NEW YEAR'S EVE

Here's wishing everyone a very happy, warm and safe New Year's Eve!!!

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According to Maxine:

"In forty years we'll have thousands of old ladies with tatoos and rap will be the Golden Oldies."

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LAST I HEARD...

I've been seeing an ad featuring a well-known actor selling memberships to a wildlife organization purporting to save the polar bears from extinction.  If we don't sign up and send them money every month the polar bears will disappear from Earth. 
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Is it true?  Or is someone just trying to cash in on the 'climate change' scare? Last I heard the the polar bear population was growing. Is there anyone out there who really knows?
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I also wonder if the actor was simply hired or if he believes.  Surely he wouldn't sell something he doesn't believe in...Please tell me what you think.

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"May the sun always shine on your

windowpane; may a rainbow

be certain to follow each rain.

May the hand of a friend always be

near you; may God fill your heart

with gladness to cheer you."

~~Irish Blessing

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GLOBAL WHAT???

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Dedicated to all Global Warming Non-Believers:

A PALE SUN

Outside, a pale sun evokes sparkling gems of hope
From the frozen snow.
Shimmering layers of diamond dust distract
Winter-weary eyes.
Icy crystals, themselves unaware of the temporal reign,
The apparent glow,
Coldly wink refractions of the pale sun, transforming
Light, before it dies.
Shadows, chilled and dark, soon overcome the glittering scene.
As the snowbird flies
Wintry winds invade, yet soften the crunched footprints left there
In the fields below.


Outside, early darkness drapes the glittering snowscape
And hides the pale sun.
Gathering clouds, heavy and threatening, swirl with the wind
While the children sleep.
Unsympathetic, the arctic night drags on, cold and dark,
The storm has won.
Slowly, daylight bleak and pale rouses in the distance,
Its’ promises to keep.
Later we find, the clouds in all their fury left only a sprinkling
Of snow on the steep
Hillsides, then vanished, beckoning a pale sun’s slow rise,
The darkest night is done.
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Copyright Beverly J. Caligaris
All rights reserved
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CHRISTMAS DAY - 2009

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I got to see and spend a bit of time with all four of my great-grandchildren on this Day! I didn't cook one thing, (but I truly feel like I left something out.) I did have an awesome Italian dinner with the next-door neighbors, who happen to be my daughter, son-in-law and grand-daughter, Kayla. Also in attendance, grand-daughters, Brandy and Tessa and their families. We did gifts for the small children and had a White Elephant exchange for everyone else. What fun that was!!
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Earlier in the Day, my older daughter, grand-sons Brendan and Justin, and great-grandson, Demetrius came by to visit and share the season. My oldest son lives here with me; his two sons, Jason and Josh, were here on Christmas Eve day.
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And my younger son and his wife live near Denver with my grand-children, Leah and Cody. They had been down to spend a day between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."~~Charles Dickens

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THIS WONDERFUL SEASON

Wishing you all a very warm and merry Christmas!

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"The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly,

reminding us of what is worth having

and what we were intended to be."

~~Max Lucado

TALK ABOUT WRITER'S BLOCK........

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So I'll get back up, so to speak, rather slowly with a few best quotes:

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." ~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world."~~Felix E. Schelling

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and for fun:

"A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he's crossing a one-way street."~~Lawrence J. Peter

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I HOPE THAT EVERYONE HAD A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING FILLED WITH FAMILY, GOOD FRIENDS AND GOOD FOOD!! STAY WARM!!

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OPPORTUNITIES ABOUND

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."~~Thomas Edison

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"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them."~~P.J. O'Rourke

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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."~~Winston Churchill

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"Our road will be smooth and untroubled

no matter what care life may send,

If we travel the pathway together,

and walk side by side with a friend."

~~Unknown

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