Category: The Bookshelf
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Spring Is A Promise
Spring is a promise in the closed fist of a long winter. All we have is a raw slant of light at a low angle… These are the first few sentences of Luci Shaw’s poem, Spring Is A Promise. Monica begins her post with Luci’s beautiful words and then she writes the struggle of her…
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Sarcasm Hurts
“No one could deflate you the way a wife could.” (Harry Turtledove, The United States Of Atlantis: A Novel Of Alternate History) I think I’ll go find my man and ask for forgiveness.
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There Stood His Heart’s Desire
” ‘Get on, warriors,’ said the Tarkaan. ‘Kill the beasts, but take the two-legged ones alive.’ And then the last battle of the last King of Narnia began. What made it hopeless, even apart from the numbers of the enemy was the spears… In a way it wasn’t quite so bad as you might think.When…
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My Favorite Color
Red is: enticing life-sustaining the “good life” elegant cultivated refined connected to the earth warmth exotic taken from Color: Messages and Meanings by Leatrice Eiseman
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Where Is The Church?
If the house is dark at night, there is no sense in blaming the house. That’s what happens when the sun goes down. The question to ask is, “Where is the light?” If meat goes bad, there is no sense in blaming the meat. That is what happens when the bacteria are allowed to breed…
A Spring of Joy 