tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66550389135409754532024-03-08T16:12:41.778-05:00DARE TO THINK D A R E 💥 T O 💥 T H I N K Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.comBlogger553125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-87740458261292565222021-10-01T15:28:00.004-04:002021-10-01T15:30:22.741-04:00NO ROOM FOR THE NEEDY ?<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <b> BAD FORM</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uVplPwTg3Oc/YVdf6cmsTeI/AAAAAAAAhgU/phGk0GS6XkEr7HRYMhDhaHh7ol065qysQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/48-taking-up-sace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uVplPwTg3Oc/YVdf6cmsTeI/AAAAAAAAhgU/phGk0GS6XkEr7HRYMhDhaHh7ol065qysQCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h400/48-taking-up-sace.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Now that I'm unable to ride the bus anymore, I guess this situation isn't as annoying, not to me anyway. Yet for the hundreds of other disabled and elderly folks who need a seat immediately, this is an ongoing PROBLEM</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-43888850201273692452020-08-03T22:28:00.002-04:002020-08-03T22:35:10.003-04:00Been Awhile <span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I may have stopped blogging, but I haven't stopped caring about the cosmos, and everything in it. If we get through this pandemic without too much damage, I hope it will teach some folks a lesson about being kinder and more patient with Earth and our fellow earthlings. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If our star, SOL, explodes in a nova, we'll have gone extinct long before, because of the heat. Right out of this galaxy. Would any life forms even know humans once existed? All our accomplishments, our monuments, our hopes and dreams, the incredible people who've gone before - will it be remembered in some faraway place in this vast universe? </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We left our mark, just in case. Our signature is everywhere on Earth, and now on Mars as well. Ad astra! </span>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-73409405014559962502019-10-21T14:45:00.001-04:002020-08-03T17:53:06.487-04:00Miracle of a Star<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Each day is a wonder, a miracle of universal life - it's everywhere. I know there's life in the outer regions of space because it would be ludicrous to think it only happened here on Earth. We know the immediate cosmos we live in was subject to the same bombardment of asteroids and meteors that this planet has endured - which brought life here - so to me, it is endlessly everywhere. Someday, we'll know for sure. For now, we reach for our star, SOL, for warmth and light. Without it, we would disappear.<br /><br />We live each day as if we'll not be given another, and try not to waste a second of this precious gift. When we sleep we breathe, our brain gives us pictures in dreams, and we wake to another day not promised. At least, we hope to. When I close my eyes I'm already dreaming, and I always expect to see another sunrise - the break of day that is ushered in by SOL. Shining and sparkling before me, this star guides us in the light and is still there in the dark, though we don't see it - but it's always there. Our Star.<br /><br />Just as Luna, our moon, is always there whether visible or not, so is our Sun, always there, as we circle it and get our life from it. All earthlings reach up to it, in gratitude. So it always was - but will not always be, as stars have life so they have their deaths, and in those deaths are new stars born. Without death there would be no new life. It's a cycle. 💥 </b></span>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-87800781985179713022019-06-07T06:31:00.002-04:002019-10-19T02:01:09.264-04:00No Moon Means No Life On Earth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Without our incredible satellite, LUNA, this planet would never have been able to kick-start life nor hold onto it. Our single moon is able to bring water into tide pools - and when Earth was young it was in these shallow, wet areas that the first single-cellular life got its start. If the water hadn't been able to ebb and flow, the most simple of organic life - bacteria - couldn't have survived. </span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">We owe it all to Luna. </span> </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What you just saw was a social experiment in how people react to certain situations. You'll notice the man prepared for his "seizure" then fell down - looked so real. Sadly, people either ignored him or gathered to stare. Then the worst thing, a "thief" comes by to rob the stricken epileptic and took his wallet. Notice how he was able to walk out of Walmart with no one doing a thing. This social experiment was set up to gauge peoples' instinct to help, to feel compassion for another human. I wish it had been different, but I don't believe this is how all humans act toward each other. In my heart, I know good people are all over the world, ready to offer help and support to anyone who needs it. Where were those people on this day? WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE? </span>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-32606107873820551512019-05-22T07:59:00.001-04:002019-05-22T08:00:15.634-04:00Off to Mars ! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So I'll never make it to Mars, so what. Seems my NAME will lol. Thanks to NASA Voyager on Twitter, they're accepting the names of interested people who want their names aboard the famous Atlas rocket launching July 2020 to the Jezero Crater on the red planet. The names will be engraved on a chip, probably thousands, and we land in February 2021. It may not be me, but it's as close as I'll get, I'll take it! </span>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-61241791337982106842018-10-01T11:25:00.000-04:002018-10-01T11:25:59.225-04:00Beth and JoeWho can stay still when drinking in the sensuality of blues rock singer BETH HART as she pairs with cosmic guitarist JOE BONAMASSA?!? I need say no more, just listen, and WATCH.<br />
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"I'd rather be a blind girl, than to see you walk away..." Oh babee!<br />
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<br />Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-15870593045007908442018-09-30T03:20:00.000-04:002018-09-30T03:20:14.595-04:00Thank you Cory Booker ! My former mayor and friend, Sen Cory Booker who guided my city as best anyone could, is standing up by staying mute in the Kavanaugh mess. The silence is meant to display disgust and ire. How does someone like Kavanaugh even make judgeship is no mystery in the right-ist climate this country has been leaning toward for some time now. Scary stuff. <br />
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=cLgEnlz7djoCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-27669231967733700032018-09-30T02:45:00.001-04:002021-06-30T11:21:35.249-04:00MORE GRIEF TO EXPEL <span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thoughts upon the Man I Loved as we Lay side by side, </span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">on his bed, in his home,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">and he drifted into sleep.</span><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I felt a long breath escape from his lips. </span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There it was. </span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The man who died in my arms.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The man who held my heart and future.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The man I can't release.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Dead Man.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">MATTHEW</span><br />
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<span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like a friend who missed their cue, </span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I came in late at home with you -</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let me take you back with me</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">we'll feast upon our symphony.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">You went too far and lost your way</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">then I committed one delay -</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">and in that hour you sealed my fate,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">now sorrow waits at every gate.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I forgot how sleep occurs</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I forgot the use of words</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I forgot that joy is gifted</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I can't see my spirit lifted.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Constant tears have taken hold</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">of what was once a love untold,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everywhere I see a shade</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">which hastens to make me afraid. </span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ghosts have taken residence</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">inside my soul - I feel too tense,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">loosen please this chain of fear</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">and come back home my dear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> I WILL DIE TO FIND YOU ~ MY LOVE ~ </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Through a million
exploding stars I will make a warrior’s charge </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In the midst
of fire and pain I will make of it a barge</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">To sail
swift over ten thousand waves on the powerful Universal Sea</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I will tear
at the fabric of time and the empty space that has become me</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">To find you once
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I offer now
one arm, one leg, to those low bids which took yours.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">A misery I
happily become for you, and fall on iron floors </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sweet
sacrifice, what need have I to ever walk, to touch,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Save run into
your waiting arms, and kiss and kiss you such.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I will find
you again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Take my
promise oh Giver of All, glad is my soul should I have to fall – just guide my
path to his waiting heart, universe oh grand surprise you’re tearing me apart!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I will find
him again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">If I cannot
live without this one, beloved of the heart</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">How can I
die without knowing why such penance did start?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">For now
without single smile, of all joy quite bereft</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">There’s naught
I want in fickle life, my time has nothing left. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oh I would
die to find you again!</span></span></div>
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Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-62856877609373582772016-12-09T12:09:00.001-05:002018-10-01T12:18:47.832-04:00I Would Have Stayed<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BqDO0RbefzQ" width="459"></iframe><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">He died in my arms. I thought he was sleeping. I left him to rest. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">I never saw my dear one again. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">Oh dear God I would've stayed....</span>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-59086688169119167612016-09-18T03:41:00.001-04:002016-09-18T03:41:22.080-04:00Down To The Last of the WineRepost of June 2006<br />
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<span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong>(Written in 1972 while in an abbey on retreat. I had "found" a bottle of sacraficial wine, and being young and bored, took to my little cell and reflected thus:)</strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: #80ff00; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">000~~~~~000~~~~~000~~~~~000~~~~~000~~~ </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">I lie here dying in a hundred small ways</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">from voices crying out my name down endless hallways;</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">and the clock keeps ticking, eating up the time,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">and I'm down to the last of the wine.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">My eyes are amazed at the movement my hand makes</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">while reaching out to the disappearing handshakes,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">and the room keeps spinning, slowly in my mind,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">and I'm down to the last of the wine.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">I sleep on my back, all through the night</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">and dream of dying, lost in the sunlight</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">floating on cloudy mists, feather-fine,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">I'm still drunk on the last of the wine.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">As familiar shadows of the morning start to harden,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">I rise up singing to the angel in the garden.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">Some sweet and silent angel of another place and time</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">who sees that I've had enough wine.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">csr</span></strong>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-29933950427187428822016-09-18T03:24:00.000-04:002016-09-18T03:32:24.611-04:00No Casket For Me Please<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/ST4Ihwk2YQI/AAAAAAAACoE/tgJYnTqcD0Y/s1600-h/file013MA14353658-0030.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277665189392965890" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/ST4Ihwk2YQI/AAAAAAAACoE/tgJYnTqcD0Y/s400/file013MA14353658-0030.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 147px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 192px;" /></a><br />
<strong><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">Repost of June 2006 </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">Lay me down in a bed of grass</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">when my body dies, that </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">it ma</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">y pass</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">deep into the essence of</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">this glorious earth I do so love.</span></strong><br />
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/SvMjDP5qatI/AAAAAAAADik/dWKCoMONKKc/s1600-h/logo-1.gif"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400698916862323410" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/SvMjDP5qatI/AAAAAAAADik/dWKCoMONKKc/s400/logo-1.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 288px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 288px;" /></span></a><br />
<strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;"><em>But until that time:</em></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">My heart gives rise to the high places,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">how transcendent is God in </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">these spaces!</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">Where trickster breezes weave through my hair</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">and the miracles of life are e</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">verywhere.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;"><em>Then soon:</em></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">As a falling leaf, my cheek it doth kiss</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">this life I know I'll sorely miss;</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">so when you note my long, last nod,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 180%;">just place me in the soft, green sod. </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #009900;"> By Cathy S. Rapicano - June 4, 2006</span></strong>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-20496829576191736452016-05-25T01:59:00.001-04:002016-05-25T01:59:28.699-04:00Cosmic Math<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JyliGQnwKfo" width="480"></iframe><br />Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-37509019689270735412016-03-01T23:13:00.001-05:002016-03-01T23:13:19.094-05:00How Do I Tell You<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XHZJoHEvHiY" width="459"></iframe><br />Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-12535223946499082382015-12-18T23:35:00.002-05:002015-12-19T00:02:53.599-05:00After the Fun....<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">NO MORE PARTYING WITH THOSE CRAZY ORCAS! EVER AGAIN...uhhhg</span> </div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: red;"> SHORT AND SWEET </span></strong>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-38264194259321355652015-11-28T02:29:00.000-05:002015-11-28T02:36:43.755-05:00A Memory of Paradise<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5r0Ky_JnQI/AAAAAAAADzI/vEHCkCxJ3ZE/s1600-h/ispi047018.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447935165580549378" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5r0Ky_JnQI/AAAAAAAADzI/vEHCkCxJ3ZE/s400/ispi047018.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 113px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 170px;" /></a>Post of 5 yrs ago found in "Drafts" yikes! <br />
<span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">I've been sick.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">So so incredibly ill - but I'm finally able to sit up and type. There's so </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">much to tell you, my long-neglected Constant Reader!</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rs1xAzQII/AAAAAAAADxg/opqjiC7SJXo/s1600-h/21934_105513339467399_100000261996153_133364_7516507_s.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447927107691954306" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rs1xAzQII/AAAAAAAADxg/opqjiC7SJXo/s400/21934_105513339467399_100000261996153_133364_7516507_s.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 86px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 130px;" /></a><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Back a few weeks ago, 2 of my wonderfully insane sisters and I went to the Dominican Republic for a </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">we</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">ek. Keep in mind I've never flown before (except whe</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">n 3, and I don't remember it) nor have I been out of the country (</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">except Canada when 14 and I definitely don't remember that l</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">o</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">l) so this was a first in many ways. The res</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">t of our sibs agr</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">eed</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> that we'd kill each other 5 minutes into the tri</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">p. Suffice</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> to s</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">ay we survived, and even fl</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">ouris</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">hed. Ah miracles!</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rxj8vLV8I/AAAAAAAADyY/z-telEXS2m4/s1600-h/blue-sunset-070401-sm.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447932299159754690" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rxj8vLV8I/AAAAAAAADyY/z-telEXS2m4/s400/blue-sunset-070401-sm.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 100px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 150px;" /></a><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">What surprised me was the lac</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">k </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">of any sign of Haiti's earthquake. Yes, a natural occurrence but peop</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">le were still in dire need, and I saw NO one, NO organizations, a</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">bsolutely NO mention of what was happening only a few hundred m</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">iles from us. Pe</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">ople just wouldn't discuss the "H" word.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rs-pmEUdI/AAAAAAAADxo/347_HBDxKso/s1600-h/21934_105513586134041_100000261996153_133365_8307591_s.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447927260319601106" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rs-pmEUdI/AAAAAAAADxo/347_HBDxKso/s400/21934_105513586134041_100000261996153_133365_8307591_s.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 86px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 130px;" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">I understand when it concerns </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">the tourist industry but even the tourists themselves wouldn't disc</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">uss it, as if by mentioning the human suffering across the border would somehow bring it</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> "our" way. It was so entirely SURREAL</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">.</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5ryO55s63I/AAAAAAAADyo/7YQk80pym2U/s1600-h/fire_sm.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447933037132966770" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5ryO55s63I/AAAAAAAADyo/7YQk80pym2U/s400/fire_sm.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 113px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 150px;" /></a><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">So let me tell you something els</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">e: This was my first time trying to swim since neuropathy knocke</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">d </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">out </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">my left leg. What a fantastic, non-spacial feeling! I couldn't measure the weight of my legs, nor any pain, nor fear, nor consciousness of where my foot was (since I can't feel it) nor ANYTHING I u</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">sually deal with. Th</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">is was nirvana. This was a dream.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rzYNjv33I/AAAAAAAADzA/2j0oU1JE_kc/s1600-h/k0289608.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447934296540045170" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rzYNjv33I/AAAAAAAADzA/2j0oU1JE_kc/s400/k0289608.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 170px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 146px;" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Sand-walking is a really laugha</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">ble pleasure, knowing if you fal</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">l it'll be a soft landing. You mig</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">ht r</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">emember my visit to Asbury</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> Park in my old "Thelma and Louise" post where I became accustomed to using my cane in the sand - but I didn't dare go into the ocean then - just the shoreline lapping at my toes.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> THIS time however, with the Caribe Sea calling out like a siren scream, and with the generous</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> help of one of my sisters, I was </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">a</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">ble to back-float on the ocean with no feeling below the waist, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">a</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">nd man I just can't find the words here...first time in over 15 years I had no "heavy" pain. It's impossible to describe unless y</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">ou have it: some areas are intensely alive</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">, others completely dead. Makes for an odd-looking sight when walking LOL. But in the water with no gravity, I was in a</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">nother world. I wanna go baaaack!!!</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rysXn5P2I/AAAAAAAADyw/T1D4TW4o0gQ/s1600-h/lvbeach4on.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447933543327547234" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rysXn5P2I/AAAAAAAADyw/T1D4TW4o0gQ/s400/lvbeach4on.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 34px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 134px;" /></a><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">We bought really inexpensive </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">postcards, then at the door to get stamps were told they were $3 each - ripoff - so we mailed them when we got back LOL kinda took</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> the thrill out of it but what the heck. Gotta get postcards.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rt3h9A5EI/AAAAAAAADyA/1r0crsylQhc/s1600-h/k0584454.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447928237520905282" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rt3h9A5EI/AAAAAAAADyA/1r0crsylQhc/s400/k0584454.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 113px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 170px;" /></a><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Everything was priced for "those ugly rich Americans" and most of the people we encountered wer</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">e English-speaking - alot of Canadians. Some Germans. Mostly Anglos. In fact we didn't have to exchange our dollars for pesos, they welcomed the old greenbacks. And the hired help </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">c</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">ouldn't have been more pleasant. Sometimes I wondered what they were "really" feeling but most seeme</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">d very sincere and happy,</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> singing, talking, engaging, it jus</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">t felt very deluxe and friendly. Not one single Dominican was rude, in fact only a few Americans were out of order so</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> to speak. The scenery just didn't lend itself to </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">a</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">cting like a jerk. I</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">t was too spiritual.</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5ruj94HXGI/AAAAAAAADyI/sJOqDrldybU/s1600-h/P005-08.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447929000930794594" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5ruj94HXGI/AAAAAAAADyI/sJOqDrldybU/s400/P005-08.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 134px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 170px;" /></a><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Going through security and custo</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">ms was a ton of fun - these guys put me in a wheelchair and with my sibs in tow, wheeled me directly to the front of each line we encountered. I could see people staring but what the hey, I didn't ask for such pampering! Happy to get it though.</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rtDm8wN6I/AAAAAAAADxw/pcWtiFBMs_4/s1600-h/21934_105514316133968_100000261996153_133366_6610646_s.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447927345508792226" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rtDm8wN6I/AAAAAAAADxw/pcWtiFBMs_4/s400/21934_105514316133968_100000261996153_133366_6610646_s.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 96px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 130px;" /></a><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">My sisters have decided they're ta</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">king me everywhere so they can get through those lines. I concur.</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rtkUcZu3I/AAAAAAAADx4/pa0iDaGIOFM/s1600-h/is.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447927907476945778" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rtkUcZu3I/AAAAAAAADx4/pa0iDaGIOFM/s400/is.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 116px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 128px;" /></a><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">When I say the ocean was turqu</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">oise I mean like-you've-never-experienced-it kind of turquoise</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">. T</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">his color has no name. And it changed at different times of the day - so did the sky. Lavender sunrises, golden sunsets, white sand and very few people. We </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rxtlsWzSI/AAAAAAAADyg/wZKtvwYeLHE/s1600-h/colour_sm.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447932464772599074" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rxtlsWzSI/AAAAAAAADyg/wZKtvwYeLHE/s400/colour_sm.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 113px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 150px;" /></a><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">went deluxe in everything, why not I mean how often do you go away with your loved ones? In o</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">ur case, never. It was a memory-making week that I'll treasure always, while planning our next adventure before I get too old to appreciate it!!</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rzOgncQUI/AAAAAAAADy4/Jum5sBR_CIE/s1600-h/sunnyart.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447934129857118530" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/S5rzOgncQUI/AAAAAAAADy4/Jum5sBR_CIE/s400/sunnyart.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 147px;" /></a>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-48992020692217939052015-11-28T02:22:00.000-05:002015-11-28T05:14:13.930-05:00Did YOU Make That Happen? <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/Sfe0YRHg57I/AAAAAAAADB0/suY9aPqJg5E/s1600-h/1-horoscope-sagittarius-zodiac-200a011309.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329927013021050802" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/Sfe0YRHg57I/AAAAAAAADB0/suY9aPqJg5E/s400/1-horoscope-sagittarius-zodiac-200a011309.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>Post from years ago I found in "Drafts" lol <br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #009900;">Does time pass quicker than our brains can think about it happening?</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">OR:</span> (and this is exciting) <span style="color: #3366ff;">is it th</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">e</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"> reverse?</span> Can our brain actually determine an event somehow before it happens, giving us what we always think of as just a touch of deja vu, but it's something else? Something more substantial.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/Sfe8BwcNAII/AAAAAAAADCM/94lRRj3KBSY/s1600-h/home_discoveries.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329935422385356930" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/Sfe8BwcNAII/AAAAAAAADCM/94lRRj3KBSY/s400/home_discoveries.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 102px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #009900;">Time was born first, because of space, and many billions of years later, </span><span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic;">we</span><span style="color: #009900;"> came along. </span><span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic;">With these brains</span><span style="color: #009900;">. And somet</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #009900;">hing, </span><span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic;">some</span><span style="color: #009900;"> thing - is connected.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">There's a "bend" in time.</span> Like a rubber hose bent in the middle so the two ends can connect. Time seems to do that on occasion - <span style="color: #3366ff;">connect </span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/Sfe4k46TekI/AAAAAAAADB8/7jSAjAMlX-s/s1600-h/thumbCA4N1813.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329931627908004418" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/Sfe4k46TekI/AAAAAAAADB8/7jSAjAMlX-s/s400/thumbCA4N1813.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 80px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 80px;" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">present with future.</span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">They meet in the same time/space. It's happened to you, yes? Surely. Sometimes it's an hour, week, month, minutes, and it's not called coincidence but I wonder what <span style="color: #3366ff; font-style: italic;">that</span> really<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>is.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #009900;">For no reason whatever, I'll think of an old </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #009900;">commercial from childhood TV. Two days later I hear someone singing it in the hallway. Things like that. It happens to all of us. What is it? </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #009900;">What?</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I was thinking about Dante Alighieri and "The </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Divine Comedy" then forgot it. The next night a </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">program about his life was on TV.<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>A friend was telling me about her uncle dying of cancer in the hospital. Two weeks later I started a new book and early on a character is dying of cancer as his niece mourns. The old Patty Duke Show came into a dream, the next day a biography of Ms. Duke was on T</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">V. I was th</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">inking of making a contribution to my local animal shelter. Not long after I got a snail mail for shelter donations. A song I dreamed about was written a year later and played on the radio constantly. My brother laughed with me about how I sh</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ould get royalties.<br /><br /><span style="color: #009900;">If time can "bend" imagine what space does. We know space is full of warps and wobbles, dark areas of nothingness with "holes" and "worms", maybe forms of transport - of thought maybe? We're </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #009900;">taking up a particular space in time right now, perhaps at your computer you're taking up time/space that you're meant to use tomorrow - will this effect what you do and see tomorrow, since you've already done it now? Is there an allotted amount of tim</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #009900;">e/space for each of us and when it's over, we die? Are we meant to keep a kind of schedule, and if so, how did it come about? And </span><span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic;">why? </span><span style="color: #009900;">These thoughts were in the future, are they past now because I released them? Or because of something else.</span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/Sfe5DGZok_I/AAAAAAAADCE/svBjM3Fixqg/s1600-h/Tut+sm+coffin.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329932146925147122" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hIQUBCgWe_g/Sfe5DGZok_I/AAAAAAAADCE/svBjM3Fixqg/s400/Tut+sm+coffin.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 140px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 62px;" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This isn't about premonitions or "I've been here before" or "this seems familiar" it's more immediate, more incomprehensible. Many ancient cultures like the Maya and Egyptians seemed to understand something very basic and visceral about time. Why would you sing a song for no real reason that you hear an hour later on your friend's car radio? <span style="color: #3366ff;">Did </span><span style="color: #3366ff; font-style: italic;">you</span><span style="color: #3366ff;"> do that? </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">What's a coincidence anyway?</span></span></span></span></span>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-18040677733361158002015-11-28T00:54:00.001-05:002016-09-18T03:33:00.484-04:00All On Earth and Beyond<div style="text-align: center;">
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Utterly out of focus and I don't care, I'm mesmerized. Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-55160636745795789412015-10-26T02:36:00.001-04:002015-10-26T02:42:13.956-04:00Look at that Lady Luna<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi Karen Hi Ricky, it's mid-October and I miss you both. The only ghostly spirits around are those of lost loved ones. As you know I still can't seem to bring it all to the surface and spend a day just crying. I know you're both safe now and you know things I don't, like whether I was telling the truth that time or making it up, and why. You know God too. Have you seen Mom and Dad? Aunt Teddy and Nana? Are you back on earth in some manner? Ricky why did you hide like that, I missed you when you lived, I wanted so much to see you, hear you. Karen you already know how I feel and why, and this love is overpowering. The emptiness will in time, be filled with something at least partly suitable but nothing can replace you my Butterfly. Everyone loves you. Misses you. Did you see Sandy at the Belmar memorial? I hope I was a comfort to all your friends, truly I wanted it to be. They felt lost.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: large;">Kind of like how I've been feeling. When I'm less selfish about this, things will be better and life will go on. Won't it?</span></div>
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