tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73739787825869397172024-03-12T22:35:38.198-07:00Mil's PlaceMilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.comBlogger842125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-33538076132387423012023-05-29T16:45:00.002-07:002023-05-29T16:45:33.277-07:00I GO TO POP'S PLACE...ONCE A WEEK!<p><br /></p><p>Posted posthumously</p><p> I GO TO POP'S PLACE.... ONCE A WEEK!</p><p>It'd be nice-- if I could go back there - one more time--</p><p>in real life and not just in my imagination.</p><p>This is a perfect example of how important places are. Things that happened --had to happen...somewhere. And though the people have gone on, I still see all the places...in memory.</p><p>If you didn't have a farm to go to when you were a kid, I feel bad for you. "Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother's house we go" is a song all should sing.</p><p>There's just something about it--the red and white checkered oil cloth on the kitchen table--the table surrounded by old-fashioned straight-back cane bottom chairs. Have you ever walked down into a country cellar and found yourself surrounded by a couple hundred quart jars on each side of you--filled with green beans, blackeyed peas, corn? Peaches, pears, cherries and pints of jellies of all flavors? It's a beautiful sight. </p><p>Over in the corner are baskets of potatoes, winter squash, turnips, apples. </p><p>Have you walked into a farm smoke-house and bumped your forehead into hams, bacon, sausage, all smoking or curing?</p><p>Have you ever seen a chrome milk bucket airing under a grape arbor? Have you ever been in a milky smelling separator room? Have you ever tried to milk? Or churn?</p><p>Have you ever walked through a garden in sandy soil and saw watermelons all around you? </p><p>Have you ever walked a mesquite pasture, hunting, and had a snake crawl right between your legs?</p><p>Have you ever read and dozed under a cool, sweet smelling grape arbor? </p><p>Even if you've done none of these things...you can go there. Take some time....go back and visit Pop's Place...once a week in your imagination! </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-87916142676461511352022-07-16T16:28:00.002-07:002022-07-16T16:28:30.387-07:00THE PHOTOGRAPHERS<p><br /></p><p><img alt="May be an image of 2 people, camera and outdoors" class="i09qtzwb n7fi1qx3 datstx6m pmk7jnqg j9ispegn kr520xx4 k4urcfbm bixrwtb6" height="526" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://scontent-den4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/284860494_10100542977776507_216639815017614422_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296&_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=evBRkyPsJsAAX9h5TGW&_nc_ht=scontent-den4-1.xx&oh=00_AT-8zqSvloZzFPKbbOxtnWVYn0i0UGA0sNIbx32UD0R6SA&oe=62D7A64B" width="526" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Kindell, our granddaughter, a professional photographer, created this on Memorial Day, marking the one-year anniversary of Mil's passing: </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">It’s so hard believe that’s it’s been a year since we lost him. I think about him all the time, especially when I’m photographing. It’s funny, how much in common we share and how similar we are. I could never pretend to possess even a fraction of his intellect, but we both had a passion for so many things - and so many of the same things.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Though I don’t read as much as I used to, nor do I write much anymore, and my interests and endeavors change with the wind - photography is still the one thing I keep coming back to and my love for it always grows. Granddad was the same way. Photography wasn’t something he did, it was part of who he was. He could see a photo opportunity in absolutely anything and make ordinary things tell a special story. He was a craftsman with his camera and with his words.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">I saw this photo of him for the first time at his memorial and it instantly became my favorite. Then at Christmas, I was gifted two of his Canon 35mm cameras. One of them is the camera in this photo.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">So today, to honor him - I recreated this photo with that same Canon F-1 35mm camera. I thought it would be hard, but it was so easy because it just came so naturally.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span> </p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br /><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span></p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-87534901638149770882022-03-28T15:57:00.001-07:002022-03-28T16:07:54.143-07:00THE OLD HOUSE<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht6hUD7xpEZvDHZOCaId1bHB9O0C4sZH0G6srsVTOE8oXWWxonHzgz4ciWmZMHwKdCULxp4GNj6bkv4E2g79FqUt3iDfe9MTjyS78ZPJ_ninKkg0eLhsTB60y-COi3NL90O0-9_nR4qQPGkymV2rQTWmcvUAVRtEEnQyGVjpTeHIEPp9LorMqgEMDJ/s400/Image%203-28-22%20at%204.59%20PM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht6hUD7xpEZvDHZOCaId1bHB9O0C4sZH0G6srsVTOE8oXWWxonHzgz4ciWmZMHwKdCULxp4GNj6bkv4E2g79FqUt3iDfe9MTjyS78ZPJ_ninKkg0eLhsTB60y-COi3NL90O0-9_nR4qQPGkymV2rQTWmcvUAVRtEEnQyGVjpTeHIEPp9LorMqgEMDJ/s320/Image%203-28-22%20at%204.59%20PM.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The house on Reid St.</div> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Editors note: I was going through Mil's writings today and found this gem. I have looked through his past posts and don't see that it has been posted. There are other posts about the house on Reid, but this one provides such a colorful picture of boyhood in 1940's America that it it deserves a read.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>THE OLD HOUSE</p><p>by Mil</p><p>The old house sits there, lonely- looking on the corner with its windows boarded. It has been allowed to run down and deteriorate. Other houses nearby are neatly stuccoed, roofs are new, flowers are growing. Even the big elms planted in the early 40's have been cut down. Where a clover and grass lawn was once the summer water place for kid's play, there are bare spots and a little Bermuda, struggling for a foothold. </p><p>Looking at this old beat-up house, it is hard to realize that I smelled the newness of the paint and was the first person to sleep in that new front bedroom, way back in 1940. </p><p>We had moved, gone to a carnival, and somewhere bought some orange slices. That is the sort of thing kids remember, I guess.</p><p>They say it takes a heap of living to make a home. Well, that house certainly had its share when we lived there 1940-48. We planted elms and they grew big and the kids climbed in them. We watered each other with the hose and slid around in the wet clover. We had a cow pen, chicken coop, rabbit hutches, all gone. We had a garden - a big garden- all this gave some structure to the back yard. All gone now - just a vacant lot appearance.</p><p>The ruts in the back where Dad parked his pickup are gone. </p><p>The new stucco, in spots, has peeled off the old, leaving giant bare spots. It needs a new roof.</p><p>The bushes and roses around the house are gone.</p><p>The old 1100 is still on the front post, the same as before, running downward vertically.</p><p>The old hump is still in the sidewalk, impeding any roller skaters or tricyclists just as it did 40 years ago.</p><p>I learned to play jacks on that sidewalk. Yes, boys watched the girls and had a go at it. I played marbles out there beyond the sidewalk. I built dams along that curb when it rained. I climbed those trees on a hot summer's day and watched the world go by. I stood in front of that big window in front and yelled "yanh-yanh" at the kids throwing rocks, because one thing they wouldn't do, was throw it at a big window. </p><p>We picked ups bottles of milk off that porch in the morning. It was Collins Dairy, with the orange lettering on the bottle. Campbell's milk had red lettering.</p><p>I had a baseball backstop on the edge of that backyard, next to the street. Mother killed chickens for lunch in that yard.</p><p>We told ghost stories on the lawn out front on a long summer evening. Through that window over there, I heard FDR with his fire-side chats as the old radio brought them to us.</p><p>The garage where we kept our '41 Chevy has been enclosed and made into a room. The door is open and old furniture and trash are strewn around. </p><p>Back there behind the garage was a tall fence with a 2x4 brace near the top. This was our "Tarzan on the vines", our "airmen bailing out of the plane" area. Yes, we'd jump 4 or 5 feet to the ground for effect. </p><p>Next door was the kid with all the latest comic books. You could always get the latest Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers comics if you had something good to trade.</p><p>Two blocks over lived a family where, as an early teenager, I borrowed all the Zane Grey books. What joy! </p><p>In 1941 it rained so much that a lake four blocks wide formed about a block North of us.</p><p>Once, they had massive holes, like giant graves, 8 feet deep, dug in the streets for laying pipe. It rained so much they were half full of water. One day my brother disappeared and everyone feared he had fallen in one of them. We searched everywhere. A happy ending, he was found at my uncle's. </p><p>A block down on a vacant lot we played "army". We dug two pill boxes, roofed them and dug a tunnel between. I get cold sweat now when I think: "What if that tunnel had collapsed?"</p><p>Another block down on another vacant lot, we built a good back-stop and had some hot baseball games. We had a "good" hard ball if we were lucky--the rest were covered with black friction tape. </p><p>I went to Boy Scouts on my bike from that house. I got my first gun- a Red Ryder BB gun- at that house. I licked the front sight, too, just like Sergeant York.</p><p>On weekends we would get the Denver Post with several pages of comics. We read them cover to cover. There was no TV and little radio on weekends.</p><p>During the week we listened to Bob Hope, Fibber McGee and Molly, Mr. District Attorney, the Lemac Show, and "Can You Top This?" If you were sick and missed school you'd listen to "Queen for a Day"...("Would YOU like to be Queen for a Day??"). Compared to the TV offerings of today, kids had little media entertainment. Mother once said: "I read that someday, they would have it where you could WATCH as well as listen to a radio." I looked at that little lighted dial with the numbers on it and wondered how you could see anyone in there.</p><p>Then the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. I, though very small, listened to the reports on that radio that it was feared Japanese planes would fly over San Francisco on that Sunday evening, (wherever San Francisco was).</p><p>The Clovis Journal landed on that lawn and we hurried to see how Joe Palooka and Jerry Leemy were doing against the Nazis, with their cool .45's on their hips.</p><p>Looking at that house today, it seems incredibly small. It didn't seem small THEN. Of course, who ever head of four bedrooms and a two-car garage? Only the doctors or auto dealers had those kind of houses.</p><p>At that house we had a Black-Out once during WW II. All lights in town were turned off at about 8:30 p.m. and planes flew around.</p><p>During WWII we watched the B-24's fly circles around town; then later B-17s, and I think finally B-24's. We saw a captured Japanese Zero once in a big tent downtown. For 25 cents you could get in, walk up a scaffold and look into the cockpit. It was much bigger than I thought a "fighter" plane would be. </p><p>Why do we become attached to houses? I guess because they are a part of our lives --our past--which is gone. Our memories go back to a simpler time - a time that is gone, never to be recovered. But like loved ones, they live in our memories and can never be erased. Maybe a home is more than wood and stucco. </p><p><br /></p><p>Mil's Place</p><p>Posted posthumously 3/28/2022</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-55573174765520528922022-01-31T08:56:00.004-08:002022-01-31T09:18:09.509-08:00THE POET<p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMC7sd9_xMps6ldXFYcRMSnVOJ_W-dgykP5HG42DwyEHqv8vFA82_3q80iPfe1f6n9fZumSDbo7R1C1yWH5ZY7ySg0EOSsWyhhRq5aPe0fh2kHxkGnM8fsqqC1lv5Vf0vu8a1ZWYgxqMjG-Th2GIocxOc0gINMp9R_YQ7jSEBE8a1COc765ZXQAARC=s3264" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMC7sd9_xMps6ldXFYcRMSnVOJ_W-dgykP5HG42DwyEHqv8vFA82_3q80iPfe1f6n9fZumSDbo7R1C1yWH5ZY7ySg0EOSsWyhhRq5aPe0fh2kHxkGnM8fsqqC1lv5Vf0vu8a1ZWYgxqMjG-Th2GIocxOc0gINMp9R_YQ7jSEBE8a1COc765ZXQAARC=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Friends of Mil's and readers of Mil's Place know that Mil left us earlier this year. I (the "Beloved Editor") have been looking through his unposted writings, and will be selecting some for publication. This is the first. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span> THE POET</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He’s the one</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That reminded us </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To see—</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To see—</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The universe,</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The stars at night</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The blue sky</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Of day</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The freshness</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Of a dewy April morning</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The clouds</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The blue sky</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The trees</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Swaying</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and shimmering in the wind</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The roses</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The flowers</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The look of love </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a mother’s face</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As she counts the </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Fingers and toes</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Of a new baby…</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A baby’s first gumless giggle</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paper and pen</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Would fail</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To list</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What we</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Don’t see—</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was the poet - he did it</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He reminded us </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To see</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And wonder….</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mil </span></span></p><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-25347923480402767412021-07-01T19:27:00.001-07:002021-07-01T20:57:34.875-07:00MY HOPE<p> Written by Mil in 2013. It was read at his memorial service and printed on his memorial folder. </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MY HOPE</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That when he</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Came into this world---</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He might be a blessing</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With his life, to others.....</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He would be a credit to his parents...</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He would be well---remembered</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In his home town.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">His name would appear</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">with honor---in the halls</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of his alma mater. </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">His memory would be ever lovingly</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">engraved on the hearts</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Of his family, loved ones, and friends.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Above all, his children, and all children</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He ever met, taught,</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">threw a ball with---</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Would talk about him, when</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They were old, as ONE</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">who helped them on their way,</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and caused them to want to</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">lead godly lives.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That every note he ever sang, every</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">one---in praise of Jesus and</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">His matchless sacrifice, is still</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">echoing as sounds do---</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Somewhere deep in the universe. </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That the earth would have been</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the poorer, had he never been born. </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That his name was inscribed</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in The Book of God’s Kingdom,</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“On the page white and fair...”</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That April day in 1947, when he said</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I believe,” and opted for Jesus.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maybe one day, the Creator will say:</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Well done, thou good and</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">faithful servant.”</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So may it be recorded for Eternity.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Amen</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MY HOPE</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">BY MIL</span></span></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">12/10/13</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK5ZjTijfOWozp7TM1McZCGViaid_Msv0KPA7WlhCXpMensULR2HdQNMuTd53xPU40hKJRQCo9OYLLFaj0lfMw1A2H_QENQX-qN27Or6nVxo0sHs1VZhdqv9IL4-iBhP9AdH5BlhiooAg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK5ZjTijfOWozp7TM1McZCGViaid_Msv0KPA7WlhCXpMensULR2HdQNMuTd53xPU40hKJRQCo9OYLLFaj0lfMw1A2H_QENQX-qN27Or6nVxo0sHs1VZhdqv9IL4-iBhP9AdH5BlhiooAg/w300-h400/IMG_5278.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-57389598211554592072021-06-10T08:13:00.000-07:002021-06-10T08:13:14.861-07:00MIL: IN MEMORIAM<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioyZvMiX9ZicNIib5cP23f4aUi_hXqIR0vAnSaFeiLj5Ro4NyP-iX0Aqx8sYper3LLfqwea7S98-BoL5l7jdUQooyY7FVeRG18VssYRyKhzyAT4VZxfGkv4di1TqsWUT-S7vzEIkIykKE/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioyZvMiX9ZicNIib5cP23f4aUi_hXqIR0vAnSaFeiLj5Ro4NyP-iX0Aqx8sYper3LLfqwea7S98-BoL5l7jdUQooyY7FVeRG18VssYRyKhzyAT4VZxfGkv4di1TqsWUT-S7vzEIkIykKE/w300-h400/IMG_5278.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mil: our brilliant, funny, and creative blogger is at rest now. He was much loved by his family and friends and will be missed greatly! Thank you for reading and appreciating Mil's stories.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> There may continue to be new posts, as we discover unpublished writings </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-52777151283904220902021-03-07T13:07:00.003-08:002021-03-07T13:07:36.575-08:00SPRINGS OF LIVING WATER<p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHsbEPT_3IXlJMsMBqb-kb2UhbXhH74IBYni_kaFiAi3xzpLTQ8xh5cDkfMtu2UPz590mf6l3CxGshAJZPt8lZaQ2Kkc80kVPnseZp_Eo-IFU_y9vjTs9GB6YtVr2jcqTvwT0PaazzxB4/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHsbEPT_3IXlJMsMBqb-kb2UhbXhH74IBYni_kaFiAi3xzpLTQ8xh5cDkfMtu2UPz590mf6l3CxGshAJZPt8lZaQ2Kkc80kVPnseZp_Eo-IFU_y9vjTs9GB6YtVr2jcqTvwT0PaazzxB4/w300-h400/IMG_6716.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">See the streams of </span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> living waters,</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">Springing from eternal </span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> love,</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">We'll supply Thy sons</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> and daughters </span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">And all fear of want </span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> remove,</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">Who can faint while</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> such a river</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">Ever flows their thirst</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> to assuage,</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">Grace which like the</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> Lord the Giver</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">Never fails from age</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> to age<br /></span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">Glorious things of Thee</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> are spoken</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">Zion, city of our God;</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">He whose word cannot</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> be broken</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">Formed thee for his </span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> own abode;</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">On the Rock of Ages</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> founded</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">What can shake thy</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> sure repose?</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">With salvation's walls</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> surrounded</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">Thou mayest smile at</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> all thy foes."</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">-----</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> "Glorious Things of</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> Thee Are Spoken"</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> ....John Newton</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> (1725-1857)</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">.....Hymn Tune:</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> "Austrian Hymn,"</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> Franz J. Haydn</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> (1732-1809)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">(One of the great hymn </span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> tunes... of the world) </span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">------</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">Mil</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">8 MARCH 2021</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">Photo "BANFF". </span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> by Connor Moore,</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> (29/18)</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-83842795319218154552021-02-23T14:48:00.000-08:002021-02-23T14:48:28.685-08:00MY FIRST ROCKET....WASN'T REALLY....A ROCKET<p> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Go with me into the</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> long ago dim pages</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> of early U.S. times..</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">--------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">WWII had just ended.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">We grade school kids</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">had helped win it by</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">gathering scrap metal,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">building P51 airplane </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">models, and digging </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">foxholes on vacant</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">neighborhood lots.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">We, at our house, every</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">morning while eating</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">our scrambled eggs...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">or oatmeal and toast,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">listened every </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">morning to KICA before school.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> It was the time</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">of all the fighting in Europe</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">and the B-17 raids, like</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">the actor Jimmy Stewart</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">flew.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">It was the time of great</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">songs-- "There'll be blue</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">birds over the White Cliffs</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">of Dover," and "We'll meet</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">again...don't know where,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">don't know when...but I </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">know we'll meet again </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">some sunny day."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The old Poet can still </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">sing 'em -all of 'em to</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">you...80 years later.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">(So ...when did you </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"get a ROCKET?")</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Interesting story--that.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Right after the war ended</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">and the boys were </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">coming home- I reckon</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">spring of '46' --we still</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">listened to KICA, every</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">morning.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The station</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">had added a chit chat</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">program, with local news,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">weather, and</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">right at the end of the</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">program they had a </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">daily JOKE-TELLING </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">contest. You mailed your</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">favorite joke to KICA,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">and if they read it-</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">you got an award! Kids</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">ate this up, big time.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">I entered with a</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">WWII joke about Adolf,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">the Nazi guy, my grand-</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">dad had told me...but I</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">didn't catch it at all...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">until he explained it. I</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">guess you could call it--</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">a sort of old-timey joke.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">("Why didn't Hitler have</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">anything to carry his </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">clothes in?" "Because </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">he lost his grip in Russia.")</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">I never thought it was </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">very funny but sent it</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">in anyway.. AND WON!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Got a letter saying "pick</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">up your award at </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Western Auto, near the</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Hotel Clovis, on Main Street."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">IT WAS A </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">ROCKET.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Not the kind you're</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">thinking! That goes into</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">space! No sir:</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> It was a "Reynold's</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Rocket," one of the</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> new Ball Point Pens!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">It was sky blue, maybe </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">six inches long and with</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">a silver pocket clip...but</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">was really too long to </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">carry in a shirt pocket.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">It came in a round</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">plastic tube, with some</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">paper of </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">instructions</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">the ink was blue</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">and balled up on the end</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">of the pen. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">I proudly showed the </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">clerk my winning letter</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">and he nodded toward</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">a counter halfway back</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">in the store ...it had</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">those little glass dividers</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">and all kids of "notions."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">That store is long-gone,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">but I could take you right</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">to that counter today,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">from memory, and pick</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">up a Reynold's even </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">now...fork you see--</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">kids in those times didn't</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">have much stuff or </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">ever win anything.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">A great thing had been</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">introduced to the world</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">with the ball point pen.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">As time went along, the</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">points were improved</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">and the ink doesn’t "ball up".</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The CROSS Company,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">one of the greats, has</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">provided the world with</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">the finest of pens.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Where my first ticket </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">went ...who can tell...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">wish I'd kept it.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">MIL</span></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">16 FEBRUARY 2021</span></p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-52060599260517364112021-02-02T14:32:00.003-08:002021-02-02T14:32:25.762-08:00LESSONS FROM NATURE<p> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Lessons from Nature</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">by Billy Gilbreath, Guest Writer</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> From Acorns</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Alive, growing and still standing strong in the elements</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Quercus texana, the famous live oak, the sturdy one</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Unlike, others, its liveliness is always present by color</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> leaves, tough, the branches seem sturdy and strong.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Those roots must be embedded and giving support</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> That Daring Finch</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Swinging on the feeder, a sock like, filled with seeds</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Even the wind, doesn’t prevent its desire to succeed</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Though the rewards seem small, the effort is present</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Below those present pecking and gulping the obvious</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The large grains, the broken ones and those falling</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Falling from those above who continue with struggle.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Others About</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Awaiting without patience and without an invitation.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Those who become warriors and rush to interrupt</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Taking, fighting, scaring away those who struggle.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Soon to leave, leaving the hidden for those returning</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Grackles, Surely they must ha have an ecological purpose</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Prairie Dogs</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Still around and still giving a lesson to be learned</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Working together to warn of danger, signals</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Below the surface with so much organization within</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Returning to the openings with moments of clearance</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Sharing their abodes with one of a different specie</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Yet, suffering to survive the interruption of progress.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Lessons</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">WE find a lesson in each of these perhaps not obvious</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">A challenge for all as you considers and contemplate</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Surely, Nature presents a lesson often not seen.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Ponder, as those of old and even receive a lesson.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Billy Gilbreath</span></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Fo rMIL'S January 16, 2021</span></p><div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-17729820615475695172021-02-02T14:24:00.002-08:002021-02-02T14:24:52.238-08:00DONCHA KNOW<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">DONCHA KNOW</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">by Billy Gilbreath, Guest Writer</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Doncha Know</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Doncha know that running in the hall is wrong</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">She caught me the next day, I was running again</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Mabel White, the mean one, caught me easily</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Hiding nearby as a hunter would await its prey</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Gotcha</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Doncha know that that sign in black and white</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Plainly stated clearly slow down to thirty-five</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">A black and white vehicle with a turning red light</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Doncha know that there aren’t legitimate excuses</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Gotcha</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Doncha know eating those garden-fresh carrots</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Will improve your ability to see those road signs</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Need proof, read about the English and the Germans</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Seems the Germans were convinced of the belief.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Gotcha</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Doncha know that handling toads cause warts</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Grandma and Grandpa both gave me warning</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Got wart but perhaps not from touching a toad</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Not a gotcha this time but sure others in time</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Gotcha</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Doncha know the song His Eye Is on the Sparrow</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Sung for years and believed by those who sang</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Is one we can sing today because in His Word</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Matthew 6:26 reveals the caring of the birds</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Are you not better than they? Gotcha Again</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> I Hope Not.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Billy Gilbreath</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">After my discussion with Joey</span></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">FOR MIL'S: January 18, 2021</span></p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-774460408044894032021-01-28T14:09:00.001-08:002021-01-28T15:00:28.740-08:00TEXAS ON NEW YEARS...MUSING IN THE ATTIC<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ckYm-Hdo6tMayEwMMzZ-YnwgYENVrk26EDIxDaHBuSg-ARHdw__cWZXPW2CNjwZEIuPf74x-JzBBlyM4PTBknfggfJktJgEws6ab4T7gu1jxS3A7VeThR1vjUZvghQY7eMyL3fqRvSc/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ckYm-Hdo6tMayEwMMzZ-YnwgYENVrk26EDIxDaHBuSg-ARHdw__cWZXPW2CNjwZEIuPf74x-JzBBlyM4PTBknfggfJktJgEws6ab4T7gu1jxS3A7VeThR1vjUZvghQY7eMyL3fqRvSc/w368-h276/IMG_6538.JPG" width="368" /></a></div><br /><blockquote style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">The grandest PLACES in the world</blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">for storing your stuff (i.e. "junk")<br />is in attics! <br /><br />I do my best musing upstairs<br />in my nice cozy medium-sized pine<br />wood, much-loved room. you know-<br />you have read about it many times in earlier<br />years ...and likely you can describe that<br />wonderful place as well as I ...with<br /> the sturdy GI 3/4 sturdy steel bed ,</blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">old fashioned quilts, <br />faded and stacked neatly in a<br />straw-bottomed kitchen chair in the<br />corner, the six- foot rough pine bookshelf</blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">hammered together by me with the <br /> beat-up USMC Ka-Bar <br /></blockquote></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> rakishly sticking into one end of the shelf. </span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><blockquote style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><br />Shall I go on ...fishing poles, minnow<br />bucket, hip-waders, duck decoys, old<br />hunting jacket (faded to light mustard)<br />Ah, and barely holding together is a<br />box of 12's ...high base...green heavies,<br />in a historical (beautiful ) old shotgun <br />shell box....marked "Ft. Sam Houston,<br />Texas Commissary 1946 @ $1.49.”<br /><br />There are memories galore, flavor and</blockquote></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;"> personality in old attics,</span><blockquote style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">not to even mention the marvelous <br />aroma of OLD BOOKS!<br /><br />They say, no self-respecting attic is<br />complete without an airplane<br />propeller and a seamstress dummy. <br />Someone gifted me these. I don't <br />sew.<br /><br />Resting here in front of me on my <br />garage-sale table with the<br />old office Avanti fridge, the tiny<br />microwave and the coffee pot---<br />is my usual can of Beanie Weeneies,<br />my Delaware PUnch from old <br />Mexico, and a sack of Fritos....for<br />when I get "meditated out"<br /><br />(I won't bore you this time with all<br />my great SNACKS over there in the<br />shelf.. for my esapes ...up here...<br />Like the sardines in mustard sauce...)<br /><br />Oft up here ...as the wind whistles...<br />and the snow blows and whips the <br />branch outside, against the shutters...<br />I get out all my old high school and <br />college annuals and look through<br />them all remembering those who <br />are gone....many recently ...and calling<br />their names out loud ...in remembrance....<br />of our times together.<br /><br />Sometimes I end up with an old Mark<br />Twain or Wordsworth book curled up in<br />my GI Bed, under several quilts...and<br />B.E climbs up the stairs and sticks her<br />head in the door and calls:<br /> "You okay up here?"<br />-------<br />But on this early January Day in dreaded<br />2021 somehow I got to thinking/<br /> "How lucky I am to be an American...<br />and especially TO BE A TEXAN!!!!!<br /><br />No one can ever take that away from <br />you...if you are a real borned -Texan!<br /><br />Why I even own a piece of land where<br />the sand blows, and the cotton grows, <br />the watermelons flourish, and the grape<br />arbors are loaded with purple grapes.m<br /><br />I opened my Beanie Weenies and joy!<br />Found that B.E. knew of my New Year's<br />climb, and had stashed a bowl<br />of chili con queso in my little fridge.<br /><br />Ah, portents, harbingers... omens<br /> of a GOOD 2021?? Hope so!<br />---------<br />MIL<br />5 JANUARY 2021<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />misxrowave,</blockquote></div></blockquote>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-6647283484389542692020-12-31T15:53:00.006-08:002020-12-31T16:09:47.629-08:00CHRIST IS THE LORD! O PRAISE HIS NAME FOREVER!<p><br /></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 6, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #100604; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">This great phrase from "Cantique de Noel " ever</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 6, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #100604; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">thrills and inspires </span>us mortals on this Earth!</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 6, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #100604; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSWVZl7e_I6Ld41VYbyT7RJ3fx0kaUhlY4zIJQ8aaxbSnlfc_F7rJ9iTBmWodyEarLY2qkYg_I7lWtrdjoiPMXTB43NaKw1Dnz-YzuRW6RPCWcXcGYSouo_ZT65K3tPSqq4LAF0AjENek/" style="clear: left; 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-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> Saviour's birth!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Long lay the world in sin</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> and error pining</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">'Til He appeared</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">And the soul felt its worth!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">A thrill of hope, the weary</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">World rejoices, for yonder breaks</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">A new and glorious morn,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Fall on your knees, O hear the angel</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Voices,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">O Night, divine, O night when Christ</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Was born,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">O Night, O Holy night</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">O Night Divine. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Truly He taught us to love one another;</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">His law is love and His gospel is peace.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Chains shall he break for the slave is our</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">brother, </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">And in His name all oppression shall cease.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">raise we,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Let all within us praise His holy name.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b>Christ is the Lord! O praise His Name</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b>forever,</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">His power and glory evermore proclaim,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 6, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #100604; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">His power and glory evermore proclaim!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(40, 20, 9); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #281409; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-46703071049020425942020-12-24T13:42:00.002-08:002020-12-24T13:42:27.993-08:00THAT UNINVITED GUEST<p> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">That Uninvited Guest</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Often in the years that come and go</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">There will appear the unwanted visitor</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">News arriving by the sound of the phone</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">At an unexpected time, early morning</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Relating with anxiety, he or she is gone</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Headlines in the morning paper, boldly</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">An event that has carried world-wide</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">A knock on the front door and standing</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Asking for help in finding a lost animal</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Now comes the ultimate of the unwanted</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Strangely shaped and, unseen without help </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Revealing oddly, colored covered with spikes</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Such a small, lifeless but such capabilities.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Visited worldwide, and those isolated</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Entering the masses without invitation</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Causing the earth to become incapacitated</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> That uninvited guest we know as COVID-19.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Fortunately, today slamming the door begins</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Scientist have discovered a method of slamming</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Preventing the unwanted guest: Vaccination.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Billy Gilbreath</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">December 4, 2020</span></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></p><div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-67008915350918376882020-12-24T13:40:00.001-08:002020-12-24T13:40:29.951-08:00LAYING IT BY in 2020<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">LAYING IT BY IN 2020</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">by Billy Gilbreath, guest writer</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> Laying It BY In 2020 </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">From a phrase from farmers of the past </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Some will remember, my Grandpa would</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Times of ploughing, to prepare the soil</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Making those rows perfect for the seed</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Ploughing, sowing, waiting and watching</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Sounds like this year and eager to end</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Ploughing through the many months</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Starting early, the political debates</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Then the endless pleas for my vote </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">My mute, channel changers got tired</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Facebook also many wanting to rest</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Suddenly the arrival of the pandemic</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Ploughing again through many months</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Reluctant to watch or read the paper</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Those who are positive and those deceased</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Anxiously awaiting the promise of a cure</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The news is arriving and the seed sown</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Is germinating with the promise, a vaccine</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Now as the days of my farmer Grandpa</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Laying it by for this lengthy unusual year</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Ploughing, soil preparation, sowing the seed </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Waiting and Watching patiently Praying always</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Could this be a lesson from the one of old?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Ploughing, Sowing, Waiting, Watching Praying</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Me thinks it is a good way to start, 2021.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Me thinks that my sweet Annalon, agrees.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Sow with a view to righteousness, </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Reap in accordance with kindness,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Break up your fallow ground,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">For it is time to seek the Lord</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Until He comes to rain righteousness on you,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Hosea 10:12</span></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Our Thoughts and Blessings from Annalon & Billy</span></p><div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-85732102279916813822020-10-31T14:41:00.002-07:002020-10-31T14:41:25.910-07:00<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>IT WAS---THAT AWFUL "CHERRY KOOLADE"</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">That cold January evening,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> in the Rio Grande Valley</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">my pickup was parked in the</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> ditch..….and there I was. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> running 'round and 'round </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> it-- how many laps?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Was I drunk? How would </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> I know--I didn't drink.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">It was during my "second </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> career” and I was "in sales" and</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">down in the Rio Grande Valley</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> closing out a sale at Dellie's</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">house, amidst her fruit trees</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> and gardens and a </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">half block of rent dwellings...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Let it be said---I had been there</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> a lot of times and it was </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">a neat place....and she was a </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> "good old Methodist girl "</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">who had an old upright piano </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> in her parlor and she liked</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">to kinda sound-off on it a mite</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> so after our biness (sic)</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">was done...well she showed </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> me this here closet of hern</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">in th' other room and guess what?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> I bet there were a DOZEN bottles</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> and jars of the neatest </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">RED LIQUID you ever seen, </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> And ever one was nearly</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">half full of red cherries right </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> out of her orchard...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> an' she says (to the weary </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> salesman-- me...)</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"How 'bout a nice big glass of</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> newly-home-made CHERRY </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> KOOLADE, iced...just off my</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> trees</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Well sir, being a fine Methodist </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> lady (and I knew them well…</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> I let my guard down</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> I was patched and thirsty...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">and I just up and said:</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> "Thanks Dellie, b’lieve I will."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Now let it be said that where </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> I come from in E. N. M. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">in WWII. times, growing up</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> and all...well our mammas </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">made koolade with WATER.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">See where I'm headed?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">I had two big glasses of that</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> marvelous drink of Dellie's,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">and how do they say it?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> "I was feeling no pain."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">I set there talking to D. and</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> her husband was out on</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">the property as usual, </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> fixing something in a rental</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">or plowing his gardens...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> and I began to feel a little</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> "light-headed..."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">an' some alarm went off </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> in my confused head...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"Er, Dellie, you make your koolade</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> WITH WATER</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> DON'T YOU?"</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">An' she got that nice smile</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> as older sweet ladies get---</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">an' she says:</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> "Why no Hon, I use VODKA!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> It mixes nice and has no </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> bad smell...and raises my</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> spirit. I watch for vodka sales!"</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Suddenly I sort of panicked, and</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> also remembered it was my </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">oldest son's birthday and I was</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> "The Designated Pizza Buyer!"</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">("I gotta get out of here or I'll </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> be staying the night at Dellie's!")</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">So there I was running around </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> and around in the ditch</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">eight miles from home…half-drunk,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> I thought "with miles to go before</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> I slept" and light-headed, </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> and still pizzas to buy...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> I drove home slowly and </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> got there with several pizzas….</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> But to this day, BE insists on saying</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> "That night you came home </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> for A's BD Party with two</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> pizzas---what's with the </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> "DOUBLE ANCHOVIES?"</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> You know, we hate....</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> "anchovies."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Since that long ago day, here on </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> the Rio I have never had </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">another glass of cherry koolade.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">It's true.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">---------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">MIL</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">29 OCTOBER 2020</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); 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-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #00afcd; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #00afcd; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #00afcd; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #00afcd; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #00afcd; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #00afcd; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #00afcd; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #00afcd; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #00afcd; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #00afcd; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>IT WAS---THAT AWFUL "CHERRY KOOLADE"</b></span></p><div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-81627127228165647432020-10-31T14:25:00.001-07:002020-10-31T14:25:11.503-07:00SWEET BEULAH LAND<p>by Guest Writer, Billy Gilbreath </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Sweet Beulah Land</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">This Sunday morning, we will remove our hymnals</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Singing that old hymns written many years back</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Beulah Land, all verses, standing as we sing </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">As I was singing, the beginning of the first stanza</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">“I’ve reached the land of corn and wine” and then </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">to the refrain: Beulah Land, Sweet Beulah Land</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Thoughts begin to penetrate as each stanza sang</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Sweet Beulah Land</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Question I ask? Is Beulah Land Out of this world?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">To the Israelites it is mentioned in Isiah 62.4</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">A promise to be delivered from their exile</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Sweet Beulah Land</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">After the civil war and from those freed</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Moving to the west to claim the given land</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Referring to move Beulah land I’m on my way.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Finding that the land was not the expected.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Sweet Beulah Land</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The land of Beulah is not always out of this world </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The states of Alabama, Pennsylvania and Maryland</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Have captured the name for their land of plenty</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The most interesting village, Beulah, Colorado</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Once called Mace’s Hole, a haven for horse thieves</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Changed the name and truly a land of beauty.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Sweet Beulah Land</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">To capture the meaning of the land of Beulah</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Let’s sing the refrain from the old hymn</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(20, 20, 20); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-kerning: none;">O Beulah Land, sweet Beulah Land,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br />
</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-kerning: none;"> As on thy highest mount I stand,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br />
</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-kerning: none;"> I look away across the sea,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br />
</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-kerning: none;"> Where mansions are prepared for me,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br />
</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-kerning: none;"> And view the shining glory shore,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br />
</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-kerning: none;"> My Heav'n, my home forever more!</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The answer to the question asked earlier </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Is this land Of Beulah out of this world?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> The Answer</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Yes </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Isiah 62.4 </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> You can see only with the eyes of faith. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Billy Gilbreath </span></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">October 28, 2020</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">*************************************************</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">FOR MIL'S: 31 Oct. 2020</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">by Billy Gilbreath, guest writer</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">("this one is for the old song leader. There are</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">several Beulah Land songs and you probably have</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">sung </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">them all.)</span></p><div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-26510286474410780932020-09-29T13:06:00.000-07:002020-09-29T13:06:09.543-07:00"CHIRP....CHIRP....CHIRP....CHIRP..."<p>"THIRTY YEARS WITHOUT SLUMBERING...."</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><img alt="IMG_6250.JPG" class="Apple-web-attachment Singleton" id="<ADD2022D-80F0-4878-9FC9-2AB30D8BC564@hsd1.nm.comcast.net>" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c86a8b2e-74e5-4fc3-a460-c69b8cf48676" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;" type="application/x-apple-msg-attachment" /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #00afcd; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The old First Alert </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> carbon monoxide meter</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">was a success. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> you'd have to say</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">It was certainly unlike</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> the storied </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">grandfather's clock of song,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> which "tick-tocked "ninety years without slumbering..."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> The meter stood guard 24/7</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">through cold winters and heat..</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> with nary a PEEP </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">(nor a CHIRP)</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">AND THEN one morning</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> when there was no gas on</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">in the whole house...the doors</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> were open and a window...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">and we were leisurely sipping</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Folger's Best...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Our faithful and true beloved </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> meter left this life...it was</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">a big surprise after thirty years</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> of faithful service...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Ah, but one could almost say</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> "It went gentle into that </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> good night..."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">tho, after years of silence,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> it did want to register </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">its very existence at least once</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> here in the Cosmos...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">In melodic quatrains it began</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> to sing and wouldn't stop!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"CHIRP...CHIRP...CHIRP...CHIRP...'</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> over and over and then </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">a big weaker...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> "chirp...chirp..chirp..chirp..."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> and then it was gone</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">with simply...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> a WHIMPER.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">---------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">MIL</span></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">25 SEPTEMBER 2020</span></p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-55968116018603234342020-09-29T12:43:00.001-07:002020-09-29T12:58:02.422-07:00"O DAY FOR WHICH CREATION...and ALL ITS TRIBES WERE MADE...."<p> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b> "O DAY FOR WHICH CREATION....and ALL ITS TRIBES WERE MADE.."</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> TEN THOUSAND TIMES</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">TEN THOUSAND"</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #00afcd; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfUMy2hA4Cro_5Pr6iXgufmXngjnjQk2lgQqX-2cdKoIxfODLK11-CtkvHg8_iX017wxvW6O7gSj5_DNLr0aLIoo2FLSjwRmRjqBigxnwceIOzkNYwNOzSD0r8i5Ei9StoGDoJx0TAKro/s1280/IMG_6145.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfUMy2hA4Cro_5Pr6iXgufmXngjnjQk2lgQqX-2cdKoIxfODLK11-CtkvHg8_iX017wxvW6O7gSj5_DNLr0aLIoo2FLSjwRmRjqBigxnwceIOzkNYwNOzSD0r8i5Ei9StoGDoJx0TAKro/w400-h300/IMG_6145.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #5856d6; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #00afcd; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #00afcd;"> </span>PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1920</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> Taiban, New Mexico</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">"Ten thousand times ten thousand,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> In sparkling raiment bright</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">The armies of the ransom'd saints</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> Throng up the steeps of light.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">'Tis ''tis finish'd all ‘‘tis finish’d”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> Their fight with death and sin,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Fling open wide the golden gates</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> And let the victors in.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">What rush of Hallelujahs</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> Fills all the earth and sky!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">What ringing of a thousand harps</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> Bespeaks the triumph nigh!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">O day for which Creation</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> And all its tribes were made!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">O joy for all its former woes</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> A thousand-fold repaid!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">O then for rapturous greetings</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> On Canaan's happy shore,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Where partings are no more..."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">......Hymn by HENRY ALFORD.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> (1810-1871)</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">----------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> PRAYER for this Lord's Day:</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> "O our Great Heavenly Father,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> somehow in Thy deep wisdom</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> and mercy, help us, Thy believers </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> still here in this world.. to keep the</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> Hate and Evil walking the</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> Earth....out of our hearts.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> For Jesus,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> Amen</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">--------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">MIL,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">A Gospel Singer</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Sunday, September 27, 2020</span></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Painting by Annalon Gilbreath</span></p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-72502268627347550052020-08-29T20:44:00.002-07:002020-08-29T20:44:30.749-07:00TABIAN CHURCH, FORGOTTEN AND ABANDONED<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCZYDaCu39A0z9PKo8W5bKfhEsBfSY7_SGUn-f1XcToGqatFUZ46X69sE7nvdVHeo24yqkh5BVJ1fI3jVzUIbk2dXZ6hsBHv-tx2Vu2Iemjun-uIHW4ciBQtQCOEkld5J8e0sin767sjM/s1280/IMG_6145.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div> TAIBAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRGYHe4q_T80YT0GVzUqVXlvUBE8HDgKIwQ1vUehhdUuMu-q6XLx6j2KEtJdsP1xsDYtn_6lOKePBZaL5m6TjJe422rPSe7w0e5d_TbJ9Bja_t49_L3MmLCLVuYdrUaZ5FV1VbCNpayBg/s1280/IMG_6145.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRGYHe4q_T80YT0GVzUqVXlvUBE8HDgKIwQ1vUehhdUuMu-q6XLx6j2KEtJdsP1xsDYtn_6lOKePBZaL5m6TjJe422rPSe7w0e5d_TbJ9Bja_t49_L3MmLCLVuYdrUaZ5FV1VbCNpayBg/w513-h384/IMG_6145.JPG" width="513" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Taiban Church, Forgotten and Abandoned</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">by Billy Gilbreath</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Entering Taiban says the highway sign</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">With anticipation to see the historic town</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Slowing my speed to avoid the passing traffic</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Entered with caution on the gravel street</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">There the uneven ruts ended at the steps</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">And there it remained the famous building</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The church from years past and forgotten</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Taiban Presbyterian famous only for photographs</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Wondering how it could survive years and years</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Wind of the plains, dust and even tornadoes</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">God allowed it to remain and perhaps purpose</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Using the metal handrail of steel curved pipe</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Allowed my weakened knees and lesser grasp</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">To enter the now removed entrance door</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Perhaps it is now used at a nearby dwelling</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">There inside as my steps were carefully placed</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The planks once filled with pews now missing</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Staring out the windows without panes</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Seeing the distance where once the town</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Empty and falling structures, boarded up</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Could I hear Rock of Ages, Amazing Grace</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Only with my imagination with closed eyes</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Looking forward with visions of preacher</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Only the distance through the open window </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The ornate ceiling of wood survived ages</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Fortunately the graffiti could not be reached.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Only the faded wall and crumbling paint</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Allowed those to install the many scripts</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Some inspiring, encouraging, some foolish</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Pictures, with modern phones, cameras</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Will continue to be placed on the cloud</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">But most of all emblazed on my mind</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">God’s purpose for the little church </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Though not eternal but a reminder</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Earthly things will eventually pass</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">My plans will remain forever, eternity.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.8px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">By: Billy Gilbreath</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.8px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.8px;">FOR MIL'S, by Billy Gilbreath</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.8px;">Painting by Annalon Gilbreath</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.8px;">29 August/2020</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.8px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.8px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-69994493129068146352020-08-29T15:34:00.004-07:002020-08-29T15:34:43.805-07:00RELEVANT, RELEVANT<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnck8UtxBfxamAH6jY3DgN7Z_2phM8iztvifx_2x6zFl3Xuy9NY8mFEa_GRnsrDkNj_8a9So1Ic_ThKY4kgoRZpqVfbN1OVps-hE2s9DqdnMw5E8nZF07_oSTV_LbxA92t3TBitAOHlhM/s1280/IMG_6355.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnck8UtxBfxamAH6jY3DgN7Z_2phM8iztvifx_2x6zFl3Xuy9NY8mFEa_GRnsrDkNj_8a9So1Ic_ThKY4kgoRZpqVfbN1OVps-hE2s9DqdnMw5E8nZF07_oSTV_LbxA92t3TBitAOHlhM/s640/IMG_6355.JPEG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span> METHODIST CHURCH, WINONA, TX</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Relevant, Relevant</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">That old red brick church, now gone</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Just across from those who sprinkle</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Continues to remain a vision within</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">No air conditioners for relentless heat</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">A few above the ceiling turning around</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Hand held fans from the funeral home</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Was a must, property of the church.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Nothing prevented the singing of hymns</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Those which always presented a message</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Preaching was of the old style leading</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">To, Just AS I Am, to welcome sinners</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">To accept, Jesus as savior and life eternal</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Occasionally during those months of revival</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Visiting that church hidden in off road</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">We often referred to it as “Happy Holler.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Old fashion mourner benches, a fixture</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Clapping, singing the praises with feeling</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">An outburst of one beginning to shout </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Sometimes a word of prophecy, given </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Yes, what we called the unknown tongue</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The anointing was from start to finish</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Singing, praising, preaching and mourning</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Three places of worship, different styles</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Methinks, all have something in common</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Present the gospel with “Just as I AM.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Glorify and give praise to our Lord and Savior.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Relevant, Relevant, Years and Years later. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Billy Gilbreath </span></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">July 20, 2020</span></p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-65100394454523252852020-08-29T15:22:00.004-07:002020-08-29T15:27:58.814-07:00"WONDERFUL BIRTH TO A MANGER HE CAME..."<p> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>"WONDERFUL BIRTH TO A MANGER HE CAME..."</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"...Wrought our redemption and when </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> He arose, banished forever</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> the last of our foes...."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #5856d6; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #5856d6; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #5856d6;"> </span> Presbyterian Church, Taiban, N.M.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"Wonderful birth to a manger He came,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Made in the likeness of man to proclaim</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">God's boundless love for a world sick with sin...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Pleading with sinners to let Him ..come in...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Wonderful life full of service so free,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Friend to the poor and the needy was he;</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Undying goodness to all He bestowed,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Undying faith in the vilest He showed.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Wonderful death for it meant not defeat,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Calvary made His great mission complete;</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Wrought our redemption and when He arose,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Banished forever the last of our foes...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Wonderful hope He is coming again,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Coming as King o'er the nations to reign;</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Glorious promise: His word cannot fail--</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">His righteous kingdom at last must </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> prevail..."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> CHORUS:</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> "Wonderful name He bears</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Wonderful crown He wears;</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Wonderful blessings His triumphs afford!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Wonderful Calvary...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> wonderful grace for me;</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Wonderful love of my wonderful Lord."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> .....Male Quartet "WONDERFUL". </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> from the 1950's</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">-------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BY MIL</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(88, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">26 AUGUST 2020</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Taiban, N.M. church, (ca, 1920)</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> by Annalon Gilbreath</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">-------</span></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Lyrics from memory...</span></p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-63184010366024106552020-08-22T12:59:00.001-07:002020-08-22T12:59:12.349-07:00MIL'S TOMATOES<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLwYjopPJbhquSkchKT7dkYslFXs1vNedOIRPi9IfyY-YfJCPGp2VFcH73NgngNuqKqsrlsVK71cUgPHXNmIm45GxgC9-XhJowjE6Gk3BGmeNN3aCNvsOYjPLXetc0mLwIyzpsfW63DYI/s1280/IMG_6371.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLwYjopPJbhquSkchKT7dkYslFXs1vNedOIRPi9IfyY-YfJCPGp2VFcH73NgngNuqKqsrlsVK71cUgPHXNmIm45GxgC9-XhJowjE6Gk3BGmeNN3aCNvsOYjPLXetc0mLwIyzpsfW63DYI/s640/IMG_6371.JPG" /></a></div><p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_c2UJd9okx0a-VzKn_zJVfJ4VAiQjH6jlc3TeQSfdAxk-Dojry0ZI9w84x5Bl2bWLQIWh8KiDUfNO1uwik6QWMbGl-FhxCzePeBQ4DOkFBLf2tTdCzxUuCwPWrXHw7XGjYoZ5CiSewP4/s1296/IMG_6370.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="968" data-original-width="1296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_c2UJd9okx0a-VzKn_zJVfJ4VAiQjH6jlc3TeQSfdAxk-Dojry0ZI9w84x5Bl2bWLQIWh8KiDUfNO1uwik6QWMbGl-FhxCzePeBQ4DOkFBLf2tTdCzxUuCwPWrXHw7XGjYoZ5CiSewP4/s640/IMG_6370.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"> FRIDAY MORNING - 8/22/2020</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjycW7gexRtZto5nq2UdT0oge-Lhtt9xcPMdH_tjv6QDTs1lt8HGCg0q-sYMkuJ7YHc6jCxuAVC36jPx2l9CvLDXhUpS6xnC1nWEOpmq5fGh-y0GGX8ztp5I_UAQL1CObIaEOzDLYLNZVE/s1280/IMG_6368.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjycW7gexRtZto5nq2UdT0oge-Lhtt9xcPMdH_tjv6QDTs1lt8HGCg0q-sYMkuJ7YHc6jCxuAVC36jPx2l9CvLDXhUpS6xnC1nWEOpmq5fGh-y0GGX8ztp5I_UAQL1CObIaEOzDLYLNZVE/s640/IMG_6368.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> FRIDAY MORNING - 8/22/2020</p><p><br /></p><p>"You shall reap...if ye faint not..."</p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-78303698649490660722020-08-22T12:33:00.000-07:002020-08-22T12:33:01.031-07:00WHERE IS THE MAGIC OF THE DAYS OF '44?<p> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvszsZhe4nwi8LFADqvvKYzGFk8JKXd2NRiewLIbEY9-Uwzxy1zlT49SH0t2pPHW54Ki5fBWiJQHD30saRGYpIx9hhKyHqCNq7PgYfdM8gPntKTcEtk4uZAV3hcMdJlQCgs3yo-O7Qhkw/s1280/IMG_6366.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvszsZhe4nwi8LFADqvvKYzGFk8JKXd2NRiewLIbEY9-Uwzxy1zlT49SH0t2pPHW54Ki5fBWiJQHD30saRGYpIx9hhKyHqCNq7PgYfdM8gPntKTcEtk4uZAV3hcMdJlQCgs3yo-O7Qhkw/w600-h800/IMG_6366.JPG" width="600" /></a></div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">In old dear La Casita Elementary</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> We had gone from babes in '30</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> ("See Dick and Jane run...")</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">To becoming real good spellers</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> and leaving "printing.."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">and learning cursive writing, </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> like adults with the more-apt</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">kids getting real old fashioned </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> INK FOUNTAIN PENS.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The boys, off at war, if they were </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> lucky... carried Parker 51's</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">for writing home...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">In many ways it was a grand time,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> in a marvelous country before</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">the days of ball point pens...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> which seemed like good pens</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">at the time...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"Fountain Pens" could be bought</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> for several bucks tho Shaeffers</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Lifetime's were higher...and Parkers...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Important national documents </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> of the day, even surrenders</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">and laws....were signed in </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> black ink...Roosevelt used one</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">as did Churchill and in the 90's</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Conway-Stewart of England,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">a pen company offered</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> A real Churchill Replica Pen---</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">a Real Copy from the 40's was offered</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> to the world ...BOXED in a nice box,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">with photos AND A COMPLIMENTARY</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> "CHURCHILL" ...CIGAR...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">(which was a fat-cigar-size offered</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> by most tobacco companies)</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> and</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">the English pen company marketed</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> replica WWII CH pens @ $195.00</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">each If these marvelous copies</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> from history were even offered</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">today, it would likely be with:</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> "No Cigar."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">----------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"What happened to your CS Cigar'</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Mil, the one which you got with </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">your Churchill Fountain Pen?"</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">It is in the dark corners of the </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">garage among the books..</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">somewhere...still in the box..likely </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">dried out a right smart I've </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">heard they are not healthful anyway.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">--------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">As to the pen itself, the old-fashioned</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">rubber bladder which held the ink,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">failed after a time and Fahrney's sent</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">my Churchill back to England ...and</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">they re-worked the insides and now</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">it uses PELIKAN 4001 ink cartridges.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">-------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">MIL</span></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 10, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d0a07; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">20 AUGUST 2020</span></p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-68227633435569277352020-08-22T12:24:00.004-07:002020-08-22T13:39:10.613-07:00ON HAND-WASHING..AND "TRUE GRIT"<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXL6zblxm-JQfr4xGhxtngazp9nwTN9OY5Jty8dL2VeLgDYKgvfMtLk6FGeT8QftBgJwv25U7RB5nH6IMLXdwtplCEAsOo42TRA5TnTr8y6Pqh2DR4ZaFTUtt5nshseMwDIMPDD6QcNdo/s1280/image1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXL6zblxm-JQfr4xGhxtngazp9nwTN9OY5Jty8dL2VeLgDYKgvfMtLk6FGeT8QftBgJwv25U7RB5nH6IMLXdwtplCEAsOo42TRA5TnTr8y6Pqh2DR4ZaFTUtt5nshseMwDIMPDD6QcNdo/s640/image1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">There is only ONE real </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> original John Wayne </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">.."TRUE GRIT" movie </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">extant in the world, unless</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> we throw in Hepburn,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">in "ROOSTER COGBURN,"</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> in which Rooster makes </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">us hungry with his </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> corn-bread "Corn Dodgers."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"True Grit..." guess we've</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> seen it half-dozen-times-</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">and "Cogburn" almost as many.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">(Glen Campbell was.great </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">in "Grit," and remember </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">when the chatty girl... </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> rolled into the pit </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> with the rattlesnakes!)</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Ah, but there is MORE to</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> my muse this day, and</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">it all depends on WORDS.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">It's the"GRIT" that set </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> me to thinking---</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Have your heard about </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> all this "WASH YORE HANDS"</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">thing ..... that's going around?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">We've always done it anyway,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">(Of course when I was driving</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">a big Orange Case tractor, </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">plowing at Ranchvale in the</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Forties, hand-washing was not</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> THE MAIN GOAL.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">In fact you got dirty...all over.)</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">So anyway we ordered this four-</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">bottle- box of Irish Spring</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">liquid soap from Amazon. and</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> guess what--it had: GRIT,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">in it... not GRAVEL...but </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> true grit--no mistake</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">about it. But we grew to love</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> that green grit soap!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">But there's more! Somehow,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> some way, who knows--</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">in the "great scheme," </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">as they say--I found myself</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"warshing" my hands with</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">a neat little WHITE BAR </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> of hand soap! I MEAN--</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> it was splendid!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Sir down for this....TA DUM!!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> IT HAD GREAT GRIT.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"What brand of soap is that?"</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> I exclaimed excitedly to BE.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"We've got to lay in a six-bar</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> pack!"</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"I don't know what's the brand </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> or where we got it," she</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">shrugged.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">We opened several random bars</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> of hand soap, accumulated over</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">time...and wet them a mite...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Ah, but none had GRIT.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">GRIT is a priceless , rare thing---</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Good to have in our movies,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 175, 205); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Good to have in our soap,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> and in these times...</span></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Good to have ...in our souls.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAAU58-oyaGTtA5S5xFM0VUA1Bz6qOOLDYOiGwVtq71s-sjC9-ZSxGEIT8IyLCvj2wUa2WtPjKVq23fBUyQeyrG-VwF94bG5xVEil08FSMxLx7GedKdbJmNS3XRmQaoXHzFBK7fmWG3LU/s640/IMG_6126.JPG" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;" width="640" /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">MIL'S PLACE</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 192, 14); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">8/22/20</span></p><div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373978782586939717.post-39609427721569654152020-08-22T12:14:00.002-07:002020-08-22T13:41:42.789-07:00MAY SHE RULE FOREVER<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp8yD6dHkQFqwY8fwHQtPVDRNIWNO6VKyxmikKFAyREf_Srba9hA16Lc9FSg_Jwigr_lqMhfe0m9oHrtOtVZ0N3ypYUkXTngZ9e5T_udW-Rr-COg25yGc6a3TjXhoFknuASLAFv9BfPFA/s1280/IMG_6134.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp8yD6dHkQFqwY8fwHQtPVDRNIWNO6VKyxmikKFAyREf_Srba9hA16Lc9FSg_Jwigr_lqMhfe0m9oHrtOtVZ0N3ypYUkXTngZ9e5T_udW-Rr-COg25yGc6a3TjXhoFknuASLAFv9BfPFA/s640/IMG_6134.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span face="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> Winona Texas Grade School Ruins<br /></span><p></p><p><span face="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms";">MAY SHE RULE FOREVER</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">by Billy Gilbreath<br /><br /><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Passing by that old building, now abandoned, burned</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The structure of halls through which many have passed</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The vestibule near the entrance where gatherings occurred</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">That auditorium often filled with music, plays and guest</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Punch and Judy the annual performance of a puppet show</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The first time I can remember a presentation of the gospel</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">My non-Oscar senior performance of “Home Came Hattie”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Where I played the part of Bill Bluett, the local sheriff</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">To the rear of the building was the rock structure gym</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Built in the 1930 during the depression years by the WPA</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The labor and enjoyment of many, unfortunately a memory</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Looking inside the rambles, bent hanging iron</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Plants growing abundantly throughout the ruined structure</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Recognizing, rabbit mullein, cedar tree growing stately</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The saplings reaching above the height of the basketball goal</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">There growing clump of daisies struggling for water</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Sprigs of grass and other vegetation struggling to survive</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Passing through the old cafeteria was the smell of lunch</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Down the long hall of the elementary, only the arch remained</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">That other hall to the North, high school, offices and library.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Leaving the area with events to remember, was sad</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Thinking back comes to mind some of the tributes present</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Remembering the old rock gym and the shiny wooden floors</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">There stood the famous coach Gilly, the tall cedar, </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The saplings are the many athletes who performed</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Reaching to the basketball goal as the slender saplings</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The architect of the old rock gym with its perfect placing</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Reminds me of the unity and appreciation which existed</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Only the daisy could remind me of Rama, the encourager</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Rabbit mullein so hardy as those who passed the halls</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Struggling sprigs of grass those who survived the challenge</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bent hanging iron from the foundation of the building </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">A lesson to those who may have passed these halls</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">A tribute to those who gave us our beginning of knowledge.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The old school song, May She Rule Forever, remembered </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Even in the sadly destroyed structured now abandoned</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Quotes, often used, “Things never remain the same”, so true</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Only, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Hebrews 13:8</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p>
</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">By: Billy Gilbreath Dec. 7, 2019 </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">For Mil's Place: 8/22/20 </span></p>Milhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041713664636134437noreply@blogger.com0