Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... August, 2009

August 1, 2009 | JustAmy; St.Louie1; MamaBear; Billie

[jaycee]

Thanks, Luv! Hope you’ve had a wonderful week also! Our weather is so nice now~~sure is looking ‘fallish’....

[jaycee]

Thanks yorkie! This was so sweet and lovely!

[MEG33]

GoodSunday Afternoon

Thank you, Dave, for sharing the message in this darling poem and in Psalm 91
Wishing you a blessed Sunday.

[Lady Jag]

Great! Smart kid!

[MEG33]

Good Afternoon, Billie

Thank you for the nice comments on my opening.
Wishing you a beautiful Lord's Day

[Lady Jag]

Staff Sergeant Kurt R. Curtiss          

[MEG33]

Thank you, (((LadyJ)))

[Lady Jag]

PFC Matthew E. Wildes          

[Lady Jag]

Fusilier Shaun Bush, 2nd Battalion          
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers         

[jaycee]

I sure enjoyed the poem “Ain’t”, Dave! As they say “Out of the mouth of babes.”

[Lady Jag]

Cat's Dream

How neatly a cat sleeps, sleeps with its paws and its posture, sleeps with its wicked claws, and with its unfeeling blood, sleeps with all the rings-- a series of burnt circles-- which have formed the odd geology of its sand-colored tail. I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams. I have seen how the cat asleep would undulate, how the night flowed through it like dark water; and at times, it was going to fall or possibly plunge into the bare deserted snowdrifts. Sometimes it grew so much in sleep like a tiger's great-grandfather, and would leap in the darkness over rooftops, clouds and volcanoes. Sleep, sleep cat of the night, with episcopal ceremony and your stone-carved moustache. Take care of all our dreams; control the obscurity of our slumbering prowess with your relentless heart and the great ruff of your tail. Pablo Neruda

[jaycee]

Former first daughter Jenna Bush joins 'Today' Associated Press - August 30, 2009 10:42 AM PDT

Former first daughter Jenna Bush joins 'Today'

NEW YORK NBC's "Today" show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager.

Hager, a 27-year-old teacher in Baltimore, will contribute stories about once a month on issues like education to television's top-rated morning news show, said Jim Bell, its executive producer.

The daughter of former President George W. Bush said she has always wanted to be a teacher and a writer, and has already authored two books. But she was intrigued by the idea of getting into television when Bell contacted her.

"It wasn't something I'd always dreamed to do," she said. "But I think one of the most important things in life is to be open-minded and to be open-minded for change."

She'll essentially work two part-time jobs as a correspondent and in her school, where she will be a reading coordinator this year.

Bell said he got the idea after seeing Hager in two "Today" appearances. She was on the program two years ago to promote her book about an HIV-infected single mother, "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope," and it went so well that a short interview was stretched to nearly a half hour. She and her mother, Laura Bush, also co-hosted an hour of "Today" around the time their picture book came out.

She "just sort of popped to us as a natural presence, comfortable" on the air, Bell said. Hager will work out of NBC's Washington bureau.

"I think she can handle it," he said. "I think she knows something about pressure and being under some scrutiny. When she came here for a handful of appearances, she knocked it out of the park."

He expects her first story, most likely concerning education, to be on sometime next month.

A first television job on "Today" is, in her father's world, sort of like a run for president as a first attempt at elective office. Hager said that people on the show "have always made me, whenever I've been there, feel very comfortable."

Bell said Hager won't be covering politics. He said he didn't consider the job as a down payment for a future interview with her father, who has been living quietly in Texas since leaving office earlier this year. Attacks on NBC News by conservatives for the liberal bent of MSNBC also had nothing to do with it, he said.

"I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy," Hager said.

What she doesn't plan to do is talk about her experiences as the daughter of a president.

"I don't think it's that interesting," she said. "I'm pretty normal."

(THOUGHT YOU ALL MIGHT ENJOY THIS! TOO BAD SHE WENT WITH NBC....THE OBAMA FOLKS!)

[jaycee]

I truly enjoyed your cat poem!

It is so fascinating to watch a cat get into the postitions that they do. They can sleep anywhere and in a thousand postions and even if its in the middle of the floor, they seem to tell us “I’m here and you will have to step lightly around me”.... and in dreamland they stay, never wondering if we will step on them or not!

[MEG33]

Lovely, lovely,lovely!

[MEG33]

Jenna will be great! I won’t quickly switch channels if she appears! I never listen to NBC news or morning shows.

[Lady Jag]

Looking for a pic for the cat poem, I was impressed at how many sleeping cat photos I have and they DO sleepy anywhere they want in positions you couldn't imagine.

[Lady Jag]

Some even have signs.

[jaycee]

I weally wuv this one!!!

[jaycee]

LOL! Yeah, I think you or someone posted that one sometime or another.

[jaycee]

I seldom turn it to NBC...I try my best to avoid them at all cost! I hear they and MSNBC are seriously in financial trouble...goodie, goodie, goodie!!

They have treated Jenna’s dad like trash in the past!! But you know how money talks. I imagine they are paying her a pretty little amount for about once a month...