tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84107910032614972382024-03-14T12:47:08.306-04:00MomzillaNCA blog about issues, life in general, poetry, and being a mom.MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-23472238406636386322020-11-01T10:53:00.004-05:002020-11-01T10:53:55.618-05:00<p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b> Prayer for Our Nation 2020</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Heavenly Father… merciful Lord… God of all…</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>We pray in all things Your glory may be magnified.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>You see how many hate so unreasoningly. </i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>You have heard the false witness preached daily,</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Chaos and injustice spoken in Your name Lord. </i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>We thank You for giving us eyes to see and hear the truth,</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>and for giving us the heart to keep working for Your purpose.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Humbly, we come now in prayer and supplication, </i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>to You our God of grace and solace. </i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Preserve and make clear our path </i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>to serve Your purpose in this world. </i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>And, we ask, our Father in Heaven, </i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>that You help us let go of anger and fear,</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Help us let go of resentment and pray…</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>to pray for the healing of the hearts and minds</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>For all those who are adversarial against compassion.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>We lift them up to Your perfect love and healing grace, Lord.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Preserve this nation and draw us together.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Heal the sickness of hate gnawing at its heart.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>May Your Will perfect the heart of this nation, </i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>and restore restore the strength of our unity.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; 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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is no need for sides. The burritos are a complete meal in themselves. I make an entire meal, wrapped in a tortilla, which I call "My Everything Burritos" because <i><b>everything</b></i> is in them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 cups boiling water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 tbs butter</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 cup Uncle Ben's Brown Rice</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 cans Rotel Tomatoes with Green Chilis</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 lb of 90% lean ground beef</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Vegetarian refried beans</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3 tbs EVOO</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1/2 cup Taco Bell taco sauce</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3 tbs chili powder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 tsp coriander</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1/2 tsp ground cumin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 tbs dried cilantro</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 tsp sweet paprika </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1/2 tsp oregano</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1/2 tsp red pepper flakes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1/4 tsp cayenne pepper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4 lg cloves garlic, shredded or finely minced</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 medium to large sweet onions, minced</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 lg bell pepper, minced</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 half bag frozen corn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 cup sharp cheddar cheese, shredded</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 cup pepperjack or firejack cheese, shredded</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">salt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">black pepper</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sour cream</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Salsa</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i style="background-color: #b45f06;"> SPANISH RICE </i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a pot, add one can of Rotel, the brown rice, butter, salt, and boiling water, plus cilantro, oregano, coriander, cumin, paprika, and 1/4 cup taco sauce. Cover and boil for 5 minutes. Reduce heat to low, continue cooking 45 minutes – stir once about halfway through. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i style="background-color: #b45f06;"> THE FILLING </i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In large, non-stick pot, with the EVOO, add the onions. When the onions are translucent, add the peppers and garlic. When the peppers are soft, break up the meat and add salt and pepper, plus the rest of the dry spices. Cook until the meat is not pink any longer. Add corn and the other can of Rotel tomatoes, plus the other 1/4 cup of taco sauce. Increase the heat until most of the moisture cooks off, stirring often. Reduce the heat and add the refried beans and stir until incorporated and bubbling slightly. Add the rice and cheese, then stir until cheese is melted and the mixture is thoroughly blended.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Spoon the filling onto tortillas and fold the tortilla around the filling, forming a sealed packet. On a hot griddle, toast the burrito packet on each side until it's golden brown. Serve with sour cream and the salsa of your choice, and/or guacamole. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Serves 8 to 10.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="color: white;"><i style="background-color: #b45f06;"><br /></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="color: white;"><i style="background-color: #b45f06;"> LEFT OVERS </i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wrap each stuffed and folded burrito packet (before grilling on the griddle) in parchment (not wax paper), place in a Ziploc bag or sealed container. To thaw, it's best to place them in the fridge the night before you'll serve them. You can leave them on the counter for a couple of hours – I prefer the fridge thawing in accordance with food safety guidelines. Zap the thawed burritos in the microwave for about a minute to a minute and a half (depending on the thickness of your folded packet), then finish them off on your griddle pan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hint: It's terrific with spinach or sun-dried tomato tortillas. </span></div>
MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-49228112965700773762019-09-16T11:15:00.000-04:002019-09-16T11:15:13.660-04:00Midnight at the Oasis – Infographic Artwork<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-21341902979581825592019-09-09T10:33:00.000-04:002019-09-09T10:33:28.078-04:00Dread Death Come<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-53422531510451178632019-08-31T11:52:00.000-04:002019-08-31T11:52:24.133-04:00A Mother's Tears<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>This poem was composed for the “Flash Tales” prompt, for the week of 26-31 August 2019, moderated by <a href="http://www.tonikief.com/?fbclid=IwAR2nysneUhSKnzFWn9QungHwST0y8_x4NJgehkQSv8Q2VTwJiSPBB0IYEjI">Toni Keif</a>, in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/wepawblog/">WE PAW Bloggers</a> group on Facebook. The prompt: 500 words or less and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/writingprompt?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG">#writingprompt</a> is “Standing on the shore of the Salish Sea.”</b></span><br /><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Her eyes brimming with tears<br />from a heart broken for years<br />The final pain sealing her fears<br />Of his tragic end alone<br /><br />Bent by age, crushed by woes<br />Recalling his sweet button nose<br />of twid’ling his sweet little toes<br />potentiality prone<br /><br />Silvered hair, wrinkled face<br />In his life, she had no space<br />Hope now lost of finding a place<br />Never again coming home<br /><br />A shining son dimmed, lost<br />Only son shed by cru-el cost<br />Into the wide sea of death crossed<br />He found no meaning owned<br /><br />Ash tipped from golden urn<br />In the Salish Sea now churn<br />With salty tears her cheeks burn<br />A mother’s tears sown<br /><br />Bent by age, crushed by woes<br />Mother’s love lost to fame’s woes<br />Bent by age, crushed by woes<br />Mother turns, heads home alone</i></b></span><div>
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-72820133956513086102019-08-14T10:36:00.003-04:002019-08-14T10:40:23.539-04:00Façade<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Self-convincing deceptions<br />We make and accept in Life<br /><br />Each one pricks as a tiny cut<br />An almost imperceptible wound<br /><br />We wound our deepest self<br />To choose what lie we will<br /><br />Tending gardens of our hearts<br />As the nightingale weeps a lonely song<br /><br />The flowers are melancholy<br />That content, we lose the dream<br /><br />Bleeding drawn by pricking thorns<br />With putrescence we cultivate roses</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>© 14 August 2019, by D. Denise Dianaty</b></span><div>
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-30822163763220528242019-07-21T14:06:00.000-04:002019-07-21T14:06:08.113-04:00Laugh Clown… Laugh – A Spoken Word poem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><i><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In memoriam for Robin Williams…</span></i></b><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="300" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286576551&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75;">Delivered the joke, smiled through torment…<br />On humor’s wings your malady was bent.<br />You shared with all your gift of the jape,<br />For our maudlin hearts a moment’s escape.<br />A manic laugh ‘pon your face fights,<br />We raised you up to astonishing heights.</span><div>
<br /><b><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Laughing… laughing… laughing… laugh</span></i></b><br /><span style="color: #351c75;">From the depth of melancholy in your eyes,<br />Take flight now before us… ever higher you’ll rise.<br />Made us laugh ’til we did cry apiece…<br />Precarious… you teetered ‘pon the precipice.<br />Played out your suffering ‘pon the stage,<br />Lights… camera… the pedestal… your cage.</span></div>
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<br /><b><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cry out loud… make jest of your pain</span></i></b><br /><span style="color: #351c75;">For you ever inspired, gave hope from your fragility,<br />Shined so brightly for all your frolicking jocularity,<br />Behind the door… in the dark… burned out alone.<br />Did we ever see if a smile from your eyes shone.<br />You always were easing our lonely malady.<br />You made the joke from your own tragedy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lonely clown… living to entertain</span></i></b><br /><span style="color: #351c75;">Reveling in your hilarity taken for granted,<br />Your warmth… your joy… we were enchanted.<br />Left none to ease your heart so dolorous,<br />To deliver joy beyond depression’s curse.<br />To strive with unending adverse poignancy,<br />Gave joy… spread smiles… and tears of hilarity.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Dying… dying…dying to make us laugh</i></b></span><br /><span style="color: #351c75;">Laughing… laughing… laughing countenance<br />Hiding behind laughter, your sustenance.<br />Your soul laid bare… laid bare for the joke,<br />Poured out… poured out… ’til your heart broke.<br />Loving the clown to death, we cried,<br />Cruelest cut the day the laughter died.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Laughing… laughing… laughing… laugh<br /></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cry out loud… make jest of your pain<br /></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lonely clown… living to entertain<br /></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dying… dying…dying to make us laugh</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><br /></i></b><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>© 19 August 2014, by D. Denise Dianaty</b></span></div>
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-49233471834946123322019-07-13T11:06:00.000-04:002019-07-13T11:06:05.375-04:00Fear Her… Fear Liberty<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”</i></b></span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Fear her… Fear Liberty</span></i></b><br /><span style="color: #073763;">Once upon a time of hope…<br />Liberty shone her light,<br />welcoming unto the world</span><br /><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Proclaiming covenant…</span></i></b><br /><span style="color: #073763;">The America she shown upon<br />Now dims… now hides her light,<br />unkind… harsh… unwelcoming…<br /></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><i>Denying covenant…</i></b></span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">No quarter for those tempest-tost<br />No hope they may breath free<br />No more the Mother of Exiles</span><br /><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Covenant is broken…</span></i></b><br /><span style="color: #073763;">Your huddled masses turned away…<br />Her lamp, not lifted… shuttered.<br />The Golden Door is dross.</span><br /><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Fear her… Fear Liberty.</span></i></b></span><br /><div>
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-6396764765035019172019-07-09T18:25:00.001-04:002019-07-09T18:25:33.144-04:00The Unraveling…<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Terrible truths and horrific lies are unraveling the American ideal.</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">unraveling… unraveling… unraveling, frayed</span></i></b><br /><span style="color: #073763;">A once proud nation bowed ‘neath hate</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">poor brown refugee babes’ cagèd fate</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">…stolen from pleading mothers’ arms</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">for believing America’s charms</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">all meaning now lost in that flag…</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">Liberty’s steel skin reduced to slag</span><br /><br /><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">unraveling… unraveling… unraveling peace</span></i></b><br /><span style="color: #073763;">Old Glory’s red, white, and blue spoiled</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">unraveling… before our eyes soiled</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">Poisoning our land and our air</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">Sowing seeds of impending despair</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">Reaping humanity’s demise</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">demonizing the words of the wise</span><br /><br /><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">unraveling… unraveling… unraveling love</span></i></b><br /><span style="color: #073763;">All meaning stretched to fit</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">an unconstitutional remit.</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">Suppressing the majority…</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">“We the People” — no priority</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">…stolen voices of the nation</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">rendered perfidy’s coronation</span><br /><br /><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">unraveling… unraveling… unraveling, hope</span></i></b></span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>© 09 July 2019, by D. Denise Dianaty</b></span><div>
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-17498753518466250102019-07-07T08:50:00.000-04:002019-07-07T08:50:52.956-04:00Humanity… Earth’s Disease<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Kids on the street<br />Babies in cages<br />At the table no seat<br />Garbage in our seas<br />Climate change <br />And dying trees<br />Pollution on the breeze<br />Heating the oceans<br />Humanity… earth’s disease</i></span></b><div>
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-10309285679296249862019-05-25T17:59:00.001-04:002019-06-22T05:05:00.260-04:00Cruelty is the point<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Demonizing refugees crudely<br /> The point is unrelenting cruelty</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ripping babies from their mothers’ arms<br /> Locking them in cages, increasing harm</span></div>
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-51459925047793383282019-05-03T14:29:00.001-04:002019-05-04T09:30:25.568-04:00No… Democrats and Republicans are NOT the same.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i style="color: #073763;">So… you say yet again, “It’s not just the GOP. It seems almost all our lawmakers are way, way out of touch. The very real fact that all of us often struggle for basic needs means they’re [all] failing us. Near the top of the list of things I hate, is articles… that highlight the fact that the [offending person] is a Republican, as if to intimate that the Democratic solution is better. All it does [is]… create a false narrative for the purpose of getting votes.”</i><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">You could — perhaps — have comfortably made that argument 25 years ago — or, for the very generous of heart, maybe even 15 years ago. And then we could have discussed how both parties needed improvement.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">However, I’m sorry, today it is NOT a “false narrative” that Republicans keep espousing repugnant ideas and working to ensconce those ideas in official policy. We have watched the GOP, for at least the last quarter century, descend ever more rapidly into our current nightmarish authoritarian extremism. Not only do the worst of them spew vile and hateful rhetoric, when they do, their Republican peers don’t do anything about it. Democrats are constantly accused of the “circular firing squad” for speaking and acting to hold peers to the higher standard. While, just as an example — yet again — the GOP primaries an actual card-carrying nazi in Arthur Jones, elected blatant racist Steve King, and are right now again primarying pedophile Roy Moore.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">Former House Speaker, Paul Ryan actually said of his desire to gut Medicaid, “We’ve been dreaming of this since I’ve been around,” Ryan says, before interrupting himself to clarify exactly how big of an opportunity this is, “since you and I were drinking out of kegs.” Mitch McConnell is right now gutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs. The GOP has been waging war against America’s middle class and working poor since before the Reagan era with singleminded devotion to enriching the mega corporations and the wealth class. Even in Bill Clinton’s day, the GOP controlled Congress, and rammed through their agenda against America’s middle class and poor. The GOP’s patriotic religiosity and misogyny will settle for nothing less than the systematic tearing down of our constitutional democratic republic, creating a nightmare <i>Handmaid’s Tale</i>-like society by imposing their vision of a Dominionist theocratic corporate feudal state. We’re three fourths there already.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">No one is saying Democrats are without faults, but they hold a clear moral high ground. It’s worse than a mere false equivalency to conclude that Republicans and Democrats are not different in their intent — </span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">it is a baldfaced, perfidious LIE.</span></i></b><span style="color: #073763;"> Democrats have often been ineffectual, but the overarching intent, since at least the time of LBJ, has been increasingly progressive and more inclusive. In that same span, the GOP has become increasingly fear mongering and divisive and exclusionary. It has been the GOP’s calculated arch strategy; it is known and has a name — “Nixon’s Southern Strategy.” The GOP continues to hone the stratagem for maximum fear mongering and divisiveness through patriotic religiosity to disenfranchise — </span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">nay, to oppress</span></i></b><span style="color: #073763;"> — as many non-GOP voters as possible.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">Articles like the ones you so often decry highlight the fact that the person is a Republican because, for more than half a century, the GOP increasingly emboldens and embraces repugnant ideals. They create policies predicated upon stances that would have us believe that women are so morally and constitutionally weak that we mustn’t even be permitted the dignity of personhood that comes with autonomy over our own bodies; minorities and people of color (POC) aren’t American enough to freely vote; POC are inherently criminal in all they do and are a threat while living in spaces white privilege deems its own; all religion not their Christianish ideal is evil; and, the very existence of our LGBTQ Americans is a stain upon and dire threat to the nation’s very soul.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">The GOP is exclusionary. The GOP denies climate change; disbelieves fact and science; is anti-intellectual; devalues education; and promotes regressivism. Twitter says their algorithm cannot distinguish between Republican and Alt-Right accounts. Misogyny and sexism are core values of the GOP. Racism and xenophobia are key pillars of GOP control over their base. Demonizing the LGBTQ and criminalizing women’s control over our own reproductive rights is integral to fomenting anger in the GOP base. Suppressing voting rights and access is the only way the GOP can cling to power. The GOP has been waging war against America’s middle class and poor for at least the last forty years, since the Reagan era. The GOP is fighting to take away our healthcare because they seem to believe healthcare is a privilege only for those who can afford it. The GOP only care about the corporations and the wealth class.</span><br />
<br /><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">The GOP has become completely divergent from our constitutional democratic system. They are NOT part of our system any longer. They are destroying our system. It is calculated and systematic.</span></i></b><br /><span style="color: #073763;">Democrats are inclusive. Democrats know climate change is real and immediate; embraces fact and science and intellect; they value education; and they promote progressivism. Democrats challenge misogyny and sexism. Democrats try to recognize past errors and work to reverse the impacts of </span><span style="color: #073763;">institutionalized racism and xenophobia. Democrats believe ALL PEOPLE deserve the right to control their own bodies and to choose who they will be and who they will love. Democrats are fighting voter suppression and working to increase voter access. Democrats believe healthcare is a human right. Democrats care about all Americans.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>No… Democrats and Republicans are NOT the same.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">This link is a collection of actual things Republicans have said about women </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10207849909589262&type=3" style="color: #073763;">https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10207849909589262&type=3</a><br />
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-38412521983662756982019-03-04T12:52:00.003-05:002019-05-06T17:07:25.064-04:00Hope Unbounded – #LovePoem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-29497479251809851682018-12-19T10:52:00.001-05:002018-12-19T11:04:44.407-05:00Tragic Child – A #Paranormal #Christmas #Ghost Story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />The voices fell silent. A whisper came from the front seat as the man in the driver’s seat turned and asked, “Has Lara dropped off, Ulysses?” The little girl was strapped into her booster seat behind the front passenger, hugging The Velveteen Rabbit, with it’s Christmas bow still pressed on the top corner of the cover. The chubby tween, sitting close to his sleeping sister for warmth, smiled and nodded, rubbing his gloved hands together.<br /><br />The woman in the front passenger seat smiled, reaching back to pull the blanket more snuggly around both children. She pulled the voluminous overcoat covering she and her husband more tightly around them and pressed closer to him, resting her head on his shoulder. Kissing top of her head, he rested his on hers, cushioned against her jet black hair. He smiled when she gave a friendly wave to the patrolman passing their car on the way back to his cruiser; the patrolman waved back with a friendly smile. Half an hour ago, he had stopped at their car, as he had done all the stopped cars lined up, to tell them the city workmen were hand-spreading de-icing chemicals on the hill because it was too steep for the sand trucks to handle, and that the road would be clearing in about an hour.<br /><br />The man spoke softly, with laughter in his voice, “Mihra, I’ll get jealous if you keep flirting with Officer Polk.” <br /><br />“You? Never.” She responded with gentle teasing in her heavily accented and musical voice, “Carter, you know nothing of how to be jealous.” They pressed even closer together.<br /><br />Ulysses whispered with sleepy approval, “Papa, you should hear mama… She always tells people how great you are.” <br /><br />“Hush Uly!” Mihra admonished, with a hushed laugh. “You give papa a head too much too big.”<br /><br />The tween’s chortle was muffled as he snuggled back and pulled the blanket up around his jaw. His eyes closed and he too finally dozed off next to Lara.<br /><br />When he was sure both backseat passengers were asleep, Carter lifted Mihra’s face and kissed her gently, with a contented sigh. The snowfall finally petered out. The lights set up for the workmen brightly illuminated the workers toiling on the rising hill of the road before them. The couple watched the scene drowsily for several more minutes.<br /><br />Suddenly, a cacophony of horns and shouts rose over the hill. A big rig hove into view at the top of the rise and started down the hill, the driver ignoring troopers and workmen trying to wave him off. As soon as the rig topped the hill, it began sliding and turning sideways, before beginning to roll helter-skelter downhill, over parked cars ahead. Workmen scattered, diving out of its path.<br /><br />Carter stretched behind him trying to release Lara from her booster seat. At the same time, Mihra wrenched Carter’s seatbelt unbuckled as she reached across, flinging his door open and shoving him out. Hitting the release on her own seatbelt, she jumped to her knees and reached over her seat to do the same to her sleeping baby girl with Ulysses’ help, as Carter flung back car door open. Mihra shoved them both out the door as Carter pulled. Then, he flung them behind him and reached for Mihra. But, she waved him away and started out her own door. Her screams stopped as the semi-truck rolled on, dragging the crushed wreck of the car, Mirha’s twisted corpse dragging half out the mangled, open passenger side. Officer Polk and several road workers clung desperately to Carter and Ulysses who surged toward the wreck. Everyone was flung off their feet when the big rig exploded. Carter clutched Ulysses close, shattered by searing screams but hearing only the feral howling of his son. Officer Polk rushed to help one of the workers and stumbled over little Lara’s book, almost completely unscathed where it had fallen.<br /><br /><br /><b><i>Two Years Later…</i></b><br />Bright sunshine pierced the late afternoon gloom of the small, cozy front room. The little girl at the window glowed in the beam of light that fell across her. Her jet black sheath of hair glittered blue in the light. The sunlight split into beams as it haloed around her, unpleasantly illuminating the sagging, dusty Christmas tree with obviously old, unopened gifts beneath it. An overstuffed wing chair and cluttered table sat next to the hearth. Next to the chair, a low, cozy fire danced behind the grate in the fireplace. The child pressed her nose against the clear, broad pane of glass in the center of the picture window seat where she knelt, looking out. She sighed in a forlorn way, watching her father shoveling snow, up onto the waist-high walls of packed snow already lining the walkway. <br /><br />Her brother came crashing raucously into the house from school. His dark hair was an unkempt, shoulder-length mess with its multi-colored streaks dyed haphazardly through it. Throwing his backpack at the corner of the window seat, he shrugged off his jacket and scarf and hung them aggressively on a peg next to the door. He crossed the room and knelt briefly on the seat, almost on top of his sister. The prothesis extending from his knee thunked roundly against the hollow base of the window seat. He glared at his father who had finished shoveling snow and was standing at the end of the walk. He was wistfully watching neighborhood children at play as he collected the mail. The tall, lanky teen’s face wore a perpetual grimace as he watched his father outside.<br /><br />Lara smiled and greeted him with her soft, lilting voice, “Uly, Uly, Uly. Play with me, Uly!” Ulysses said nothing.<br /><br />The fog from Ulysses breath on the windowpane clouded Lara’s view. Ulysses turned and sat with a huff, fiddling with his prosthesis. He turned back to the window, watching Carter trudge disconsolately up the walk, seeming increasingly weighted with each step up to the porch. Ulysses stood abruptly and headed to the kitchen for a snack.<br /><br />Reading registration forms for the clinic the orthopedic surgeon had promised to mail him, Carter stopped, unable to lift his damaged leg the last step onto the porch. The hinge mechanism at his knee had locked, as it often did in the cold. Struggling with it, he thought how the surgery promised to release him from the cage around his leg. For a moment, he imagined the joy of training and running marathons again… He hated himself for even imagining happiness without Mihra. Carter violently crumpled the papers and tossed them aside. He angrily slammed the palm of his hand against the hinge, wrenching it back to functionality, then continued into the house.<br /><br /><br /><i><b>Letting Go…</b></i><br />Ulysses came back into the living room to find his father reading to Lara again. She sat there, wreathed in light, happily beaming up at her father. Angry tears sprang to his eyes. Ulysses couldn’t stand it any longer. “Stop it! It’s been two years!” <br /><br />Ulysses angrily stomped over and stepped between them and sunset’s light streaming through the big picture window. Lara vanished and Carter cried out and sank his head into his hands, sobbing. Letting go of his anger, Ulysses levered himself to his knees. He and Carter held each other and Ulysses sobbed with his father. Carter leaned back and met his son’s stricken expression. He looked at the children’s book in his lap. The velveteen of the rabbit on the cover was worn bare and the Christmas bow adhering to the top corner was crushed, faded and tattered. Carter knew what he needed to do. He reached out with the book toward the fire. Ulysses stopped his hand. He met his father’s eyes, but innately knew this was the way to free Lara. Carter patted his son’s trembling hand, then together they placed the book reverently on the fire. <br /><br />Smoke rose from the book’s curling pages… They heard music… the strains of Silent Night. They turned toward the sound coming from near the Christmas tree – now fresh and new. There, glowing golden in the last light from the sunset through the window, stood Mihra with Lara’s hand in hers. Love radiated from them both. Mihra crossed the room and brushed Carter’s lips with a smiling kiss that was like a soft, warm breeze. She brushed a glowing hand caressingly along Ulysses’ cheek. He thought he could feel her glow as a warmth his heart had not felt these last two years. As Mihra and Lara faded from view, something fluttered to floor. Ulysses picked it up and handed it to Carter. Carter wept again, smiling as he opened the pristine, uncrumpled forms for the clinic, as the last strains of Silent Night faded to silence.</span></div>
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-34709328904774858242018-11-21T11:01:00.001-05:002018-11-21T11:01:27.797-05:00Little Ebony – A Persian Children’s Folk Tale<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>c. 1992 – Translated from Farsi, by memory by Hamid Dianaty. English-language editor, D. Denise Dianaty. Illustrated by D. Denise Dianaty. Illustrations in ink and colored pencil. Scans from laminated originals.</b></span></div>
MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-82068256778872618202018-11-10T14:46:00.002-05:002018-11-13T10:09:31.155-05:00Why Am I Alone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">The wanderers have changed much while we slept. The fourth has died. It is destroyed… become naught but asteroids.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">They are separate… alone. We are One, together.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">No… See, the atmosphere clears. The blue planet is cold, but lives. Life begins again. There are small creatures there now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">There is a singularity at the heart of this galaxy. Shall we take it’s path?</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">Not yet. Let us watch the blue planet a while longer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">We have watched long enough.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">New, more adaptable creatures are spreading across its surface. They suffer great loss, yet begin again. We are intrigued by them. Let us stay for now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Very well. We are One, together.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: small;">[Eons pass…]</span></span></h6>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0c343d; font-family: "source serif pro", serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Again and again they begin… each time more wondrous than the last. The creatures are so varied now. Such beauty and song lives on the blue planet.</span></h6>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">See there? A new star is emerging. let us dance in its embrace.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">These humans evolve so quickly… Already, they have souls.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">They are separate… alone.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">They are new.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">They are incomplete… in solitude.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">Let us remember solitude.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">We remember…</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: small;">[Eons pass…]</span></span></h6>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0c343d; font-family: "source serif pro", serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Hear… What begins now? These two humans answer the call. They are soulmates.</span></h6>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">No. See… they turn away from the call. They will not be One.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">They must learn, as we did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">The solar winds beckon. Let us answer.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">Stay… The humans wander their planet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: small;">[Eons pass…]</span></span></h6>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Still, they are separate… alone. They are not “We.”</span></h6>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">They must learn… as we did. They learn each time they begin again. But, they have no teachers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">They are separate…alone. They do not matter.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">All living creatures and things matter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">They are insignificant. The blue planet thaws and the changes and destroy them.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">We mourn them. But, look… some few survive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: small;">[Eons pass…]</span></span></h6>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0c343d; font-family: "source serif pro", serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">They begin again. We remember beginning… alone… frightened.</span></h6>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">We travel the winds between the stars. We have slept at the heart of nebulae while stars were born around us. We have been One, together since before the blue planet existed.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">We were once like them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">We are One, together. We are not like them.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">They are alive and fragile.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">They are not We.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">We can help them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">They cannot be we.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">We remember our teachers. We can teach them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">They have no understanding. They are insignificant.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">We can teach them, as we were taught.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">They are not We.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">We remember fear and loneliness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">We are never afraid. We do not know loneliness because We are One, together.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">We were not always “we.” We remember before We were One, together… We were separate… alone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">We remember a path… lost and alone when We were separate… alone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">We are One, together. We are never alone.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0c343d; font-family: "source serif pro", serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Look at the myriad ways the humans live now. They change the face of the blue planet to be alone together.</span></h6>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Let us leave this blue planet. These humans… They are insignificant. What do they know of reh falling ride down a wormhole? They do not matter.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">Look upon them! They have no one to teach them! They suffer, yet do not cease to strive. They are separate and alone, but do not cease to evolve and build ways to be ever more together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">What have you done? Where have you gone?! I am alone! Why?! Why am I alone?</span></span></h4>
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-23423302015455546292018-10-08T11:03:00.000-04:002018-10-09T10:42:28.714-04:00Was Christ Ever Cruel?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s mind-bogglingly easy to discern if the choices we make… if the opinions and policies we support are in line with Christ’s teachings. Rather than relying on some manipulated words from self-interested political creatures who style themselves as leaders <i>– modern day Pharisees and Sadducees –</i> ask yourself, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>“Was Christ ever cruel?”</b></i></span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I defy anyone to find one example anywhere of systemic cruelty from Christ! Then, ask yourself about the issue at hand, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>“Is this cruel?”</i></b> </span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">More specifically, is this choice, idea, opinion, or policy cruel?”</span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No one believes kindness is wrong. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>We all believe cruelty is evil. </i></b></span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It doesn’t matter what decision… It doesn’t matter which choice… It doesn’t matter what kind of ideology… It doesn’t matter which religion or if there’s a lack of religion… It doesn’t matter if your left leaning or right leaning. It doesn’t matter whether your Republican or Democrat or Green Party or Libertarian or Socialist or Independent. It doesn’t matter if your conservative or unaffiliated or liberal or progressive. None of it matters when making a choice – any choice… any decision… any policy.</span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">It’s a very clear litmus test: </span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Is this cruel?</span></i></b><span style="color: #351c75;"> Ask the question when the choice is presented. Ask the question when the choice is decided. </span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Is this cruel?</span></i></b><span style="color: #351c75;"> If the answer is yes, then the choice and the decision are wrong.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Is it cruel? It is that simple.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></i></b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are ample verses of the words of Jesus and of Scriptures in the New Testament guiding us as Followers of Christ. The guidance is there for all to read – </span><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">it’s clear and undeniable. It comes down to one word – that word is </span></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">“LOVE.”</span></i></b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> So, ask yourself another question, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b><i>“Does this choice express Christ’s love?</i></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117);"><b><i>”</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">CEB Markk 12:28 “…Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus replied, "The most important one is… Our God is the one Lord, 30 and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your being, with all your mind, and with all your strength. 31 The second is this, </span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">You will love your neighbor as yourself.</span></i></b><span style="color: #351c75;"> No other commandment is greater than these." </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75;">John 14:15 [Jesus said] </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><i>“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.</i></b></span><span style="color: #351c75;"> 20…you will know that I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them loves me. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them." </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75;">John 15:10 [Jesus said] "If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have said these things to you so that my joy will be in you and your joy will be complete. 12 </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><i>This is my commandment: love each other just as I have loved you.”</i></b></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75;">Romans 12:9 Love should be shown without pretending. Hate evil, and hold on to what is good. 10 Love each other like the members of your family. Be the best at showing honor to each other. 16 </span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Consider everyone as equal, and don't think that you're better than anyone else.</span></i></b><span style="color: #351c75;"> Instead, associate with people who have no status. Don’t think that you're so smart… 18 If possible, to the best of your ability, live at peace with all people. 20 …If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75;">Romans 13:9 The commandments, Don't commit adultery, don't murder, don't steal, don't desire what others have, and any other commandments, are all summed up in one word: You must love your neighbor as yourself. 10 Love doesn't do anything wrong to a neighbor; therefore, </span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">love is what fulfills the Law.</span></i></b><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75;">Galatians 5:22 </span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">But the fruit of the Spirit is love</span></i></b><span style="color: #351c75;">, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against things like this. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><i>I Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind, it isn’t jealous, it doesn’t brag, it isn't arrogant, 5 it isn't rude, it doesn't seek its own advantage, it isn't irritable, it doesn't keep a record of complaints, 6 it isn't happy with injustice, but it is happy with the truth… 13 Now faith, hope, and love remain—these three things—and the greatest of these is love.</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Be polite.<br /><br />Be demure.<br /><br />Be obedient.<br /><br />Be compliant.<br /><br />Don’t make a fuss.<br /><br />Forgive and forget.<br /></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s just the way things are.<br /><br />Make the best of it.<br /><br />Don’t talk about it.<br /><br />Grin and bare it.<br /><br />Laugh it off.<br /><br />Let it go.<br /><br />Deal with it.<br /></span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shut up!</span></span></i></b><br /><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He was just a dumb kid.<br /><br />He didn’t mean it that way.<br /><br />You didn’t really mean “no” at the time.<br /><br />Did you lead him on?<br /><br />If he hadn’t been drinking, he would never have done that.<br /><br />Why were you dressed like that?<br /><br />What were you doing there?<br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">If you hadn’t been there, it wouldn’t have happened.<br /><br />Why didn’t you report it then?<br /><br />Why are you bringing it up now?<br /><br />Who put you up to this?<br /><br />Why are you trying to destroy a good man?<br /></span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Just shut up and take it!</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They tell us men are entitled to these kinds of “peccadilloes” in their youth and entitled to be protected against repercussions by their elder own no matter when women find their voice to come forward.<br /><br />They tell us the <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">GOP</span></i></b> believes the women. They even expected this debacle to lose them the election and simply did not care. It’s more important to them to legislate their self-appointed entitlement to control our bodies. An extreme conservative majority on the Supreme Court, with Clarence Thomas (a habitual sexual harasser) & Brett Kavanaugh (a proven liar who is an accused attempted rapist and serial blackout drunken sexual abuser), will do that for generations to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They tell us to <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><i>“Just shut up and take it!”</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><i>There was no justification for voting “yes” for a nominee who repeatedly lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his record in the Bush administration — he repeatedly answered with lies that could be easily disproven just by Googling them! Every “yes” vote from any senator is plainly irredeemable.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Remember: </span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We, women and girls, have been told all our lives not to argue… that it’s “not ladylike.” <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Who told us that?</span></i></b><br /><br />We’ve all been told all our lives not to discuss politics… that it’s “not polite” conversation. <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Who told us that?</span></i></b><br /><br />We women and girls have been told all our lives to “laugh it off” or “get over it.” <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Who told us that?</span></i></b><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We’ve all been told all our lives it’s disrespectful to disagree with our elders — or anyone. <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Who told us that?</span></i></b><br /><br />The people who told us that also said “feminism” or “liberal” or “progressive” or “democrat” were dirty words. <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Who told us that?</span></i></b><br /><br />The people who told us that are the very people hammering us with their “conservative” opinions and policies. They are the very people who voted to a <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">man</span></i></b> AGAINST equal pay for women in 2014. They are the very people who said they will <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">“plow right through it”</span></i></b> and ram a nominee onto the SCOTUS who is our collective nightmare to be sure they can legislate their self-appointed entitlement to control us and our bodies!<br /><br /><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">THEY KNOW!</span></i></b> The <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><i>GOP</i></b></span> knows she told the truth. They believe her. They believe all of us. The <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">GOP</span></i></b> is “plowing right through it” to ensconce every woman’s nightmare on the court. They’re doing this to legislate their own self-appointed entitlement to control our bodies — to legislate the future that will protect the perpetrators of our nightmares.<br /><br />I’m sick to death of being told to hush! I’m beyond fed up with being silenced. I’m angry beyond words at the betrayal of the people who were elected to protect us!<br /><br /><b><i><span style="color: blue;">We have survived them all our lives. We will keep surviving! We must keep fighting. We must find them in their halls of power… speak out… call them out… protest… VOTE!</span></i></b><br /><b><i><span style="color: blue;">We must vote BLUE as if our lives depend upon it – BECAUSE IT DOES!</span></i></b><br /><b><i>Like the refrain from “Fight Song” says:</i></b>“And all the words I didn’t say…<br />Wrecking balls inside my brain…<br />I will scream them loud tonight!<br />Can you hear my voice this time!?”<br /><br /><b><i><span style="color: blue;">We cannot — nay — we MUST NOT allow anyone to silence us ever again! MAKE THEM HEAR US FOR ALL TIME! VOTE THEM OUT!</span></i></b></span></div>
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-69193014891052095762018-10-01T17:56:00.002-04:002018-10-01T17:56:40.126-04:00Park Bench<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 19.200000762939453px;">I was flipping through an old sketch diary and found a line sketch of this park bench. The line sketch was made back in the Spring of 2008, in a park near my son’s preschool in Alexandria, Virginia. I had completed the bench in the original line sketch. Using the lighting set down on the bench, I finished the rest of the pencil drawing from memory, then scanned it and ran it through Pixlr. I added a rough-looking border, then overlaid the “paper” filter onto the image to give it a more textured look.</span><br />
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-35816976244328590272018-09-24T06:45:00.000-04:002018-09-25T12:35:46.521-04:00A Prayer of Mourning<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Surround and hold us in your Grace. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>All who mourn today beseech your loving compassion. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Grief has come to us </i></span><i style="color: #351c75; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">beyond our power to comprehend or overcome. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Through this veil of sadness and tragedy. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Carry us in your Love and Mercy </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>And again know your Joy and Peace. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ</i></span></div>
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-88358095539663613642018-07-05T14:21:00.002-04:002018-07-05T14:21:53.140-04:00Breath of a Sigh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6338c7; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: medium;"><i><b>To be our wings for us…</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6338c7; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: medium;"><i><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>when our own strength cannot lift us high.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6338c7; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Alone we may falter.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>© 04 July 2018, by D. Denise Dianaty</b></span></span></div>
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-1594950256581161822018-05-01T12:28:00.000-04:002018-05-01T12:29:32.942-04:00Tragic Child<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">From inside the stopped car, three voices sang in unison as a lullaby, “… radiance bee-eams from heaven above. Heavenly ho-osts sing hallelujah. Christ our Savior is bo-orn. Chri-ist our Savior is born.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The voices fell silent and a whisper came from the front seat as the man in the driver’s seat turned and whispered, “Has she dropped off, Ulysses?” Sitting close for warmth to the little girl strapped into her booster seat behind the front passenger seat, the chubby tween smiled at his father and nodded, rubbing his gloved hands together.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The woman in the front passenger seat smiled and reached back to pull the blanket more snuggly up around both backseat passengers. She then pulled the voluminous overcoat with which she and her husband were covered more snugly around them as she pressed closer to him, resting her head on his shoulder. He kissed the top of her head, then rested his head on hers, cushioned against her thick, jet black hair. He smiled when she raised a hand in a friendly wave to the highway patrolman passing their car on the way back to his cruiser; the patrolman waved back with a friendly smile. About half an hour ago or so, he had stopped at their car, as he had done all the cars in the line of stopped cars, to tell them the city workmen were hand-spreading the de-icing chemicals on the hill because it was too steep for the sand truck to handle, adding that when the workmen were done, the road would be clearing in about an hour.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“You? Never.” She responded with gentle teasing in her heavily accented and musical voice, “Carter, you know nothing of how to be jealous.” They snugged up even closer together.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">From the backseat, Ulysses whispered with sleepy approval, “Papa, you should hear mama… She’s always finds reasons to bring you up and tell people how great you are. She practically doesn’t talk about anything else.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Oh, hush Uly!” Mihra softly admonished laughingly. “You give papa a head too much too big.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Suddenly, a cacophony of horns and shouts rose over the hill. A big rig hove into view at the top of the rise and started down the hill, the drive ignoring troopers and workmen trying to wave him off. As soon as the rig topped the hill, it began sliding and turning sideways down the hill, before beginning to roll violently down the hill, over parked cars ahead. Workmen scattered, diving any way they could out of its path.</span></div>
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MomzillaNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831268605771627874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410791003261497238.post-12313395127106873852018-04-03T09:15:00.000-04:002018-04-03T09:20:16.928-04:00Burdened Blessings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Adults… shame on us all for making the children March for Our Lives… our nation’s burdened blessings.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And a child will lead them… marching<br /><b style="color: #073763;">Change is needed… change is coming…<br /><i>Change is coming in hope with burdened blessings</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">While your brain is thinking…</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Imaginings blazing…</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Wandering the ether…</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And your eyes aren’t seeing…</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">What’s forming on the page…</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">But some rare something other…</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Typos leaping ‘cross the page…</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">While majestic flights of fancy…</span></b></i></span></div>
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