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4-29-05 | JustAmy, St.Louie1, MamaBear, Billie

[JustAmy]

Poetry and Potpourri made its debut on September 22, 2003

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[JustAmy]

4-29-05
Graphic by Billie

You Know Me...

I’ve sent you all “my” picture,
By now you know me well.
There’s something else you ought to know,
... I lie like bleepin’ H$ll!

That picture’s from a magazine,
My own I threw away,
I thought it might resurface and,
Embarrass me one day!

Someday we’ll get together,
I’m sure we’ll get ‘round to it.
Until then I’ll just figger out,
How the gal from the magazine can do it!

NicknamedBob . . . . . April 18, 2005

[JustAmy]

[JustAmy]

Please remember our Troops and
their Commander-in-Chief in your daily prayers.

[OESY]

LOL!

[OESY]

On Zipper Day, we offer:

[JustAmy]

BIRCHES

When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay.
Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
After a rain. They click upon themselves
As the breeze rises, and turn many-coloured
As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.
Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells
Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves:
You may see their trunks arching in the woods
Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground,
Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair
Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.
But I was going to say when Truth broke in
With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm,
I should prefer to have some boy bend them
As he went out and in to fetch the cows--
Some boy too far from town to learn baseball,
Whose only play was what he found himself,
Summer or winter, and could play alone.
One by one he subdued his father's trees
By riding them down over and over again
Until he took the stiffness out of them,
And not one but hung limp, not one was left
For him to conquer. He learned all there was
To learn about not launching out too soon
And so not carrying the tree away
Clear to the ground. He always kept his poise
To the top branches, climbing carefully
With the same pains you use to fill a cup
Up to the brim, and even above the brim.
Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish,
Kicking his way down through the air to the ground.
So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.
It's when I'm weary of considerations,
And life is too much like a pathless wood
Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
>From a twig's having lashed across it open.
I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

-Robert Frost-

[JustAmy]

LOL .... thanks, OESY.

Happy Friday. Hope you have a good day, be it a zipper or an arbor!

[JustAmy]

Happy Arbor Day!

[OESY]

On Arbor Day, we offer:



NOTE: This was not supposed to be humorous. -- Al Gore, author of Earthchild in Balance

[JustAmy]

Happy Zipper Day!

[JustAmy]

LOL

If we were not suppose to laugh, you shouldn't have posted that clown. :)

[DollyCali]

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE DAY ???

do I get to repost me (without makeup) and with my bird from the other day?

Mel?

Brad?

Denzel?

The Rock?

(guys, go get your own list!)

Good morning everyone

[DollyCali]

Zipper Day?

That means the tread will have funny pix, jokes, toons about the "bent one" ?

catch you all later. I got home VERY late last night. Slept in & now have to scramble to get garbage out (and so what am I doing at the computer, you may ask?)

[DollyCali]

Just listening to Laura Ingram giving her "GOOD" report on the results of her breast cancer... she has it but it looks positively treatable. She needs another surgery next week. She seems upbeat & is grateful for the prayers of people & all the messages, calls etc from people in general, her fans & big wigs here & there. Great news.

[The Mayor]

April 29, 2005

The One Who Could Not Be Hidden

Read:
Mark 7:24-30

He entered a house and wanted no one to know it, but He could not be hidden. -Mark 7:24

Bible In One Year: Psalm 55-57

Attar of Roses, a fragrant oil, is one of the most valuable products of Bulgaria and is heavily taxed for export. A tourist, unwilling to pay the duty, sought to evade customs by concealing two vials of the precious fluid in his suitcase. Apparently a little of the perfume had spilled in his suitcase. By the time he reached the train station, the aroma was emanating from the luggage, declaring the presence of the hidden treasure. The authorities immediately knew what the man had done and confiscated the costly souvenirs.

The Lord Jesus could not be hidden either. Crowds were constantly mobbing Him to hear His words of wisdom, to benefit from His deeds of mercy, and to derive help from His loving compassion.

After He ascended to His Father, Jesus' influence continued in the lives of His disciples. The populace "realized that they had been with Jesus" (Acts 4:13). Their deportment and their attitude marked them as His true followers.

Are you living completely for Jesus? Is the love of Christ so obvious in your life that those who know you realize that you are a follower of the One who "could not be hidden"? (Mark 7:24). If so, the world will readily see that you are on God's side. Your influence cannot be hidden. -Henry Bosch

When we've been alone with Jesus,
Learning from Him day by day,
Others soon will sense the difference
As we walk along life's way. -Hess

You cannot hide your influence.

FOR FURTHER STUDY
What Does It Take To Follow Christ?
Keeping Our Appointments With God

[Marguerite]

Isaak Levitan-Spring Flood

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy Friday! TGIF!!

72 degrees right now, headin' for 82 today.

We hit at least 91 yesterday, but cooling off for a few days.

[Marguerite]

Happy Arbor Day!

[MeekOneGOP]

All the beautiful people hand out at Amy's Place.

And I'M one of 'em.

haha! :)