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Posted on 05/31/2008 11:14:27 PM PDT by JustAmy
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A HAIKU
before summer's loom
the full moon spinning its yarn
weaving its magic
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A HAIKU (with ranga)
beside clinging vetch
are golden trumpets waking
lift their arms to stretch
poets wit nor feathered quill
have improved the daffodil
Awsome picture of the Statue of Liberty, Diver Dave! Gives me goose-bumps! Thank you for sharing it with us!
Ahhhh .... thank you Fish Hawk.
Looks like I’m flying high today.
See you later.
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Polly
Hey, LJ! How’d you get that picture of me? :-)
That’s you? I guess you were concentrating on that guy with his wallet in his hand.
Oh my Lord.....have mercy on me! LOL~~
Why would she wear that kind of thing for heaven’s sake? And what a body!!! She should be locked up until she recovers!
She got him to look, didn’t she?
;-)
If he is negotiating about the price, maybe he should be locked up! Whewwwwww~~~~~
I was just about to slug him - did you see what he was looking at? The NERVE!
Harriet Tubman was only about five feet tall, but she was smart and she was strong -- and she carried a large rifle. She used the rifle not only to intimidate pro-slavery people they might meet, but also to keep any of the slaves from backing out. She threatened any who seemed like they were about to leave, telling them that "dead Negroes tell no tales." A slave who returned from one of these trips could betray too many secrets: who had helped, what paths the flight had taken, how messages were passed.
When Harriet Tubman had first arrived in Philadelphia, she was, under the law of the time, a free woman. But the next year, with the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, her status changed: she became, instead, a fugitive slave, and all citizens were obligated under the law to aid in her recapture and return. So she had to operate as quietly as possible, but nevertheless she was soon known throughout abolitionist circles and the freedmen's communities.
...Her trips were largely financed by her own funds, earned as a cook and laundress. But she did get other support from many of the leading figures of New England, and many key abolitionists. Harriet Tubman knew, and received support from, Susan B. Anthony, William H. Seward, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Mann and the Alcotts, including educator Bronson Alcott and writer Louisa May Alcott. Many of these supporters -- like Susan B. Anthony -- gave Tubman use of their homes as stations on the underground railroad. Tubman also had crucial support from abolitionists William Still of Philadelphia and Thomas Garratt of Wilmington, Delaware.
...Harriet Tubman's trips to the South as "Moses" -- as she'd come to be known for leading her people to freedom -- ended as the Southern states began to secede to form the Confederacy, and the government of Abraham Lincoln prepared for war.
The smiley face bouquet is a winner, Jaycee!!
Very bright and cheery, thanks.
ROFLOL~~~~
**Frustrated because I’m on the mend /I didn’t know about tea.**
Glad you’re getting better! Don’t know for sure about tea, but that’s what we’ve been told. Like I said—could be our hard water.
I’ve been battling “UTI’s” for 20+ years now. At least that’s what the docs think it is. No sign of infection, just back pain, feel like I have the flu, and feel like I have to go all the time. Cipro usually clears it up, so go figure. I may not be a PHD but even I can figure out that if an antibiotic makes you feel better—sometimes within 2 hours—then there is infection somewhere.
I’m getting one again, whatever it is, and I’ve used all my Cipro. Last time,they didn’t want to give me anymore antibiotics without a reason. 6 months of constant pain, not being able to sleep/eat, 3 different drs, x-rays, cat scans with and without dye, mri’s—nothing. No infection, no kidney stones, no reason for the symptoms, finally one of the docs took pity on me and gave me Cipro. Within 2 hours, literally, I was on top of the world. Boom! That was about 2 years ago.
I don’t drink anything but water and juice, usually cranberry, maybe 6 sodas a year, I don’t wear tight jeans, bubble baths—BWAHAHA—who has time for those?, and I don’t sleep around. That was the best they could come up with, and to top it off BCBS refused to pay for most of it—deemed it unnecessary.
Not whining or airing my dirty laundry, but if anyone has any ideas, I’d sure love to hear them! Thanks!
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