tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78582362024-03-23T13:31:55.315-05:00Fausti's Book QuestOne woman's mission to read them all. That is, every book worth reading. Whether I fail or succeed, I learn a lot. I believe that we all bring different things to the reading experience and there's a lot more to a book than the words on the page. I review what I read, through Fausti colored lenses, sharing how the stories affect me and, I guess, are affected by me.JoanneMarie Fausthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16751278640738482830noreply@blogger.comBlogger433125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858236.post-80040454319281282202014-12-09T10:09:00.000-05:002014-12-09T10:09:13.659-05:00To Kill A Mockingbird (audio)<img alt="20582264" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1390199916l/20582264.jpg" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've read <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i> many times. I probably wouldn't have been ready for another reread if it weren't for<i> I Kill the Mockingbird</i>, which I read and adored a few months ago. As I wandered the library stacks a couple of weeks ago, I spotted this audiobook on the shelf and had to listen. I don't know if I would go running for another book narrated by Sissy Spacek, though. Her southern twang was not a good match for my Yankee ears. However, that does nothing to detract from the beauty and the depth of this book. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Listening to this at the same time as we've had all this unrest in America made it all seem that much more meaningful. First, you think that what happened to Tom Robinson couldn't happen in America today. In fact, if you ask that poor girl from the University of Virginia, she'd certainly agree. Then, you see what's been happening in Ferguson and New York City and so many other places and you start to wonder just how far we've come. The peaceful protests happening all over the country with so many people and organizations coming out and making themselves known and heard seems like a step in the right direction. Not the looters and burners and violent acts, but the others, the students on campuses and in major cities all over the country, and the professional athletes using their status to quietly make their point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joss Whedon t<a href="http://www.uexpress.com/parents-talk-back/2014/9/29/black-moms-tell-white-moms-about/" target="_blank">weeted this link </a>the other day: It is powerful and sad. I'm torn between wanting every woman of color to make sure her sons know all of this and act accordingly to save their lives and being so appalled that it should be necessary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, I've digressed enough for the moment, back to the book. I imagine that I am supposed to be trying to reach an Atticus Finch-like state of being, but most days I feel more like Scout at the beginning of the book. In fact, at that age, I was a great deal like Scout. Not a tomboy, because I was just as happy playing with my dolls as I was climbing trees with the boys. But, I had strong opinions and a very set sense of self and self-worth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I read the Sparknotes for this book, just to see if there was any interesting information to glean from them. I don't recommend them, they read like they were written by a child and seemed to miss some important things. Yes, Atticus Finch was ordered by the court to represent Tom Robinson. This didn't mean that it was just his turn or a fluke or some kind of punishment. The judge knew that Atticus would fight a good fight and do everything he could to defend Tom Robinson. It was a sign of respect to Atticus and the best that could be done for Tom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think the thing that Ms. Lee did best was to portray the locals with all of the complexities, human frailties and strengths that are innate in all of us. </span>JoanneMarie Fausthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16751278640738482830noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858236.post-35009969945021127122014-07-02T14:54:00.001-05:002014-07-02T14:54:45.847-05:00Rose Under Fire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is sort of a sequel to <i>Code Name Verity</i> and it certainly lives up to its predecessor. I found <i>Verity</i> to be thrilling, harrowing and life-affirming, which considering Verity's fate, is a smidge ironic. I was impressed by all of the research Wein did on the girl pilots of World War II and how she crafted such a thrilling tale utilizing the new knowledge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Rose Under Fire</i> is the story of Rose Justice, an American teen who has managed to get herself a piloting job with the British RAF, transporting planes. Rose befriends Maddie, the grieving friend of "Verity" and the two grow to be very close.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While flying a plane to be repaired, she finds herself in the wrong air space and she is captured by the Germans and taken to the infamous Ravensbruk concentration camp. There, the girl has to learn to survive. She is not a combatant, or a spy, she's not even a Brit, but she is still the enemy. She spins daydreams where she is rescued by her pilot boyfriend and leaves all of this behind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rose is sent to the barracks of a group of Polish prisoners, and the women take her in and protect her. She soon learns that they are the "rabbits", women who were cruelly experimented on by the camp doctors. In an effort to determine how much it would take to kill a German soldier, they shot and sickened and chopped up these poor girls. They would be cut and then have infection packed into the wounds to see what would happen, just for starters. The ones who didn't survive were remembered as a chant by the others. The idea was to get their names out there and make sure that when the war was over, the Germans would not be able to get away with their treatment of the young women. They believed that publicity would get them freed/saved whatever atrocities the Germans had planned for them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rose and the rabbits work together to try and ensure a future for each other. They find ways to keep each other warm and fed and protected from random, and not so random violence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once again, Wein did her homework and brings readers a story that illuminates a dark time in our past. You should absolutely check out her website and click on her resources. She's got information about the camp and <a href="http://www.elizabethwein.com/ravensbrueck-rabbits" target="_blank">photographs and information about the rabbits</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rose is a "gosh and golly" teen from Pennsylvania Dutch country who finds herself in a horrible position. Wein gives us a naive girl, struggling to survive and learning a lot about herself and the world in the process. I think this may be an even more moving book than <i>Verity</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, Wein gives us a glimpse into something that we tend to lose sight of in an us/them world. In every war or battle, all of the combatants are people. The people who are defined as your enemy may feel the same way you do. It makes me sad. I love when I can hear the stories of people who got passed all of that, enough to discover the humanity in each other.</span>JoanneMarie Fausthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16751278640738482830noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858236.post-81464825656177161092014-07-01T14:15:00.000-05:002014-07-01T14:15:57.991-05:00How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This book made it into this year's Tournament of Books, only to be knocked out in the first round by Ruth Ozeki's <i>A Tale for a Time Being</i>. I haven't read the Ozecki yet, despite checking out from the library twice. I will, eventually. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may remember Hamid from his <i>Reluctant Fundamentalist</i>. This time out, he presents us with an unnamed protagonist and his struggles for wealth and power. Using the guise of a self-help book, each section shows us a different step our protagonist took to, well Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We first meet a young boy and his expanding family. They move from farmland to the city, where they share a room and live in squalor. The older children are married off or sent off to school and work to help support the family. Our protagonist falls for a pretty girl in school and we follow as the two cross each others paths as their stars rise and fall. Our guy starts his work delivering pirated videos to customers around the city. He gradually moves up into the bottled water business, making a name for himself in many circles. (We, the readers, however, apparently aren't in any of those circles). We then follow him through his life as he ages, grows a business, cheats and gets cheated, falls in and out of love, and moves slowly toward his last days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found the book to be interesting and I couldn't even begin to relate to a single one of the characters. I can't even imagine living a life like the ones we're introduced to in this book. Here are people who are foreign in every sense of the word. The struggle to survive is just as fascinating as the struggle to thrive. What happens when you go from abject poverty to "living the dream?" And, whose dream is it, anyway? What happens when the dream isn't ever like you dreamt? This is a book that stays with you, during your non-reading hours. I wondered about these people. I wondered about real people living these lives. I know they are out there. I can't imagine enduring all they did to get anywhere in the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't think I can adequately explain this book. There is so much going on and it gets pretty deep. You should just go check it out for yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I'm over a week late posting this, because time just gets away from me. I've come to the conclusion that I will never be a juggler. I can't keep multiple balls in the air and I certainly can't have too many projects/interests/hobbies/schemes, either. I've been A.W.O.L. from blogging and I've got so many little projects going on and I'm doing a completely crappy job of all of them. My father and my brother were always good with the laser focus on one thing. With my dad it could be chocolate chip cookies, or cars, or tanning. My brother was big with picking one thing and being unable to think of anything else. In high school he took up BMX racing. His rank went from a high five-digit number to a single digit number in less than a year. It felt like my mom and I did an awful lot of transporting of pimply faced teenaged boys and their bicycle to dirt tracks all over the state. It was video games for a while, and 9-ball pool, among other things he had a single minded focus on and worked to get to the top. My mom, she could do anything and everything and always get it all right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love new things. I get new interests all the time. There just aren't enough hours to really devote to any of them to succeed in them at all, no less multiple things. I want to reorganize my kitchen, laundry room and living room. I've been expending a lot of my time loving and mothering my mini Schnauzer puppy, Greta. I must be doing okay, she is a happy healthy six months old today. It's going to be close to 100 degrees one day this week and I still don't have all of the winter clothes put away. I haven't checked in with anyone on Facebook in ages. I have a half dozen composition books filled with recipes and ideas that I've been compiling. If you've ever seen the crazy amount of book links I collect online, they are only a fraction of the bookmarks I've got saved. I can't even tell what half of that stuff is or means anymore. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I drag myself out of bed in the morning. That adorable little dog, who is quite capable of sleeping through the night, insists upon waking me multiple times. I get ready for work, I take care of the dog, I water all of my growing things. Even though we have a sprinkler system, it doesn't really get the potted plants. I fix my tea and my yogurt and go to work. When I get home, I have to empty the dog, water the potted plants and vegetables, fill the dog back up, do a load of laundry, figure out dinner, clean up the kitchen, etc. The day is a blur and so is the night. I know there must be better ways to utilize my time, I just can't figure them out. Lately, by the time I get into bed, I'm so tired that I barely read a chapter and am down for the count. It's very sad. My goodreads book pledge has dwindled from being 8 books ahead to one behind schedule. Almost all of my reading has been done for me in the car on my way to and from work. I'm dozens of book reviews behind and I haven't even read any real crap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I saw that there was a new COYER coming up and it was going to last for the summer, I jumped right on that. My nook hd+ is barely functioning, it is so filled with books. I keep sending everything I'm not reading or using to the cloud and every time I turn it back on, dozens of books and apps have rained out of the cloud and back into my nook. Then there are the hundreds of kindle books on my nook. It's completely out of control. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been cataloging my e-books and trying to come up with a way to make a real plan to read the books and get rid of all the crap.Originally, I was going to do it chronologically. But there are so many good books that I've put in there kind of recently and I don't want to have them get all old and stale on me. So, I think I'm going to read an old book and then a new book to get things cleared out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, that's my story. I'm going to get my blog back in order and clean out my e-reader all in one fell swoop. I'm taking two weeks of vacation this summer and my wonderful sweet husband will just be taking extra long weekends with me. That will give me some more time to devote to the things I'd like to get done. Cross your fingers and wish me well! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've got so much to share with you, I promise to get going on that right now!</span>JoanneMarie Fausthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16751278640738482830noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858236.post-22212056411749335982014-04-25T15:16:00.001-05:002014-04-25T15:16:26.999-05:00Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.<br />
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size<br />
But when I start to tell them,<br />
They think I'm telling lies.<br />
I say,<br />
It's in the reach of my arms<br />
The span of my hips,<br />
The stride of my step,<br />
The curl of my lips.<br />
I'm a woman<br />
Phenomenally.<br />
Phenomenal woman,<br />
That's me.<br />
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I walk into a room<br />
Just as cool as you please,<br />
And to a man,<br />
The fellows stand or<br />
Fall down on their knees.<br />
Then they swarm around me,<br />
A hive of honey bees.<br />
I say,<br />
It's the fire in my eyes,<br />
And the flash of my teeth,<br />
The swing in my waist,<br />
And the joy in my feet.<br />
I'm a woman<br />
Phenomenally.<br />
Phenomenal woman,<br />
That's me.<br />
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Men themselves have wondered<br />
What they see in me.<br />
They try so much<br />
But they can't touch<br />
My inner mystery.<br />
When I try to show them<br />
They say they still can't see.<br />
I say,<br />
It's in the arch of my back,<br />
The sun of my smile,<br />
The ride of my breasts,<br />
The grace of my style.<br />
I'm a woman<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.167em; line-height: 1.5;">Phenomenally.</span><br />
Phenomenal woman,<br />
That's me.<br />
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Now you understand<br />
Just why my head's not bowed.<br />
I don't shout or jump about<br />
Or have to talk real loud.<br />
When you see me passing<br />
It ought to make you proud.<br />
I say,<br />
It's in the click of my heels,<br />
The bend of my hair,<br />
the palm of my hand,<br />
The need of my care,<br />
'Cause I'm a woman<br />
Phenomenally.<br />
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There just aren't enough wonderful things to say about Maya Angelou. This poem should be every woman's motto, mantra and rallying cry. We are all phenomenal women, it's just a matter of knowing it and accepting it </div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Much have I traveled in the realms of gold,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Round many western isles have I been</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Which bards in fealty to Apolo hold.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oft of one wide expanse had I been told</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That deep browed Homer ruled as his demesne;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yet did I never breathe its pure serene</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then felt I like a watcher of the skies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When a new planet swims into his ken;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Or, like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He stared at the Pacific - and all his men</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Look'd at each other with a wild surmise -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is another poem I've had memorized since high school. The English teacher who had us memorize poems, soliloquies and passages from famous works was an incredible pain at the time. I have a great deal of appreciation these days, when I have entire poems floating around in my head. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today's song is by Incubus and called <i>Wish You Were Here</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I dig my toes into the sand. </span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket. </span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I lean against the wind, pretend that i am weightless and in this moment i am happy.</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><i style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">[Chorus:]</i><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I wish you were here </span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I wish you were here </span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I wish you were here </span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I wish you were here.</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I lay my head onto the sand. </span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">The sky resembles a backlit canopy with holes punched in it. </span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I'm counting ufo's. </span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I signal them with my lighter </span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">and in this moment i am happy, happy. </span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><i style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">[Chorus]</i><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">The world's a roller coaster and I am not strapped in. </span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Maybe I should hold with care,but my hands are busy in the air. </span><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Tyger</span></u></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Tyger! Tyger! burning bright </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the forests of the night, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What immortal hand or eye </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Could frame thy fearful symmetry? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In what distant deeps or skies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Burnt the fire of thine eyes?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On what wings dare he aspire?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What the hand dare sieze the fire?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And what shoulder, and what art.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Could twist the sinews of thy heart?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when thy heart began to beat,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What dread hand? And what dread feet?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What the hammer? what the chain?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In what furnace was thy brain?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What the anvil? what dread grasp</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dare its deadly terrors clasp?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the stars threw down their spears,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And watered heaven with their tears,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did he smile his work to see?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did he who made the Lamb make thee?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tyger! Tyger! burning bright</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the forests of the night,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What immortal hand or eye</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">William Blake</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've had this poem mostly(ish) memorized since high school. I'm not sure why it never completely stuck in my head. I am pretty sure that it's too late for me to get this one down pat. Today's song is my favorite Counting Crows song. Here are the lyrics:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Anna Begins</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">My friend assures me "it's all or nothing" </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">I am not worried, I am not overly concerned </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">My friend implores me: "For one time only make an exception" </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">I am not not worried </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">Wrap her up in a package of lies send her off to a coconut island </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">I am not worried, I am not overly concerned </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">With the status of my emotions "Oh", She says, "You're changing." </span><br />
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<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">But we're always changing </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">It does not bother me to say this isn't love </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">Because if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't love </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">And I guess I'm going to have to live with that </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">But, I'm sure there's something in a shade of grey or something in between </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">And I can always change my name if that's what you mean </span><br />
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<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">My friend assures me "It's all or nothing" </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">But I am not really worried, I am not overly concerned </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">You try to tell yourself the things you tell yourself to make yourself forget </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">I am not worried </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">"If it's love", she said, "then were gonna have to think about the </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">consequences" </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">She can't stop shaking and I can't stop touching her and..... </span><br />
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<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">This time when kindness falls like rain </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">It washes her away and Anna begins to change her mind </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">"These seconds when I'm shaking leave me shuddering for days" she says </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">And I'm not ready for this sort of thing </span><br />
<br style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">But I'm not gonna break and I'm not going to worry about it anymore </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">I'm not gonna bend and I'm not gonna break </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">I'm not gonna worry about it anymore </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">It seems like I should say "as long as this is love..." </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">But it's not all that easy so maybe I should just: </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">Snap her up in a butter fly net and just pin her down on a photograph album </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">I am not worried, I've done this sort of thing before </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">But then I start to think about the consequences </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">Because I don't get no sleep in a quiet room and... </span><br />
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<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">The time when kindness falls like rain </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">It washes me away and Anna begins to change my mind </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">And every time she sneezes I believe it's it's love and </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">Oh lord.... I'm not ready for this sort of thing </span><br />
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<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">She's talking in her sleep </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">It's keeping me awake and Anna begins to toss and turn </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">And every word is nonsense but I understand and </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">Oh lord... I'm not ready for this sort of thing </span><br />
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<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">Her kindness bangs a gong </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">It's moving me along and Anna begins to fade away </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">It's chasing me away </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">She disappears and </span><br />
<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;">Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>JoanneMarie Fausthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16751278640738482830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858236.post-35865333747941271942014-04-22T18:04:00.001-05:002014-04-22T18:04:13.893-05:00 Resume by Dorothy Parker and Capital G by Nine Inch Nails<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><u>Resume</u></b><br />
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Razors pain you;<br />
Rivers are damp;<br />
Acids stains you;<br />
And drugs cause cramp.<br />
Guns aren't lawful;<br />
Nooses give;<br />
Gas smells awful;<br />
You might as well live.<br />
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~ Dorothy Parker<br />
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I know this one seems like a downer, but it always gives me a little chuckle. I believe that this was written with tongue very firmly in cheek. No one writes snark that scans this well, but Dorothy Parker. One of my favorite books to just flip open and read a section of is <i>The Portable Dorothy Parker</i>. She never fails to appeal to my jaded and cynical side. Now, if you want a cynical song here's one from the thinking girls' angry young man, Trent Reznor. Capital G by Nine Inch Nails has some naughty words, but its message is worth listening to. <br />
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<b style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">"Capital G"</b><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><br />
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I pushed the button and elected him to office and a</div>
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He pushed the button and he dropped the bomb</div>
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You pushed the button and could watch it on the television</div>
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Those motherfuckers didn't last too long</div>
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I'm sick of hearing about the "have's" and "have not's"</div>
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Have some personal accountability</div>
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The biggest problem with the way that we've been doing things is</div>
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The more we let you have the less that I'll be keeping for me</div>
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Well I used to stand for something</div>
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Now I'm on my hands and knees</div>
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Trading in my god for this one</div>
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And he signs his name with a capital G</div>
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Don't give a shit about the temperature in Guatemala</div>
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Don't really see what all the fuss is about</div>
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Ain't gonna worry about no future generations and a</div>
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And I'm sure somebody's gonna figure it out</div>
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Don't try to tell me that some power can corrupt a person</div>
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You haven't had enough to know what its like</div>
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You're only angry 'cause you wish you were in my position</div>
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Now nod your head because you know that I'm right... alright!</div>
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"Hope" is the thing with feathers—<br />
That perches in the soul—<br />
And sings the tune without the words—<br />
And never stops—at all—<br />
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And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—<br />
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Never before and never since, I promise<br />will the whole world be warm as this<br />and as you feel it, you'll know it's true<br />that you are blessed and lucky<br />it's true, that you are touched by something<br />that will grow and bloom in you</div>
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When May is rushing over you with desire<br />to be part of the miracles you see in every hour<br />you'll know it's true, that you are blessed and lucky<br />it's true, that you are touched by something<br />that will grow and bloom in you</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lord, make me an instrument of your peace</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where there is hatred, let me sow love</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">where there is sadness, joy.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">O, Divine Master, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">grant that I may not so much seek </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">to be consoled as to console; </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">For it is in giving that we receive;</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">I don't know when to start or when to stop</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">My luck's like a button</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">I can't stop pushing it</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">My head feels light</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">But I'm still in the dark</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Seems like without tenderness there's something missing</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Tenderness</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Where is the</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Words are so cheap, but they can turn out expensive</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Words like conviction can turn into a sentence</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">I held your hands</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Rings but none on that finger</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">We danced and danced</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">But I was scared to go much further with it</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Just half a chance</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Make sure that one night you're here,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">But next night you're not</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">It always leaves me searching for a little</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Tenderness</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; 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font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Whistling in the graveyard</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Calling up your girlfriend</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Just trying to make her understand</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">You're squeezing the telephone like it was her hand</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">No question (so many questions)</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">She's going to catch you out boy</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">It all seems so underhand</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Now she's the only thing that ever made you feel like a man, man</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Madman, madman</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Tenderness</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Where is the</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Tenderness</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Tenderness</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Tenderness</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Where is it?</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">I held your hands</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Rings but none on that finger</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">We danced and danced</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">But I was scared to go much further with it</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Just half a chance</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Make sure that one night you're here,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">But next night you're not</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">It always leaves me searching for a little</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Tenderness</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Where is the</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Tenderness?</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">When you're sick to death of second best, pet</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Why should the morning always find you unimpressed?</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Is your love like a button?</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">You can't stop pushing it?</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Oh this all night longing can be such a long time</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>Sonnet 18</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by William Shakespeare</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though art more lovely and more temperate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And summer's lease hath all to short a date.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes too hot the eye of Heaven shines,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And often is his gold complexion dimmed;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And every fair from fair declines</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By chance, or N</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ature's changing course untrimmed;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But thy eternal summer shall not fade,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For some reason not all of this poem manages to stick with me. I have lines 1 through 10 and then 13 and 14 memorized, but I can never remember 11 and 12. I may have to work on my memorization skills with this one, so I really get it down in my mind. To complement this poem and the concept of time that it discusses, today's song is Cyndi Lauper's <i>Time After Time</i>, which is not just a great song, but was also a favorite karaoke song for my niece Carly and I when we had regular karaoke dates in her basement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick,</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">And think of you</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Caught up in circles confusion -</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Is nothing new</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Flashback - warm nights -</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Almost left behind</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Suitcases of memories,</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Time after -</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Sometimes you picture me -</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I'm walking too far ahead</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">You're calling to me, I can't hear</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">What you've said -</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Then you say - go slow -</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I fall behind -</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">The second hand unwinds</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><i style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">[Chorus:]</i><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">If you're lost you can look - and you will find me</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Time after time</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">If you fall I will catch you - I'll be waiting </span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Time after time</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">After my picture fades and darkness has </span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Turned to gray</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Watching through windows - you're wondering</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">If I'm OK</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Secrets stolen from deep inside</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">The drum beats out of time -</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><i style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">[Chorus:]</i><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">If you're lost...</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">You said go slow -</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I fall behind</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">The second hand unwinds -</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><i style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">[Chorus:]</i><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">If you're lost...</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">...Time after time</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Time after time</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Time after time</span><br style="background-color: #ccccdd; border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; 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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the time you swear you're his,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shivering and sighing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And he vows his passion is,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">infinite, undying -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lady, make a note of this:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of you is lying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Call me a cynic, but this poem always cracks me up. There are way too many instances in which it proves to be truthful. Staying in the cynical frame of mind, here is today's song, <i>Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before </i>by The Smiths</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Stop me, oh, stop me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Stop me if you think that you've</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Heard this one before</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Stop me, oh, stop me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Nothing's changed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">I still love you, oh, I still love you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">...Only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my love</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">I was delayed, I was way-laid</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">An emergency stop</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">I smelt the last ten seconds of life</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">I crashed down on the crossbar</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">And the pain was enough to make</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">A shy, bald, buddhist reflect</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">And plan a mass murder</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Who said lied I'd to her ?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Oh, who said I'd lied because I never ? I never !</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Who said I'd lied because I never ?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">I was detained, I was restrained</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">And broke my spleen</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">And broke my knee</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">(and then he really laced into me)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Friday night in Out-patients</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Who said I'd lied to her ?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Oh, who said I'd lied ? - because I never, I never</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Who said I'd lied ? - because I never</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Oh, so I drank one</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">It became four</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">And when I fell on the floor ...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">...I drank more</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Stop me, oh, stop me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Stop me if you think that you've</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Heard this one before</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Stop me, oh, stop me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Nothing's changed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">I still love you, oh, I still love you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">...Only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my love</span><br />
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The most important thing we've learned,<br />
So far as children are concerned,<br />
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let<br />
Them near your television set --<br />
Or better still, just don't install<br />
The idiotic thing at all.<br />
In almost every house we've been,<br />
We've watched them gaping at the screen.<br />
They loll and slop and lounge about,<br />
And stare until their eyes pop out.<br />
(Last week in someone's place we saw<br />
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)<br />
They sit and stare and stare and sit<br />
Until they're hypnotised by it,<br />
Until they're absolutely drunk<br />
With all that shocking ghastly junk.<br />
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,<br />
They don't climb out the window sill,<br />
They never fight or kick or punch,<br />
They leave you free to cook the lunch<br />
And wash the dishes in the sink --<br />
But did you ever stop to think,<br />
To wonder just exactly what<br />
This does to your beloved tot?<br />
IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!<br />
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!<br />
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!<br />
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND<br />
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND<br />
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!<br />
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!<br />
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!<br />
HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES!<br />
'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,<br />
'But if we take the set away,<br />
What shall we do to entertain<br />
Our darling children? Please explain!'<br />
We'll answer this by asking you,<br />
'What used the darling ones to do?<br />
'How used they keep themselves contented<br />
Before this monster was invented?'<br />
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?<br />
We'll say it very loud and slow:<br />
THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,<br />
AND READ and READ, and then proceed<br />
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!<br />
One half their lives was reading books!<br />
The nursery shelves held books galore!<br />
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!<br />
And in the bedroom, by the bed,<br />
More books were waiting to be read!<br />
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales<br />
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales<br />
And treasure isles, and distant shores<br />
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,<br />
And pirates wearing purple pants,<br />
And sailing ships and elephants,<br />
And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,<br />
Stirring away at something hot.<br />
(It smells so good, what can it be?<br />
Good gracious, it's Penelope.)<br />
The younger ones had Beatrix Potter<br />
With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,<br />
And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,<br />
And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and-<br />
Just How The Camel Got His Hump,<br />
And How the Monkey Lost His Rump,<br />
And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul,<br />
There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole-<br />
Oh, books, what books they used to know,<br />
Those children living long ago!<br />
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,<br />
Go throw your TV set away,<br />
And in its place you can install<br />
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.<br />
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,<br />
Ignoring all the dirty looks,<br />
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,<br />
And children hitting you with sticks-<br />
Fear not, because we promise you<br />
That, in about a week or two<br />
Of having nothing else to do,<br />
They'll now begin to feel the need<br />
Of having something to read.<br />
And once they start -- oh boy, oh boy!<br />
You watch the slowly growing joy<br />
That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen<br />
They'll wonder what they'd ever seen<br />
In that ridiculous machine,<br />
That nauseating, foul, unclean,<br />
Repulsive television screen!<br />
And later, each and every kid<br />
Will love you more for what you did. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Little Lucy lives with her grandfather and she's a sweet little girl. But, there's a boy at school, Ralph who is constantly giving her a hard time. Papa Gino teaches Lucy to treat others the way she wishes to be treated. She believes the most important thing about you is the heart inside you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a very sweet story. I love that Lucy stays true to herself, and earns acceptance because she's such a good little person. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last page of the book contains a very inspirational message to her readers with every lesson little kids should learn about themselves and how to treat each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think of a favorite children's picture book author and you've got a good chance that he/she contributed a page and an animal to this book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know if I could pick my favorite animal. I love many of the ones in the book, and then there are the sea turtles, koalas, otters and dolphins. I guess, at the moment, I'd have to say my puppy, Greta is my favorite animal. And, I'm not just saying that because she's sitting in my lap watching me type this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The drawings and descriptions are wonderful. I think that this book with it's anecdotes and one liners, silly entries and more serious make it a great read along book. I recommend it as a bedtime story, accompanied by a discussion of favorite animals. Oh, and don't forget to include my little Greta.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peg is an over-achieving seven year old girl. She's been on her family's fishing boat since birth. She knows the sea and she's caught every kind of fish you can imagine. She decides that she needs to up her game and sets her sights on catching a whale. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, she leaves home and signs on with a whaling ship where she does, in fact, hook herself a whale. And, that's just where her story begins. The two travel together, culminating in Peg's return home to her family's fishing boat, where she is courteously dropped off by the whale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really enjoyed this book It's so cute. The illustrations are wonderful and the story is more silly than sweet. Peg is extremely Type A for a little kid, but I'm sure there are plenty of small people who can totally relate to Peg.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you can keep your head when all about you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">But make allowance for their doubting too:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Or being hated don't give way to hating,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">And treat those two impostors just the same:.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">If you can make one heap of all your winnings</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">And lose, and start again at your beginnings,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">And never breathe a word about your loss:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">To serve your turn long after they are gone,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">And so hold on when there is nothing in you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">If all men count with you, but none too much:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">If you can fill the unforgiving minute</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,</span><br style="background-color: white; 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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a lovely picture book. It gives plenty of ideas for creative drawers and teaches shapes at the same time. Each page highlights a different shape and all of the many things that can be drawn, or can be found out in the wide world, made of that shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just love the Scaredy Squirrel books. I'm a contingency planner, so all of Scaredy Squirrels plans and supplies always appeal to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a cousin who is afraid of everything. She, in turn, made a point of transferring all of her fears to her daughter, who is now doing that with her kids. My mom had fears and shortcomings and she made a point of making sure they weren't ours. She was afraid of heights, but she'd take us on great big high rides and try very hard to pretend that it didn't bother her. We would wind up trying to comfort her, and she'd feel like she'd fail. But, she absolutely did it right, because neither my brother or I are afraid of heights. My mom never learned how to swim, and we're an extended family of water lovers. She made sure we took swimming lessons. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think I want to buy this entire series and send them to my little cousin Eliana, so she can read them with her mother and grandmother and maybe end the cycle of fear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile </i> by Bernard Waber</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Should you ever come face to face with a crocodile, I certainly hope he is of the Lyle ilk. Lyle the crocodile lives with the Primm family where he is very happy and loved. In fact, Lyle gets along very well with pretty much everyone he meets. He's an extremely socialized crocodile. But, pretty much everyone is not the same as everyone. As it turns out, Lyle's next door neighbors Mr. Grummps and his cat, Loretta are not fans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Lyle runs into an old show business friend in Mr. Grummps' department store, and they entertain the crowd so well that they forget all about the sale on pajamas, that is the last straw for Mr. Grummps. He brings the authorities with paperwork dictating that Lyle be moved permanently to the zoo.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am pretty sure that I wouldn't mind Lyle moving into my neighborhood. As long as I wouldn't have to keep him supplied in the caviar that he likes.</span>JoanneMarie Fausthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16751278640738482830noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858236.post-62544532688725843882014-04-11T11:06:00.003-05:002014-04-11T11:07:14.261-05:00Advice to a Girl by Sara Teasdale and Love Song by Sara Bareilles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We're not even half way through poetry month and I'm not sure I can make room for all the great poems that I'm dying to share here. I guess I'll just have to go over a little and keep the poetry fun going. I've never been one to react well to being told what to do. So, I guess I don't have to accept April's borders as a shoebox for poetry. Since this is such an empowering poem, I wanted to pair it with a great "girl power" song. I had so much trouble deciding. Mother Jones has an article, including some lyrics and video links to <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/01/10-awesome-girl-power-songs-feminism" target="_blank">10 Awesome Girl Power Songs.</a></div>
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If I'm happy in your hands</div>
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I'm unusually hard to hold on to</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Blank stares at blank pages</span></div>
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No easy way to say this</div>
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You mean well, but you make this hard on me</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I'm not gonna write you a love song</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: left;">
'cause you asked for it</div>
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: left;">
'cause you need one, you see</div>
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: left;">
I'm not gonna write you a love song</div>
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'cause you tell me it's make or break in this</div>
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If you're on your way</div>
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I'm not gonna write you to stay</div>
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If all you have is leaving I'ma need a better reason to write you a love song today, today</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I learned the hard way</span></div>
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That they all say things you want to hear</div>
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And my heavy heart sinks deep down under you and your twisted words,</div>
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Your help just hurts</div>
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You are not what I thought you were</div>
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Hello to high and dry</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Convinced me to please you</span></div>
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Made me think that I need this too</div>
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I'm trying to let you hear me as I am</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I'm not gonna write you a love song</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: left;">
'cause you asked for it</div>
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: left;">
'cause you need one, you see</div>
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: left;">
I'm not gonna write you a love song</div>
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: left;">
'cause you tell me it's make or break in this</div>
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: left;">
If you're on your way</div>
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I'm not gonna write you to stay</div>
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: left;">
If all you have is leaving I'ma need a better reason to write you a love song today</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Promise me that you'll leave the light on</span></div>
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To help me see with daylight, my guide, gone</div>
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'cause I believe there's a way you can love me</div>
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Because I say</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I won't write you a love song</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">'cause you asked for it</span></div>
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'cause you need one, you see</div>
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I'm not gonna write you a love song</div>
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'cause you tell me it's make or break in this</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Is that why you wanted a love song?</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: left;">
'cause you asked for it</div>
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: left;">
'cause you need one, you see</div>
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: left;">
I'm not gonna write you a love song</div>
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'cause you tell me it's make or break in this</div>
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If you're on your way</div>
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I'm not gonna write you to stay</div>
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If your heart is nowhere in it</div>
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I don't want it for a minute</div>
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Babe, I'll walk the seven seas when I believe that there's a reason to write you a love song today, today</div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sonnet 116</span></u></b><br />
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<em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let me not to the marriage of true minds</span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Admit impediments. Love is not love</span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which alters when it alteration finds,</span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or bends with the remover to remove:</span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,</span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That looks on tempests and is never shaken;</span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is the star to every wandering bark,</span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.</span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks</span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Within his bending sickle's compass come;</span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,</span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But bears it out even to the edge of doom.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"> </span><em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"> If this be error and upon me proved,</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"> </span><em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;"> I never writ, nor no man ever loved.</em></span><br />
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<em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;">William Shakespeare</em></span><br />
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<em style="background-color: #e0e5dc;">image from youtube.com</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've had this poem memorized since high school and it remains a favorite. It seemed strange to me that my high school English teacher wanted us to memorize a handful of poems, but now, I'm just so glad that I have them tucked away in my head, available whenever I want them. Take advantage of the spongy brains of young people and fill their heads with treasures for them to keep always. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always think of this scene when I think of this poem. Oh, Willoughby!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today's song is <i>No Myth</i> by Michael Penn. Sure, it doesn't reference Austen, but it does reference <i>Wuthering Heights </i> and Shakespeare's <i>Romeo and Juliet.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>No Myth</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">So, she says it's time she goes</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">But wanted to be sure I know</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">She hopes we can be friends</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">I think, yeah, I guess we can say I</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">But didn't think to ask her why</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">She blocked her eyes and drew the curtains</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">With knots I've got yet to untie...</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">What if I were Romeo in black jeans</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">What if I was Heathcliff, it's no myth</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Maybe she's just looking for</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Someone to dance with</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">See, it was just too soon to tell</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">And looking for some parallel</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Can be an endless game</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">We said goodbye before hello</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">My secrets she will never know</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">And if I dig a hole to China</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">I'll catch the first junk to Soho</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">What if I were Romeo in black jeans</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">What if I was Heathcliff, it's no myth</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Maybe she's just looking for</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Someone to dance with</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Sometime from now you'll bow to pressure</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Some things in life you cannot measure by degrees</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">I'm between the poles and the equator</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Don't send no private investigator to find me please</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">'less he speaks Chinese</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">And can dance like Astaire overseas</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">What if I were Romeo in black jeans</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">What if I was Heathcliff, it's no myth</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Maybe she's just looking for</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Someone to dance with</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over at Buzz Feed Books they have a quiz, <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/kristinchirico/how-many-newbery-medal-winning-childrens-books-have-you-read?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Books+49&utm_content=Books+49+CID_b4cda6ef3df0a292ca86d2ee4242f663&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor" target="_blank">How Many Newberry Medal Winning Children's Books Have You Read?</a> I've only read 20, but according to the results, that's really good and would earn a pizza party for my whole class. So, yay me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I may have to use this list to read some more of these books. I can absolutely affirm that every one of the 20 I read was wonderful. Who can imagine missing out on gems like <i>The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler</i> or <i>When You Reach Me?</i> Those books were genius. I Believe that <i>The One and Only Ivan </i> and <i>The Illuminated Adventures of Flora and Ulysses</i> were perfect picks to win. In fact, <i>Ivan</i> is one of the best books, period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Follow the link, click your way through and let me know how many you've read from the list and if there are any you highly recommend.</span>JoanneMarie Fausthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16751278640738482830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858236.post-1752271501936310042014-04-09T09:37:00.002-05:002014-04-09T09:37:41.097-05:00 Having A Coke With You and Keep Fishin' by Weezer<b><u>Having a Coke With You</u> by Frank O'Hara</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne<br />or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona<br />partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian<br />partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt<br />partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches<br />partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary<br />it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still<br />as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it<br />in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth<br />between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">I look </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together the first time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn’t pick the rider as carefully </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">as the horse</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;">And now, for today's song and video, it's Keep Fishin' by Weezer</span><br />
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You'll never be<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A better kind<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />If you don't leave<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The world behind</div>
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Waste my days</div>
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Drown aways</div>
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It's just the thought of you<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In love with someone else<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It breaks my heart to see you<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hangin' from your shelf</div>
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You'll never do<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The things you want<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />If you don't move<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And get a job</div>
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Waste my days<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Drown aways</div>
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It's just the thought of you<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In love with someone else<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It breaks my heart to see you<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hangin' from your shelf</div>
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Oh girl, when I'm in love with you<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Keep fishin' if you feel it's true<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />There's nothin' much that we can do<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />To save you from yourself</div>
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Waste my days<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Drown aways</div>
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It's just the thought of you<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In love with someone else<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It breaks my heart to see you<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hangin' from your shelf</div>
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Oh girl, when I'm in love with you<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Keep fishin' if you feel it's true<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div>
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There's nothin' much that we can do<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />To save you from yourself</div>
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Never be<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A better kind<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />You'll never be<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A better kind</div>
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<b><u>Invictus</u></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Out of the night that covers me,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">I thank whatever gods may be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">For my unconquerable soul.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">In the fell clutch of circumstance</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">I have not winced nor cried aloud.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Under the bludgeonings of chance</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">My head is bloody, but unbowed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Beyond this place of wrath and tears</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Looms but the Horror of the shade,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">And yet the menace of the years</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">It matters not how strait the gate,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">I am the master of my fate:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">I am the captain of my soul.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">~ William Ernest Henley~</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Invictus is one of my favorite poems. I've had it memorized since high school and I love finding reference to it all over the place. I sometimes wonder if every person who references the poem is aware of the source material. </span><br />
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<b>Everlong</b> by Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters)<br />
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<span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">Hello</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">I've waited here for you</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">Everlong</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">Tonight I throw myself in two</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">Out of the red</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">Out of her head she sang</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">Come down and waste away with me</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">Down with me</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">Slow, how you wanted it to be</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">I'm over my head</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">Out of her head she sang</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">And I wonder</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">When I sing along with you</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">If everything could ever feel this real forever</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">If anything could ever be this good again</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">The only thing I'll ever ask of you</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">You've got to promise not to stop when I say when</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">She sang</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">Breathe out</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">So I can breathe you in</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">Hold you in</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">And now</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">I know you've always been</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">Out of your head</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">Out of my head I sang</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">And I wonder</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">When I sing along with you</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">If everything could ever feel this real forever</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">If anything could ever be this good again</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">The only thing I'll ever ask of you</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">You've got to promise not to stop when I say when</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">She sang</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">And I wonder</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">If everything could ever feel this real forever</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">If anything could ever be this good again</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">The only thing I'll ever ask of you</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;" /><span style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.765625px;">You've got to promise not to stop when I say when</span><br />
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JoanneMarie Fausthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16751278640738482830noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858236.post-729515781998343652014-04-06T11:50:00.001-05:002014-04-06T11:50:44.614-05:00To His Coy Mistress ~ Poetry Month<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Had we but World enough, and Time,<br />
This coyness Lady were no crime.<br />
We would sit down, and think which way<br />
To walk, and pass our long Loves Day.<br />
Thou by the Indian Ganges side.<br />
Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide<br />
Of Humber would complain. I would<br />
Love you ten years before the Flood:<br />
And you should if you please refuse<br />
Till the Conversion of the Jews.<br />
My vegetable Love should grow<br />
Vaster then Empires, and more slow.<br />
An hundred years should go to praise<br />
Thine Eyes, and on thy Forehead Gaze.<br />
Two hundred to adore each Breast.<br />
But thirty thousand to the rest.<br />
An Age at least to every part,<br />
And the last Age should show your Heart.<br />
For Lady you deserve this State;<br />
Nor would I love at lower rate.<br />
But at my back I alwaies hear<br />
Times winged Charriot hurrying near:<br />
And yonder all before us lye<br />
Desarts of vast Eternity.<br />
Thy Beauty shall no more be found;<br />
Nor, in thy marble Vault, shall sound<br />
My ecchoing Song: then Worms shall try<br />
That long preserv'd Virginity:<br />
And your quaint Honour turn to durst;<br />
And into ashes all my Lust.<br />
The Grave's a fine and private place,<br />
But none I think do there embrace.<br />
Now therefore, while the youthful hew<br />
Sits on thy skin like morning glew,<br />
And while thy willing Soul transpires<br />
At every pore with instant Fires,<br />
Now let us sport us while we may;<br />
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,<br />
Rather at once our Time devour,<br />
Than languish in his slow-chapt pow'r.<br />
Let us roll all our Strength, and all<br />
Our sweetness, up into one Ball:<br />
And tear our Pleasures with rough strife,<br />
Thorough the Iron gates of Life.<br />
Thus, though we cannot make our Sun<br />
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JoanneMarie Fausthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16751278640738482830noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858236.post-27059303447618482132014-04-06T11:50:00.000-05:002014-04-06T11:50:20.930-05:00 The Boy Who Loved Math/ Lucky Ducklings/ Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos</i> by Deborah Heiligman and LeUyen Pham</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul Erdos was a mathematical genius from birth, but his love of math and numbers overshadowed all the rest of his life. He was unable to do so many normal things. In fact, as an adult everyone wanted to work with him, but that entailed taking care of him. He couldn't do his laundry or butter his bread, or do any of the things that most people take for granted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He made up for all of his many deficiencies by being someone who loved to share his knowledge. He made friends all over the world, going from country to country to help people with their math problems. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I usually think of geniuses as people who have knowledge/understanding gaps of really basic things. Erdos had those in spades. But, he seems like such a good natured guy. He didn't want to take over for people, or push them aside, but wanted to help them prove what they set out to prove. It's nice to see someone so talented, but without all the ego. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It goes to show you that a good guy doesn't have to finish last. He/she can certainly make friends and earn the respect of his/her peers. Erdos needed a lot of extra help, but he was such a good guy that all the friends he made wanted to help him, and he certainly returned the favor with his knowledge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Lucky Ducklings (A True Rescue Story) </i>by Eva Moore and Nancy Carpenter</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A beautifully illustrated picture book that tells the story of a family of ducklings who get separated from their mother when they fall into a storm drain. Once the mother duck realized what happened, she stood by the sewer, unable to leave her stranded babies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luckily, for all, a group of people, civilians and firefighters set to work to save the ducklings and return them to the care of their mother. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moore and Carpenter have created a treasure that is sure to wind up a classic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything </i> by Maira Kalman</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've read some really great biographies written for children. When I started this one, I thought it just wasn't going to be nearly as interesting as many of the amazing ones I've read recently. But, this turned out to be way way better that I anticipated. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kalman has a different way of telling her story, one that fit very well with the way I think of things. She covered sensitive subjects, big ideas and made them all clear and simple, even things that are so complicated it seems impossible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This book shows Jefferson, warts and all, a very full picture of a complicated man and all that he did, good and bad. This was one of the best surprises I've had this year. And, that's saying something.</span>JoanneMarie Fausthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16751278640738482830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858236.post-81289278701729442122014-04-05T08:35:00.000-05:002014-04-05T08:35:28.351-05:00 How to Train a Train / How Old MacDonald Got His Farm/ Dooby Dooby Moo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>How To Train a Train </i> by Jason Carter Eaton and John Rocco</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you want your very own train, do you? Well, first you have to catch one, and then you have to learn how to take care of it and how to teach it to behave. Jason Carter Eaton takes the "can I have a pet?" discussion and turns it on its ear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So much imaginative fun here as you follow along tracking, catching, naming and taming a pet train. It may make for some very strange discussions, especially for parents who've been avoiding the "Can we get a puppy?" talks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Rocco's anthropomorphic trains and the adorable kids who love and care for them are sure to amuse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>How Old MacDonald Got His Farm </i> by Judy Sierra</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Old MacDonald lived in a house where he mowed the lawn. One day, he decided that mowing the lawn was hard and he bought a goat. That didn't go quite as well as he intended. Then he bought a hen and she was really smart. She showed him all the steps to turn his yard into a farm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, the neighbors were not pleased, at least not until they saw all of the good things that came from his hard work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a really cute book. I like Old MacDonald and how he made peace with his protesting neighbors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Dooby Dooby Moo </i> by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Levin</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doreen Cronin and Betsy Levin are total geniuses! I love each of these books more than the last. I gave a cousin interested in politics, <i>Duck For President</i> for her high school graduation. I'm serious about these books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time out, no matter how closely Farmer Brown is watching the animals, he knows that there is something going on. When he sees that there is an article cut out of his morning paper he goes on high alert. But, he just can't figure out what they're up to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As it turns out, the local fair is coming up and there is going to be a talent competition. First prize is a trampoline. Now, if you read <i>Click Clack Moo</i> you are already aware of just how much Duck likes those new toys. He really really wants to win that trampoline. So, he's coaching the animals in their talent show routines. The cows are going to sing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, the sheep are working on their rendition of Home on the Range and the pigs do interpretive dance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I adore these books. I own most of them, buy additional copies to give out as gifts regularly and am so excited when I discover another one has come out. I recommend starting with <i>Click Clack Moo</i> and going on from there!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>JoanneMarie Fausthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16751278640738482830noreply@blogger.com0