tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35157739906853991632024-03-06T10:49:51.294-08:00Almost ParadisicalPursuing the poetical. Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.comBlogger817125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-66450580594428395412024-03-06T10:47:00.000-08:002024-03-06T10:49:18.749-08:00Why Do You Stay? <p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">Why do you stay when the door doesn’t have a lock?</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when your kids and grandkids are getting indoctrinated to be exclusive and not being taught the gospel of good news? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when the doctrine doesn’t match what Jesus said? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when criminals and pedophiles are protected? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when workers abuse each other? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when workers and form are worshipped instead of Jesus?</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when grace is not taught?</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when workers give permission for who can partake of the emblems and take part in testimonies - contrary to what Jesus said? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when huge amounts of money is not accounted for?</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when workers come between your intimate relationship with Jesus?</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when the lies and deception are known? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when the workers and the friends live double lives, hide and lie about reality? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when workers are kicked to the ditch without any help or support?</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when your loved ones are maligned, mocked, denigrated and shunned if they leave?</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when children are hurt and the ones who hurt them are allowed unconditional trust and access? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when the victim survivor is called mental, a liar and a trouble maker? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when your worth and value and identity comes from God alone? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when policies will never work?</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when faith in Jesus as the way, the truth and the life is traded for a form of fellowship that claims it is the way and the truth? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when believing in the 2x2 ministry and meeting in the home takes precedence over believing that Jesus is our Creator, God and Savior? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you are embarrassed to invite people to Gospel Meetings? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you feel sick at heart, discouraged, confused, sick to your stomach, depressed and can’t tell anyone? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you have a hymn book that doesn’t have Christmas Carols that tell the real gospel story? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you have a hymn book that doesn’t give credit to the authors and composers from early main stream Christianity? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when this hymnbook radically purged hymns that spoke of Jesus’ blood, grace, and faith over works? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when this hymnbook is minus the old and great, tried and true hymns like Holy, Holy, Holy, In Christ Alone, Great is Thy Faithfulness and the all time greatest hymn ever - Amazing Grace which are all in Creative Commons? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when meeting up with other Christians is frowned upon? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when reading other traditional great Christian literature, study helps, other translations to help one understand scripture is forbidden? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you can’t answer any questions that a Christian friend asks you about your fellowship other than the ministry in the home and the homeless ministry? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you don’t pray with and for people you fellowship with? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when no spiritual conversations or discussions can be had? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when your meeting life and your school/career/neighbor/citizen life doesn’t match with what you say and how you act around the friends/meeting? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when your vocabulary is one way around the friends and another around outsiders - living split? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you view anyone outside this exclusive fellowship as lost and worldly? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when mainstream pastors and teachers are considered wolf in sheep’s clothing and the ministers of the fellowship have actually proven they are such? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when losing your place, your ‘priviledge’, your meeting and your reputation is more important than following Jesus? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when spiritual and emotional abuse happens to someone and you turn away so it doesn’t happen to you and to protect the fellowship by silence? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you know things you don’t want to know and don’t tell anyone? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you finally understand that you can’t do anything to make God love you more or less? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you know someone who holds the keys to the bank that holds trust funds they control and benefit from for supposedly poor workers? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you want to leave? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you are starving for more? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you see the freedom of those who’ve left and how it is obvious ‘it is well with their soul”? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when going to meeting is merely going through the motions?</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when a perpetrator who harmed your son or daughter or some child you know is not taken to court? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you want more than is offered in cliches, tired and worn out verbiage, misapplied scripture and exclusive lingo? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you want to hear words of life?</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when your worth and value comes from God and is the only thing that matters? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when reality is your best friend? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when the system which is built upon lies and deception is the actual wolf? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when the belief system that you have always believed in isn’t what you thought it was and never was? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when there is a flood coming and an ark is available? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay in a fellowship that is being investigated by the FBI for criminal activity and 2 documentaries are in the works? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when the Lord is going to rapture the church soon and you might be left behind if you do not trust and believe in Jesus for your salvation instead of a belief system? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when works instead of faith are preached? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when you are free to open the door and walk away to freedom in Christ and the peace and joy that comes with it? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why do you stay when there are over 700 known perpetrators of child sexual abuse to date? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">How can you stay and support this fellowship when you know what you know? </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“Being a human being means both more and less than being an image bearer of a holy God. The real issue at the core is personhood. Failing to discern rightly who we are renders us unable to accurately discern anything we touch, feel, think or dream. Failing to discern rightly who we are renders us unable to properly know who God is. We are truly lost in a darkness of our own making.”</span></i></b></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The rapture is happening. Craig and I want to be in heaven with you. We love you. The only way that happens is if you know and believe who Jesus is and trust in what he did on the cross to save you, forgive you and give you eternal life. Some day every tongue will confess and every knee will bow that Jesus is LORD. We stand before God someday as an individual by ourselves facing our Creator and Savior. No group or belief system is standing with us. </span></i></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">**** Craig and I grew up in a belief system and culture that was </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">hidden in plain sight. It had beginnings from 1887 in the UK. The history was hidden from us and it was supposed to be from the beginning in bible times. The tenets that needed followed were: Meetings in homes, ministers of the same sex who went out two by two and lived without a home. They are supposedly celibate, but aren't. They are single. Meetings in homes and itinerate 'workers' take the place of Jesus being the Way, the Truth and Life. Legalism and works take the place of grace. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span>Aberrant behavior abounds within this system based on deception and a big lie. The ratio of Child Sexual Abuse within this system is off the charts. The perpetrators are protected but the victims are </span><span>ostracized and emotionally abused for telling the truth. </span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span>The FBI and IRS are now involved. Money is laundered. The system works like a cartel or the mafia. </span><span>Documentaries are being made. </span><span>A totalitarian script is followed. Money and power and corruption is fostered by a congregation that willingly supports and endorses the lies, the abuse and the corruption. </span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">If anyone wants to know more, <a href="https://www.advocatesforthetruth.com">Advocates For The Truth</a>, <a href="https://tellingthetruth.info/home/">Telling the Truth</a>, <a href="https://wingsfortruth.info">WINGS</a>, <a href="https://ex2x2.info">EX2x2info</a>, <a href="https://connected-and-concerned-friends.mn.co">Concerned and Connected Friends </a>and<a href="https://cheriekroppehrig.com"> Preserving the Truth</a> are all places to get information. Old books from the 80's and 90's are hard to find but they include: The Secret Sect, Reflections, Etc. Facebook has 2 active groups. Look up 2x2, Coonyites, The Truth, The Friends and Workers, etc, on the internet and find a treasure trove of info and videos. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Most of all pray for the people. They aren't all evil. They are brainwashed and deceived and trapped - much like any other cult members - the people aren't evil but the belief system is. The system is the wolf. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">You will recognize them by long hair, no jewelry or make-up, long dresses usually denim skirts and they stay to themselves as far as sports, movies, music, etc. They do not have answers when questioned by a Christian. They do not blend with mainstream Christianity. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The hymnbook does not give credit to music written by outsiders and used without permission or attribution. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The most famous hymns of our time are not in the hymnbook. Christmas and Easter are not celebrated but Halloween is. Christmas Carols are not sung or enjoyed. The Gospel according to the 2x2's is not Good News. It is a belief system based on lies. </span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-13463480548460375582024-03-06T08:32:00.000-08:002024-03-06T08:32:34.912-08:00Travelers<p><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers are curious.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers are able to be inconvenienced.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers are comfortable being uncomfortable.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers know how to easily and quickly change plans.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers have patience to let the plot catch up.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers don’t mind being disturbed.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers figure out how to be disappointed and live through it.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers seek out free things with a view.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers would rather have the experience rather than the thing.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers travel light and limber.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers know how to delay gratification.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers don’t expect or feel entitled.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers can live rough and simple.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers see what they see, not what they came to see. (Chesterton)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers make do and are flexible. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers access the peripheral experiences outside the lens.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers are delighted with the unexpected. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers ask for help.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers want to help.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers use all their senses.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers eat what the locals eat.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers love real food made simple and satisfying.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers make friends easily.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers add value wherever they are. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers give thanks.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers say no to a lot of things so they can say yes to a few things.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers don’t mind feeling awkward walking through a new door.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers rest when fatigued.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers aren’t embarrassed to ask for directions. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers don’t get restless when waiting.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers know that being worn and weary means they need to rest.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers know that hospitality is a two way street - giving and receiving.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers leave only footprints and take only memories. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers welcome others into their lives with gratitude.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers yearn for the next adventure.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers keep itineraries loose. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Travelers find pleasure where they find themselves. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Teach your children to be travelers……</span></p><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-1290291062471230542020-12-12T19:41:00.003-08:002020-12-12T19:41:47.354-08:00Do It For Jamie<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">For Jamie </b></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Somewhere in Sweden </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Richard is planting nut trees</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> he grew from seed. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">He won’t see the harvest </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">during his lifetime. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Gabe is planting the good </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">life in soil he built up into</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">a microworld of biodiversity</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">from North Dakota dirt</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">dead from years of abuse.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">He turned his farm around. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">I recently saw a woman </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">sitting in her garden</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> listening to </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Andrea Bocelli’s </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i>Si </i></b>album - </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">humming yes, </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">along with the bees</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> and the flowers </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">and the blue, blue sky. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">I know a young woman</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> who just had a sweet baby man child - </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">this morning - after much travail.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> Jamie is his name.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Jamie was born into a world </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">where people are being regenerative, </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">instead of merely sustainable. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">They are providing life,</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> planting fruit, </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">and creating beauty</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> for the next generation.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> For him. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Beneficials:</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> Attract them, invite them, </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">feed them, protect them. </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">They pollinate the goodness </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">surrounding us. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Be one yourself. Be a beneficial pollinator. </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Life will end when they are gone. </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Do it for Jamie. </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-80836344067596010352018-12-19T12:22:00.000-08:002018-12-19T12:34:02.931-08:00More Belovedness<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">His main point was</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">N O T T O </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">evangelize</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">proselytize</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">save</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">convert</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">connive</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">trick</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">sell anything </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">- nor was he the perfect</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">pattern </span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">preacher for us </span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">to try to </span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">imitate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">He did not do what he </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">did so everyone would</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">think he was wonderful</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">He thinks we are wonderful -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">how flipped is that? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">a n d b e s t o f a l l </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">before becoming</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">this adult who </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">connected </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">engaged</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">loved</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">helped</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">healed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">forgave </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">celebrated </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">imbibed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">met with</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">ate with </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">protected</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">invited</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and taught</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the hordes of common people</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and denounced and exposed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the high and mighty </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">religious ones</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>he was the first Christmas Morning ~ </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">.... "For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. The Messiah. Our Creator. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">He did what he did and lived how he lived so first and foremost we would know and experience being beloved. That is the all of it. He wants us with him forever. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>And Mary, did you know the one you delivered would someday deliver you?</i> And us? </span></span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-31271520583074302132018-09-25T14:18:00.002-07:002018-09-25T14:18:17.319-07:00How Does a Pilgrim Progress? She slogs<br />
through<br />
not around<br />
<br />
She rises<br />
up<br />
from falling<br />
<br />
She brushes<br />
off<br />
the mud<br />
<br />
She binds<br />
up<br />
her wounds<br />
<br />
She asks<br />
for<br />
help and healing<br />
<br />
She wants<br />
to<br />
notice<br />
<br />
She practices<br />
being<br />
thankful<br />
<br />
She sees<br />
much<br />
beauty<br />
<br />
She wipes<br />
her<br />
tears away<br />
<br />
She progresses<br />
because of<br />
grit.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-32707057689392973262018-09-14T17:43:00.000-07:002018-09-14T17:43:09.159-07:00Elsa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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She wears </div>
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a pensive face</div>
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under a turban</div>
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holding </div>
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all her thoughts</div>
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tight</div>
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inside her brain</div>
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so it won't explode</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
exuberant ideas</div>
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that shout </div>
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for release </div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-8657150231155152152018-09-13T20:44:00.000-07:002018-09-13T20:44:42.879-07:00 Wasted By Pornography Is it worth it? You spill your strength<br />
- it pulses into an open palm<br />
lined with tissue absorbing<br />
your milky manhood<br />
aroused by that one dimensional<br />
girl who always smiles<br />
<br />
(because to get paid<br />
or get the next hit to numb<br />
the hopeless shame she can't<br />
escape from -<br />
she has to paste on<br />
a smile for the money shot -<br />
no matter what painful degradations<br />
or horrific atrocities<br />
she is experiencing as you watch<br />
with pleasure.)<br />
<br />
Young man,<br />
after your quick and easy<br />
release -<br />
<br />
do you wonder if you are a coward<br />
to waste it, your magnificent manhood?<br />
Your lack of ambition for wooing<br />
and winning one of those<br />
complicated, intricate,<br />
fascinating girls<br />
<br />
is her great loss<br />
<br />
and the world's.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-14132069073336120252017-11-06T11:53:00.001-08:002017-11-06T11:53:13.983-08:00Prayer For Moving To A New Town At fifty seven years old<br />
I look back at all the botched<br />
relationships I'm partially responsible<br />
for, and weep.<br />
<br />
It makes me treasure the ones<br />
who've stood by all the high maintenance<br />
and high passions with durable<br />
endurance.<br />
<br />
These are strange years -<br />
such unfamiliar social<br />
cultures we're living through.<br />
<br />
I miss the old family gatherings when<br />
everyone held an instrument<br />
or used their voice to sing or<br />
storytell.<br />
<br />
The laughter from the retold<br />
and the tears from sad lyrics handed down<br />
gave me security as I fell asleep<br />
wrapped up in soft<br />
murmurs.<br />
<br />
I miss crowded homes with<br />
tables heavy with<br />
sustenance and comfort.<br />
<br />
I miss simple. I miss old fashioned fun.<br />
<br />
I'm lonely, but not bored,<br />
nor uncomfortable being alone.<br />
They say creative ones are<br />
never bored - but where<br />
is the companionship<br />
that the internet can't<br />
supply? Skin to touch and<br />
eyes to look into? Contagious<br />
smiles to reflect? Where do I find<br />
the other lonely ones?<br />
<br />
Where do I find friendship<br />
if I am tired of sitting in<br />
a pew looking at the back<br />
of people's heads - and bars<br />
and clubs don't excite me ?<br />
<br />
New town, please<br />
utilize what I have to offer -<br />
find me a few good friends<br />
who might enjoy someone<br />
who is still learning how to<br />
be a friend?<br />
<br />
New town, keep me from winter<br />
kill. I beg you, please allow spring<br />
to resurrect me tender and green.<br />
Let me take root in a wild,<br />
riotous border - bursting with color<br />
and welcoming scent.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-88658868155206312152017-11-04T09:36:00.001-07:002017-11-04T09:37:01.692-07:00Rain<div style="text-align: center;">
Every fall </div>
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I try to change</div>
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my mind about</div>
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rain - talking myself </div>
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out of dread </div>
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and reframing it </div>
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as being a desirable thing</div>
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to celebrate and relish. </div>
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An annual epiphany </div>
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I must revisit often -</div>
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since I live in the Pacific</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Northwest close to a Rain </div>
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Forest on an island </div>
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where rain </div>
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happens. </div>
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Water of any kind </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
makes me happy. </div>
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Rain is water. </div>
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This equation needs</div>
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embossed on my brain. </div>
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I raise my arms to welcome</div>
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rain today, tomorrow</div>
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and the day after - </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
like the mighty cedar</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
does. </div>
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end.<br />
<br />
Leaves falling crisp in the Rockies<br />
follow me back home to soggy - where<br />
blackbirds hunch shoulder to shoulder<br />
drip, drip on a dripping high wire.<br />
<br />
A statuesque blue heron<br />
stands knee deep and still in high tide<br />
blending into slate blue skies.<br />
<br />
The inside of my dry, cracked nose welcomes<br />
the drizzle.<br />
<br />
I have front row parking<br />
on the ferry. My thirsty skin,<br />
eyes and heart want the windshield<br />
barrier gone - it keeps me from the salt spray.<br />
The freezing wind makes me thankful for it.<br />
<br />
<br />
Logs float on the chop. I hope to<br />
spot a seal's watchful eyes.<br />
<br />
Ahhh ...<br />
the absolute relief of being at one<br />
again with salt water.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
**(My friend Susan read this and asked if I'd seen<a href="https://youtu.be/3V7g4kaMwhU" target="_blank"> Blue Mind In the Desert Ted Talk</a> by Wallace J. Nichols.) I hadn't. Yet. It is fantastic. I just ordered his <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Mind-Surprising-Healthier-Connected/dp/0316252085/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=" target="_blank">book</a> and will find a blue marble to remind me....<div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-76543366423019469792017-08-23T12:36:00.000-07:002017-08-23T14:35:50.139-07:00Summing It UpIsak Dinesen begins with "I had a farm in Africa...."<br />
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I once had gardens fruiting and flowering, a porch swing, and a beachy home where a selkie could feel perfectly at home whilst land locked.<br />
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Now, my love and I come home sweat grimed, looking like coal miners. Some days we speed to work on a boat to another island and pile into a van loaded with sweaty men who know how to work and make road problems vanish. They execute delicate maneuvers with monster machines. Artistic flourishes with dirt, gravel and oil? Yes.<br />
<br />
Life is different, inconvenient and awkward now. We are camping out in a teeny-tiny studio. This is what it's come down to. I puzzle over why I'm not completely miserable? Why am I so comfortable?<br />
<br />
Maybe it's because the tent out in the yard has been up all summer and occupied with people who want to come visit? Or perhaps it's the porpoises, whales, starfish, and beach glass I find? Or how I'm learning to fish? Or the eagles and blue herons that fly by, curious? Is it Tessa's picturesque garden she shares with me? Maybe it's the smell of salt water coming in on the breeze, or the rhythm of living with the tides?<br />
<br />
What will I remember fondly about this year, in ten years? I don't think it was what Isak Dinesen <i>had </i>that made her life story a riveting one, it was everything pulsing around the experience and adventure of that farm in Africa.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-60397070746555217352017-06-22T14:54:00.002-07:002017-06-22T14:54:48.102-07:00View From My Kayak-Deer Harbor <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-5820470489481836182017-04-26T09:37:00.002-07:002017-04-26T09:37:46.608-07:00Tell Me The Secret <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is the <i><b><a href="https://youtu.be/35eEljsSQfc">video</a></b></i>. There is not a peep in the room when he asks this question at the end. Apartheid is real....but the truth will surprise you. <br />
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Watch<i><b> Eyeless in Gaza</b></i> (streaming on Amazon) to understand how journalists fearfully self censor and are forcefully censored.....silenced so we are unable to hear the truth.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-20521811109602899562017-04-13T21:58:00.003-07:002017-04-13T21:58:57.770-07:00Shelter <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>I'm going out on a limb (naked) by writing this - because I'm disturbed to my core. The core I didn't even know I had! I did not vote out of discouragement and hopelessness. After some digging, I'm wishing I had voted for Trump after all. Hate me too, if you will.</i><br />
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all pink candy.</div>
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yesterday,</div>
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today</div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-40736860188172080902017-03-01T15:03:00.002-08:002017-03-01T15:07:37.627-08:00A Bertie Wooster Day <blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i><b>"As I sat in the bathtub soaping a meditative foot and singing, if I remember correctly, 'Pale Hands I Loved Beside the Shalimar', it would be deceiving my public to say that I was feeling a boomps-a-daisy." -P.G. Wodehouse </b></i></blockquote>
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....it would be deceiving<i> my</i> public to say that everything is swell, so I am going to remind myself that I have had an incredible life (and the story isn't even over yet) by doing a random wordy free fall bungee jump...right on the threshold of....something....new? It came out just like this, in this order. My life, it's so big. I forget sometimes to be awed and grateful.<br />
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I’ve lived in California, Idaho, Florida, Colorado, North Dakota, Washington and Alaska. I’ve seen<br />
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Petra, the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Med, the Red, the Dead, DC, Ohio, Iowa, Florida, Kansas,<br />
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Nevada, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Arizona, New Mexico, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi,<br />
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California, Alaska, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nevada, Idaho, Hawaii - Maui, Big Island, Kauai,<br />
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Oregon, Montana, Maryland, Jordon, Israel, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Austria, Wales, Australia,<br />
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Tasmania, British Columbia, Alberta. I’d like to see Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Maine,<br />
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Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin, South Africa, isle of wight, Cornwall, The Hebrides. I’d like to<br />
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bicycle around Lake Michigan, the Great River Road, Paddle parts of the Missouri, the Snake, the<br />
<br />
Columbia, and the Colorado Rivers.I can cut hair, cook for crowds, build with wood, weave baskets,<br />
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sculpt, weave, embroidery, crochet, make paper flowers, draw, paint, give affection, have amazing<br />
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orgasms, take pictures, edit, write poetry, write, I’ve been obscurely published 3 times, I’ve met<br />
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Kathleen Norris, Nigel Goodwin, Gregory Wolfe, Jeff Overstreet, Scott Cairns, Lucy Shaw, John<br />
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Hoyte, Gregory Orr, Patricia Hampl, Warren Farha, Michael Card, David and Karen Nee, David<br />
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Dark, Sarah Masen, Charlie and Andi Ashworth, Over The Rhine, Steve Laube, Jerry Root, Earl<br />
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Palmer, Dick Staub, and Eugene and Jan Peterson which means I might as well have met Bono. I<br />
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had a beautiful garden and a hospitable home. I’ve served thousands of people food. I have 2<br />
<br />
daughters who love me and husband who’s been faithful, undeservedly. I have seen nuns ride horses<br />
<br />
in full habit. I’ve seen the northern lights. I’ve heard rocks roar and felt the ground tremble in<br />
<br />
Hawaii. I’ve heard the rocks sing in Yelapa, Mexico. I’ve watched a young man shoot heroin. I heard<br />
<br />
God laugh - twice. He danced with me once. He teased me on the beach twice. I’ve watched a<br />
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silversmith engrave, a cowboy braid leather in the round for a whip, a potter wrestle 15 pounds of<br />
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clay into a bread bowl for me. I’ve seen a horse trained and a donkey pack. I’ve milked a cow and<br />
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collected eggs, I’ve butchered chickens and cried for my butchered lamb. I’ve seen had a lamb and<br />
<br />
dog put down. I’ve picked corn, hoed beets, planted beans, stacked hay, and dug potatoes. I’ve<br />
<br />
harvested berries and filled a freezer. I’ve said “maybe next year for years. I intimately know the<br />
<br />
mystery of sourdough and am still fascinated, after 35 years. I yearn for an outdoor stone hearth oven,<br />
<br />
a place by the salt water, a whitehall slide seat row boat, an ocean kayak, I think horse toots are the<br />
<br />
sweetest perfume. I have given thanks because He asked me to. I’ve hiked Tasmania’s Overland<br />
<br />
Track I’ve wept more tears than I knew I had. I’ve seen, picked up, saved, and given away thousand<br />
<br />
of heart shaped rocks. I feel blessed when I see rainbows, shooting stars, and pennies. I have gambled<br />
<br />
with a quarter doing heads or tails with God. It didn’t turn out well. He didn’t want me addicted to<br />
<br />
knowing for sure. I have crossed latitudes and divides, great rivers and oceans. I have seen old man’s<br />
<br />
beard dripping to the ground and gravestones resting beside the sea. I have seen mill stones used for<br />
<br />
gates keeping happy sheep. I saw a wallaby stretch her pocket out for her joey. I’ve laid down new<br />
<br />
flooring and painted a 2 story house. I think I felt an angel correct me at the wheel. I believed I heard<br />
<br />
God’s audible voice once as a child. But it must not have been. I’ve imagined myself into Little<br />
<br />
House on the Prairie as well as Pride and Prejudice. I feel the punch or cut or birth pangs in movies.<br />
<br />
Blood makes me faint. I get motion sick on merry go rounds and swings -now that I’m old - which<br />
<br />
makes me sad. I crave avocados, roasted vegetables, filberts, peanut butter and raw milk. I play piano<br />
<br />
badly only in the key of C. I used to play accordion. I can pick up an harmonica and make music. I<br />
<br />
wish I played the banjo. I want to learn more about stone boats, stone soup and hearthstones -<br />
<br />
anchoring hospitality to safe harbors where people commune together. I love to garden with my<br />
<br />
daughter. I’ve seen opium poppy fields. Moab’s Arches is my favorite National Park. My favorite<br />
<br />
childish memory was watching my father fell and chop trees. I come from a formidable family of pie<br />
<br />
snobs. Everyday I pray to notice and learn how to love. I've tried to incubate eggs in between my<br />
<br />
breasts. I read several books simultaneously. I have a compulsion to read every word I see and can't<br />
<br />
stop myself. I used to suck my thumb as a child. I'm currently homeless. I just found out there was<br />
<br />
another child like me long ago. Her name was Catherine. Laura Riding wrote her four letters. I read<br />
<br />
them on Brainpickin's and now know I'm not alone.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-7429123396921515712017-02-12T15:42:00.002-08:002017-02-12T15:42:54.164-08:00After the Snow I see baby buds strain<br />
against the tension -<br />
shiny, tight, pink skins pursue<br />
growth. Winter's wood resists,<br />
unsure of being split<br />
open like this -<br />
<br />
she can't remember<br />
the joyous juices running<br />
warm last spring.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515773990685399163.post-700604047605774542017-02-06T20:48:00.002-08:002017-02-06T20:48:38.475-08:00Trade Ins <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had sent a link of <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs">Mike Rowe's Ted Talk</a> to our friend, Kevin. He replied, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Thank you for that. It makes me wish I was 25 again and had a life do over... Not really, but I often wonder what the future holds. Mike says the tools of today are what we carry around with us and I suspect that’s true - but what do I do with them? My iPhone makes a lousy hammer." </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">His last juicy steak of a line made me perk up. What a prompt. This poem popped into my head.....</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>My iPhone Makes a Lousy Hammer</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>there’s no satisfying thud</b></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>as it hits it’s mark</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>no contact with iron</b></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>pounding into wood </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>no gratifying muscle-work</b></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>balancing a weighted tool</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><b>no finished piece to use </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><b>or gift to generously give </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;">there's nothing to leave </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;">my maker's mark on </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;">nowhere to say </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;">this was made by me. </span></b><b style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;"> </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Mike recommended Matthew Crawford's <u>Shop Class As Soulcraft</u>, which Craig and I enjoyed so much on Audible that we bought the hard copy also. He has another book out now called <u>The World Beyond Our Head</u> which I'm in the middle of reading. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Another book I'm simultaneously pairing with it is <u>Wonderland</u> by Steven </i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Johnson....</i></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Almost Paradisical-www.koverb.blogspot.com</div>Kathleen Overbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12684519598333961438noreply@blogger.com0