKvJXGBFzX9TUH0bSex630WtilXu4LTN242hRXKKjk3DFDtZ6Zk3DYOjwLWocmH9D4VW8BZYDea0EywEcXEAfiZMpEkA2QIaNq/s1107/E46CD9A2-B4CE-4AD6-B324-E2C2CF7BEA9D_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="967" data-original-width="1107" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf3SwIVK5F-HzzFgluRPbBbf2b_TRWTSxKOZdwDG3uR1aKvJXGBFzX9TUH0bSex630WtilXu4LTN242hRXKKjk3DFDtZ6Zk3DYOjwLWocmH9D4VW8BZYDea0EywEcXEAfiZMpEkA2QIaNq/w400-h350/E46CD9A2-B4CE-4AD6-B324-E2C2CF7BEA9D_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>like this old</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b> <i>Film Noir</i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>book cover sketch.</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">~ ~ ~ ~ ~</p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>Here's a recent journal entry!!</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMCli4s_NaIDuwmYo3rntGGTljphblatUFOiqIQsnQSnk5hnfxdbl_2yDsn1nJ5jfb4rIClnsIncz0mE7hKpLjO0uK5_UCFQewnktYwNSrQlBEes3t7Kyaa_h7miw0BEJsEXDptuYOs_SK/s1623/03525A51-7024-4CA4-B431-181EF00DD7B8_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="1623" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMCli4s_NaIDuwmYo3rntGGTljphblatUFOiqIQsnQSnk5hnfxdbl_2yDsn1nJ5jfb4rIClnsIncz0mE7hKpLjO0uK5_UCFQewnktYwNSrQlBEes3t7Kyaa_h7miw0BEJsEXDptuYOs_SK/w400-h275/03525A51-7024-4CA4-B431-181EF00DD7B8_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>And now I'm remembering</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>my old garden photos</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>when I narrated</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><u><br /></u></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><u>Tomorrow and Tomorrow</u></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>and then added my own</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i>comical lines </i>. . .</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>I hear myself getting tickled</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>knowing what I'm about</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b> to say </b><b> . . .</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i>" . . . is still a tale</i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i>told by an idiot</i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i> . . . unless of course . . .</i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i> </i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i>IT'S POSTED ON YOUTUBE!</i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>Take a Look!!</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OkdKgDgrJwU" width="320" youtube-src-id="OkdKgDgrJwU"></iframe></b></div><b><br /></b><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; 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<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i>"Tomorrow and tomorrow</i></b></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i>creeps into this petty pace . . ."</i></b></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 37px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>FUNNY HOW</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 37px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p>
<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 37px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>YOUR LIFE TURNS OUT!</b></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>Thanks for watching . . .!</b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">(scroll down for</span></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The Happiness Project</i></span></b></p><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">and much, much, more.)</span></b></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>——-</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6374660865617815885.post-79065582909354075172020-09-27T14:34:00.007-07:002020-09-28T13:20:57.726-07:00MY HAPPINESS PROJECT!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">WHAT CAN I DO</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">TO HANG ON</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">UNTIL THE ELECTION?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ZkJ7G_sW7Z9D6z3gKMjOp2-z9NqV649HVRdtx3s5OsJ9whT-ry25W23kfVIpIptLTOfd8bKuk74V87wwhtOg26Ekjw6TgsElAyF7i2y-9t705LWbV_RnlNM6SgusqxQz7cR1DrDO9vPH/s2048/fullsizeoutput_1881.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1656" data-original-width="2048" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ZkJ7G_sW7Z9D6z3gKMjOp2-z9NqV649HVRdtx3s5OsJ9whT-ry25W23kfVIpIptLTOfd8bKuk74V87wwhtOg26Ekjw6TgsElAyF7i2y-9t705LWbV_RnlNM6SgusqxQz7cR1DrDO9vPH/w400-h324/fullsizeoutput_1881.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">~~~</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">One day I'm up</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">One day I'm down.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">I NEED A HAPPINESS PROJECT!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">I sketch in my journal.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQrHJIUDXMmHRzOEua900NVbLCungqEZLrZgvR8-d5KxMgOuh2FDqg5MfgT5NecNt87bAhujdJSM1LHz6Hj7aWTYbhDjWEyk6hxMdPIQ8t0gXLONMjnVFFPQX-6RgWyZYi1TGxfFuSnHXR/s2048/fullsizeoutput_17fa.jpeg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQrHJIUDXMmHRzOEua900NVbLCungqEZLrZgvR8-d5KxMgOuh2FDqg5MfgT5NecNt87bAhujdJSM1LHz6Hj7aWTYbhDjWEyk6hxMdPIQ8t0gXLONMjnVFFPQX-6RgWyZYi1TGxfFuSnHXR/w400-h400/fullsizeoutput_17fa.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"A cupful of stars"</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>===</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>I LOVE MY APARTMENT!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span>I'm GRATEFUL to have </span>a meal</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>hung on my apartment door</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>every day.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXiqZSsXrY5N-fVYqLl2JzSWtaVm9UvwvPONjwgpINOzLPbIN5s0vZKMAZQl5Na12MagNxyGGPfGrEWSUAVuZrQ3hIeTC6lF6KCKtnj8i7QNJqAH9JiBHNNQLOzL384JT38-ARo-VbPki/s1632/fullsizeoutput_1814.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="1632" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXiqZSsXrY5N-fVYqLl2JzSWtaVm9UvwvPONjwgpINOzLPbIN5s0vZKMAZQl5Na12MagNxyGGPfGrEWSUAVuZrQ3hIeTC6lF6KCKtnj8i7QNJqAH9JiBHNNQLOzL384JT38-ARo-VbPki/w400-h300/fullsizeoutput_1814.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>But how can I STAY happy???</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>I write to myself in my journal!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYs44hzXp67h30NauhYRngHEVTL-c1SQNoJvHyHcnqZVx9_B_eY3qax0woIT8QwIufRwaY4MKCeTiSNnwJHWRiSg2HCFpkd4IMHdtbfLRD_7Mn1S3in0F2zMDyNxErbt0ZfDPIP7a1kJUl/s1519/fullsizeoutput_1886.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1179" data-original-width="1519" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYs44hzXp67h30NauhYRngHEVTL-c1SQNoJvHyHcnqZVx9_B_eY3qax0woIT8QwIufRwaY4MKCeTiSNnwJHWRiSg2HCFpkd4IMHdtbfLRD_7Mn1S3in0F2zMDyNxErbt0ZfDPIP7a1kJUl/w400-h310/fullsizeoutput_1886.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Dear Diary,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>A new chord struck</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>from the tuning fork</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>in my heart . . .</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i>I've answered my own question!</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>TODAY IS <u>A VERY SPECIAL DAY</u>!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>IT'S THE ONLY DAY I HAVE.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">~ ~ ~</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>This IS MY HAPPINESS PROJECT!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>To heed my own words!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i>"This is the only day I have."</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>AND TO COLOR IN MY WORLD!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>I begin to color in my sketches</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>with more color</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>and more</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>care.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmHwXdsThi0xqp_Zdk8u2RLSQBmlbmr2_p7szpH_8b3a8G64AzL-hO_HUVBcH2QlIDQMevnfXV2ZdPl8gyX8zUjkvwy4-BL-IDe27bVlmXe7u3B_lrqjdaax55ND9BfF5ggMqLcLUFtiYG/s2048/20200927_113822.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1294" data-original-width="2048" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmHwXdsThi0xqp_Zdk8u2RLSQBmlbmr2_p7szpH_8b3a8G64AzL-hO_HUVBcH2QlIDQMevnfXV2ZdPl8gyX8zUjkvwy4-BL-IDe27bVlmXe7u3B_lrqjdaax55ND9BfF5ggMqLcLUFtiYG/w400-h253/20200927_113822.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>I don't color in a sketch until later</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6ox2grphyphenhyphengxGfE5ieSbcdmVFUuKr-T75unABt0oI0hsfd6fspUvmhUmqanXSVx2zPP3emau_SgDrva9bpLwX2Lcz-oskizdSBMz0ctolCegrwlsnyU8QK1IOKMlxqGuSfHG0qZLxPTTF/s2048/fullsizeoutput_1885.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6ox2grphyphenhyphengxGfE5ieSbcdmVFUuKr-T75unABt0oI0hsfd6fspUvmhUmqanXSVx2zPP3emau_SgDrva9bpLwX2Lcz-oskizdSBMz0ctolCegrwlsnyU8QK1IOKMlxqGuSfHG0qZLxPTTF/w320-h400/fullsizeoutput_1885.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>this is what a sketch looks like</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>as I was writing earnestly </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>in my journal.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"TRUST THE PROCESS!"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEni5y57Sykd7eUIZZczxrLJ6JzaKJNWIzPDlouXOPD7uM9KPgfdB3k0rbAdHVtiR4-6PaZ0x6jk8G2unPv1uXgR7UjcVDkXLoIZUyqrpgW4hCz95TdtTzMzhAioyPjBcec2Six5SAU4OM/s2048/20200927_120202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEni5y57Sykd7eUIZZczxrLJ6JzaKJNWIzPDlouXOPD7uM9KPgfdB3k0rbAdHVtiR4-6PaZ0x6jk8G2unPv1uXgR7UjcVDkXLoIZUyqrpgW4hCz95TdtTzMzhAioyPjBcec2Six5SAU4OM/w400-h300/20200927_120202.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>If I take time to color</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>I'll lose my train of thought!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>-----</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Before:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2wJdMv3_n4Q4wK69KbCMziRHKcvIpxTwkh5SbhQcsnAv5OX-OdN8DWX1UksI33PkOSn6jM_apyjHwjT7SpK07aO8LI6BeaWadzYFK7gfFILfVebIldHSPaNQAq2DN_nfoQSvTH1qni3E7/s2048/fullsizeoutput_188a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1803" data-original-width="2048" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2wJdMv3_n4Q4wK69KbCMziRHKcvIpxTwkh5SbhQcsnAv5OX-OdN8DWX1UksI33PkOSn6jM_apyjHwjT7SpK07aO8LI6BeaWadzYFK7gfFILfVebIldHSPaNQAq2DN_nfoQSvTH1qni3E7/w400-h353/fullsizeoutput_188a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><b>After:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh65hlnPbkOcoqajhAn-gcLvwPAlpE9BJrbGMWCqE9LOfC3mF_-KXIcT2rrlHrsOUpqdPGn491NXrSssw04WjZEYXhRB8OoRyfZxDEHR3k4WrgDfz7hEgcbUzTZcjEOxhbyCq1YLNA48A1f/s2048/fullsizeoutput_188b.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh65hlnPbkOcoqajhAn-gcLvwPAlpE9BJrbGMWCqE9LOfC3mF_-KXIcT2rrlHrsOUpqdPGn491NXrSssw04WjZEYXhRB8OoRyfZxDEHR3k4WrgDfz7hEgcbUzTZcjEOxhbyCq1YLNA48A1f/w400-h300/fullsizeoutput_188b.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><b>~ ~ ~</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>IN THE MEANTIME</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Here's our Wesley Looney Toons</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Ukulele band</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>led by Rosemary Woodel</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDg6Q4F2rZTE5AQuikIiNiIymzILru42BkM1-oRTT-ZA98oYckblPu4hyhR46Z8zsfU_Q_qGyDK5JsTsw5GKOgHmlvtGj7e7GlL3Q8_ydNgxQowDyb_qhHAGiWPH8VB1siVkMsJbuQFYA/s1256/fullsizeoutput_186a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="1256" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDg6Q4F2rZTE5AQuikIiNiIymzILru42BkM1-oRTT-ZA98oYckblPu4hyhR46Z8zsfU_Q_qGyDK5JsTsw5GKOgHmlvtGj7e7GlL3Q8_ydNgxQowDyb_qhHAGiWPH8VB1siVkMsJbuQFYA/w400-h158/fullsizeoutput_186a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We played outside for Roland</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">who is 99 years old!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfqT89TinV5N4uV45JoQ8l2zjHBtAd19262YixLlhRKOZEyJ1DxnSe1jQYz-7HPwVULkTJrG3Rocpm2PtJXGt1TLYniSY4IiAyaSPFIGWZNyFgcn-dN08_RLug5vPpEFzoe3HS9OqERsKk/s1280/IMG_8464.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfqT89TinV5N4uV45JoQ8l2zjHBtAd19262YixLlhRKOZEyJ1DxnSe1jQYz-7HPwVULkTJrG3Rocpm2PtJXGt1TLYniSY4IiAyaSPFIGWZNyFgcn-dN08_RLug5vPpEFzoe3HS9OqERsKk/w400-h300/IMG_8464.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here's our Ukulele song</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">TIPTOE THRU THE TULIPS!!</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>THIS IS A </i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>HAPPINESS PROJECT, TOO!</i></b></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><p style="color: #000099; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://youtu.be/vwP4oeL_FJQ">https://youtu.be/vwP4oeL_FJQ</a></span></p><div><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Over My Head I Hear Music in the Air</span></p>
<p style="color: #000099; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: #1a0dab; font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/KR75GTYw9_w"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: #000099;">https://youtu.be/KR75GTYw9_w</span></a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 28px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>(Rosemary's wonderful YouTube Channel!!)</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYkUBIIjoZhaLwO-9ThLj7WHkpoSILVZeBXzJ3oskhhqXUjVz4HT8YalRyVPUuLQhbfKQmmjBsWqOVxbvDjOttix2ocW-n_GLEYtypLh88pTd6mRQG-PIZsJVenek1nDrOP_U_n92r6Eer/s1280/IMG_8808.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYkUBIIjoZhaLwO-9ThLj7WHkpoSILVZeBXzJ3oskhhqXUjVz4HT8YalRyVPUuLQhbfKQmmjBsWqOVxbvDjOttix2ocW-n_GLEYtypLh88pTd6mRQG-PIZsJVenek1nDrOP_U_n92r6Eer/w300-h400/IMG_8808.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Thanks for watching our videos</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">----</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And now . . .</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here's an entry from my new</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> self-published book, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>LOVE YOUR FATE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>A Poetic Odyssey</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b>Growing A Soul</b></i></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px; min-height: 9px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px; min-height: 9px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">During those wild, wilderness years,</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">I’d scrambled myself up a Fortune 500 ladder,</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">from mail room to corporate communications.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Honed a few skills I didn’t know I had.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bought a leather briefcase.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Dressed for success.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Flown on a Lear jet to Jefferson City,</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">sitting behind the pilots,</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">watching the altimeter climb to 20,000.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px; min-height: 9px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">After twelve years I started throwing up.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Is it food poisoning, I wondered?</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Could it be undercooked chicken?</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">That smorgasbord at the Greenbrier conference</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">with Ben Bradlee as keynote speaker?</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px; min-height: 9px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">No, it is my soul vomiting.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Vested interests strangling me.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px; min-height: 9px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">A new kind of meaning</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">has come my way,</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">through poetry mostly,</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">May Sarton,</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Mary Oliver,</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Marge Piercy.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px; min-height: 9px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Time to stop</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">and smell the roses</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and grow a soul.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">=====</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">=====</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i>Thanks for reading this.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Scroll down for more posts</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">FOR THE DURATION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and more </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">===</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and more</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">===</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6374660865617815885.post-24459073933230518992020-03-18T11:08:00.000-07:002020-03-19T17:07:20.893-07:00FOR THE DURATION<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1px; text-align: center;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"<i>FOR THE DURATION</i>"</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">By now all of you are </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">weathering the constraints</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">placed on us in this</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">coronavirus pandemic.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">When will it be over?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Back in WWII we had an expression</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">"For the Duration"</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Some foods were rationed,</span></b></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">like sugar and coffee.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">All you young folks can’t even</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">imagine how we</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">RECYCLED!! </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grease, newspapers, tin foil wrappers</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Even bubble gum was rationed!!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">We, Brown High Classmates of 1954</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">To my classmates,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">from your classmate of 1954</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Charlotte Ashurst.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Stay healthy and safe.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve been living in my</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">for six months now.</span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I brought my keyboard, movie star photos</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I've been playing in a Ukulele band.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Our Staff is keeping us safe from the</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">coronavirus.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meals are delivered to our</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">rooms now.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve managed to finish a book</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">LOVE YOUR FATE:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A Poetic Odyssey</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">What if your life</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">came down to one book of poems?</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">What would they say?</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">~ ~ ~ ~ ~</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Love Your Fate </i> takes you on a poetic journey of eighty years. These poems connect defining moments that led to an understanding of lifelong sadness and pain. Scenes depict wartime ration books, streetcars, singing on live TV, theater, marriage, children, divorce, the Women’s Movement, job at forty, early retirement, then finding the lost self through art, music, and poetry, and lastly, reflections on aging as part of the human condition.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">First PROOFS arrive!!!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Love Your Fate:</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>A Poetic Odyssey</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">is up on</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Amazon!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">(paperback and ebook)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I worked hard to</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">transform the essence</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> of my memoir,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Girdled and Gloved:</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">From Radio to Youtube</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">into a narrative poetic</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">storyline.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">=====</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Here’s a sample poem:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Jeep Rides</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Oh, how I wanted to earn a Victory badge</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>to be part of the war effort,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>so I collected empty <i>Lucky Strike</i> packs</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>at the streetcar stop.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I hunted for chewing gum wrappers by the curbs,</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>stripping off the tinfoil.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Mother saved the<i> Ipana</i> toothpaste tube.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Grandma saved her tin cans.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I smashed them fiercely</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>with a big hammer on a flat stone,</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>then stuffed them in an orange mesh bag.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Finally I have enough grease and newspapers</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>and mashed-up ball of tin</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>to earn a Victory badge plus a Lieutenant’s ribbon.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Our principal, Miss Kendrick says we will</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>soon get a Jeep ride with soldiers from Ft. McPherson.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>One fine morning our teacher lines us up two by two</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>marching us outside just as a convoy</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>of Army jeeps drives onto our dusty playground.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>We seven-year-olds are wild with excitement.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Two soldiers grab my arms, lift me up,</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>slinging me in the back seat</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>like a sack of potatoes.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>They drive us straight off the curb</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>bouncing us up and down</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>like Mexican jumping beans.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>We wave at people standing in their walkways.</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>They wave back, as if we’ve just returned from the war.</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>In my head I hear a marching band</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 25px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>playing <i>The Stars and Stripes Forever</i>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for reading this:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Here’s a link to my book:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=charlotte+ashurst+mcdaniel+Love+Your+Fate&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss">https://www.amazon.com/s?k=charlotte+ashurst+mcdaniel+Love+Your+Fate&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>HELLO FRIENDS!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>I've MOVED!</b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here's my new little</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">patio apt. at Wesley Woods of Athens.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I moved in on July 25.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">This photo is from behind </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">my long sofa.</span></b></div>
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">~ ~ ~</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is what it looked like empty.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">(friendly maintenance guys</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">~ ~ ~</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">My door! Apt. 108</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>(framed Album covers print)</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm trying to decorate it</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">in an interesting style.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Bedroom with my</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">dancing women creations.</span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>(A crazy decor </i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>of an aging musical diva.)</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mirrors help make it feel larger.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Nov. 1, 2019:</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Dear Diary,</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>A new journal begins, finally. May this next month be healing. I’ve been so low </i></span></b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>energy, nose stopped up, </i></span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>ear, too. The only thing saving me is reading old journals. Yes!</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thank goodness I packed up</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">These three months have been</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Mon. Nov. 4, 2019</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Dear Diary,</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Am I better? Maybe. But my “can-do” has no muscle or will, focus, or inspiration!</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>What do I have to look forward to - to rev me up?</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>I can color in this page to inspire tomorrow. Maybe make a photo . . . a blog post . . . maybe Chronicles at Eighty?</i></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">to one place </span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and I want to publish</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Love Your Fate!</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>(Draft of a cover design)</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">THANKS FOR READING!!</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>(A Strangely Delicious Breakfast</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A STRANGELY DELICIOUS BREAKFAST</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">See those sliced onions?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I buy them in bags now.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Maybe they keep me healthy</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">because I didn’t have a cold</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> or any kind of illness all winter.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I thank all of you who sent me an email response to my blog</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Day My Car Died!!!</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">with no car </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">lying on the sofa</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">looking at this house I will soon</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yikes!!! Lying on the sofa I saw</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">at the end of the sofa!!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I knew it wasn’t poisonous</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and got the broom</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> and opened up the back door.</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The next week I got a message</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> at the end of July.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Relief and throwing out more</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">memorabilia! Lots of clothes</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">which are like costumes to me.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> The </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">long </span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">pink quilted skirt</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yesterday my son Todd</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> drove me to the Honda dealer</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and I bought a used FIT.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">What a strangely delicious engine it has!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Maybe I'll be able to load my</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Album Cover Exhibit</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> in the hatchback!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> to figure out how to download</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">the LYFT app</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and <i>warily</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> add my PayPal </span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Password!</span></b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Soon a message:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>“Charlotte Chip”</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i> where do you want to go?"</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I type in <i>"EarthFare."</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">In less than a minute</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">there’s a message:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>“Your driver,Wanda, in a Nissan Versa</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>will be there in 8 min.”</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">That’s how I bought my</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">groceries yesterday.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Outside EarthFare</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I press the magic buttons again:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>“Your driver, Kenny, </i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>will be there in 5 min!”</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Kenny even put my groceries</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">into the kitchen,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">something I struggle with.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">~ ~ ~~</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">So here’s that blend</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> of these two worlds</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> my i-pad and my deck and garden</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">where I can watch old movies</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">like <i>Hollywood Canteen</i>, 1944.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">(It's a FREE app called</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Watch TCM.)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">We were in third grade.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tomorrow there’s a 65th class reunion</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> of that class of 1954.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">But here's a HELLO!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I like to remember us all</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> the way we were back then.</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>"BRAVE NEW CYBER WORLD"</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">to email this Blog to my</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>We graduated on May 18, 1954</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>exactly 65 years ago!</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">And if I don’t make it</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">to the Broadway Stage,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">A recent talent show I performed</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">my song: I Wanna Be Frankie B. DeMille!</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve left some of my </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">photo memories on YouTube!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and my piano solo</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Day My Car Died!!!</i>)</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">(We were together 21 years!)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I was coming back from Lowe’s</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">with a <i>Good Will</i> Yamaha keyboard</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and a load of groceries!! </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Holy Cow!</i> A</span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">s soon as I</span></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">heard the engine skipping,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I drove straight to 5-Star </span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Garage.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I was so scared that </span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I wouldn’t make it!!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">But I did.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Oh, but now, I’m depressed!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Last night I took this </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">homeopathic remedy for</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">apprehension.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Oh, the ordeal of trying out</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">used cars!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The ordeal of asking for more rides.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The ordeal of figuring out</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">addresses to “enter”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">for Uber!!!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">!^&#%@$^#&@</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Settle down</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">So now it’s Sunday Morning.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thanks to Krista Tippett’s</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>OnBeing</i> guest, Sylvia Boorstein</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and her Jewish-Buddhist</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">2,011 </span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“metta-meditation:”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">May I feel safe.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">May I feel content.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">May I feel strong.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">May I live with ease.”</span></i></b></span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m feeling a little better! </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>SUDDENLY, I thought </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">"BLOG!"</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yes!! </span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tell the photo story</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">of how an 80-year-old</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">goes about Uber-ing</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and test-driving</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">used cars . . .</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">While also “Waiting for Godot,”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">still on the Waiting List for a</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lanier Gardens Apartment, where I’m</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> waiting for someone to die!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Better now to stop and </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">write what I've learned today.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> It's about this gift of aging wisdom remembering </span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to "recalculate"</span></b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as the GPS voice says!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Renewing my sense of</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">what's really important</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and practicing lovingkindness</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">in the world which</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>can nurture </i></span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>us,</i> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">if we allow it to,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> and keep </span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the right attitude.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Instead of asking, </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Am I pleased?”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">ask myself,</span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"In this moment</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">am I able to care?”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">So, here's to the music! </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">will play my old diskettes!!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">And a recent garden photo</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">And another photo I took </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">my last Spring on the deck</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tomorrow I </span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">begin my</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"To Uber?"</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">“To Buy a Used Car?”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Adventure</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Right from the start</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I was wedded to music</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>like a soulmate.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>heard melodies - </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">like teardrops</b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>who sang lyrics </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">all the time— </b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>old sheet music she’d found at a yard sale.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>her first boyfriend, </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Jimmy Hester.</b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>She had his framed picture.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>He had a thin mustache.</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>(Mother, 2nd from r. - 1928 age 19)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Maybe he’s in this photo,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>or maybe this is Walter Gray,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Mother's mysterious first marriage.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Her sadness was my sadness.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Her father put a bullet through his head</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>in 1929 right in the front yard</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>So sad. No one talked about it.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>She never spoke of it until her 70s.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I never knew my own father.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span>And NOW, a bit of <u>"good fortune!!!</u></b></div>
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<b>I want to </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">thank</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Mrs. Guy,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>our 5th Grade Music teacher.</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>(J. C. Harris School - 1947 - 5th Grade)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>She taught us to sing in </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">two-part harmony</b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Thank you, Mrs. Guy,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>you brought a song flute to class</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> and I learned to play a duet</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> with Robert Stephenson</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>another only child.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Thank you Mrs. Guy,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>You brought a ukulele to class</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>and showed me the two chords</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> to <i>Polly Wolly Doodle.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I sat over in the corner</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>at recess and practiced</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>until I could play and sing it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I used those chords to write a</b></span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">song called </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><i>Roly Poly</i></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>on a little plastic ukulele</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b> Mother bought me for $3.95.</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">At sixteen,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I wrote <i>Yesterday’s Love</i>, </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">my first song</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">over losing Robert.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Yes, I was born with a </i></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><i>broken heart</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>that was my </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><i>FATE</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>and my </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><i>DESTINY</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>was to write songs </i></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><i>and lyrics</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>CELEBRATE!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>reminding me of the time I have left</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>to celebrate</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>just being alive</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>and making the most of it!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>First, a poem to the New Year!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>~ ~ ~</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>A New Year</i></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Leafing through</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>the pages </i></b></span><b><i>of my life</i></b><br />
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<b><i>this murky future</i></b><br />
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<b><i>where I have </i></b><b><i>arrived again</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>with aging hopes</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>and graying wisdom</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>whether anyone hears</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>it or not</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>this is the sound of me</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>here and now</i></b></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>in a new </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">year of discovery</b></i></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>of things invisible</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>yet still possible.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>In the early 80s, </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">I was in my 40s</b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b> <i>The Aquarian Conspiracy</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>by Marilyn Ferguson.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>2nd Coming of Age</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I tried making Earth Day Posters, 1990.</b></span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">my </b><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><b>wild and precious </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">journey it's this:</b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Life is very dull</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">for those too timid,</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">too unimaginative, too sane</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">to bring to it</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> a sense of personal style,</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">of individual purpose,</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">of color,</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">verve,</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">and</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Joseph Campbell</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Follow Your Bliss"</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>to be present to </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">every day of my life!</b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> a journal and sooner or later, I’ll be smiling!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Maybe you will too.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>And lest I forget </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">my gardening days,</b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I still have all my </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">best photos</b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">over </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">twenty summers. </b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>"THE MUSIC"</b></span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">I'd improvised </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">at midnight</b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>while gloomy . . . wondering,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>“If this were the last </i></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><i>day of my life . . .?”</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>then letting my fingers answer the question.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I put the photos and music together and called it</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>for taking the time </i></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><i>to read this blog!!!</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>First, a toast to the New Year!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>A bouquet of flowers</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>in a tiny bottle of champagne!</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>I light a candle.</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>We laugh over adventures</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>back in the 80s on the island of Cozumel</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>and preserved forever.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>not forget my one</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">to be present to every single day!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I can write about a dream,</b></span></div>
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<b>(Above: I'm sketching a rock</b></div>
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<b>because of a dream </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">about a small crippled boy</b></div>
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<b> with a cloth sack of rocks </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">he loved.)</b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>(Thank you Sarah and Janie!)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I’m grateful for </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>a small circle of friends,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>good health, Social Security,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>a 1996 car that still runs.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I’m grateful for EarthFare</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>where I can shop </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">for Organic Food</b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>in this little town, </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Athens, Ga.,</b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>and the Section called </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Five Points</b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>which is the best place to live!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I'm </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">especially grateful</b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">for a new group called</b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>because </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">I love playing around</b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> with words, </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">ideas, musical notes,</b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>designs, sketches and</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>journal writings.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Suddenly a magical phrase</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>will descend from my unconscious . . .</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">The long journey</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">is bittersweet</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">and strangely delicious</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I like that phrase so much</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>that might be the title</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> of the poetic memoir I am writing.</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">STRANGELY DELICIOUS</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">~~ a poetic memoir ~~</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>And just recently I realized</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>the character of Vera Marlowe</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>in the musical, <i>Silent Dreams</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i></i>was even more Mother</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> than I’d thought earlier,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>so I have brought her to life</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> and renamed Mother's old photo</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>"Vera Marlowe in the 30s."</b></span></div>
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<i><b>(Vera Marlowe (aka Mother)</b></i></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>All my mother said about this photo was:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>“Oh, that was when I went to New York.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I only recently discovered</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> that boats regularly sailed</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> from Savannah, Ga., to New York City!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>How I wish I could have heard</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> some stories about it,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>or Mother's earlier marriage!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>So maybe that’s how my imagination</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>has come to fill in the blanks</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>and develop parts of the plot</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>for </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><i>Silent Dreams.</i> </b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>~ ~ ~ </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>And even if it’s never produced</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>the <i>Silent Dreams Overture</i> I composed</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> with the theme of eight songs </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>is now on YouTube</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>check it out.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Thank you so much</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> for taking the time</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>to read this blog!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>~ ~ ~ ~</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Election Day</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>The Search for Truffle Dust</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>All Those Journals</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>What Is Your Perfect Day?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve already voted</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">so after the morning rain</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I went to the library.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I picked up a book on Hold</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Awakening the Heroes</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Within</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> by Carol Pearson</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">for a Study Group Discussion</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Already this Election Day has a </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">heightened tension about it!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I am struck by the symbolism</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">everywhere.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The brown leaves you see here</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">are from the acorn</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">of the famous Athens'</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> “tree that owns itself.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Among the brown leaves I see</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">green patch of clovers.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Where’s that four-leaf one?”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">We need it so much today.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span>~ ~ ~ ~ </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Since I’m taking photos of</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">my Election Day journey</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I take one of my faithful</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">blue car</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">a 1996 Mercury Mystique.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lord! 22 years old!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">No heat or AC</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">the driver window doesn’t operate,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and I have wide strips</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> of clear packing tape</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> holding on the right head light cover.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thank you little blue car</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">for keeping me going</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">on my one</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> wild and precious journey!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">~ ~ ~</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">At the grocery store</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I am struck by the</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">changes I’ve witnessed</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">in over eighty years of living.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I remember my first pack</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">of cigarettes</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Pall Malls.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">And I remember when I quit!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">In the parking lot I see</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">gray skies one way</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I was reminded today of a song</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I composed entitled</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Forgive Them"</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">One verse is this:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Still I believe that in some way</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">evil has it’s part to play</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">for light will come from darkness</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">It’s always been that way.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Father, forgive them,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mother, forgive them,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Children, forgive them, too.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">For they know not</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">what they do.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">~ ~ ~ ~</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Living in voluntary simplicity</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> is a life style choice.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I earned my own money.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">then retired early.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I set out to complete my life journey</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">by living each day</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">to the fullest.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">living within my means,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">from planting azaleas</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">to composing music. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Two years ago,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I converted my dining area</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">into a little cabaret</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">where I can live out my</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Silent Dreams</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> and never have to</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">suffer jet lag!!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">(Thank you, Social Security!!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">and thank you, Kelly DuMar, IWWG,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">for being the inspiration for</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">this Election Day blog post )</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">And Thank you dear reader,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">so much for</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">reading this post.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>among </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">all my journals.</b></span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm reading excerpts,</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> smiling at how I’m</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">the same old person</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">but even older!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I remembered that I had</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">started a pencil sketch</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> of a jar of Truffle Dust</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’d been drawn to in the</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Kroger Spice section.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">After looking through</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">several journals feeling</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">frustrated, I remembered</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’d written a poem.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Looking for Truffle Dust</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">All morning she’d been searching</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">through old journals</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">for that half-finished sketch</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">of a jar of Truffle Dust.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">On the way she read about</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">the death of an old friend,</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">how her sciatica had flared up,</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">how her car wouldn’t start.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i></i></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">She turned a page</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">and read about the frustrations</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">of not living up to her own expectations.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i></i></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">She read about wanting and needing</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">something like Truffle Dust</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">to magically change her life.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then she drew a rainbow. </span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">~ ~ ~</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Writing often relieves </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">anxiety and frustration,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">because when I start writing</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I can often write myself out</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> of a dilemma.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I did find the sketch.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then I remembered</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> a poem I wrote earlier</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">about a little girl</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>back in the </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">40s</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">wanting </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">a “magic” answer.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>~ ~ ~</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">That 50 Cent Dream</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i></i></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">For 50 cents and a label</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">she could soon be one of an</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">inner circle who knew</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Captain Midnight’s secret code.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i></i></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">The enticing radio announcer</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> said that </span></i></b></span><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">the badge</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">had a tiny mirror</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">to check for enemies</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> behind her.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i></i></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">For 50 cents and a </span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Peter Pan Peanut Butter label</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">she could wear a magic ring</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">with a tiny ball point pen</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">in it’s “glow-in-the-dark” base.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Oh, the thrill of seeing</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sky King’s Flying Crown Ranch</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">insignia stamped on top.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i></i></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">For 50 cents and a label</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">she could show her own</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">movies on a wall</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">with her mail order </span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">movie projector:</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">a tiny black plastic case,</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">two film strips,</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">a little handle you cranked,</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">a flashlight bulb glowing</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">behind the thin film loops.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i></i></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Oh, the magic,</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">the power and glory,</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">a child could have</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">for 50 cents and a label.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i></i></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">She is still living on that</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 50 cent hope,</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">that soon all her dreams</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">will come true, o</span></i></b></span><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">ne day</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">when she least expects it,</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">the mailman will show up</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> with her prize.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">~ ~ ~</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">What have I learned</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">about this search for what? </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Happiness, fame, love,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">certainly, not money.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I've discovered that </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">in my wisdom years</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m merging into being philosophical,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">living in both/and land!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">That balance </span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of opposites.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The stillness of</span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> a</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">drop of melting snow.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>"All My Journals"</i></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Or giving myself</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> some writing advice.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">My daily writing </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">has been scrawled </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">in spiral notebooks</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">There’s the rub.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m Eliza Doolittle</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m the sow’s ear from which</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">no silk purse shall ever be made.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">If I were a kind of wood,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">it would be the cheapest yellow pine.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A Georgia Loblolly</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">growing up fast</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">with thin roots.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The bark stripped for mulch.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The boards for a pauper’s coffin.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">No time even to tap the pungent resin</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">which, left alone,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">might yield some greater value,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">say paint thinner for an artist.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">What can you make with cheap pine?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Not a violin or a grand piano</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">or a baseball bat</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">or castanets.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Not a curly maple dresser</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">or a cedar hope chest.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">But if you strip away everything else,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">there is the heart of the pine,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">fire starter wood,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and even a cheap heart</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">can burn with a blue passion.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I love the handcrafted journal</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">along the spine.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">~ ~ ~</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sometimes my journal entries</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I write about my mistakes</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">my follies, my doubts, and fears.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I believe I do this to quell</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">the anxiety from living alone</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and being responsible</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">for my ongoing old age!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I color in a coffee cup!</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Magic!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Living alone for ever so long,</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and being an only child,</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I've become my own best friend,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">my own guide and counselor,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">playmate, </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">workmate,</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">mindmate, </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and soulmate.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">So, in a way I am in love</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">with my </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>"Dear Diary,"</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>"All Those Journals"</i></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">In the end all she has is her own story</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Today, on her 82nd birthday</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>She is still writing </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">questions on the</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">pages of her journals.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Dear Diary,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">What is the meaning of life?”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>And then a </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">funny response</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>will pop up </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">and she must to draw a cartoon.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Back in the 80s reading</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Victor Frankl’s book</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Man’s Search for Meaning</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">influenced the direction </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">of her thinking.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Now she’s reading</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Pursuit of Meaning</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">She is pretty sure she has created</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> the life she needs</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">to have the freedom to be herself.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yet, with freedom comes </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">responsibility</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">which brings on a low grade anxiety</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">take care of herself, pay the bills,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">tend the garden, make the bed,</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">empty the dish drain, </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and the garbage,</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">bake the bread like the Little Red Hen.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">(Oops! The Little Red Hen now goes to</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Trader Joe's or EarthFare)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">~ ~ ~</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Once she felt proud to be able</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">to tie her Buster Brown Saddle oxfords.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Now, she is proud to have</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">figured out how to</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Click and Drag on a laptop</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">in which she can “email” a friend. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">And figure out a keyboard!</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Inadvertently she has been answering</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">the </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meaning of Life </span></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>question</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>all along </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>by just being </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">creative</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">in her own way,</b></span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">like making the music video:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Shakespeare’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow with a Twist!</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Producing this music video</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">used a lot of her skills:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">like uploading her own music.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Still Entranced" a</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">n instrumental piece.</span></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and adding a garden photograph</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and a bit of humor.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Today I wrote in my journal about the items on my bucket list!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Published a memoir,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Made a CD of Piano Solos</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Made a CD of Jazz & Gin</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Which two are left?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">First: I want </span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a scale model of</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">the set design I sketched for</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>my musical: </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><b>Silent Dreams.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">It’s set in 1955 near Greenwich Village, </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">a brownstone boarding house and a “coffee house” </span></b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">across the street.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Back in 1978,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I did a set design for</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Our community theater</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Town and Gown Players</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">was down to $400</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">to produce our spring show</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A Member of the Wedding.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Our Artistic Director, </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Fritz Nementz Kelly</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">said we had no set design,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">so I decided to give it a try.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’d taken Set Design in the </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The University of Georgia.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I wanted the set to look like an old kitchen with kitchen chairs and running water</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and a screen door to the outside</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> for a bench near the grape arbor scene.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I borrowed two junipers and </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">eight gumpo azalea plants</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">from Cofer’s Garden Center</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">to use for a “real” hedge.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I even cut down a long pine branch</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">from behind my house,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">dragged it to the carport</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> and shoved it into the trunk of my </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">little red Pinto Station Wagon.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Two crew members “flew” it</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> from the grids.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> The wonderful unexpected feature</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> was that suspended like that</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> it would “sway” a bit when the actors walked by.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm so grateful that someone took a photo.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A couple of years ago I found the old play review.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>T & G Evokes South in McCullers Play</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Athens Banner Herald May 11, 1978</b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(92, 67, 43); color: #5c432b; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Reviewed by Staff Writer Cecil Bentley</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">I thought I was having a dream for a minute.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There, on stage, was a simple bare kitchen. Three wooden chairs that didn’t match were shoved haphazardly under a nondescript table, a pack of Fig Newtons lay open on top of the old ice box, a pine branch rubbed against the kitchen window, and a sink of half-washed dishes sat next to the screen door leading to the shady back yard.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It could easily have been a mirage, lingering with the lost thoughts of the first kitchen I remember bumping a shin in, snapping beans, having a glass of milk and asking my mother a million questions as she prepared supper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>But it wasn’t.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Carson McCullers vision of a kitchen in a small Georgia town during the late 1940s is beautifully brought to life in this Southern play focusing on the loneliness and insecurities of adolescence . . . Chip McDaniel’s set decoration evokes the time perfectly and deserves applause as well as the actors and the director, Mary (Fritz) Kelley.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Even though my musical,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i> Silent Dreams,</i><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>has never been produced, </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">it’s alive in my head</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">because of the Set Design.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I want to see a scale model.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Maybe I can videotape it and</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">narrate the plot.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">That’s on my bucket list.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Can you help me?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">~ ~ ~</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Second on the Bucket List</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">You are my best friend.</span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I can even sketch a book I might</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">actually write one day.</span></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I stay home a lot these days,</span></b></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">weather, age, being alone.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">looking at the snow out </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">But I can always write to you, and tell</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and put flowers in the bedroom</span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I can draw my own vase of </span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">flowers</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I can draw a </span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">rainbow</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and a</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Oh, yes, I am now making</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: medium;">eat on it all week</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">like a monk</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Being eccentric means </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">being </span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">creative.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I made a video out of the</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">added music I composed</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Jobim Beguine</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dear Diary,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I always wanted to be in</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">the movies!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">And now I can lie in bed</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and make movies on my lap top.</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Have you ever done the Perfect Day Exercise?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>On a magical day,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>you can live it exactly as in a dream</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Choose where would you be.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Who would you be with?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Maybe friends, family, or alone</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>MY PERFECT DAY</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b>MY PERFECT DAY BEGINS . . .</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b>A limousine is picking me up at 5:00 to take me to 30 Rockefeller Plaza for my brief appearance on the </b></span><span class="s2"><b><i>Today Show</i></b></span><span class="s1"><b> to talk about my two books </b></span><span class="s2"><b><i>Girdled and Gloved:From Radio to YouTube</i></b></span><span class="s1"><b> and </b></span><span class="s2"><b><i>All Poems Considered</i></b></span><span class="s1"><b>, and the upcoming </b></span><span class="s2"><b><i><u>Silent Dreams: The</u></i></b></span><span class="s1"><b><i><u> Musical</u> </i>I composed. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b>Cindy, my personal assistant is brewing coffee in the small dinette area.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>A banana nut muffin,” I say, “and a little butter and cream cheese, and orange juice.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>I’m all dressed and Cindy has taken care of styling my hair — she’s great at using the right amount of mousse and hairspray.</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Scene 2) The limosine driver holds open the door. I exit in a stunning black and white outfit with patterned leggings, boots, and silk tunic top made especially for me by Margaret Agner.</span></b></span><br />
<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">It’s called Black Orchid and is in shades of black, white and gray.</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>We stare at the beautiful golden statue in Rockefeller Plaza.</span></b></span><br />
<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The <i>Today</i> Show studio is just inside on the first floor with windows looking out onto 7th Avenue.</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">In the Green Room there’s a bouquet of flowers and Savannah Guthrie whisks in and says, “Hello, glad you’re here, I’ll be back in a little while.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>The interview is hot under the lights and is all it needs to be.</span></b></span><br />
<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">They’re more interested in who’s been cast in the musical.</span></b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I don’t think anyone has read either book.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Scene 3. After the <i>Today</i> show we take a taxi to meet with a rental agent for the small apartment I will sublet for six months in a modest section near Union Square. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b>I’ve always wanted to live in New York and now that my musical,<i> </i></b></span><span class="s2"><b><i>Silent Dreams</i></b></span><span class="s1"><b> is in rehearsals Off Broadway, I want to be available.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b>There’s a desk clerk who watches the entranceway.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b>No elevator, but I have a first floor sublet,</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b>$1,850/month -- all I can afford for now.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b>(Reader: In my Perfect Day, I have to use <i>Practical Magic,</i> things that <i>could happen</i>. I cannot wish for a Million Bucks, but you can on your Perfect Day!)</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b>Back to that small apartment I'm renting:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b>It has twin beds a tiny bathroom and kitchenette.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b>I frown, a little worried.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b>“Hey, it’ll be like college,” says Cindy. “We’ll get along fine.”</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>I could not do any of this alone.</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">She knows me better than I know myself, and is good at P.R.</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>She shows me an e-photo of the garden and driveway on my house back in Athens, Ga., part of the renovation the Athens Restoration Crew is making.</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>“And we’ve made an offer for that home on Meadowview Dr. you said you always wanted.” reports Cindy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Cindy</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> was an accountant for R.E.M. earlier.</span></b></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yesterday we visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art.</span></b></span><br />
<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tomorrow, the Guggenheim.</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Scene 6) After MOMA I rest again and we take a cab to the <i>Roundabout Theater</i> on W. 46th., where a small choral ensemble is rehearsing, </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>“Hold On To Your Dreams!”</i> just as we open the door.</span></b></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then the band plays the Overture I composed!!</span></b></span><br />
<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">So thrilling hearing this little Broadway band playing it just as I recorded it fifteen years ago.</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>We sit quietly in the back and just watch and listen.</span></b></span><br />
<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I don’t want to be disruptive.</span></b></span><br />
<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The director Anna Westfeld comes on stage with John Leguizamo who plays Leonard and Angela Lansbury as Vera Marlowe, (a character in the musical who played piano in the Silent Movies), and Gale Harold as Emil the waiter.</span></b></span><br />
<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I hold my breath with this unexpected joy.</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">He says he’s the grandfather of Jonah, one of the musicians and says, “I read about you - I read your book — I had this mysterious feeling when I first saw you.</span></b></span><br />
<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> - A message came to me at that moment which said, "<i>You must tell her that she will continue to be healthy and live to be a 100 or more, and see all her dreams come true.”</i></span></b></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Cindy gives me a massage.</span></b></span><br />
<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">(Cindy is also a registered Massage Therapist).</span></b></span><br />
<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then I take a long Epsom salts bath in the jacuzzi tub, and sip a pina colata.</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>While soaking, and sipping, I hear Cindy negotiating with movie director,</span></b></span><br />
<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Todd Haines’ agent about a screen play and/or buying the rights for my book.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b>He’s excited that they’re to be featured in a popular Austin, Texas venue.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s1"><b>I’m thrilled.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Then Cindy’s on the phone with the <i>Mormon Tabernacle Choir Director</i> who has choral arrangements for three of my songs to add to their next secular concert:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Hold On to Your Dreams</i>, <i>I Am the Music,</i> and <i>The Great Circle of Love</i>.</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>I change into a white outfit, white faux leather leggings, a long-sleeved silky white pullover and a pinkish chiffon tunic, low heeled white patent boots, and my Judy Garland white hat.</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> One Woman Cabaret Show.</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>“Confessions of a Blue Tomato.”</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Cindy is arranging for my piano keyboard and Blue Tomato Band Stand to be shipped to NYC along my 42 vinyl album covers Exhibit.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">THINKING OF MOTHER'S DAY</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">during April</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">National Poetry Month</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">led me to write:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A WOMEN’S TOUCH</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I love the poems that women write.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Poems about white sheets </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">drying on a clothes line in the sun.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I can hear the children running</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">through those starchy white tunnels</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">squealing with laughter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">All those Mothers, delicate and moist</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">from earnest scrubbing and finishing touches.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Hands that soothed fevered brows,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">or slapped the beJesus</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">out of a backtalking teenager.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A woman’s touch is a fine art in itself,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">deftly turning a page </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in the middle of Polonaise, </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">or smooth and sultry, </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a hand sliding down a satin slip,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">sleek and soft,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">smelling of lavender</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">or White Gardenia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Where are those dust-powdery teachers, now?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What were their names?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mrs. Angel or Mrs. Cotton,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">with glasses hanging on a thin chain</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a handkerchief tucked in the bosom</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of a dark green gabardine dress.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Where is that soft voice </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">asking us eight-year-old girls, </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“What is grace?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“The unmerited gift from God,”</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">we replied in unison.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Only After Eighty</u></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">the Brown High class of 1954.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Each of us turned 80 this year.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">“Where have I been?” you ask.</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">"Proof-reading!"</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Two days after my 80th birthday</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Girdled and Gloved:</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>From Radio to YouTube</u></span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>marriage, and psychotherapy"</i></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">2016 turned out to be a pretty good year.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I got to hang up my Retro Album Covers</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">at EarthFare in June,</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">which is what makes Athens, Ga.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>a great town to live in!!</u></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Just a hometown gallery!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">No fans or fanfare, </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">still,</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> and one </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">person emailed me.</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">In an OLLI class: </span></b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Making Movies at Home</u></span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">,</span></b></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">four of us had an idea to save the world</span></b><br />
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">and </span></b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">wrote the story outline in one day!!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I shot the short </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">film</span></b></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">on my <u>i-pad</u>!!</span></b></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I used i-movie for post-production</span></b><br />
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> music and sound effects</span></b></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">and made a </span></b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">super-logo for . . .</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Super Crone Adventures!</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">It's on YouTube!!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><u><i>(CLICK AND WATCH)</i></u></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>This is a job for The Super Crones!!!</i></span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Also, through OLLI, I toured WUGA studios.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> I'm standing </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">in the same place</span></b><br />
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">where, </span></b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><i>back in 1961</i></u></span></b><br />
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I once hosted "</span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">The High Road"</span></b><br />
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">a </span></b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">LIVE TV Program </span></b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">for Channel 8</span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b></b></span>~~~</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">In November The OLLI Memoir Writers</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">gave a fabulous presentation</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> We </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">entered dancing </span></b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">onto the </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Library stage to</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet!</u></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The audience clapped and laughed!!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Such beautiful stories -- poignant, insightful,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">some down-right funny,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">all beautifully read.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A Million Women's March</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>is scheduled in Washington Jan. 21, 2017.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Each state has a banner.</b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I have dragged out my</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">She helps me get through</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">the days and nights</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">of being alone and creative.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><u><i>I think 2015 was the best year ever!!</i></u></span></b></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span>
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe because I bought a new screen door</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> and the flowering crabapple I planted years ago</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">made a perfect photo</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> to remember the Spring of 2015</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">~~~</span></b></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The OLLI Memoir Readers </span></b></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span>
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">gave an outstanding live presentation</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> at our Library in April</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">That led to my making over forty album covers</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">and having them exhibited in the UUFA Foyer</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">in October</span></b></span><br />
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I'm Out of Ideas, What do I do ?</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I draw a cartoon Fortune Teller in my journal,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> then I take a nap until</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> a new idea comes to me.</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Voila!</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> I've almost finished a new book I began in </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">November </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">and designed a cover.</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">T H E C R A Z Y C L U B</span></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The photo on the cover is Mother </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and her girl friend Grace</span></b></i></div>
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<i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">on a double date to ride horses </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> in the North Georgia mountains.</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><i>(c.1933. Mother has the short hair</i></b></span></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The book is about Mother and Me and Music.</span></b><br />
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> covering the time period 1936 - 2016.</span></b><br />
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">~ ~ ~</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">My mother loved the movies.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span>
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">We went to a movie</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">almost every weekend.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">She had an eye for staging. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">She posed me in my pajamas</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PREFACE to The Crazy Club</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;">A</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">fter Mother died in 1991, at eighty-two, I began to write my story of growing up in Atlanta as an only child. I discovered that these intimate mother-daughter stories should be called <i>Shug</i>. I got tears in my eyes, because that’s what Mother always called me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The story was so much about <i>us</i>, and I hadn’t wanted it to be, fiercely rejecting the <i>My Mother, Myself</i> theory in my thirties. I hadn’t known how entwined we were for those first eighteen years, like two colorful double helixes. I hadn’t realized how much I was living out Mother’s dreams, and mine, too, that one day I’d be so famous my father might come and visit me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">During her stay in a Rest Home, she concocted</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <i>The Crazy Club</i> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">and therefore the new title. </span><span style="font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0px;">By the time I came into her life in 1936 when she was twenty-seven, she was nothing like the picture on the cover. Still, the woman I knew as Mother for fifty-five years was the most unforgettable character I ever knew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; letter-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; letter-spacing: 0px;">This is our story. It begins with the father I never met</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; letter-spacing: 0px;">.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I had another another new idea</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>WHAT ABOUT AN E-BOOK</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>"STORIES BEHIND THE RETRO ALBUM COVERS?"</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Then I can insert the photo</b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">For instance, <i>Finding My Way</i> is the opening song</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">from <i>Silent Dreams: The Musical</i>.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I've been <i>finding my own way</i>, </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">so I chose photos from several decades</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Happy Holidays! </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Here's a photo of the music area</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I've decked out</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Hold On To Your Dreams</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">a two-minute narrated memoir.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Mother posed me for this photo, too.</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I had such hopes when I made it!</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">See what you think!</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I Hope You have a Fabulous 2016!!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">It helped to write my last blog</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">“What Was My Purpose?”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I started writing some haiku-like poetry</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The last two books I read:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The <i>Tao of Jung</i> by David Rosen</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> and <i>My Quest for Beauty</i> </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Rollo May.</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I’m happy that soon some OLLI friends</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">and I will be reading at the library. I made a poster.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Now, I’ve got some crazy idea</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Here’s a poster I designed.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Each one represents a song I’ve composed.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">My new DIET PLAN:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>EAT LESS OF WHAT YOU LOVE</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I'm sure I am addicted to wheat.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I break down with pizza.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I tried the</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> $8 <i>Your Pie</i></span></b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> pizza when</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">they were selling it on 3-14-2015</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> for $3.14. (<i>∏ = 3.14)</i>. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I loved it!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I ate two slices while it was hot,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">just out of their brick oven.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I brought the rest home and warmed up</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">one slice each day in the skillet.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Pizza is oh, so comforting,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">like a drug of choice.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’ve bought one pizza each week since </span></b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">3-14-15</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">REMEMBERING MARGOT</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">A really good friend, Margot Endsley, died March 30.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Our birthdays were a month apart.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Her death weighs heavy on my heart.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">She had a massive heart attack.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I knew her by the authors she loved:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Faulkner, Sartre, Dostoyevsky, </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Ruth Rendel, & John Irving. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I knew her from the secrets we shared</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">back in the 60s, when we first met at</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The University Women’s Club Discussion Group.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I knew her likes and dislikes.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I helped her plan Dick’s memorial service.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Wed. Mar. 25, (five days earlier)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I had visited with her in her car</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">in the Kroger parking lot.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">We talked about old times, books, diets</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">dogs, and children.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> She was reading <i>East of Eden.</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">We talked about death and dying that day,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">how we wanted to go quickly.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Last year I emailed her my entire memoir</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> and she’d printed it out </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">and read every word.</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">It’ll probably never be published</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">but she was the one person </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I most wanted to read it.</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> And I’m consoled a little </span></b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">that I have that memory</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> because now she’s gone.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">It was the kind of death she wanted.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Fast.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I still don’t know what my purpose <i>was</i> or <i>is,</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> but it has something to do with love & music.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe I'll get my piano solos made</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">into a CD, finally,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">now that I have designed a cover.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">HERE'S THE LYRICS & PIANO SOLO FOR</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"BECAUSE OF LOVE"</i></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>(I would have loved to have</i></span></b></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>heard Frank Sinatra record it!)</i></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">This <i>was</i> going to be my blog:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">WANTED: Fairy Godmother/Housekeeper/Agent!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>I still don’t know why I was born,</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>or what my purpose was.</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Was it to be a gardener</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">At seventy-eight</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">I breathe in the pure clean air</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Whispers from the Universe are nearer.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Now I may unlock the doors</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">tap the red shoes</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">and go home</span><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Maybe, to keep an illustrated journal?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Or, to be a mother?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>A dib, dab </b></span><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">dilettante!</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I've just been making it up</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">And now sending it to</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Maybe the dead are tuned in.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">These days I have less energy,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">or reason to do much of anything.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">came around again</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">to those of us who are left,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I was reminded of</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">at J. C. Harris Grammar School</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and I know some of them</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I don’t think I was born</span></b></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> to write music.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's just that</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> music has consoled me.</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">So, I bought myself</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I wrote my first song</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">on a little plastic ukelele</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">back in 1951.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">It made me happy.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>stay tuned . . .</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>The Plum Tree is Blooming Again</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">thinking of my mortality again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the plum tree bloomed?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It’s on its last leg</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and so am I.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is my seventy-seventh spring</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> and I am remembering back</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">to my wedding in 1958</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am the lone arranger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am the poet and piper, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"Come With Me"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">playing pan flutes with photos</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">because </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">just living </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">itself</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Confessions of a Blue Tomato</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Writing this memoir</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Confessions of a Blue Tomato</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">has been such an ordeal,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I've not even </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>wanted to post to this blog.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>At least I can give you a preview.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Here's a draft of the book cover.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>I've used my maiden name as author.</b></span><br />
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<br /><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">This took some tweaking to get this photo here.</span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">I wanted it small because that's how it will </span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">show up online.</span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> The title isn't bold enough.</span></i><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b></div>
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<b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Confessions of a Blue Tomato </i>is a compelling portrait of growing up as a gloved and girdled girl of the ’50s with unfulfilled hopes and dreams. This hauntingly unforgettable mother-daughter story is told with psychological insight, through the narrator’s poignant and sensitive Southern voice.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">First Grade - Spring 1942</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>(me in saddle shoes)</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It's a memoir about an only child growing up in Atlanta during a time of streetcars and blackouts, remembering the dusty playground of Joel Chandler Harris grammar school where soldiers from Fort McPherson gave bouncy jeep rides to school children during World War II. It’s a story about listening to the radio and collecting movie star photos, and riding a bicycle to the Saturday movie serials. It’s about opening a door and smelling popcorn, and walking on sticky floors and hearing childish screams, as the Mummy raised up out of his tomb in the darkened Cascade Theater.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I decided to make </span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">the first chapter . . .</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> . . . because, it's the story about us earning</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">our Victory Badges </span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">during World War II.</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> collect paper, tinfoil and grease</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">IN THE BEGINNING . . .</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">MY CHILDHOOD WAS LONELY. I was an only child with no daddy, so I'll just start by saying that my story is more about being born with a broken heart than anything else. I know it's hard to think that a baby can come out of a womb so sad and all, but I did. It was like being born with a port wine stain on my heart, because no one could see it, especially me, not until later, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and then, I could only feel it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>FAMILY SECRETS AND MYSTERIES</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Mother (r.) (c. 1928) on a double-date with her</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <i>(l-r) me, Sandra, Frances & Kay</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yes, Mother loved to pose me </span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">for photos,</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> so I wanted to be </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a movie star</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> to make Mother smile.</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> "Living Mother's Dreams"</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I put all my medals at Mother's feet</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and a pair of rhinestone earrings.</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>~ ~ ~</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Okay, that's enough distraction.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Wait a minute . . .!"</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here's one more photo ~ The New Horizon Band</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This group keeps me sane.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Last week I bought a package of frozen Clams Casino.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Unfroze three.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ate.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hmm? . . . Not like I remember.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Oh, but look, they are stuffed in real shells.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In three days I microwave three more.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Still not like I remember—like the one’s</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I Googled <i>clams casino</i> and copied off a recipe.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Today I have let the last four thaw out,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">have added fresh thyme, a bit more garlic</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Now I’m re-stuffing them!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’d dreamed of going to NYC my entire life.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That first evening, my friend Virginia and I</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">walked from 29th Street to the Plaza at 59th Street.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"What should I get?" I asked when I saw</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">the Oak Room menu.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Clams Casino," she said.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We had whiskey sours and Clams Casino</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> at the </span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Oak Room.</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After we finished we walked a few blocks,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">as I gazed at all the Broadway lights,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">just in Heaven.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A young man approached us with tickets</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">to the Joffrey Ballet. $15 each.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We sat in the balcony and had a</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">fabulous night to remember.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And while these new re-stuffed clams</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">were broiling in the toaster oven,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I created a song on the keyboard.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Recorded it in One Take.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Not a great song,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">but, hey! <i>carpé diem</i> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Seize the nostalgic moment with a saxophone,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">choose the “‘70s glamour piano ballad style”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">add a little trumpet, too.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Just play whatever comes . . . about</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">the sad/happy </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">remembrance of a time past.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I guess the lesson here is that</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">you<i> can</i> re-stuff packaged clams</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and <i>re-mix</i> the past and present</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">on a keyboard and create something new</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">to listen to while you savor the delicious</span></b></span></div>
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