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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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
Dark will be here in an hour
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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 his cheap . . .
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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 and said . . .
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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 the Florida breeze . . .
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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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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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Booklovers
Location: of Wonder, FL
Created: Feb 14, 2006
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