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member name: Bethany C.
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February 23, 2008 01:52 PM EST --
I've used this phrase
So many times
On so many jobs
Where I've worked.
But I find that this
Even more exemplifies
Who I am and what
I desire to do in life.
I was a shy loner . . .
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February 05, 2008 04:17 AM EST --
I was young, maybe nine or ten, when we moved to Palmetto, Louisiana in a little white house almost directly under the water tower.
My Daddy had been an unofficial preacher for years to everybody he . . .
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July 20, 2008 10:41 PM EDT --
I never meant to be an activist!
My big plan was to be an artistic
Creative genius and watch from
The sidelines of life and to let
Somebody else do all the dirty work.
Well, you know what . . .
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July 20, 2008 11:58 PM EDT --
I watch him go. Casually he strolls away, leaving me in the bleakness that my life has become.
It's easy for him. He lives in a place of sunshine and hope. He has a future. . . .
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July 28, 2008 04:38 AM EDT --
If only…
“There are sad words in this English language.” My grandfather mused once. “Words like ‘if only’…”
A young boy, I didn’t understand, but I nodded.
I understand now. . . .
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July 11, 2008 08:46 PM EDT --
There has always been a love affair with rice in our family. Rice and gravy, rice and beans, rice and butter…you get the picture, kind of like Bubba Gump and shrimp. (Rice and Shrimp, . . .
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June 19, 2008 06:27 PM EDT --
I've had such a life!
It reads more like fiction
Than the truth.
Or it would, should I write
The whole of it, but I know better.
Already, people look at me in doubt.
Were I to tell . . .
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July 06, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
We all want to look good to people.
To those who, we think, matter.
In public we try to act as if we've never
Done anything wrong in our lives.
A person . . .
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August 10, 2008 10:48 AM EDT --
We may not be here long.
But what we do will linger,
Echoing in the minds of those
We've gone and left behind.
Our time below is precious.
Within it is decided our eternity--
Whether . . .
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July 31, 2008 02:57 PM EDT --
I know it is a sin to talk to the dead. But I missed her so much! And I told myself that I wasn’t really trying to call her from beyond the grave, which would have been the true sin . . . .
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July 29, 2008 08:41 PM EDT --
She lay there nude, the evening sun filtering through the curtains, tracing patterns on her skin. Memories of Stanley’s lovemaking lingered in her mind. What a man!
A half-smile tilting . . .
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December 15, 2008 02:14 AM EST --
A funny thing happened the other day. There was snow on the levee!
What made it funny for me is that the day before I commented on someone's Gather post that it never snowed in Louisiana. . . .
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July 19, 2008 05:19 PM EDT --
Silly me.
I keep thinking
That one day I will
Be this perfect person
Who never does any wrong.
One day,
I think that I'll
Clean my house
From top to bottom
And throw away the . . .
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July 14, 2009 02:44 PM EDT --
Giving things to God is never as easy As it seems to be when at first You decide that you must do so.
It's hard to resist the temptation To grab things back when they do not seem To be going the way . . .
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June 28, 2008 11:40 PM EDT --
So this is it then?
What about all the big plans
I held so close to my heart
Since I was a child?
What about the things left
Unfinished, unspoken, undecided?
I thought there would be... . . .
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July 17, 2008 02:25 AM EDT --
What abuse does to children
Is a horrible, horrible thing.
Of course, there is the pain,
Degradation and guilt that
Nearly stifles a child's soul.
(The guilt part is crazy, because . . .
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August 16, 2008 01:42 PM EDT --
My to do list is never short enough to do.
Or even to write it all down.
It lengthens with the moments that I spend
Even contemplating all my chores.
My niece comes in and shrugs,
"I'm . . .
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September 13, 2008 11:32 AM EDT --
I wrote this on 9-07-08. It was about the 6th day after hurricane Gustav. Admittedy, the damage, choas, high stress, and lack of electricity was (and still is) making . . .
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October 21, 2008 11:50 AM EDT --
Lord, I wondered, how can there be so much truth
In Zodiac signs when I know your Word says
That witchcraft and fortune-telling are wrong?
But I find certain people born under certain signs . . .
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July 17, 2008 01:04 PM EDT --
I read this article by Steve C. about a letter he wrote to the person who abused his five-year-old daughter. It is painful and yet, redemptive.
I wanted to call it to the attention . . .
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