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For Love Of Reading, Answering The Bookish A-Z Questions
Earlier this week Deb Carey at Debs Despatches shared and answered these questions. She inspired me to do the same today. Do this on your own blog if you like and/or chit-chat about books [or whatever] in the comments below. ~ • ~ Author You’ve Read the Most Books From: Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series. I’ve…
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#NatureSpeaks: 30 Poems in 30 Days – Day 1: Hot Ashes, by Benjamin Nambu
These same streets of loveYou once roamedWith your head bowedStewing in the hot ashesOf burnt hopesIn these same streetsYou shall walk againHead raisedAs if to see what the narrow pathAnd heat were trying to revealLessons and blessings, nestlingIn ashes Hot Ashes was inspired by the poem Butterfly Love. You can read more of Benjamin Nambu’s…
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#NatureSpeaks: 30 Poems in 30 Days – Day 2: Something Stuck, by Tricia Sankey
I fall from white skiesand curse cold air it’s snowing I feel the heatas you rise with eyesice-bright (you make no sound) does it captivate God to watchus both spin around? I splash into wavesbut your warm aroma still clings I climb up tall treesand sit with butterflies (they surround) we weave our ownhappy endings…
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Potsdam Conference conclusion
Potsdam Conference, July-August 1945. President Harry S. Truman introducing his driver, Private First Class Warren E. Baker to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, both from the same home town. President Truman had been inspecting the 3Rd Armored Division near Frankfurt, Germany. Photographed by CPhoM William Belknap Jr., released July 26, 1945. Official U.S. Navy…
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Bond
Breathe peace with me,as our hearts beat,our love flies free,sacred paths meet.Great hopes to shareall I have learned,clear from all fearsor drawn concerns. Know you can reachall goals when set,when insecure,then give your best.If when time rings,plans do not come,life surely brings,some better ones. My precious child,beautiful pearl,so warm and mild,you are my world.Inhale all…
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As Europe Goes to LEDs, Scientists Worry
There was a time when street lighting means someone had to go light the lamps. Electricity changed that, but street and outdoor lighting has been quietly going through a new revolution: LEDs. The problem, though, is that LEDs provide what scientists call “broad white” light and there are concerns about the impact the unnatural lighting…
