Tag: kindness
group name: booklover
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January 17, 2008 10:20 PM EST --
For most of my life, the view from this writer's window was a lonely one. Though it wasn't without its magic, it was distinctly lacking in human warmth.
As a professional waitress . . .
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June 19, 2006 03:26 PM EDT --
"Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time left to confront the real issues."
Sogyal Rinpoche -- Author of The Tibetan Book of Living . . .
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June 18, 2006 11:25 PM EDT --
My Old Man
by Steve Goodman
I miss my old man tonite
and I wish he was here with me
With his corny jokes and . . .
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December 08, 2008 04:40 PM EST --
Three Thirty five in the afternoon
And I sit here sniffing like a
Hound dog gone to seed.
The sun just dropped below the
Huge screen of oak trees
. . .
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October 03, 2008 10:31 AM EDT --
Proof that Men Have Better Friends...
Friendship among Women:
A woman didn't come home one night. The next morning she told her
husband that she had slept over at a friend's house. . . .
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November 17, 2008 10:35 PM EST --
The first thing to do with Mom that I didn't have to do alone..
Last year in December when I went to the mortuary to make the final arrangements for her the service owner looked at me . . .
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April 18, 2008 12:06 PM EDT --
WHEN A FRIEND NEEDS HELP!
We don't worry how much email she sends,
We WORRY about HER.
We don't care if she isn't
up to her usual happy standards . . .
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September 16, 2009 11:19 AM EDT --
When a GREAT LADY fades
A friends' wife is in the hospital.
Possibly never to return.
A woman that could take on,
any teevee judge or doctor and win.
A lady of such strength . . .
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August 31, 2006 11:07 PM EDT --
I am reading this now and what a great delightful read........It is about a 90 year old man in a nursing home and he tells about his time in the circus.....He is such a loveable character.....
Am about . . .
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December 18, 2008 08:45 PM EST --
The best version of Deck The Halls ever:
Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!
Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley,
Swaller dollar . . .
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December 07, 2008 12:05 PM EST --
Last year was the 'year without holidays'.
This year I am making a small effort to have some color in the house.
How can anyone, with no distractions of children, relatives, or much else . . .
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January 07, 2009 06:40 PM EST --
Cyrano de Bergerac, that great nose for poetry, that smell of roses hidden in garlic, that HONKER of a wonderful play done well if not too well in the 50's starring . . .
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December 26, 2008 07:32 PM EST --
The Holiday kindness of friends..
Today when I got home there was a FEDEX package at the gate.
LIVE PLANT it said on the side.
Taking it inside I took . . .
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January 04, 2009 07:47 PM EST --
the deadbolt on the bathroom door
the spirit level's in the yard,
the screwgun's in the trees,
the dishwasher is on smoky fire
while the trees wave in . . .
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October 16, 2009 10:13 PM EDT --
Twice tonight I just killed it.
I turned off the power to the idiot box.
Saved a few braincells, I think.
Law & Order, flacking the Hawaiian and the blond. . . .
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December 12, 2007 04:34 PM EST --
Does anyone know how many people are registered on Gather. Is it 10,000 or 1,000,000. It seems I always see the same people and was wondering who else is out there. Please post at least . . .
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January 13, 2009 03:42 PM EST --
a dear old friend sent this to me awhile back, when I was feeling low.
thats how you can tell friends sometimes a shoulder turns into a kick in the butt.
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September 23, 2008 10:10 AM EDT --
Last year, while Mom was dying here, me abandoned and alone, I asked my doctor for Prozac. KNOWING it was a 'patch' not a fix I picked up this book and studied it off and on. I can say it helped . . .
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September 24, 2008 10:21 AM EDT --
Dad's father rode in the back of a covered wagon,
from Tennessee to Colorado, and saw men walk on the moon.
Mom's Dad set type for city newspapers, and died too young.
Dad's . . .
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Location: of Wonder, FL
Created: Feb 14, 2006
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