Tag: time
member name: Bethany C.
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May 03, 2008 03:58 AM EDT --
"Can you believe it's been twenty-seven years since I married your father?" I asked my daughter, Heather. She'd dropped by on her way home from work. "I mean, would . . .
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July 01, 2008 04:19 AM EDT --
Stir the pot a little bit.
Stir it one more time.
Act like there no reason
To your meddling or rhyme.
Add a tiny pinch of this
And of that, right there.
Strive, connive, manipulate
Like . . .
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February 18, 2008 12:05 PM EST --
Well, I've got my Dad in a nursing home. In ways it's a lot harder than I thought it would be, but in some ways (and I feel guilty about this) it's a lot easier.
You'd . . .
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April 13, 2008 06:19 PM EDT --
"It's nothing personal." I inform the shaggy bundle of fur sitting at my feet staring soulfully up at me. "I just don't like dogs. Any dogs. All . . .
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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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December 06, 2007 01:22 AM EST --
I argued you down.
I gave you all of the reasons
That the foolishness you had been spouting
Should never see the light of day.
You didn't listen.
You really didn't . . .
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June 28, 2008 06:02 AM EDT --
You know, I've had this argument going
With myself. For quite sometime, now I have
Tried to figure out which is the worst sin.
One part of me says this, the other part
Swears that, . . .
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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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April 17, 2008 09:22 PM EDT --
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
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May 10, 2008 04:15 AM EDT --
Sometimes I just say words. Or write them. Whatever.
Sometimes it's like a baby talking. A whole lot of nonsense, but it makes people smile.
Sometimes it is very . . .
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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 05, 2008 11:48 PM EST --
You don't even know the tears
Life is going to dish out to you
Before it is through, little girl.
You can't even begin to imagine.
You cry because of something that
Seems monumental to . . .
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July 23, 2008 05:06 AM EDT --
I wish I had remembered then
How precious it would be
Now, looking back, to think of them
Snuggling against me.
Yes, they fought like monsters
And . . .
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October 02, 2008 12:27 AM EDT --
I weep for you.
I sit here in the darkness
And the silence
And I weep for you.
As if such things
Were not happening
The whole world over.
In many, many lives.
Pain's part of . . .
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June 19, 2008 11:46 PM EDT --
If I fail to visit you
Please remember this
I can only share a portion
Of the time there is.
Friends are calling,
Chores are piling
High above my head,
Children beg me for my time
Husband . . .
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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 02, 2008 08:12 AM EDT --
Friends, once close, go out of my life
Like a wisp of fog at the sunrise.
Lord, I think (I talk to God regular)
Where did they go, why did they?
He reminds me of that scripture
In Job, . . .
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July 17, 2008 04:39 AM EDT --
Every time I think God is going to do
One thing he does something else.
And, of course, I find out that what
He did was at least a hundred times
Better than what I had figured out.
But it's . . .
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