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Paradise, If You Can See It.
Michelle Obama's Mirror ^ | 2-15-2017 | MOTUS

Posted on 02/15/2017 7:05:33 AM PST by NOBO2012

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Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse — and Thou
      Beside me singing in the Wilderness —
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

- Omar Khayyám

I tell you what, I’ll provide the bread,

sourdough bread 

and the wine - left over from the Flyover Fest.

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Gerard provides the verse – in narrative form. About paradise. Enjoy. Life is so much more than politics.

“This job began in the winter and the only source of heat Miss Helen had was a standard issue wood stove that she also used for cooking. The stove took a lot of wood and the old lady’s wood came from a large pile of logs on another islet behind her hut. They were far too big to fit in the stove and my main job was to take a maul, then an axe, then a hatchet, and transform each log into a pile of kindling that the old lady could use. It wasn’t that bad a job except when it snowed or rained, which, since this was winter in Paradise was pretty much every other day when it was not a continuation of the snow and rain from the day before.”

Read the whole thing…

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“Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.”

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Posted from: Michelle Obama’s Mirror


TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: brotherskaramazov; dostoyevsky; omarkhayym; paradise

1 posted on 02/15/2017 7:05:33 AM PST by NOBO2012
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To: NOBO2012

A quart of beer, a bag of pretzels, and thou . . . sorry.


2 posted on 02/15/2017 2:50:57 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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