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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">A collection of spring poems</span><b style="font-size: xx-large;"> </b><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;">flowered </span><span style="color: #666666;">by some of the greatest word artists. Accompanied by images with wise words to bring spring forward to our minds: blooming optimism, renewal, inspiration and beauty.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Sound the flute!<br />Now it’s mute.<br />Birds delight<br />Day and night;<br />Nightingale<br />In the dale,<br />Lark in sky,<br />Merrily,<br />Merrily, merrily, to welcome in the year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Little boy,<br />Full of joy;<br />Little girl,<br />Sweet and small;<br />Cock does crow,<br />So do you;<br />Merry voice,<br />Infant noise,<br />Merrily, merrily, to welcome in the year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Little lamb,<br />Here I am;<br />Come and lick<br />My white neck;<br />Let me pull<br />Your soft wool;<br />Let me kiss<br />Your soft face;<br />Merrily, merrily, we welcome in the year</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large; font-style: inherit;"><b>SPRING</b></span><span style="color: #666666; font-weight: inherit;"><i> by <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.3px; text-transform: uppercase;">BY </span><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/gerard-manley-hopkins" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.3px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Nothing is so beautiful as Spring – </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">What is all this juice and all this joy? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">In Eden garden. – Have, get, before it cloy, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-indent: -1em;">Nothing is so beautiful as Spring – </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">What is all this juice and all this joy? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">In Eden garden. – Have, get, before it cloy, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.</span></div>
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(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while
people stare
arranging and changing placing
carefully there a strange
thing and a known thing here)and
changing everything carefully
spring is like a perhaps
Hand in a window
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and fro moving New and
Old things,while
people stare carefully
moving a perhaps
fraction of flower here placing
an inch of air there)and
without breaking anything.</span></pre>
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Wi’ purple blossoms to the Spring,
And I, a bird to shelter there,
When wearied on my little wing!
How I wad mourn when it was torn
By Autumn wild, and Winter rude!
But I wad sing on wanton wing,
When youthfu’ May its bloom renew’d.
O <i>gin</i> my love were yon red rose,
That grows upon the castle wa’;
And I myself a drap o’ dew,
Into her bonie breast to fa’!
O there, beyond expression blest,
I’d feast on beauty a’ the night;
Seal’d on her silk-saft faulds to rest,
Till <i>fley’d</i> awa by Phoebus’ light!</span></pre>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">In the spring of the year, in the spring of the year, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">I walked the road beside my dear. </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">The trees were black where the bark was wet. </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">I see them yet, in the spring of the year. </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">He broke me a bough of the blossoming peach </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">That was out of the way and hard to reach. </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">In the fall of the year, in the fall of the year, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">I walked the road beside my dear. </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">The rooks went up with a raucous trill. </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">I hear them still, in the fall of the year. </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">He laughed at all I dared to praise, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">And broke my heart, in little ways. </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Year be springing or year be falling, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">The bark will drip and the birds be calling. </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">There's much that's fine to see and hear </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">In the spring of a year, in the fall of a year. </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">'Tis not love's going hurt my days. </span></span><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">But that it went in little ways.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 17px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">A light exists in spring</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Not present on the year</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">At any other period.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">When March is scarcely here</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">A color stands abroad</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">On solitary hills</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">That science cannot overtake,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">But human nature feels.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">It waits upon the lawn;</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">It shows the furthest tree</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Upon the furthest slope we know;</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">It almost speaks to me.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Then, as horizons step,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Or noon's report away,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Without the formula of sound,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">It passes, and we stay:</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">A quality of loss</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Affecting our content,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">As trade had suddenly encroached</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Upon a sacrament. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">I HEARD a thousand blended notes,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">While in a grove I sate reclined,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Bring sad thoughts to the mind.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">To her fair works did Nature link</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">The human soul that through me ran;</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">And much it grieved my heart to think</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">What man has made of man.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">And 'tis my faith that every flower</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Enjoys the air it breathes.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">The birds around me hopped and played,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Their thoughts I cannot measure:---</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">But the least motion which they made,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">It seemed a thrill of pleasure.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">The budding twigs spread out their fan,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">To catch the breezy air;</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">And I must think, do all I can,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">That there was pleasure there.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">If this belief from heaven be sent,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">If such be Nature's holy plan,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Have I not reason to lament</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">What man has made of man? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">The hills tell each other, and the listening</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">And let thy holy feet visit our clime.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">O deck her forth with thy fair fingers; pour</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Thy soft kisses on her bosom; and put</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Thy golden crown upon her languished head,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Whose modest tresses were bound up for thee.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">These pools that, though in forests, still reflect</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">The total sky almost without defect,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">And yet not out by any brook or river,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">But up by roots to bring dark foliage on. </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">The trees that have it in their pent-up buds</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">To darken nature and be summer woods -</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Let them think twice before they use their powers</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">To blot out and drink up and sweep away</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">These flowery waters and these watery flowers</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">From snow that melted only yesterday. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">To what purpose, April, do you return again?</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Beauty is not enough.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">You can no longer quiet me with the redness</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Of little leaves opening stickily.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">I know what I know.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">The sun is hot on my neck as I observe</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">The spikes of the crocus.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">The smell of the earth is good.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">It is apparent that there is no death.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">But what does that signify?</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Not only under ground are the brains of men</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Eaten by maggots.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Life in itself</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Is nothing,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">April</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Shattered, but I'm not broken<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Wounded, but time will heal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Heavy the load, the cross I bear<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Lonely the road I trod, I dare<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Shaken, but here I stand<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Weary, Still I press on<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Long are the nights, the tears I cry<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dark are the days, no sun in the sky, yes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Yet still I rise<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Never to give up<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Never to give in against all odds<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Yet still I rise<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />High above the clouds<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />At times I feel low<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Yet still I rise</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Sometimes I'm troubled, but not in despair<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Struggling, I make my way through<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Trials, they come to make me strong<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I must endure, I must hold on</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Yet still I rise<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Never to give up<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Never to give in against all odds<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Yet still I rise<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />High above the clouds<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />At times I feel low<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Yet still I rise<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Above all my problems<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Above all my eyes can see<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Knowing God is able to strengthen me<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />To strengthen me</span></div>
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PostingsFromtheEDGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457069554493169175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300205995101200280.post-88865894342013305692017-03-12T01:23:00.000-08:002017-03-12T01:23:24.114-08:00Images allow the mind to escape into creativity<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It should be impossible to feel lonely in this brave new world, where just about anything we do, is centered on a computer or television screens. Our jobs, our entertainment, our creativity, our memories.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like exercise is optimum for ongoing health invigoration, so can creativity be a great way to exorcise those demons pressing down on you from real commitments. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Be at peace every day. Be satisfied with what you have. Don't try to reach too far into the future so that you have lost the gift of enjoyment of today. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Author Eugene Uttley blogs at weeditty.wordpress.com, which he describes as a "writer's playground." Among the posts at wee ditty are a decent <a href="https://weeditty.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/what-is-sz/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); border-bottom: 0.1em solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">factsheet</a> about schizophrenia, a examination of the egregious <a href="https://weeditty.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/citations-from-a-few-scholarly-articles-touching-on-mi-stigma/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); border-bottom: 0.1em solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">stigma</a> associated with schizophrenia and with mental illness in general, a <a href="https://weeditty.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/raise-your-voice/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); border-bottom: 0.1em solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">call to action</a> by the US Surgeon General, and much more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">To get to know a bit (or a bit more) about Uttley, and about Sz and M.I. stigma, you are invited to check out these presentations:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Uttley asserts that the stigma surrounding schizophrenia in particular arises largely from the confusion of the word 'psychotic' with the word 'psychopathic' - leading to the common misconception that 'psychotic' equates with dangerous behavior.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Psychopathy is rare, and very different and distinct from psychosis and schizophrenia.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Statistically, schizophrenics are more likely to be harmed than to do harm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">As to what most schizophrenics are actually like, Uttley points to a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-trump-psychiatrist-20170219-story.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); border-bottom: 0.1em solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">recent LA Times interview</a> with Allen Frances, former chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Duke University School of Medicine and chair of the task force that wrote the fourth edition of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” or D.S.M.-IV.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">The interview concerns with the mental health of the US President. Hilariously, Frances dismisses the possibility that the POTUS is mentally ill based on his being a bad person.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">“Most mentally ill people are nice, they’re well mannered, they are decent, they are unselfish, they are good people,” Frances said. “Trump is none of these. When you lump someone who is bad with people who have mental illness, it stigmatizes the mentally ill population. Less an insult to him and more an insult to them.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;"><i>Uttley has been interviewed recently by <a href="https://aurorawatcherak.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/interview-with-eugene-uttley/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); border-bottom: 0.1em solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">aurorawatcherak</a> and by <a href="http://www.grammarghoulpress.com/celebrating-uttley/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); border-bottom: 0.1em solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Grammar Ghoul Press</a>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;"><i>Catch up with him on twitter (<strong>@uttleysz</strong>), on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Eugene-Uttley/e/B00B0LFETA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); border-bottom: 0.1em solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">amazon</a>, or under the pen name <strong>Arthur Thomas Morton</strong> at <a href="http://www.pen-l.com/WayOut.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); border-bottom: 0.1em solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Pen-L Publishing</a>.</i></span></div>
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<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;"><b>Imaginary soul</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">My imagination and creativity is my gift to the world. I may not be the most eloquent writer or unpublished as an author. How else could I adopt and self-title myself from optioneerJM to ThePublisher ? Yes there are MEANDERINGSabout and The INbetweeners blogs indeed in between. Gosh, I'd typed INbetweeners so much I thought they were indeed one word. Wrong, and wisely pointed out by Google.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">Google has the ability to control the data that so many are grasping at getting so desperately. The fight over data began when I was at HP. We were building and decommissioning servers (wiping them completely clean) all from scratch all because DATA my friends was playing havoc with INFORMATION. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Umbrella</span></b></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">Data is the is virtually in the cloud. It is starting to be the battle on who not only can grab and house the data (have you used the Apple Cloud? Geese, they have the in front of their name too, maybe I AM an imposter! Thinking I'm as good or clouds away from information.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;"><b>That is why I write</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">The difference between the gifted and truly great orators cannot amount to anything without the write words. That is what I found by discovery. I guess in a nutshell I don't settle for the status quo. There are an infinite number of people, companies, processes, operations, people, characteristics, profiles, principles, philosophy, culture, impediments to trying to accomplish just about anything.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;"><b>The resources</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">Of a given company, the resources are the thing. They make or break a company, organization or country. Really regardless of global location, culture, religions, they share the same obstacles. There is this really important balance between three separate things:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">* people power</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">* equipment and technology</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">* intelligence and innovation above all.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">If you don't have the resources in place or minimum keeping pace with your growth, you will fail miserably. Think about all the GREATEST of pioneers who fade into the background, a forgotten innovator. It has to be the guy who invented SKYPE. Without skype, people really were unable to communicate in any other way than on the phone OR a webcam but not both. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">Without SKYPE, there would be no FACETIME (Apple eh?) no SNAP CHAT, Periscope or YouTube for heaven's sake. I may have gone off the deepend a bit here. I guess you just found out the second most unique thing about me didn't you? I don't like others stealing credit when it is due someone else. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;"><b>It all begins with a story</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">Every folklore has a story. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">For me, as a career I've had the knack to help launch businesses, come up with some creative ideas that solved big problems (which was rewarded because it was in a sales capacity where money talked, results won.) If I was truthful, I would not expound upon the glories of sales glory at the highest level. What nobody tells you in sales school, university, or college, that to be truly great in sales, you have to toughen your skin to a shell of steel because the higher you climb the more people think they want to step on you. Or, kick you from the sidelines.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">Once, I was doing some really great things, people become nervous. I don't think they are nervous because they may be cool ideas, but they could see that I could execute on those ideas.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;"><b>An Army</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">Some companies think they should run it like the army. No, I've never been in the Army, but my father was highly regarded in the Canadian Armed Forces Air Force Command Center in Winnipeg. It may have moved for all I know, but through osmosis I could see how it ran its operation. They'd blip at me when I heard "insubordination" or "leadership command" or "full disclosure, tattle taler society". </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;"><b>The Hierarchy</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">Some companies have tried to soften the army approach because when business is booming, which usually means economies are booming. That, usually equates to oodles of opportunity for more sales which trickle down to net profits, executive reasonal salaries with outrageous bonuses. Some of us do pretty well and even can thrive in a Hierarchal society, it's best to blend in and fade into the background in this climate. Because the leaders of the top of the chain do not like to be threatened. Not in a hierarchical society. There still are a lot of yes sir and no ma'am in this society without the salute (unless it's the third finger salute behind the back of the hierarchical ~ geez, is this a hard word to spell or what??!!) There are clear distinctions between the haves and the have nots in this world. There are the people that make all the money (around 10%) and then there are those that do all the work to allow the top to keep making more money (90%). I've worked in this world the most. It's a comfortable place to be. It isn't necessarily THE best place to be if you like to be a creative thinker. Can you imagine the business cases, best practices, powerpoint presentations there are in a Hierarchy company? Well, the area you can really be creative is within the confines of those arenas:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">* Business Cases</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">* Best Practices</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">* Powerpoint Presentations</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">If you're good at any three of those things and become outstanding, you will knock the socks off anyone who merely glimpses at your showmanship, intelligence, innovation and wanting to solve a problem. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;"><b>The Narrow Path</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">Imagine being in the confines of processes, procedures, protocol, pretty power points, and I didn't even expound the virtues of being an excel spreadsheet whiz. You, young man or young lady, will be going places. Vroom vroom. I've never been a rule breaker. Not that I can think of too readily. Maybe someone else can remember and enlighten me? In any case, I will admit to being a rule:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">* Pusher</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">* Enveloper</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">* Evasive</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">* Determined</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">* Focussed</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">* Driven</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">* Chaser</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">* Dreamer</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">of ways to do new things in new ways. Hardly, a spot for someone like that in a Hierarchical surroundings. It could be almost like a tadpole or goldfish swimming in the ocean surrounded by sharks. Very teritorial these barracudas and bastards are. (First official swear word in print, ha! Power of NOW!)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><b>Dysfunctional</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">Now many of us have lived in one form of dysfunction or another. You are delusional or a liar if you deny this. Some demonstrate it more privately and at home, or when they're out, or at work. Most, if not all, have had to deal hands on or hands off with dysfunction. There are a lot of companies that are dysfunctional while sharing the common ground of The Army or by Hierarchy. For that reason, can emerge a Dysfunctional work culture. Or, the lack of balance between life and the way you have a roof over your head.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: large;">A few things to ponder. If they make you think, absolutely great. Thank you.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 17.6px;" /><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 17.6px;"></span></span><br />
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PostingsFromtheEDGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457069554493169175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300205995101200280.post-47145293070582954972017-02-10T23:13:00.000-08:002017-03-12T01:24:51.245-08:00A skin malaise ..... <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since Tuesday this week, I've been overtaken by a skin condition called Shingles. I know, we've all seen the commercial: the guy rubbing his back while the narrator tells us how painful it is and if you're over 50, you should get the Shingles vaccination. In fact, I think it is a frequent guest advertiser on CNN, if I'm not mistaken. One of those commercials you've seen so often, your lips start moving as you murmur the voice over you perform like second nature.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So what if I'm over 50? Why would I even be bothered? Forget that as I hit my 50s I was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes. No matter that the dietitian and doctor tried to convince me that it was shitty genetics, like a curse in the health family history battle of hereditary propensity to inherit one day. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, I watched with not-quite smugness, but not a far stretch of superiority while watching Brett Michaels pitch a comeback under the umbrella of diabetes as a disease. No, no one else had put the "ailment" I perceived it NOT to be to an outright kiss of health trauma and continuous uphill climb. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Being born and raised in the Sixties ( #60s ) I basically grew up with anything and everything, where moderation conflicted with self indulgence that the era really should be identified with. Everything IN EXCESS was the motto of the times, and restraint was a disorder and "anything goes" was the order of the day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I guess it shouldn't be any wonder that once your hit your 50s, your health becomes the legacy you created all those many dreams ago. Where nerds could be gazillionaires, and a suave businessman and personality could become the President of the United States. To demonstrate that I am Canadian, read the previous sentence again ending with ..... could become the President of the United States. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You see, if I were American, I would have said: "President of the United States of America". I just wondered if any other Canadians thought about the ramifications of our cousins to the south consideration and respect for us to their north.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Life can't get any more interesting than mulling over the fact that yesterday was my 10th Wedding Anniversary .... then it hit me that it WAS Friday the 13th. My mom questioned the wisdom of getting married on the date with 13th. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">I reckoned that since my husband, the Hunkster Hubster, I affectionately call him was born on the 13th of December, you couldn't get any luckier than that, because 2x13=26 so it really isn't bad luck. If you take his birth month and birth date, you get 25 (12+13) ... with mine as 22 (04+18) making him ODD and me even.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">to add intrigue to the insight, we have a beautiful winter moon. It doesn't get more surreal than this: a ghostly moon because of the artic air descended upon us, a fainted white. From the reflection of the snow and crystals casting about a diamond glow.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">as to what we worried about back then. Would the Princess eat at the table with the rest of the royalty, whom were never allowed to treat her as though she invaded our home. Do we really expect to continue to sit at the table for dinner every single night, as he'd observed as our home life. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">was my battle cry. I would never allow normalcy be invaded by doom. The best to hang on to are the traditions that were mired in each other's parents homes. A nightly dinner with a tastefully set table was as normal as it ever has been in years since. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">a throwback to the days I spent at the arena in my youth, with a sparkle in my eye that I would become a member of the Ice Capades in a few short years. If I worked hard. Even after I started to be able to drive myself to those 6 a.m. skates, my mom would always make me some hot chocolate in a thermos to have between figures and free skate or dance. One of those things you take for granted, become implanted with habits carried into our adulthood, parenthood.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Our best friend, companion, faithful, loyal, protective guardian of our hearts. I'm talking about all of us. Realizing now, how difficult it was to trust again, to give someone else your heart, so fearful of having it trampled upon. Again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">and will eventually grow even more. As grandchildren and boyfriends and praying for wife and more husbands build and grow from the foundation. Of two apprehensive in taking a risk on love. For the most part, our home is still the focal point in most of our lives. Drifting in importance other times. </span></div>
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PostingsFromtheEDGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01457069554493169175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300205995101200280.post-23116262806007533922017-01-10T20:01:00.001-08:002017-03-12T01:24:51.230-08:00The Prince and the Puppeteer<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The stark contrast between Obama and Trump have never been clearer than they were tonight.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So many can't help but notice how different these two men are. After tonight's farewell address, there is no question who is "the Prince" and this story, and whom I am cementing my plan. However possible that may be, likely not overnight. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My quirky twist on a classic fairy tale was tempting to use but "The Prince and the Pauper" would have been wrong. The anti-hero, antagonist to this tale is a bazillionaire, confirmed by nevermind, a boast of his own kind. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">seems to be catchy as well. As my creative soul seeps out to my fingertips on these keys. A startling front page of some big national newspaper known for its journalism, ingenuity and risk taking bravado that the Gentlemen so eloquently orated that his wife was his best friend. The love in his eyes and the genuine tears would make many ladies aswoon (falling into swoon) who could only imagine, never experience, the gaze of strength, manhood, leadership, father, husband morally grounded so evidence by the adoration in his daughter's eyes.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The integrity, honesty, pride was evident in his eyes. We became unified by that feeling of inclusiveness, witnessing a truly great event. Uplifting. Inspiring. </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">on a journey of history shared, written and spoken in such a beautiful, flowing way. Gently reminding his team (which included a very big country) how much they have accomplished together over the past number of his stated years. Chiding them to get off their tuffs and get signed up and sign on to being leaders of change.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">in the story is the child, the man who had become adored by literally millions, could rise from even where his parenting, citizenship belonged, thrown into circumstances that were part of the circumstances to which he was born. The climb up, stand proud and push forward to become one of the greatest leaders that come so quickly to mind. Great resonance in admonition to send a powerful message that one's own determination is the only thing limiting one's ambition, which degrees decree force. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">for what you have done</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">not just for your country</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">but for many beyond.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Restorer of hope and symphonic</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">"yes we can" chorus Obama championed.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">To a choir of billions</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">help rapt in those words.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">The king of 1961</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">to which he should be crowned.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">I cannot think of anyone more worthy</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">than the person within.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Integrity, honesty, trustworthiness flow</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">fueled by his loyal herd</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">as a son, husband, father he is first,</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">magnetic to the tides of those wanting change.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Our king of 1961</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">forever should be crowned.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">As one of the best speakers, speech makers</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Thank you and forever gratitude</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">will linger in our hearts</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">the gift of watching you uplift many</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">to a world of servitude</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">to help all mankind, not just our family.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">As brothers and sisters of a nation.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">No division of color or where's one station.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"><i><b>I will share and post this on other blogs, as posts... check out Twitter to use the #hashtag #thankYOUmrOBAMA.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Bright lights, big city, where i live. A cosmopolitan city in the finest form. If you want to think of destinations in the world the come first to mind, it would not be my city. Not Los Angeles, nor Atlanta with traffic snarls, gang snarls, nor dusty, dirty cultures. Except maybe lately when one is becoming severely disenchanted with the current incumbent whom I fear will go uncontested as he sheds his cloak and sheds that shiny veneer (of his suits, that is). Just not the type of man I want to embed in our youngsters' minds that he is perfectly normal. A single guy who lives in his mother's basement while making probably, oh, $250,000 a year. He sounds like he has admitted who he REALLY is, walled out from faith pressure. So, he comes across the every man or woman's big or little brother, depending on your age.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">I will mail you a gift if you guess where i'm from? I was on the REDDITgifts exchange this past 2016, and it was of the coolest things I have done online ... more than likely since I jumped online, fingers first, brain later. No, I try to stay clear of controversy, yet I've been known (probably hard to prove because my typical blogging numbers aren't that high. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"> HOWEVER, the followers that I have, I tend to really interact with, consistently. Most people just amass numbers, and regardless of how many hours you clock in online, everyone basically has a ratio of how much time they spend online, what you are doing while you are online, OR who are you doing it with? (a vendor~because you are a shopper) (a reader~swiping through content, like a mad painter swishing side by side) (an audience~you blog, you post, you like, you reTweet, you share while you know the online Code of Conduct and observe the unwritten rules (that will be sidebarred to another writing adventure).</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">🅶</span><span style="color: #666666;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">I adore experimenting with design, style along with my writing. I want to develop that more as I progress along. With you, the reader. I'm an avid reader who likes the odd movie :: the stronger the screenplay, the better actors, the better something with umph are my most favorites.</span></span><br />
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