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Posted on 06/01/2004 9:35:59 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
Home is behind, the world ahead, |
That is a welcome sight at the top of our page. *snif*
I'm going back to these kids now.
((((Lil'freeper))))
You know, the 24th of this month marks the one year anniversary of losing my Grama. I can relate to you feelings of loss being hypersensitive right now. This year has been hell for me. And there is a part of me that is even sorry that it is June because it seems like marking time in years makes her further away. My realistic part knows this is not so. She is so close. But, this anniversary coming up is hard.
Another one. (((Lil'freeper)))
Just got home and heard the news about President Reagan's passing. I can't find the words. There will never be another like him. RIP.
Thanks. And hugs to you, too. We're going to see if we can manage to get down to DC this week for some of the gatherings.
As we all cling to each other
and freely share our tears,
For our beloved Ronald Reagan,
Whom we've loved for many years
Has gone to join Our Heavenly Father
And in His Presence stands
The Gipper's found comfort beneath His Wing
And peace within His Hands.
So let us continue to hold each other
Remembering whom we loved
Dry our tears and raise our eyes
Up to the skies above.
For Reagan now remembers us
His memories have returned
And so we embrace the things we shared
And all the things we learned.
Ronnie, we love ya, this you know
And we are not alone
In thanking God for sharing you
And now He's brought you home.
We'll do our best to make you proud
And with God's help we will
For one day we will join you in
The Shining City On A Hill.
Here's to you, Mr. President.
Man, I wish you were here this afternoon. Am noodling around with my Chief Architect plan, and am trying to create a terrain specification (plot plan) so I can import the terrain data that the kids and I worked up last week.
Learning as I go, ARGH! I ain't an architect, and I didn't stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night, so this is HARD! LOL!
Of course they will, as a former President, he'll be expected to be there, as will Jimmy Carter. But they will both be diminished severely in the eyes of the public by the spiritual presence of Ronald Reagan, and by the physical presence of both President Bush #41 and #43.
I read someone describe x42 once as 'the cheese in a Bush sandwich' and I thought that was appropriate!
Peggy Noonan once described Hillary as 'squat and grasping'; it describes x42's whole Presidency also!
That's why we're here folks.
I know we'll feel relief when God takes my Mama home. It will be sad that she's no longer here, but she hasn't truly been 'here' for a while.
It just occurred to me that it wasn't until he died, and hopefully met Maureen, that he even knew that she had died. I think he was too far gone for that news to have even registered, if they told him at all.
I think you're right. Maybe Ron and Maureen will get together, get God's ear and say "protect our country from Kerry and Klinton."
I must have been one of the last to hear. My brother called from CA while I was out at the house and told me. I guess it's not a surprise, but...I just don't have words for this.
Wonderful post. I can identify.
RR was a durn fine American, one who led this country from a moral base with an eye to the future.
She has been a model of grace and dignity in an extremely tough situation. As far as I can tell, the entire family has, even their two kooky kids.
I just wish she weren't pushing so publicly for embryonic stem cell research. Maybe she doesn't have good info on it.
I just heard an hour ago, I'd been out all afternoon. Friend's ride told us when he showed up. Man... lousy way to wrap up a good day.
Reagan was president when I was born, of course, and I remember him as President. I've always thought he was a good role model. But I suppose it's a blessing, in some ways, Alzheimer's is so horrible.
I was barely perceptive of politics at the time...but I remember being SO DAMN glad he got into office. He was like the grandpa who told me to ignore the sniveling whining 70s and remember the pride I felt for America in 1976.
I am glad he is with God now. He will truly shine there. But I miss him because there will never be another president like him.
Thank you Mr. President. Ill be telling my grandchildren about him...and how I *almost* got to see him in person at the 1984 Inauguration.
". . .But if Legolas was with the Company, he would not interpret the songs for them, saying that he had not the skill, and that for him the grief was still too near, a matter for tears and not yet song.
". . .A lord of wisdom, throned he sat,
swift in anger, quick to laugh;
an old man in a battered hat
who leaned upon a thorny staff.
"He stood upon the bridge alone
and Fire and Shadow both defied;
his staff was broken on the stone,
in Khazad-dum his wisdom died."
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