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Posted on 08/20/2004 1:01:03 AM PDT by JustAmy
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Thanks
Hawaii-Lemonade-Daffodils Day!
(I'm glad I wasn't too obvious.)
President Bush accepts a glass of lemonade, July 2004.
Making Lemonade
When you have lemons -
you make lemonade.
Create a new life...
that you never would trade.
You begin a new lifestyle
and hold down the fort.
Gather strength and great courage...
with single parent support.
A glass of water - that's your family
squeezed lemons - divorce
some sugar - is love
and ice - is the force.
The force keeps you strong
and encouraged with life.
You're now head of household...
no longer a wife.
Amazing what's accomplished
through times of great strife.
We learn of our power...
the foundation in life.
So when you have lemons
just make lemonade.
With single parent support
an extended family is made.
-- by Jodi Seidler
THE DAFFODILS
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed - and gazed - but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
-- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Beach, Oaho,Hawaii
Elena Zabelin
Black Point, Oahu 2004
Here you can swim
As far as you can go.
The reef is not distant—
Soon you will be aware of its teeth.
Bikinis and one pieces
Cover the beach.
A girl searches for friends
Along the seawall.
She reminds me of what I lost,
The years of crushes and failed loves.
I’m there again getting crushed
And losing all over again
This time wearing
Sunglasses, visor, marlin-blue trunks.
The familiar sand
Shifts beneath my weight.
-- Anon.
Blue Hawaii
Gene Provost
Nanny, nanny, nah, nah. So, there!
Thank you for the scripture and coffee!
Good Morning, Amy! I hope you are having a wonderful Friday!
Those labs are so handsome; waiting with devotion shining from their faces. It is a breed that I am just now getting acquainted with.
I agree .... it is a wonderful graphic.
Good morning, OESY.
Happy Friday and whichever day we are celebrating. (I peeked)
Thank you for the link to the ad.
Cute!
Good morning you two. I have company coming and have a "to do" list a mile long. (At some point along the way my son became "company", don't know when that happened. LOL)
Have a nice day!
All breeds have there good and bad. Labs are special.
Later
LOL
Thanks for the Kerry picture from the past. I luv it. Keep them coming.
Have a happy Friday.
That's Scambodia Kerry!
VERY CUTE! Thank you for posting!
:~(
We don't have any kitties right now but it reminded me of when we did.
There were into and on everything.
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