<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432</id><updated>2011-11-04T09:43:35.165-07:00</updated><title type='text'>WORD RAPTURE</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>87</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-2315896318393480952</id><published>2011-07-06T14:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-06T14:51:10.892-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Have definitely moved to my website!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XuAxXBAmM3w/ThTYiNKRyFI/AAAAAAAAF3U/xScnERE7Pj8/s1600/SHIWCASE+-+Moi+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="246" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XuAxXBAmM3w/ThTYiNKRyFI/AAAAAAAAF3U/xScnERE7Pj8/s400/SHIWCASE+-+Moi+.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Come see me sometime.... @ The Terra Studios&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theterrastudios.com/"&gt;just click!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-2315896318393480952?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/2315896318393480952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=2315896318393480952&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/2315896318393480952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/2315896318393480952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2011/07/have-definitely-moved-to-my-website.html' title='Have definitely moved to my website!'/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XuAxXBAmM3w/ThTYiNKRyFI/AAAAAAAAF3U/xScnERE7Pj8/s72-c/SHIWCASE+-+Moi+.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-6146410882288690073</id><published>2011-01-11T17:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-14T14:13:49.806-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tu, me embriagas!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TS0uNUmhk1I/AAAAAAAAFus/F4EfSq_m1Wg/s1600/DSCN0105_2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="132" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TS0uNUmhk1I/AAAAAAAAFus/F4EfSq_m1Wg/s320/DSCN0105_2.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Tu,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;me embriagas,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;pensar en ti&lt;br /&gt;me embriaga,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;tu inquiedtud es mi inquiteud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;Hablas,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;haces,&lt;br /&gt;vas,&lt;br /&gt;vienes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;Desapareces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;Vuelves,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;me sacudes,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;revives,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;suave cuerda de salvamento&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;llegas de rondas&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;alerta, sabio...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;Te escucho,&lt;br /&gt;te veo,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;te pienso,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;a la briza de tu ligero pasar,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;sujetando en tus estelas&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;reflejos&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;de lo&amp;nbsp;que aún&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;no conocía saber...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TS0uKYzIxwI/AAAAAAAAFuo/4L8ggvkZcA0/s1600/DSCN0105.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b83400; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style="display: inline !important; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;to myself,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;to someone,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;anyone?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;her...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Love,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;compassion,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;disappointment,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;unfortunate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;long standing,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;sudden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;suspicions confirmed,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;profound hurt,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;bewilderment,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;shock,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;loss!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Why?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;In daze of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;cacophonic dialogues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;playing over and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;over,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;head stunned&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;by reality of lies...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Lies,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;clumsily fails&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;describing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;the rot,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;unwillingly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;becoming&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;another lie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Attempting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;deep&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;breath&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;air stuck&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;in my throat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;collides with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;choked back&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;tears,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;jaw breaking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;would-be&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;screams,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;vomit,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;regurgitated&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Herculean&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;marrow gnawing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;family vestiges.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Feeling,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;seeing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;such&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;vulgar,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;savage truth,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;exposing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;her lies,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;crafty malice,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;manipulation,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;fraudulent,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;extorting,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;victimizing victimhood&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;addicted;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;disoriented,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;self-centered,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;self-destructing,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;embracing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;self imposed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Dantesque inferno.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Decades fueled&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;operatic melodrama,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;still dark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;downward spiraling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;libretto,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;failing permanent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;light-seeking,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;willing,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;contemporary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;transparent&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;adaptation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Scenes&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;repeating&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;themselves,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;déjà-vu sequences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;aiming to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;drill into,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;flooding cell corners,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;frenziedly rushing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;to&amp;nbsp;usurp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;my brain...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Tangled&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;double Uroborus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;that will only end&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;when&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;one of them&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;is gone;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;her former&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;lover&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;matter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;of-factly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;said to me...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;She is,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;definitely,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;her mother's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;child-daughter-woman;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;no longer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;a doubt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;about it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;I admit it... to myself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;© Alicia M B Ballard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Dec. 29, 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRv0w3JZcOI/AAAAAAAAFuM/DsQJRri8KoA/s1600/DSCN0484.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="149" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRv0w3JZcOI/AAAAAAAAFuM/DsQJRri8KoA/s320/DSCN0484.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Photo: Mine ©&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"Cleansing Ritual"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-8506537358073271420?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/8506537358073271420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=8506537358073271420&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/8506537358073271420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/8506537358073271420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-do-i-admit.html' title='How do I admit...'/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRv0w3JZcOI/AAAAAAAAFuM/DsQJRri8KoA/s72-c/DSCN0484.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-6763501026133250783</id><published>2010-12-09T18:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-09T18:11:52.407-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Imagine!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TQGI58VN-xI/AAAAAAAAFsw/oiAKlktznrs/s1600/DSCN9961.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="249" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TQGI58VN-xI/AAAAAAAAFsw/oiAKlktznrs/s320/DSCN9961.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If all we were told was true.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If democracy was a fair and equitable proposition - as we are told it is...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If wages would be at par with cost of living.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If there would be &lt;i&gt;true&lt;/i&gt; freedom of speech - with accountability.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If we could really trust to have each other's best interest in mind.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If freedom flowed naturally, for all, without prejudice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If our rights were limited by the respect we owe one another.&lt;br /&gt;If heads of state would go to the front lines,&lt;br /&gt;instead of other peoples children.&lt;br /&gt;If we would all have enough of all we need.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Imagine... just imagine&amp;nbsp;how much better off we would all be&lt;br /&gt;if, we would equitably and fairly share the goodness and richness of the world.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;©&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Inspired by the current state of affairs, in particular the overreaction to Wikileaks. Who IS actually affected by them? &lt;i&gt;Not us.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-6763501026133250783?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/6763501026133250783/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=6763501026133250783&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/6763501026133250783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/6763501026133250783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2010/12/imagine.html' title='Imagine!'/><author><name>The Terra 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href="http://www.michele-andree-unblugged.com/"&gt;http://www.michele-andree-unblugged.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Also, check out the Health and Wellness section,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The Terra Studios Introducing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;"Circumpunct"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-2428051403298181029?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TAu0hGmBX7I/AAAAAAAAFW8/CANLbaXn8qI/s72-c/DSCN8331.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-8377043968289023442</id><published>2010-05-23T10:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-23T10:11:03.756-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thinking out loud.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/S_ldTBNgkJI/AAAAAAAAFUc/O_ij4RSLo_M/s1600/DSCN8621.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/S_ldTBNgkJI/AAAAAAAAFUc/O_ij4RSLo_M/s320/DSCN8621.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;since not much "poetry"&amp;nbsp;has run through me lately&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;neither has the need to pour out&amp;nbsp;a rush of feelings or&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;silly anecdotes...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Overtaken&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;by brushes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;bottles and tubes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;cajoling, &amp;nbsp;forcing,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;empowering&amp;nbsp;to tell&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;with colour instead.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-8377043968289023442?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/S_ldTBNgkJI/AAAAAAAAFUc/O_ij4RSLo_M/s72-c/DSCN8621.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-8478655285092244142</id><published>2010-01-08T20:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-06-14T15:15:07.286-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/S0gDh2W3BrI/AAAAAAAAEy4/g5rpnD_nFio/s1600-h/DSCN7255.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424589631229724338" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/S0gDh2W3BrI/AAAAAAAAEy4/g5rpnD_nFio/s320/DSCN7255.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Sy1ByWwDGKI/AAAAAAAAExY/i_NWp6MVMlg/s1600-h/DSCN7543.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: georgia, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 33px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;Paz &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Sy1ByWwDGKI/AAAAAAAAExY/i_NWp6MVMlg/s1600-h/DSCN7543.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: georgia, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 33px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;~ Béke &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Sy1ByWwDGKI/AAAAAAAAExY/i_NWp6MVMlg/s1600-h/DSCN7543.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: georgia, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 33px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;~ Pace &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Sy1ByWwDGKI/AAAAAAAAExY/i_NWp6MVMlg/s1600-h/DSCN7543.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: georgia, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 33px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;~ Paix &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Sy1ByWwDGKI/AAAAAAAAExY/i_NWp6MVMlg/s1600-h/DSCN7543.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: georgia, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 33px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;~ Paqe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Sy1ByWwDGKI/AAAAAAAAExY/i_NWp6MVMlg/s1600-h/DSCN7543.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: georgia, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 33px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;~ Paçoz &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Sy1ByWwDGKI/AAAAAAAAExY/i_NWp6MVMlg/s1600-h/DSCN7543.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: georgia, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 33px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;~ Friden &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Sy1ByWwDGKI/AAAAAAAAExY/i_NWp6MVMlg/s1600-h/DSCN7543.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: georgia, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 33px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;~ Peace on Earth...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;Love, Joy, Abundance and Laughter too!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;♡ ♡ ♡&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-8478655285092244142?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/8478655285092244142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=8478655285092244142&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/8478655285092244142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/8478655285092244142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2009/12/paz-beke-pace-paix-paqe-pacoz-friden_19.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/S0gDh2W3BrI/AAAAAAAAEy4/g5rpnD_nFio/s72-c/DSCN7255.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-6678287202652843939</id><published>2009-11-24T19:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-05-23T10:13:52.022-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Swyk9Epl3wI/AAAAAAAAEus/bY3n3O9GmkQ/s1600/DSCN7018.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407878621692288770" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Swyk9Epl3wI/AAAAAAAAEus/bY3n3O9GmkQ/s320/DSCN7018.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 213px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Didot, serif; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The Power of One&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 19px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One song can spark a moment,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One flower can start a dream,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One seed can start a forest,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One drop can start a stream.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 27px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One smile begins a friendship, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One hug can lift the soul,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One star can guide a ship at sea,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One word can frame a goal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 27px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One vote can change a nation, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One sunbeam lights a room,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One candle wipes the darkness,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One laugh can chase out gloom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 27px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One step will start a journey, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One word will start a prayer,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One hope will our spirits,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One touch can show you care.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 27px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One voice can carry wisdom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One heart can know that's true,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One life can make a difference,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;You see what one can do!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 27px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 21px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 27px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 19px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Author unknown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;This poem was sent to me a few moths ago by a friend of almost 40 years!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Few of those...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SwykNKK_eHI/AAAAAAAAEuk/thgG6styvHU/s1600/DSCN7018.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407877798540834930" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SwykNKK_eHI/AAAAAAAAEuk/thgG6styvHU/s320/DSCN7018.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 205px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-6678287202652843939?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SqvN6tV6jKI/AAAAAAAAEmU/rF3gcdadoQw/s320/DSCN6965.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380620588311809186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;b&gt;How fortunate to have been born&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;Fortunate, how fortunate to have been born&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;to hold a friend's hand&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;and be witness to the &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;miracle of each dawn.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;How fortunate to have been born,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;to have the option to chose,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;to weigh defeat and hope&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt; against glory and the fear to fail.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;How fortunate to have been born,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;to understand that honesty and perversity,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;despite their contrast,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;equality share this Universe.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;How fortunate to have been born,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;to keep quiet when someone wiser speaks,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;to listen, is the key to learn &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;when one intends to understand.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;How fortunate to have been born,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;stating this without false pretenses,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;a total victory in that of being or not being,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt; in asserting oneself.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;How fortunate to have been born&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;to sing to the people and to the rose,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;to the dog and to love and, any other things&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;to which feelings may attach.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;How fortunate to have been born&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;to have access to fortune,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;to be river instead of lake,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt; to be the rain instead of watching rain.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;How fortunate to have been born,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;to be consciously bitting into the apple,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;without the ancestral fear of the cloth&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;nor, Lucifer's final revenge.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;Yes, how fortunate to have been born,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;but, I know, I  know well...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;one day I also will die.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;And I if I live now happy with my lot,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;God knows what I'll think while dying,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;never been in that trance,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt; I don't know what balance I'll hold in that anguish.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;But, I know, I know well&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;that on the final leg of the journey&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt; I will hear ambiguous ringing of bells&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;bidding my farewell,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt; and another day, another voice like myself, &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;with another accent,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;will be singing to the four winds...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Translated from Spanish by moi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica"&gt;Saturday, September 12, 2009&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SpQVpbyA2OI/AAAAAAAAEeI/zuP8B7JUP_g/s1600-h/DSCN6778.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 103px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SpQVpbyA2OI/AAAAAAAAEeI/zuP8B7JUP_g/s320/DSCN6778.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373944056936192226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" font-weight: bold; font-family:Georgia, Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Que suerte he tenido de nacer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:Georgia, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Qué suerte, qué suerte he tenido de nacer,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;para estrechar la mano de un amigo,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;y poder asistir como testigo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;al milagro de cada amanecer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Qué suerte he tenido de nacer,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;para tener la opción de la balanza,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;sopesar la derrota y la esperanza&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;con la gloria y el miedo de caer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Qué suerte he tenido de nacer,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;para entender que el honesto y el perverso&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;son dueños por igual del Universo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;aunque tengan distinto parecer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Qué suerte he tenido de nacer,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;para callar cuando habla el que más sabe,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;aprender a escuchar, ésa es la clave,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;si se tiene intenciones de saber.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Qué suerte he tenido de nacer,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;y lo digo sin falsos triunfalismos,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;la victoria total, la de sí mismo,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;se concreta en el ser y en el no ser.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Qué suerte he tenido de nacer,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;para cantarle a la gente y a la rosa&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;y al perro y al amor y a cualquier cosa&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;que pueda el sentimiento recoger.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Qué suerte he tenido de nacer,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;para tener acceso a la fortuna&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;de ser río en lugar de ser laguna,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;de ser lluvia en lugar de ver llover.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Qué suerte he tenido de nacer,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;para comer a conciencia la manzana,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;sin el miedo ancestral a la sotana&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;o a la venganza final de Lucifer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Si qué suerte he tenido de nacer,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;pero sé, bien que sé...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;que algún día también me moriré.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Y si ahora vivo contento con mi suerte,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;sabe Dios qué pensaré, cuando mi muerte,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;cuál será en la agonía mi balance, no lo sé,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;nunca estuve en ese trance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pero sé, bien que sé...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;que en el viaje final escucharé&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;el ambiguo tañir de las campanas&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;saludando mi adiós, y otra mañana&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;y otra voz,que como yo, con otro acento,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;cantará a los cuatro vientos...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Autor Desconocido&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br 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center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;About Toads and Frog Princes - series&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt; posted in consecutive order&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;I plan to have an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;installment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;ready about 8:00PM PST nightly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;until I run out of "Case Files"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;Feel free comment :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;Most of all I hope you will enjoy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Now, scroll!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Next Story:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt; "Allister" The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;City&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt; Council Candidate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Monday, August 10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ccffff;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ccffff;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-551583791856620111?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/551583791856620111/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=551583791856620111&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/551583791856620111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/551583791856620111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2009/07/about-toads-and-frog-princes-series.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-1955593660897580963</id><published>2009-07-31T19:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-06T12:37:37.074-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ALL about SLEEK mEn...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SmtflDcfvWI/AAAAAAAAEVI/0i5u0hrYaP4/s1600-h/DSCN5959.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362484871499332962" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SmtflDcfvWI/AAAAAAAAEVI/0i5u0hrYaP4/s320/DSCN5959.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Where do I begin?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Perhaps by telling you that is just as easy to wail and tear my hair out,  as it is to roar with laughter!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, as you see &lt;b&gt;my&lt;/b&gt; choices aren't many... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I will choose to laugh and tell you in future installments,  about eight years worth (off and on, mostly off!) &amp;nbsp;of various sordid &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Internet&lt;/span&gt; connections, beginning  with the latest one.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;While not all of them are belly grabbing and  roll over  the floor kind, they gave me an understanding (well, maybe an insight)  about men - &lt;i&gt;in general, of course!&lt;/i&gt; - that I had never had before.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No matter what I'll write, this "&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;disclaimer&lt;/span&gt;" will stand:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;I love men. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;But, &lt;i&gt;I would really much prefer to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;looooooove&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; one!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;* One little thing I will share with you now, "no matter how old or how fat you might be, there is always a guy, in the wings, ready and willing to lay you - IF,  you'll just let him..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Thank Heaven for Testosterone!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Smtfk2tg-WI/AAAAAAAAEVA/qpKaw_Oc2Ms/s1600-h/DSCN5942.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362484868081056098" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Smtfk2tg-WI/AAAAAAAAEVA/qpKaw_Oc2Ms/s320/DSCN5942.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 139px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-1955593660897580963?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SmtflDcfvWI/AAAAAAAAEVI/0i5u0hrYaP4/s72-c/DSCN5959.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-6827245021073396634</id><published>2009-07-31T18:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-31T19:51:37.931-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Love" search on the Net -  Case File No.1.09.2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Sm-1laF5D7I/AAAAAAAAEVo/srwQzdKuIss/s1600-h/DSCN6108.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 106px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Sm-1laF5D7I/AAAAAAAAEVo/srwQzdKuIss/s200/DSCN6108.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363705335485370290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div&gt;Introduction&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, here I go... and only because a friend made my promise to write this story - she thinks I have a humorous way of relating my stories, &lt;i&gt;my account&lt;/i&gt; of experiences lived.&lt;div&gt;You see, she is getting older, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;ouchie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and, lately housebound  (we'll all get there!) And, appreciates detailed sordid tales of love lost and found - although, the later is debatable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;These are tales of - I don't even know how to put it! - &lt;i&gt;t&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "&gt;ales of insane times, where age and technology mix,  resulting in  some of the most perplexing and convoluted experiences imaginable. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am pushing 61... &lt;i&gt;Still feel "frisky" beyond imagination&lt;/i&gt;;  odd, how ones chronological age advances completely disproportionally to ones thoughts and emotions. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Body Parts: somewhat rusty. Heart parts: that of a teenager! Intellectually: Sound - I am one of the soundest people I know. Activity Level: Full time Artist, and, I mean "full-time"! I am doing what I was meant to do my entire life, finally.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(I do not run or do any other exercise besides walking - saving my energy for good sex, if I could only find it!!! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I firmly believe it is the only truly healthy exercise for us, the rest are just excuses to avoid intimacy - &lt;i&gt;think about it...&lt;/i&gt; hm?) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I speak fluently three languages and,  I can get by with another three... I read quiet a bit and I am up to date with current events, science, technology, architecture... In brief? A lot of stuff! Unlike that &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Palin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; woman... the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Pitbull&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; with lipstick one, &lt;i&gt;you know&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am opinionated, always have been. Some, say I am eccentric - but in the "nice" way. (And, what way would &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; be, I ask myself?)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;True, I do not live or think inside the box, &lt;i&gt;don't think I even saw one in boarding school, which, is where all my troubles began!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It could be sworn I am my own woman, but, that does not go down well with many, particularly those of the male persuasion. (Should I care? Do I care? &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Hmmm&lt;/span&gt;. Not really...)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyway, I'll start with the (true) story of Monty. Only names and certain identifying details will be changed. Bear with me; It is not nice to talk behind other people's back -  I was told as I child - and I never did, with any malice  &lt;i&gt;if or when&lt;/i&gt; I rarely did so.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(My rule: if I am involved it is also my story therefore, it is not gossip.) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Furthermore, I will not do it now either, because there is no way I want to harm any poor fool that fancies himself a smart cookie while trying to grab himself a little woman.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It just happens I do not want to be any fool's little woman - for that, &lt;i&gt;I could have sold out years ago! &lt;/i&gt;Although, the "fool" part would certainly not apply.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Still, I do believe in love, happiness, loyalty, honesty, seduction, romance, chivalry, intellect, manners, grooming, etc. and, definitely a &lt;i&gt;healthy and &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;rambunctious&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; sex life - which, has nothing to do with a gym ....&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Remember, no matter how old, one must carefully choose ones exercise routine! Why, I Ask why, &lt;i&gt;waste time&lt;/i&gt; in the gym or running around the park &lt;i&gt;alone&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Hah&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Allow me, I refuse to entertain the idea this could  possibly be a delusion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If it is, P-L-E-A-S-E do not tell me, I want to die in &lt;b&gt;this, (my?) divine&lt;/b&gt; vortex!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;©2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;PS.: Worth noting I am NOT  "&lt;i&gt;a little woman&lt;/i&gt;" if you know what I mean. I am a full-figured woman -  I am like a lot of very normal women my age are... &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;yeap&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;rounded&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;i&gt;with no edges!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCFFFF;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Continuos bellow&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCFFFF;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-6827245021073396634?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/6827245021073396634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=6827245021073396634&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/6827245021073396634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/6827245021073396634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2009/07/love-search-on-net-case-file-no1092.html' title='&quot;Love&quot; search on the Net -  Case File No.1.09.2'/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Sm-1laF5D7I/AAAAAAAAEVo/srwQzdKuIss/s72-c/DSCN6108.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-840315225735745669</id><published>2009-07-31T18:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-05T13:02:12.447-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"MONTY" - CASE FILE 1.09.2 CONT ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SnDt6CZ4nOI/AAAAAAAAEWA/httT82rONsw/s1600-h/DSCN6106.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 87px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SnDt6CZ4nOI/AAAAAAAAEWA/httT82rONsw/s200/DSCN6106.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364048737531895010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;Where to begin?&lt;div&gt;There is so much (yet, so little to the story), but I will re-tell it as told to Dzidra. More or less. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here it goes my friend, for you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As most everything in my life "it just happened". One early Spring evening I went to Graigslist to place an ad to sell some odds and ends.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Not being overly familiar, I took some time to browse the different categories, and sub categories, amongst those, I stumbled upon the &lt;i&gt;Singles Ads!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I find that when on the net, late at night, I follow all sort of links that lead to some rather interesting places - &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt; what you are thinking, naughty-naughty!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lo-and-behold! People my age, were (mostly shamelessly) flogging themselves in ads that varied from the virginal shy to the outrageously provoking.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Brace yourself! &lt;i&gt;I joined them.&lt;/i&gt; What could I loose I asked myself as I quickly scrambled up a post exalting my attributes and the requisites to be filled by the aspiring Romeo. The obvious one was that of age, having found lately that older man aren't nearly as attractive as when I was younger... aha... therefore, my "flexibility" does not exceed 5 over/under - &lt;i&gt;under is better.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, one would think that a woman my age would have to wait for the odd response to trickle in. Wrong! Ding-Dong... men are calling. Many men are calling! What? Don't &lt;i&gt;they&lt;/i&gt; have a life?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It immediately became apparent, just 'coz many are calling, does not mean there is reason for any excitement - whatsoever...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ay, Chihuahua... which rock have these specimens been hiding under?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I tell you, this was an eye opener both to how much "I can see coming" and the distasteful nature of some man - so disgustingly transparent, obviously in relationships, with dubious motivation, slimy, disrespectful, rude...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Most of these would be Romeos did not even bother to say hello, or even include my name - they went directly for the kill!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I took the time to respectfully turn them down, thanking them for responding - I felt maybe, if they are shown how it is done, they might smarten up. Being turned down was no deterrent, for a number of them wrote back requesting a date/meeting. I assure you, I  did respond in English.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;These men did generally not even check their spelling.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;One sent a "form resume" he must have prepared for such occasions; was later followed by a couple of other similar ones, but not as extensive. Clearly, this was not about me - &lt;i&gt;but them, shamelessly flogging themselves&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The ones that were this brazen, I simply deleted as they obviously were playing the odds and figured they did not have to put in "the effort".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And then, among this flurry of communication facsimiles - was Monty's response. A lackluster, simple, somewhat pushy/rude announcement HE, arrived in my world. Monty was immediately rejected.  No ifs or, buts!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Monty, was among those whom, did not take &lt;i&gt;no, thank you,&lt;/i&gt; for an answer. Did not even take NO, THANK YOU, for an answer either! Third time, I took the time to explain &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;w&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;hy! &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Seriously, I could sense there was a lot of animosity in the air and did not want to contribute to it, instead, wanting to have a different experience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I soon realized that there is no "high road" in these matters - one is forced often to go for the jugular! (Will share about those couple of darlings in coming posts).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;One thing for sure: it is NOT the place to look for ANYONE - all the bottom feeders appear to have gathered for debris at "the list" - these,  are the ones that will not pay for a more serious matching service (OH, yeah... I have tried that too, &lt;i&gt;don't pelt me!&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We must stay away form "free" sites. A smidgen of self-esteem warrants different options. Although... hmmmm, did I say,  options?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;OK, back to Monty; he, then, responds in Spanish.  Me, so wanting to have someone to speak Spanish with, let down my guard, and began communicating with him by phone. (I know... go ahead pity me - It is awful (awfully funny) to admit it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I will not deny he was charming on the phone, his manners appeared to have considerably improved; in no time we found we had quiet a bit in common. I will say, I even liked him!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For the bad news (at least the way I look at it) I was soon informed of the prestigious address he inhabited, his late model European import car newly purchased... his eating out, dry cleaner, an other habits... his favorite bathroom... the view form his spacious apartment...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Just as quickly I informed him I,  did not have a pot to pee in, walked to the only wall my pc could be plugged in, and so and so forth - as in "tit for tat" - since he did not yield with this practice despite my repeated requests. It is vulgar. Period.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No, not the money!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I told him that if we had chemistry, money was icing on the cake, since I was not going to compromise for anything at this age - like, I am crazy or what???&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Talking about age. It is 7:35PM, 31℃/80℉, the fan is blowing a hole in my back, my bum is square, my legs swollen... Time to finish today's installment - sorry, must also inform you I am rather "long winded", &lt;i&gt;all this might take longer than planned - lol&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;'will continuo tomorrow ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;© moi.09&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ta-ta for now&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-840315225735745669?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/840315225735745669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=840315225735745669&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/840315225735745669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/840315225735745669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2009/07/monty-case-file-1092-cont.html' title='&quot;MONTY&quot; - CASE FILE 1.09.2 CONT ...'/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SnDt6CZ4nOI/AAAAAAAAEWA/httT82rONsw/s72-c/DSCN6106.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-6974974751676950538</id><published>2009-07-31T18:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-31T19:50:24.898-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Monty ....</title><content type='html'>Before I proceed any further, I must get to Monty's age. Remember 5 yrs. over/under? Well, he did admit to being 69! What are 4 more years?  He objected to such callous discrimination against men his age... Why? He was still young, a young and dynamic 69... &lt;i&gt;He definitely sounded young.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Insisted I go to another (ethnic)  singles site he had a posted profile with a recent photo. It was hard to tell how authentic or, old this photo was - but, decided to accept things as they were, as ultimately I do not give a hoot about "appearance" - as long as immaculately groomed! Hah - gotcha!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I must also add that I even went as far as to ask him if he had teeth - OK, you can roll all over the floor, I'll wait!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(Done with the laughter? There &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a reason, and that reason is a handsome,  6'3" - introduced by a friend, none-the-less! - who lives on the west coast of the "big" hazy island... about him, later, when &lt;i&gt;his &lt;/i&gt;file comes up -  a jewel of a fella that one turned out to be. We will call him Bill)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Where were we...?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Oh, the teeth! Yes, Monty had his own teeth, alas,  &lt;i&gt;I though I was making progress&lt;/i&gt; although, I was loosing ground in other areas. For instance, even though "we were going to take it easy",  I insisted - we all know by now how that weird chemistry thing works, or doesn't - did not want to commit myself to any joint plan to live in Mexico City part of the year; despite liking  dogs and cats was not sure I wanted to live in a big sprawling house - no studio! There was never mention of a studio... oh... all those brownie points he was missing out on.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Basically our phone calls revolved around his daily properly acquisition trips, stock market fluctuation (don't give a bloom!) family, particularly how his ex wife left with &lt;i&gt;a &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;sizable&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; bounty never seen in the region&lt;/i&gt;... (granted by the courts, of course) and, about a variety of other topics of mutual interest, but never, ever about my work, my life interest.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The extent of his engaging with my work entailed visiting my site once to view photos of myself. He did mention liking my work (with credibility) and would love to own some - I encouraged him to buy... oh, yeah :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He was quiet prompt asking me to meet for coffee but, for reasons I cannot now recall, I wasn't free to meet that week, the following week he got an awful cold that lasted about 15 days give and take.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our meeting stretched out to probably a month after initial contact, during which time we shared a number of things. Particularly from his end it was becoming apparent "&lt;i&gt;he&lt;/i&gt; was falling apart".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Each day he opened up more and more about his numerous ailments and medications and I was increasingly "putting on the brakes" on &lt;i&gt;marriage in 6 months talks...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I became quiet attached to him, he was definitely a charming, educated, worldly, otherwise engaging man. The way it was shaping up, I was sure this could be, at a minimum, a lasting friendship.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He phoned 2-3 times a day, which suited me fine as I don't like to either bother nor chase anyone... and believe this kind of contact necessary in any relationship - of course, these were not "check-up/jealousy/control calls - those taste differently... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We did agree, &lt;i&gt;we were still definitely interested in sex&lt;/i&gt; - but - "we" would give it time until &lt;i&gt;I was good and ready, &lt;/i&gt;as I had a hunch (?) it was not going to be "soon".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, this was good news, no? Interested but, willing to wait... Hm, of course, at our age, there is no use on pretending any virginal status or need for "wasting time" either.  So, in my mind -&lt;i&gt; I was going to play it by ear - same as by hormone!  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;The odd time I could hear a faint tapping in the background and asked for its origin, he didn't know. Is he a smoker? &lt;/i&gt;Flashing in my mind when  hearing him inhale deep&lt;i&gt; - sucking on a cigarette?  &lt;/i&gt;No, I don't smoke, he would smoothly and convincingly respond.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt; I did not want a smoker. &lt;/i&gt;I never dated a smoker. I was a serial hypocrite because as a smoker I had very low opinions of men that did - I think of them as "flakes", The ones I almost dated, were! True. I never had a relationship with a man that smoked. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By now we had all the ducks in a row and the big date was about to happen... we were  going out to a local quaint restaurant of my choice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The day before he had an appointment to see his doctor for which he asked for help to make list needed to run by her. It turned out that his knowledge on computers was near zero and scraped by with the advise and help of his accountant/friend in his 80's...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He phoned that early evening upon his return from the appointment and giddily announced he was given a shot of xyz@doc. Had &lt;i&gt;no idea&lt;/i&gt; of what he was talking about.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What is that, I asked?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" color: rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 28px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;© moi.09&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#99FFFF;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#99FFFF;"&gt;To find out, you'll have to return tomorrow as I conclude the &lt;b&gt;Monty chapter&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#99FFFF;"&gt;It is still very hot and I not feeling any better than yesterday, only the fan is driving my a little pottier each day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nite-nite.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-6974974751676950538?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/6974974751676950538/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=6974974751676950538&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/6974974751676950538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/6974974751676950538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2009/07/monty.html' title='Monty ....'/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-643974509472382440</id><published>2009-07-31T18:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T17:49:46.905-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"MONTY" - CASE FILE 1.09.2 -The BIG Date</title><content type='html'>What is that? &lt;div&gt;- You know...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No, I have no idea what it is, what is it?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- It's for tomorrow...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What's for tomorrow? (In utter confusion). Why did you need a needle for tomorrow? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- This is xyz@doc... it's like Viagra ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(Wholly shit!) WHAT??? Why do you need it for tomorrow?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- (sheepishly, but satisfied with himself) Our meeting tomorrow...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;YOU THINK WE ARE GOING TO BED TOMORROW? There is NO WAY; forget it! And, you even announce your plans to me???&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;After returning to some "normal" dialogue once again, we said our good nights in peace, me, convinced more than ever that there was NOT going to be &lt;i&gt;any nookie, &lt;/i&gt;any time soon - the gall!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Another victim of the "Friday Night TV Porn School of Intimacy and Ultimate Seductive Performance". (Ay, Chihuahua, no wonder women are not interested in "sex")&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;How uncouth... &lt;i&gt;I haven't even met this dude!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Did I need to know  about the "performance enhancement" injection?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nothing&lt;/b&gt; in our month long conversation came to any intimacy whatsoever. NONE.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our morning conversation was anticipatory, as I imagine is expected still, and despite "all the information" - one, well at least me, would like to remain in some sort of contact/relationship with someone I had things in common with and shared time pursuing the possibility of finding a good match &lt;i&gt;that would lead to a commitment&lt;/i&gt;. I can't fault the man for being who he is, even if he is not for me... or vise-versa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I find this a delicate field, where we are all (hopefully honestly) all looking for a &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"last" mate. Personally, I cannot see me "dating" - a bit &lt;i&gt;vulgar&lt;/i&gt; at my age; after all,  I bloody well know what I &lt;i&gt;definitely&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; do not want&lt;/i&gt; and, somewhat &lt;i&gt;flexible with what I know I want&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The evening arrived with any undue nervousness and at the agreed time my phone rung - &lt;i&gt;not the main door buzzer (?).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- I am parked across the street, come down...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;!? Hmmm. Not a very good sign. Summoned with a cell phone? Biiiig breath!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I got downstairs and immediately noticed there wasn't anyone standing by the door, the path empty, leading to the parked, exquisitely sparkling golden European late model - I managed to see it and, a large silhouette behind the wheel,  despite the blasts of vapor intermittently being expired through my nose. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was a long walk "down the runway"; I felt I was being scrutinized and X-Rayed to my marrow... (Looking good... I knew! Don't care what he thinks.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I finally reached the car. He made no attempt whatsoever to open the door - even if,  from the driver side. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although I intended to be polite, I cannot guarantee my face not giving away my true indignant feelings. &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The bastard!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;How OLD ? How fat? ... Let me see 79-80? Big. I don't know... OLD! OH-MY-GOD- his teeth, his teeth are making the tapping noise I heard on the phone - SHIT, there &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; his, &lt;i&gt;he paid for them! &lt;b&gt;Bastard!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;How long is a second? It was that fast that the above and the inability to look at him completely flooded my being with an explosive, but much contained rage. An implosion occurred. Courtesy of my mothers upbringing (had to bring her into this too, somehow).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A couple of minutes into the ride I managed to compose myself... my goodness, &lt;b&gt;poor guy&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;how sad...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We shortly arrived at the chosen peninsula restaurant (at least he drove to the Colonies) and by now I did not have any illusions of chivalry from his part so, I let myself out, closed the car door and headed towards the restaurant/stopped in my tracks just as quickly,&lt;i&gt; he is still trying to get out!?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Madre mia!&lt;/i&gt; No wonder he never came to the door...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He finally stood firm. (He did not fib about his height - as if it would actually matter as this point!) But, he was not moving - now, what...?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I caught my breath... he began to move forward, slowly and awkwardly.  Remember Carol Burnett playing Tim Convay's secretary? Mrs. Wiggum. &lt;i&gt;Mrs. Wanda Wiggum!&lt;/i&gt; He sort of slid/shuffled forward like her - stiff bum... I opened the restaurant door, we were seated immediately.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It takes a lot of compassion to look at someone you want to kill and still have mercy... Sad, as I said before.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I was determined for us to have a good dinner time. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He wore glasses, unlike his profile pic. His fingers were amber from the nicotine of too many cigarettes smoked...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Monty, you smoke!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- No, I don't.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Your fingers are tobacco stained - you smoke!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Only in the kitchen...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You smoke.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Only in the kitchen...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You smoke.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- I smoke.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dinner arrived promptly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- See this shirt? (motioning to the impeccable dry cleaned white shirt he was wearing)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;See this tie?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yes...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Well, in a few minutes, as I eat, they will be all stained...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Why?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Because my hands are unsteady and, I spill the food...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Why don't you tuck into your collar the napkin you have on you lap so you will keep you shirt clean?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Good idea...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Money came up again. Again, I mentioned how distasteful it was and, reminded him having asked him not to make it a conversation topic.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- You remind of my mother, I loved my mother (I heard again) You don't let me get away with anything.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No, I won't.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dinner was alright, no desert for me thank you - he, among other things, was diabetic.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Excused himself and shuffled over to the washroom as if holding up his pants (was he?). The waitress must haven taken this as a cue to bring the bill and with a huge smile proudly placed it in front of me. With just as huge a smile, I informed her &lt;i&gt;the gentleman will be taking care of it.&lt;/i&gt; She complied by placing it at his setting.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As he sad down - So, what do you think?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;About what?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- (Motioned at himself)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There is a vague resemblance to the man on the picture, it is a few years old and you were not wearing glasses, right?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- (Defeated) Right.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We left the restaurant without much ceremony, as we came. &lt;i&gt;The c&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;ar door was unlocked with remote...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had originally planned to have tea and some sort of dessert at my place. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I had all the intentions to honor my word, and will admit was surprised when he declined and shared needing to use the washroom again. Reassuringly, I offered the use of mine, considering the hour drive back into town... he declined. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I suspected the entire situation made him ill. &lt;i&gt;Would have made me, were I in his shoes!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He stopped at the entrance. I helped myself out. We said good-bye. He drove away.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was 6:30PM as I walked trough he door, certain I was never-ever going to call him, while I still also knew in my heart  I was  willing to keep my word in regards to the often stated, by both of us,  "we will always remain friends, &lt;i&gt;no matter what"&lt;/i&gt; ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I never heard from "Monty" again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sadly, he might have liked a woman companion, lover...wife,  but, what he really needed was a nurse-maid. Somehow, I suspect,  it would have been an easier route for him to find what he was looking for... &lt;i&gt;stranger things are known to have happened.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;May he be and, keep well and safe, wherever he is.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;© moi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6666;"&gt;Next I will "tell all" about in the "Allister" the City Council Candidate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;~ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-643974509472382440?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/643974509472382440/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=643974509472382440&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/643974509472382440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/643974509472382440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2009/07/monty-case-file-1092-big-date.html' title='&quot;MONTY&quot; - CASE FILE 1.09.2 -The BIG Date'/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-8695460906037531763</id><published>2009-07-25T10:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-25T10:37:28.243-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stories of FROGS and, PRINCES (!?)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Sms8Kg2lUzI/AAAAAAAAEU4/bdvXTY0Qfuo/s1600-h/DSCN6106.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 162px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Sms8Kg2lUzI/AAAAAAAAEU4/bdvXTY0Qfuo/s320/DSCN6106.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362445932629938994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Although, &lt;i&gt;these &lt;b&gt;true stories&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; are &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;more about Toads than&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; Frogs and Princes!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;They are about &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Testosterone&lt;/span&gt; gone array&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;About men, &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; thinking &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; with their penis ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;About  me,  on the quest for love,  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;companionship and, possibly &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;marriage (!?) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Is it possible&lt;/b&gt; for a mature woman &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;to find healthy love on the net, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;anywhere? &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;Hmmm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;* Only names and certain locations will be altered to protect myself &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;from the otherwise delightful culprits&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;Coming Soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;♡&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-8695460906037531763?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/8695460906037531763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=8695460906037531763&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/8695460906037531763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/8695460906037531763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2009/07/stories-of-frongs-and-princes.html' title='Stories of FROGS and, PRINCES (!?)'/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Sms8Kg2lUzI/AAAAAAAAEU4/bdvXTY0Qfuo/s72-c/DSCN6106.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-5633300383829299867</id><published>2009-06-09T08:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-21T12:02:49.681-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Si6FWQ7kkQI/AAAAAAAAEKA/mh6jOD9AgL0/s1600-h/patio++stone+frog0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 235px; height: 119px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Si6FWQ7kkQI/AAAAAAAAEKA/mh6jOD9AgL0/s320/patio++stone+frog0001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345356425283801346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;Me sorprende&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica; min-height: 24.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;Es así, sureal&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;Los años pasan&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;y, me sorprende&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;que a pesar de todo&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;todavia te adore&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica; min-height: 24.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;Así nomás, te quiero&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;con inocencia de niña&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;Te siento, te vivo, te ancío&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;amigo, amante&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;ladrón entremetido&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica; min-height: 24.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;No hay vuelta que darle&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;a éstas alturas&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;aún te amo&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;Alborotada, apasionada&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;empeñada e infeliz!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica; min-height: 24.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;Junio 9, 2009 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;©&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;Con motivo de la  &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107610695438&amp;amp;ref=mf"&gt;"Semana del  Poeta Virtual"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEB_qZA_Rd4"&gt;"Vendran dias" - Manolo Garcia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 20.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-5633300383829299867?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/5633300383829299867/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=5633300383829299867&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/5633300383829299867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/5633300383829299867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2009/06/me-sorprende-es-asi-sureal-los-anos.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Si6FWQ7kkQI/AAAAAAAAEKA/mh6jOD9AgL0/s72-c/patio++stone+frog0001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-5184804677473710740</id><published>2009-03-31T11:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-01T17:43:20.559-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A place to hide</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SdJS7weY0-I/AAAAAAAAED4/Quv3YyrD0JM/s1600-h/DSCN5793.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 65px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SdJS7weY0-I/AAAAAAAAED4/Quv3YyrD0JM/s320/DSCN5793.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319405296456094690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A place to hide;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;monumental, frightful&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;rumble within&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;my skin...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;No straight jacket,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;just &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; cries unidentified,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; shouts swallowed,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; stomach knotted,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; twitch turned kicks,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;trembled earthquakes,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; bound hands,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;numbed mind,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;agonized soul,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;fury restrained,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;jaws clenched,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;unsettled,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;unquiet, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;rebellious seclusion,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;feral breath.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Exploding implosion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Fire and ice,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;wind and dust...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Cataclysm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; harnessed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;behind an undefined,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;absurd,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;"it's all smoke and mirrors, anyway"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;civil mask;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;A place to hide,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;within my skin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;© March 31.09&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-5184804677473710740?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/5184804677473710740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=5184804677473710740&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/5184804677473710740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/5184804677473710740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2009/03/place-to-hide.html' title='A place to hide'/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SdJS7weY0-I/AAAAAAAAED4/Quv3YyrD0JM/s72-c/DSCN5793.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-1856005098524805580</id><published>2008-12-21T14:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-19T14:24:45.959-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Peace on Earth... 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SZ3cFGD11_I/AAAAAAAAD8w/vvpNOzg7CLA/s1600-h/Soft+West+Beach001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304637916196493298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SZ3cFGD11_I/AAAAAAAAD8w/vvpNOzg7CLA/s320/Soft+West+Beach001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SU6_YWjkoPI/AAAAAAAADxY/NOlsqqauiZQ/s1600-h/Christmas+2008+001.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-1856005098524805580?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/1856005098524805580/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=1856005098524805580&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/1856005098524805580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/1856005098524805580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2008/12/peace-on-earth.html' title='Peace on Earth... 2009'/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SZ3cFGD11_I/AAAAAAAAD8w/vvpNOzg7CLA/s72-c/Soft+West+Beach001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-701461247958250638</id><published>2008-12-09T17:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T17:24:23.313-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Word</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/ST8Znh4Ec5I/AAAAAAAAC9s/n1Soz-GKoq4/s1600-h/low+tide+Jan+8+081.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277965455200646034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/ST8Znh4Ec5I/AAAAAAAAC9s/n1Soz-GKoq4/s320/low+tide+Jan+8+081.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Guiding light&lt;br /&gt;Mind bender&lt;br /&gt;Hidden treasure&lt;br /&gt;Magical veil&lt;br /&gt;Strength provider&lt;br /&gt;Cradle of truth&lt;br /&gt;Mesmerizing wonder&lt;br /&gt;Lulling lullaby&lt;br /&gt;Fear conqueror&lt;br /&gt;Love promise&lt;br /&gt;Flower garden&lt;br /&gt;Secure nook&lt;br /&gt;Labyrinth of hope&lt;br /&gt;Beacon of faith&lt;br /&gt;Temple of justice&lt;br /&gt;Enchanting paradise&lt;br /&gt;Snake charmer&lt;br /&gt;Knowledge fountain&lt;br /&gt;Sacred gift&lt;br /&gt;Wonder sea&lt;br /&gt;Dark domination&lt;br /&gt;Manipulation tool&lt;br /&gt;Power house&lt;br /&gt;Spell caster&lt;br /&gt;Peace keeper&lt;br /&gt;Death sentence&lt;br /&gt;Birth announcement&lt;br /&gt;War monger&lt;br /&gt;Dream weaver&lt;br /&gt;Illusion breaker&lt;br /&gt;Deceptive &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;caldron&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soul scorcher&lt;br /&gt;Snake charmer&lt;br /&gt;Friendship mirage&lt;br /&gt;Void maker&lt;br /&gt;Uniting force&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inspiring&lt;br /&gt;Uplifting&lt;br /&gt;Belittling&lt;br /&gt;Destructive&lt;br /&gt;Empowering&lt;br /&gt;Colourful shades&lt;br /&gt;Playful delight&lt;br /&gt;Joyous richness &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Disarming w&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so much more… &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;What else could it be,  but a word!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-701461247958250638?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/701461247958250638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=701461247958250638&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/701461247958250638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/701461247958250638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2008/12/word.html' title='A Word'/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/ST8Znh4Ec5I/AAAAAAAAC9s/n1Soz-GKoq4/s72-c/low+tide+Jan+8+081.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-3076172154051880067</id><published>2008-11-11T10:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T10:47:00.380-08:00</updated><title type='text'>President Bush and President elect Obama: "Body Language 101"</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SRnQzos6Y4I/AAAAAAAAC2M/jaNY1Y6fwTI/s1600-h/WR+-+Bush+Obama+first+oficial+meeting+Nov+10.08++001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267470824704205698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 294px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SRnQzos6Y4I/AAAAAAAAC2M/jaNY1Y6fwTI/s320/WR+-+Bush+Obama+first+oficial+meeting+Nov+10.08++001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; click on image to enlarge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such words as&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Past and Future&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;should suffice &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;allowing this&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; "pictorial essay"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;speak for itself...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-3076172154051880067?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/3076172154051880067/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=3076172154051880067&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/3076172154051880067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/3076172154051880067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2008/11/president-bush-and-president-elect.html' title='President Bush and President elect Obama: &quot;Body Language 101&quot;'/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SRnQzos6Y4I/AAAAAAAAC2M/jaNY1Y6fwTI/s72-c/WR+-+Bush+Obama+first+oficial+meeting+Nov+10.08++001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-5791600566878657218</id><published>2008-10-01T11:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T11:23:48.571-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Elections Canada - Government and Art, Conservatives 0 Liberals 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#99ff99;"&gt;Yes, it is an act of gross &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;indecency&lt;/span&gt; of this current Conservative Government in office to make cuts to Arts and Culture funding...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;85 million?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My heart sunk. My mind refuses to comprehend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;HMMMMMMMMMMM&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;On the other,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Liberal&lt;/span&gt; Leader, Stephan Dion (the educated/cultured one) has promised to provide, and I totally believe him,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;160 million!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, &lt;em&gt;we are talking.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, we can grown and allow our spirits soar!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which party do we want to vote for?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-5791600566878657218?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/5791600566878657218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=5791600566878657218&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/5791600566878657218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/5791600566878657218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2008/09/elections-canada-government-and-art.html' title='Elections Canada - Government and Art, Conservatives 0 Liberals 1'/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-5665670474036580843</id><published>2008-09-17T10:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:01.234-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SIznyor2CEI/AAAAAAAACRk/Nmjsy3r1B6Y/s1600-h/WR-++WR+Blog+07.08001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227808124571093058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SIznyor2CEI/AAAAAAAACRk/Nmjsy3r1B6Y/s320/WR-++WR+Blog+07.08001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;No True Words&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As feelings surge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;thoughts swell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;actions rush&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;heart flutters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;soul aches&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;true&lt;/span&gt; Words&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;may be spoken?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;true&lt;/span&gt; acts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;may be dared?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The indifferent&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;judgemental&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the scared and&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the lame&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;are just&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a large &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;audience&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;jaded by the game...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As roles emerge &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;reason &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;clouds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;principles fade&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dreams evaporated&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;plans halt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No true words &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;may be spoken&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;true&lt;/span&gt; acts &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;may be dared!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Kelowna&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;October&lt;/span&gt; 18, 1998&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SIznu71U2EI/AAAAAAAACRc/hxX-4bumG6k/s1600-h/WR-++WR+Blog+07.08001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227808060991658050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SIznu71U2EI/AAAAAAAACRc/hxX-4bumG6k/s320/WR-++WR+Blog+07.08001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-5665670474036580843?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/5665670474036580843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=5665670474036580843&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/5665670474036580843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/5665670474036580843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2008/07/no-true-words-as-feelings-surge.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SIznyor2CEI/AAAAAAAACRk/Nmjsy3r1B6Y/s72-c/WR-++WR+Blog+07.08001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-2897187711940143656</id><published>2008-06-04T13:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:01.454-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SEcAaUfIo6I/AAAAAAAACGg/z7xve7NfXBQ/s1600-h/DSCN4161.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SEcAaUfIo6I/AAAAAAAACGg/z7xve7NfXBQ/s320/DSCN4161.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208131946253165474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE TERRA STUDIOS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;is the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;new and permanent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;name and home&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;for &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;WORD RAPTURE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;and all other&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Bubbling Emotions,&lt;br /&gt;Creative Expressions,&lt;br /&gt;Services, Offerings...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The website is on its way....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Slowly, slowly...awhhh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theterrastudios.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;www.TheTerraStudios.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-2897187711940143656?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/2897187711940143656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=2897187711940143656&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/2897187711940143656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/2897187711940143656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2008/06/terra-studios-is-new-and-permanent-name.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/SEcAaUfIo6I/AAAAAAAACGg/z7xve7NfXBQ/s72-c/DSCN4161.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-855542093525303135</id><published>2007-12-22T12:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T11:44:48.919-07:00</updated><title type='text'>PEACE....</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/R216Ud34sjI/AAAAAAAABos/iV_sz-rX25E/s1600-h/Christmas+2007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146904441189347890" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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LOVE, HARMONY, JOY, LAUGHTER AND PLENTY&lt;br /&gt;FOR ONE AND ALL AROUND THE WORLD!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-855542093525303135?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/855542093525303135/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=855542093525303135&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/855542093525303135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/855542093525303135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/12/peace.html' title='PEACE....'/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/R216Ud34sjI/AAAAAAAABos/iV_sz-rX25E/s72-c/Christmas+2007.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-2591787027070186066</id><published>2007-10-23T15:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:02.249-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.studiogaleria.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img 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title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/2591787027070186066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/2591787027070186066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/10/secret-behind-painting.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rx1DqApenGI/AAAAAAAABRg/G8J5jGr4EgI/s72-c/Energy+-+sml+mat1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-6038929608041082494</id><published>2007-09-09T09:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:02.567-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RuQocnFZGxI/AAAAAAAABH0/zxkGukO7RYA/s1600-h/vanilla+kind+of+day1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108252349338032914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RuQocnFZGxI/AAAAAAAABH0/zxkGukO7RYA/s320/vanilla+kind+of+day1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RuQkM3FZGwI/AAAAAAAABHs/anb5lPjRtso/s1600-h/vanila+kind+of+day1.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffcc;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A “vanilla” kind of day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Gentle caresses&lt;br /&gt;Tender warm&lt;br /&gt;Hues flooding&lt;br /&gt;My world&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Distracting&lt;br /&gt;Inviting, Teasing&lt;br /&gt;Playful&lt;br /&gt;Soft shadows&lt;br /&gt;Calling me astray&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffffcc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffffcc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffffcc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffffcc;"&gt;The beach it is&lt;br /&gt;Writing ceased&lt;br /&gt;As quickly&lt;br /&gt;And comfortably&lt;br /&gt;As it began&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lazy waves splashing&lt;br /&gt;At my feet &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffffcc;"&gt;Predictable lull&lt;br /&gt;Mellow heart&lt;br /&gt;Enveloping soft glow&lt;br /&gt;Cocooning the soul&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A “vanilla”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffffcc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;kind of day for me&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffcc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;– &lt;em&gt;indeed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;=&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-6038929608041082494?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/6038929608041082494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=6038929608041082494&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/6038929608041082494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/6038929608041082494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/09/vanilla-kind-of-day-gentle-caress.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RuQocnFZGxI/AAAAAAAABH0/zxkGukO7RYA/s72-c/vanilla+kind+of+day1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-1258129154406087753</id><published>2007-08-22T11:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:02.880-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RsyAXnFZF4I/AAAAAAAABAw/R2PucI4rQO8/s1600-h/Shadow+and+light1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101593621020874626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RsyAXnFZF4I/AAAAAAAABAw/R2PucI4rQO8/s320/Shadow+and+light1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Shadow an&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;d&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt; light&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;=&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Side by side&lt;br /&gt;Cheek to cheek&lt;br /&gt;Is always the shadow&lt;br /&gt;So long I refused to see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shadow and light&lt;br /&gt;Hand in hand&lt;br /&gt;Relentlessly mocking&lt;br /&gt;At every turn&lt;br /&gt;An ambush&lt;br /&gt;Towering over&lt;br /&gt;Surrendered trust.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The naïve&lt;br /&gt;Pounced on&lt;br /&gt;By the voracious&lt;br /&gt;Ever entrapping&lt;br /&gt;Sleek panther&lt;br /&gt;Lurking, invading&lt;br /&gt;Usurping&lt;br /&gt;Finally choking&lt;br /&gt;The inattentive&lt;br /&gt;Distracted one&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Shadow…&lt;br /&gt;Friend of some&lt;br /&gt;Partner of&lt;br /&gt;Many-a-hungered&lt;br /&gt;Desperate&lt;br /&gt;Flailing&lt;br /&gt;Guttural&lt;br /&gt;Oppressed&lt;br /&gt;Suppressed cry&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Flowing&lt;br /&gt;Balancing&lt;br /&gt;Intense passion&lt;br /&gt;Ushering forward&lt;br /&gt;Often sharply&lt;br /&gt;Augmenting the light!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RsyAQHFZF3I/AAAAAAAABAo/NeILaZUO8Kk/s1600-h/Shadow+and+light1_1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101593492171855730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RsyAQHFZF3I/AAAAAAAABAo/NeILaZUO8Kk/s320/Shadow+and+light1_1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-1258129154406087753?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RsyAXnFZF4I/AAAAAAAABAw/R2PucI4rQO8/s72-c/Shadow+and+light1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-2559512939633187057</id><published>2007-07-26T18:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:03.684-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Photo Essay&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or, when words are optional...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;"My" bus shelter in White RocK&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;inside panel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RqlEEQDy8VI/AAAAAAAAA2I/pux2kIvW_Uo/s1600-h/WR+Man+Woman+shelter1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091675693540110674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RqlEEQDy8VI/AAAAAAAAA2I/pux2kIvW_Uo/s320/WR+Man+Woman+shelter1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;outside panel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RqlD6QDy8UI/AAAAAAAAA2A/nrHUmMPv2Hw/s1600-h/WR+Alpha+course+shelter1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img 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href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=2559512939633187057&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/2559512939633187057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/2559512939633187057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/07/photo-essay-or-when-words-are-optional.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RqlEEQDy8VI/AAAAAAAAA2I/pux2kIvW_Uo/s72-c/WR+Man+Woman+shelter1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-4281431356550085757</id><published>2007-06-04T22:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:04.554-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RmT1f1BkZGI/AAAAAAAAAw4/jYnqmLLxxnM/s1600-h/know+you+to+be+my+friend+top1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072449007484429410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RmT1f1BkZGI/AAAAAAAAAw4/jYnqmLLxxnM/s320/know+you+to+be+my+friend+top1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;=&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My dear Friends...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;It is the sound of your voice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;that stops me on my tracks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Your email address on the screen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Your icon on the blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Your&lt;/span&gt; serious, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;pained,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;loving, caring, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;light or mischievous &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;words that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;probe my intellect&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;tickle my emotions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;cradle my soul.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;=&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;On days such as this one&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;my heart is filled &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;with joy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;gratitude and pride&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;as I feel and know you to be my friend...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I love you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RmT1XlBkZFI/AAAAAAAAAww/-Fmo3eIKwiE/s1600-h/know+you+to+be+my+friend+bottom1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072448865750508626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RmT1XlBkZFI/AAAAAAAAAww/-Fmo3eIKwiE/s320/know+you+to+be+my+friend+bottom1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; =&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://samuru999.blogspot.com/"&gt;Margie wrote:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;FRIENDSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Among the priviliges&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;of friendship&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;is the opportunity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;to share &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;some of the deeper feelings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;of human life....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;the joys and sorrows.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Pain is lessend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;when shared &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;with a friend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;who cushions the blow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Joys are doubled&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;when shared&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;with a friend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Then two hearts are happy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Two people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Laugh and sing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;A friend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;is for sharing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;No matter what the turmoil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;everything&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;can come out &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;in the presence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;of a friend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;In a friendship&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;there is the magical warmth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;of the human heart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;that surpasses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;the power of medicine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Thank you dear Margie!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073015277447570546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rmb4hFBkZHI/AAAAAAAAAxA/CJCeqtLDaeo/s320/friendship+post1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Any other thoughts on friendship?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-4281431356550085757?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/4281431356550085757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=4281431356550085757&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/4281431356550085757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/4281431356550085757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/06/it-is-sound-of-your-voice-that-stops-me.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RmT1f1BkZGI/AAAAAAAAAw4/jYnqmLLxxnM/s72-c/know+you+to+be+my+friend+top1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-2195590846547367872</id><published>2007-06-03T12:07:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:06.598-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RmMSbWQn8PI/AAAAAAAAAwo/RY3zc_pDhkE/s1600-h/WR+top+03+061.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071917866390384882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RmMSbWQn8PI/AAAAAAAAAwo/RY3zc_pDhkE/s320/WR+top+03+061.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eyes shut tight&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rolled up&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;curled in legs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;deep tucked arms&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Distant sounds&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;conversation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;laughter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nearer &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;metal cracks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;water boils&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;whistles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the kettle piercing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The sun has come up&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;bright&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;loud&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;full of promise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;painting the world&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;in golden hopeful light&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Intricate labyrinth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;morphs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; into&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a sometimes up&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sometimes down &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;spiral&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exhausted &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;on the side bench&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;observing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the insanely&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;slanted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;merry-go-round&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rk3ZYsgmsVI/AAAAAAAAAsw/c7S0fGAhzcs/s1600-h/draped+building+under+repair+tbottom+half1.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071917746131300578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RmMSUWQn8OI/AAAAAAAAAwg/KqWRFZuTC0U/s320/WR+bottom+03+061.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-2195590846547367872?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/2195590846547367872/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=2195590846547367872&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/2195590846547367872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/2195590846547367872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/05/eyes-shut-tight-rolled-up-curled-in.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RmMSbWQn8PI/AAAAAAAAAwo/RY3zc_pDhkE/s72-c/WR+top+03+061.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-107709563098505809</id><published>2007-06-03T12:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:06.769-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RkyT1MgmsTI/AAAAAAAAAsg/i3WNefaLTCM/s1600-h/bamboo+cage1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065586222985294130" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RkyT1MgmsTI/AAAAAAAAAsg/i3WNefaLTCM/s320/bamboo+cage1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAPTURED&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;captured, held hostage and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;starved in the dark&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;days, nights ...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;no longer able to count&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;cruel&lt;/span&gt; ghosts push&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;shove&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mock &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;raising above&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;in hollow efforts to &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;bring me afloat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Silenced, still &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;kicking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;flailing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;demanding&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;overturning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;revolting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;boiling over in rage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;in an isolated cage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Observed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;in &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;deliberate &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;detached&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;indifference&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;failing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;fearing&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;to &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;identify&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;relate to &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the same rage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the same cage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-107709563098505809?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/107709563098505809/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=107709563098505809&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-4108451175654665432</id><published>2007-05-30T23:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:06.997-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REVISED...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;I took the advise of my &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;friend&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Kianseng&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;revised&lt;/span&gt; my last posted poem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;What do YOU think?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;"&gt;TO SLEEP A DREAM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Ah….. to sleep a dream…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;To dream a thousand dreams&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Of unvisited languages and places&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Of unknown songs and spaces&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;To sleep a dream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Of forbidden hands and faces&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Of stolen moments and graces&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;To sleep a dream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Of snakes and demons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Of relentless storms and rebellions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Ah… to sleep the dream …&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;To have had to dream a thousand dreams&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;To sleep the dream &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Of forests, rains&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Of our soaked, vapor enveloped&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Wild-vine entangled &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;bodies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Ah…… to sleep the dream….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rgvxjee-MoI/AAAAAAAAATE/tJUo5pCwuCo/s1600-h/To+sleep+a+dream1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047393399179457154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rgvxjee-MoI/AAAAAAAAATE/tJUo5pCwuCo/s320/To+sleep+a+dream1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;TO SLEEP A DREAM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah&lt;/span&gt;….. to sleep a dream…&lt;br /&gt;To dream a thousand dreams&lt;br /&gt;Of capricious a&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;nd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;singular enchantment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To sleep a dream&lt;br /&gt;Of unvisited languages and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;pl&lt;/span&gt;aces&lt;br /&gt;Of unknown songs and spaces&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To sleep a dream&lt;br /&gt;Of forbidden hands and faces&lt;br /&gt;Of stolen moments and graces&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;T&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;sleep a dream&lt;br /&gt;Of snakes and demons&lt;br /&gt;Of relentless storms and rebellions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To sleep a dream&lt;br /&gt;Of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;catac&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66cccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;lysmic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;proportions&lt;br /&gt;Of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;un&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;-mentionable losses&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah… to sleep the dream …&lt;br /&gt;To have had to dream a thousand dreams&lt;br /&gt;Of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;conv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;oluted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;passages&lt;br /&gt;Of dark fears and stunned stutters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To sleep the dream&lt;br /&gt;Of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;forests, rains&lt;br /&gt;and unleashed passion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;Of our soaked, vapor enveloped&lt;br /&gt;Wild-vine &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;entan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;gled&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; bodies&lt;br /&gt;Contorting in abandon, resting&lt;br /&gt;On exotic bloom &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;cov&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;ered&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; warm soil &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah…… to sleep the dream….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff66;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047496624423449234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RgxPb-e-MpI/AAAAAAAAATM/t0ype4BSoJs/s320/To+sleep+a+dream+bottom1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-4108451175654665432?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/4108451175654665432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=4108451175654665432&amp;isPopup=true' title='24 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='72'/><thr:total>24</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-6332767338867934898</id><published>2007-05-30T23:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:07.384-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rhsw7dWaUrI/AAAAAAAAAa4/SF9X6yrQGb0/s1600-h/to+steal+a+kiss+bottom1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051685205075186354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rhsw7dWaUrI/AAAAAAAAAa4/SF9X6yrQGb0/s320/to+steal+a+kiss+bottom1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;To Steal a Kiss&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Palm tress&lt;br /&gt;Scorching sand&lt;br /&gt;Cool marble under my feet&lt;br /&gt;On my way to steal a kiss&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Our breath melts into that kiss&lt;br /&gt;Our bodies fuse into the heat&lt;br /&gt;Loaded clouds gather up above&lt;br /&gt;Quickly conjured tempest&lt;br /&gt;Spirits swiftly quenched&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scented moisture in the air&lt;br /&gt;Glorious sunshine bathes my skin&lt;br /&gt;Cool marble under my feet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;On my return from a stolen kiss&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rhsw1NWaUqI/AAAAAAAAAaw/n9TSQfDoeZM/s1600-h/to+steal+a+kiss+top1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051685097701003938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rhsw1NWaUqI/AAAAAAAAAaw/n9TSQfDoeZM/s320/to+steal+a+kiss+top1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dawn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Softly rustling sheets&lt;br /&gt;Hand gently brushing by&lt;br /&gt;Dynamite fuse my skin&lt;br /&gt;Fluid flowing motion&lt;br /&gt;Searching out&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not awake but certain&lt;br /&gt;Your sensual familiarity&lt;br /&gt;Deep woods serenity at&lt;br /&gt;A dark green lake I feel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Accelerated heart rush&lt;br /&gt;Swooshing expectations&lt;br /&gt;To breathe your breath&lt;br /&gt;To roll into a symphony&lt;br /&gt;With an exploding end&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051861010971513554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RhvQ0tWaUtI/AAAAAAAAAbI/JImDHDlF9YI/s320/rusling+sheets+21.JPG" border="0" /&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;PS.: For me Nature is not only a spiritual experience but also a sexual one... that is why I simply &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;canno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;t separate one from the other - in case you were wondering... of course,&lt;em&gt; also vise-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;versa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Just for exercise (and huge curiosity more than anything!) I will follow &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Kianseng's&lt;/span&gt; advise (working&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;together into one) and will see when inspiration strikes again - until then, I will be concentrating in getting the many paintings ready for many shows... &lt;strong&gt;totally &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;exited&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-6332767338867934898?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/6332767338867934898/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=6332767338867934898&amp;isPopup=true' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/6332767338867934898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/6332767338867934898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/04/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rhsw7dWaUrI/AAAAAAAAAa4/SF9X6yrQGb0/s72-c/to+steal+a+kiss+bottom1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-7481055995572726890</id><published>2007-05-15T14:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:07.518-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rkom1gAJ6mI/AAAAAAAAAsQ/Ca0den5Skb4/s1600-h/ocean+bouquet1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064903431497050722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rkom1gAJ6mI/AAAAAAAAAsQ/Ca0den5Skb4/s320/ocean+bouquet1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;" Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - Marcel Proust&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-7481055995572726890?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/7481055995572726890/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=7481055995572726890&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/7481055995572726890'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/7481055995572726890'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-only-went-out-for-walk-and-finally.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rkom1gAJ6mI/AAAAAAAAAsQ/Ca0den5Skb4/s72-c/ocean+bouquet1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-8476697955102838545</id><published>2007-05-12T10:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:07.537-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And &lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;NOW&lt;/span&gt; let me present to you &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;=&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;QUASAR9&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;the Gentle&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;yet Relentless Thought &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Provocateur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffcc;"&gt;You can only come away in awe and enchanted from a visit to his blogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warning: you will get hooked!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;"&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Starlike&lt;/span&gt; objects with a compact structure and high redshift corresponding to velocities approaching the speed of light. Implied distances run into billions of parsecs. making them the most distant and luminous objects in the universe, millions of times brighter than normal galaxies"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5WwYNr2qHXQ/RkJMslMRGgI/AAAAAAAAAT0/t_1wBs9qXfw/s400/firststars.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Artist impression of the first stars. Image credit: Hubble&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;An interesting look at how first stars may have formed in the early universe from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.universetoday.com/2007/05/08/how-dark-matter-might-have-snuffed-out-the-first-stars/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Universe Today&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.quasar9.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;connect with Quasar now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;"Medical Science is a confused &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;blurr&lt;/span&gt; between reality and perceived reality. What the medical profession is willing or able to provide, and what the patient needs are often NOT one and the same thing"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5WwYNr2qHXQ/Rg5Efmw6RWI/AAAAAAAAANk/84k2Dys5ml0/s400/DNA+molecule.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Artist's illustration showing a portion of the genome. A long DNA molecule (red cord) is wrapped up into &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;nucleosome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; structures with a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;histone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;-protein core (white spheres). The gateway to gene transcription spans the control switch (coils) on the left &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;nucleosome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to the beginning of the gene (green arrow) on the right &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;nucleosome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Credit: Christina &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Ullman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://toecgwood.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;connect with his &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;TORCHWOOD&lt;/span&gt; now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-8476697955102838545?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/8476697955102838545/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=8476697955102838545&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/8476697955102838545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/8476697955102838545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/05/and-now-let-me-present-to-you-quasar9.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5WwYNr2qHXQ/RkJMslMRGgI/AAAAAAAAAT0/t_1wBs9qXfw/s72-c/firststars.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-6438460547995696559</id><published>2007-05-10T17:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-10T17:23:41.785-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"The Miracle"&lt;/strong&gt; Journey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let me Introduce you to &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Rau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;f's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;co&lt;/span&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;ou&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;f&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#99ffff;"&gt;ul&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;passionate, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc33;"&gt;endearing &lt;/span&gt;world&lt;/span&gt;..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a38/whitesroad/js03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a38/whitesroad/js03.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Photo taken by Rauf during his latest trip&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Never a dull moment.&lt;br /&gt;I have wept with joy and in laughter...&lt;br /&gt;India seen though his eyes and read &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;through&lt;/span&gt; his heart is something to share with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;you&lt;/span&gt; all!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A truly enjoyable photo-journalistic and anecdotal immersion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;click! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://whitesroad.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Daylight Again&lt;/strong&gt; is time to wake up&lt;/a&gt; - his latest post - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Miracles"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;click! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://5roblane.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blunt Knife&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;latest&lt;/span&gt; pic - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Is she smiling? "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-6438460547995696559?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/6438460547995696559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=6438460547995696559&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/6438460547995696559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/6438460547995696559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/05/let-me-introduce-you-to-raufs-colourful.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-2892617314099272335</id><published>2007-04-27T12:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-04T15:17:36.985-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#99ff99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Adam Speaks His Mind&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#99ff99;"&gt;“The vast part (95%) of our minds is the “unconscious” that which we have little awareness of. The unconscious know things we have not learnt. Jung believes that in our unconscious is stored the collective wisdom we inherit from our ancestors. This is the knowledge we gained from lives we never lived, from the experiences we never experienced. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;This knowledge&lt;/span&gt; is transmitted from one generation to the next through the genes. One of the ways we know of the existence of the unconscious is through our dreams.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is like the Tree&lt;br /&gt;In Eden, this arabesque&lt;br /&gt;Of my mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Herein, leaves of variegated&lt;br /&gt;Thoughts jump synapses from twig&lt;br /&gt;To twig at the speed&lt;br /&gt;Of a photo-synthetic adultery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Herein also the often sudden&lt;br /&gt;Flowering of things I do&lt;br /&gt;Not know and things I did&lt;br /&gt;Not learn, things the Original&lt;br /&gt;Apple promised the Digital Apple&lt;br /&gt;Would deliver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And herein also the dreams,&lt;br /&gt;The cloning of Eve&lt;br /&gt;From the marrow of my rib,&lt;br /&gt;The fig leaf shame&lt;br /&gt;Of an exile, Eden now&lt;br /&gt;The room next to my&lt;br /&gt;Nursery rhymes, the serpent&lt;br /&gt;In the tree moults to become&lt;br /&gt;The dragon in the dungeon&lt;br /&gt;Of Harry Potter minds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I, a latter day Adam&lt;br /&gt;Know that the flaming unsheathed&lt;br /&gt;Sword is the belief&lt;br /&gt;That good and evil&lt;br /&gt;Is learned, not inherited&lt;br /&gt;From the First Adam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#99ff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#99ff99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;by &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Kianseng&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Ng&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#99ff99;"&gt;my dear friend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#99ff99;"&gt;For more joyous &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;reading&lt;/span&gt; and art viewing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#99ff99;"&gt;visit his sites :&lt;a href="http://www.alwaysmorebeyond.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;www.alwaysmorebeyond.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#99ff99;"&gt;and &lt;a href="http://alwaysmorebeyond.multiply.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;http://alwaysmorebeyond.multiply.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;When I am in my "down times" I will be featuring one friend or another, taking turns as time goes on&lt;br /&gt;Peace, love joy and laughter to one and all!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.alwaysmorebeyond.multiply.com"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-2892617314099272335?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/2892617314099272335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=2892617314099272335&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/2892617314099272335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/2892617314099272335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/04/adam-speaks-his-mind-vast-part-95-of.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-8054355538228177885</id><published>2007-04-21T19:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-27T12:36:20.422-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#993300;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mischiefangel.blogspot.com"&gt;Sunday April 22 - Earth Day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Love and blessing &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;to all creatures&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;great and small&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-8054355538228177885?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/8054355538228177885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=8054355538228177885&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/8054355538228177885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/8054355538228177885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/04/blog-post_21.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115500148498011274</id><published>2007-03-23T08:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-28T17:04:26.505-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for -give &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;vt&lt;/span&gt;.,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;vi. -gave’ -&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;giv&lt;/span&gt;’en, -&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;gi&lt;/span&gt;’&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;ving&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (OE. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;forgiefan&lt;/span&gt;) &lt;em&gt;to give up resentment against or the desire to punish; pardon (an offense or offender) &lt;/em&gt;– &lt;strong&gt;for-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;giv&lt;/span&gt;’a-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;ble&lt;/span&gt; adj. – for-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;giv&lt;/span&gt;’&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;ness&lt;/span&gt; n. – for-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;giv&lt;/span&gt;’er n.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/images%20note%20pad%20purple.19.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/images%20note%20pad%20purple.16.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;color:#cccccc;"&gt; I have found that there are people that I am able to forgive – &lt;em&gt;“almost” no matter what&lt;/em&gt; – and some others I find not only extremely difficult, &lt;em&gt;but almost&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;impossible to&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Believing&lt;/span&gt; the one addressing now, as one that surely fell into that last category.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Interestingly&lt;/span&gt;, when someone "goofs-up", generally, it becomes one of those times when I seriously take “intent” into consideration…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few weeks ago a “friend” - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;coz&lt;/span&gt;’ that is how I felt/thought of him&lt;/em&gt; – slowly becoming such through time, sharing some of my ups and downs including even some adventures and general mischief. I got to trust him ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;By now, you must know that I am “all about relationships” and, none is meaningless no matter how fleeting (an encounter) it may be. In addition, I trust that there are no accidents in life and everyone entering my life comes “baring gifts” and/or lessons to learn.&lt;br /&gt;I did not quiet know what the “significance” of his presence in my life meant until last night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see, we had, what I would loosely qualify as a misunderstanding (?). As it happens on rare occasions, I misread the smoke signals – or maybe not… in any event, we had a flurry of words and we each kept in our own little corner of the world since.&lt;br /&gt;He (over) reacted to my understanding and hurt me very deeply, as it happens when you care about someone…&lt;br /&gt;I knew from the onset he would never, ever apologize.&lt;br /&gt;Having been swift – in a way – to react out of a possibly perceived awkward position , he would find himself in a worst predicament now… &lt;em&gt;up to his eyeballs, I'd say! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For myself, I felt angry, hurt, got over it, and of course - &lt;em&gt;was never to forgive him - who cares! (!?)&lt;/em&gt; Life went on - goes on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;However,&lt;/em&gt; last night, I had the opportunity, and allowed myself the time - &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;unbeknownst&lt;/span&gt; to him - to look at his face and into his eyes - to look at his soul.&lt;br /&gt;Soon, involuntary tears started cascading down my &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;cheeks&lt;/span&gt; as I allowed the sorrow/ sadness/&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;aloneness&lt;/span&gt; and raw vulnerability they expressed to reach my core… N&lt;em&gt;o one should live with such heavy heart, &lt;strong&gt;absolutely no one.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;At that moment I realized I forgave him&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;unfortunately, most likely he will never know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He came to my life to teach me &lt;em&gt;some more&lt;/em&gt; about forgiveness.&lt;br /&gt;I am at peace with him. &lt;em&gt;My heart goes out to him.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;August 9, 2006 - 11:05AM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;"The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;- Eric &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;Hoffer&lt;/span&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;(Originally posted on &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;August&lt;/span&gt; 7.06)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#999999;"&gt;March 23,07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#999999;"&gt;I have reached out to him a few times since. A guarded, faint response from his part came my way.&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;Obviously&lt;/span&gt; I would have liked more; given the developments and the hidden/&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;background&lt;/span&gt; effects we have on &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;each other&lt;/span&gt; it would be so much "better" to just resume our relationship &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;from&lt;/span&gt; which we both have benefited, and still can, &lt;em&gt;so very much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#999999;"&gt;It appears it is not meant to be ...hm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115500148498011274?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115500148498011274/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115500148498011274&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115500148498011274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115500148498011274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/08/for-give-vt.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-2058939094350344911</id><published>2007-03-17T11:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:09.088-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rfw3ZVujLRI/AAAAAAAAASU/wfeVYihgG1w/s1600-h/Mardigras+++shores+++60001_1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042966591216758034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rfw3ZVujLRI/AAAAAAAAASU/wfeVYihgG1w/s320/Mardigras+++shores+++60001_1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;RISK TAKING IS FREE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;To laugh is to risk appearing the fool&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;To weep is to risk appearing sentimental&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;To reach out for another is to risk involvement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;To expose &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;feelings&lt;/span&gt; is to risk exposing your true self&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;To place your ideas, your dreams &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;before the crowd is to risk a loss&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;To love is to risk not being loved in return&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;To live is to risk dying&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;To hope is to risk despair&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;To try is to risk failure,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;But risk must be taken, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;because&lt;/span&gt; the greatest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;hazard&lt;/span&gt; in life is to risk nothing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;The person &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;who&lt;/span&gt; risks nothing, does nothing,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;has nothing, and is nothing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;love, live.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;Chained to his certitudes, he is a slave,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;he has forfeited &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;freedom&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;Only a person &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;who&lt;/span&gt; risks ..... is free&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#33ccff;"&gt;author unknown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-2058939094350344911?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/2058939094350344911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=2058939094350344911&amp;isPopup=true' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/2058939094350344911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/2058939094350344911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/03/risk-taking-is-free-to-laugh-is-to-risk.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rfw3ZVujLRI/AAAAAAAAASU/wfeVYihgG1w/s72-c/Mardigras+++shores+++60001_1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-5892271811934866619</id><published>2007-03-06T20:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:09.264-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Re47aPMvS8I/AAAAAAAAAQ8/nS_M_7CWIY8/s1600-h/March+crocus0001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039030355016764354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Re47aPMvS8I/AAAAAAAAAQ8/nS_M_7CWIY8/s320/March+crocus0001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;JOY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-5892271811934866619?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/5892271811934866619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=5892271811934866619&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/5892271811934866619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/5892271811934866619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/03/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Re47aPMvS8I/AAAAAAAAAQ8/nS_M_7CWIY8/s72-c/March+crocus0001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-3077575130925486217</id><published>2007-03-02T11:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:09.597-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ffffcc;"&gt;About Love...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rd86Xj-GWeI/AAAAAAAAANc/HcJO-CwWzts/s1600-h/Void+of+love0001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034807084890610146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rd86Xj-GWeI/AAAAAAAAANc/HcJO-CwWzts/s320/Void+of+love0001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Dark Cloud&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Void of love I am reduced to a puddle&lt;br /&gt;Exposed, vulnerable, soiled, diluted&lt;br /&gt;To a mere flat un-descript form&lt;br /&gt;Avoided or, stepped on with equal disdain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exposed, cold, sorrowful state of being&lt;br /&gt;Part of a sidewalk landscape I became&lt;br /&gt;Dangerous dark clouds hover overhead&lt;br /&gt;Finally releasing their tears in conspiracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More water… my puddle a river now&lt;br /&gt;Further undefined, swept ahead&lt;br /&gt;And over - down a much turbulent road&lt;br /&gt;Lashed, while rolling and bumping I aimlessly flow…&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;..............................................................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rd86Mz-GWdI/AAAAAAAAANU/ZHE_lQ19tA8/s1600-h/With+love0001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034806900207016402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rd86Mz-GWdI/AAAAAAAAANU/ZHE_lQ19tA8/s320/With+love0001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dawn’s Eternal Lullaby&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sweet , melodic, ethereal dew&lt;br /&gt;Resting upon my body’s breath&lt;br /&gt;Rich, quenching god’s elixir&lt;br /&gt;Nurturing, nourishing my soul&lt;br /&gt;Dawn’s eternal lullaby&lt;br /&gt;Gift of gentleness and joy&lt;br /&gt;Unfolding me to embrace the sun&lt;br /&gt;Warmth and comfort of a thousand&lt;br /&gt;Warmths and comforts&lt;br /&gt;Off the ground, safely carried&lt;br /&gt;To abundant and fertile soils I go&lt;br /&gt;Floating grace-filled presence&lt;br /&gt;Powerful guiding light&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Love, you give me life …&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffcc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-3077575130925486217?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/3077575130925486217/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=3077575130925486217&amp;isPopup=true' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/3077575130925486217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/3077575130925486217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/02/dark-cloud-void-of-love-i-am-reduced-to.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rd86Xj-GWeI/AAAAAAAAANc/HcJO-CwWzts/s72-c/Void+of+love0001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-3781581311349992922</id><published>2007-02-19T11:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:09.811-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rdn6ED-GWTI/AAAAAAAAALs/8P7Z7JMBd3g/s1600-h/Feb+daffodils0001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5033329006255429938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rdn6ED-GWTI/AAAAAAAAALs/8P7Z7JMBd3g/s320/Feb+daffodils0001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;“I wander’d lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretch’d in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay; Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed—and gazed—but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills; And dances with the daffodils.” - William Wordsworth -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;Daffodils and their yellow is one of my favorite colours - and, I almost feel like a liar, as the majority of colours are my "favorites" leaving only a few slightly at the margin - I will then, simply say, that yellow has a warm, joyous, life giving effect on me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;You must imagine then when a friend showed up for lunch with this bunch... as the unending dark, cloudy days have not left us entirely, alternating with densely fogged-in days or added high winds... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;These have been the gloomiest 4 months I have ever &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;experienced&lt;/span&gt;, greatly influencing my mood, we had one full day of sunshine since Halloween and about three afternoons or &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;partly&lt;/span&gt; days where the sun peeked out from behind the clouds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;Lately our &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;temperatures&lt;/span&gt; have also dropped to half of what we normally &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;experience&lt;/span&gt;. White Rock is one of the areas where we not only &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;normally&lt;/span&gt; have a lot of sunshine, but our winter temperatures hover &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;around&lt;/span&gt; the 12°C &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;mark&lt;/span&gt;, often reaching &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;at&lt;/span&gt; times those fabulous 16-18°C marks in mid-January... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Ohh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;..... SUN god bless us with your presence and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;warmth!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-3781581311349992922?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/3781581311349992922/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=3781581311349992922&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/3781581311349992922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/3781581311349992922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/02/i-wanderd-lonely-as-cloud-that-floats.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rdn6ED-GWTI/AAAAAAAAALs/8P7Z7JMBd3g/s72-c/Feb+daffodils0001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-8878501306276195210</id><published>2007-02-11T23:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:09.955-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RdAa4T-GWSI/AAAAAAAAALg/GEQuN1-5Da8/s1600-h/blue+stones0001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030550338508577058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RdAa4T-GWSI/AAAAAAAAALg/GEQuN1-5Da8/s320/blue+stones0001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;"In literature as in love&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;we are astounded by what is chosen by others."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- Andre Maurois -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-8878501306276195210?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/8878501306276195210/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=8878501306276195210&amp;isPopup=true' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/8878501306276195210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/8878501306276195210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/02/in-literature-as-in-love-we-are.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RdAa4T-GWSI/AAAAAAAAALg/GEQuN1-5Da8/s72-c/blue+stones0001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-4610840194104341917</id><published>2007-02-05T10:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:10.029-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Starry Night Over the Rhone" - Vincent Van Gogh&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rcdxq_N3qVI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/ZpjmDJr765I/s1600-h/Van+Gogh+Starry+Night.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5028112492320500050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rcdxq_N3qVI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/ZpjmDJr765I/s320/Van+Gogh+Starry+Night.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I can write verses&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tonight I can write the saddest verses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To write, for example, “It is a starry night,&lt;br /&gt;and the blue stars shiver in the distance.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The night wind twirls in the sky and sings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can write the saddest verses tonight.&lt;br /&gt;I loved her, and sometimes she also loved me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In nights like this I had her in my arms,&lt;br /&gt;I kissed her endlessly under the infinite sky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She loved me, sometimes I also loved her.&lt;br /&gt;How not to love her huge still eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can write the saddest verses tonight.&lt;br /&gt;To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To hear the immense night, much more immense without her.&lt;br /&gt;And the verse falls on the soul like dew to the grass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who cares that my love could not keep her.&lt;br /&gt;Starry, shattered night, she is not with me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is all. In the distance someone sings, In the distance&lt;br /&gt;my soul is not content for having lost her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My sight searches for her as if to go to her.&lt;br /&gt;My heart searches too, and she is not with me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same night whitens the same trees.&lt;br /&gt;We, once together, are no longer the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I no longer love her, that’s for sure, but how I love her.&lt;br /&gt;My voice searched for the wind to touch her hearing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another’s. She will be another’s. Like my kisses before.&lt;br /&gt;Her voice. Her pale body. Her infinite eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I no longer love her, that’s certain, but perhaps I love her.&lt;br /&gt;Love is so short, forgetting is so long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because in a night like this I held her in my arms&lt;br /&gt;my soul is not satisfied for having lost her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thought this may be the last pain she causes me&lt;br /&gt;and these the last verses write for her.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Pablo Neruda -&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ffcc66;"&gt;Translated by moi… &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ffcc66;"&gt;in the mid 80’s as a result of reading a pathetic attempt by a published scholar, that in my opinion, had missed all the nuances…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ffcc66;"&gt;I tried to locate the original this AM to give it a wiser and last look, but it was not to be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ffcc66;"&gt;Hope you enjoyed!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-4610840194104341917?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/4610840194104341917/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=4610840194104341917&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/4610840194104341917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/4610840194104341917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/02/starry-night-over-rhone-vincent-van.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rcdxq_N3qVI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/ZpjmDJr765I/s72-c/Van+Gogh+Starry+Night.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-5332947900699903168</id><published>2007-02-01T20:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:10.136-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Mardigras"&lt;/em&gt; - Seven&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RcK9WvN3qRI/AAAAAAAAAIo/Pj68rxEumJ0/s1600-h/Mardigras+++shores+++70001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026788332428306706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RcK9WvN3qRI/AAAAAAAAAIo/Pj68rxEumJ0/s320/Mardigras+++shores+++70001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;"What is a friend?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;I will tell you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.&lt;br /&gt;Your soul can be naked with him.&lt;br /&gt;He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are.&lt;br /&gt;He does not want you to be better or worse.&lt;br /&gt;When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent. You do not have to be on your guard.&lt;br /&gt;You can say what you think, so long as it is genuinely you.&lt;br /&gt;He understands those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge you. With him you breathe freely.&lt;br /&gt;You can allow your little vanities and envies and hates and vicious sparks, your meannesses and absurdities and, in opening them up to him, they are lost, dissolved on the white ocean of his loyalty .&lt;br /&gt;He understands.  You do not have to be careful .&lt;br /&gt;You can abuse him, neglect him, tolerate him.&lt;br /&gt;Best of all, you can keep still with him. It makes no matter. He likes you.&lt;br /&gt;He is like fire that purges to the bone. He understands.&lt;br /&gt;You can weep with him, sin with him, laugh with him, pray with him. Through it all - and underneath - he sees, knows and loves you .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;A friend? What is a friend? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Just one&lt;/em&gt;, I repeat, &lt;em&gt;with whom you dare to be yourself."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt; by  C. Raymond Beran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-5332947900699903168?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/5332947900699903168/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=5332947900699903168&amp;isPopup=true' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/5332947900699903168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/5332947900699903168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/02/mardigras-seven-what-is-friend-i-will.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RcK9WvN3qRI/AAAAAAAAAIo/Pj68rxEumJ0/s72-c/Mardigras+++shores+++70001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-3323982369223788031</id><published>2007-01-28T15:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:10.288-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rb0YaPN3qLI/AAAAAAAAAHo/sQspWuj06rs/s1600-h/gabrielgarciamarquez_wideweb__430x294,0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5025199598255712434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rb0YaPN3qLI/AAAAAAAAAHo/sQspWuj06rs/s320/gabrielgarciamarquez_wideweb__430x294,0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Gabriel &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;García&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;Márquez&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; - Photo: AP&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;Te &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;adoro&lt;/span&gt; Gabriel!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;infatuate &lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;vt&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;at'ed&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;at'ing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (L. in.- &lt;l. class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;intens&lt;/span&gt;. + &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;fatuus&lt;/span&gt;, foolish) to inspire with foolish love or affection - &lt;l.&gt;&lt;strong&gt;in-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;fat'u&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;a'tion&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INFATUATION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;I must confess that I don't read much contemporary fiction &lt;strong&gt;– &lt;/strong&gt;I have been seriously spoiled as a teenager reading Simone &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;de&lt;/span&gt; Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sartre, Jorge Luis Borges, and Pablo Neruda, after my attention was caught in the last two years of high school by the likes of (particularly) Shakespeare, Goethe, Plato…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, when Gabriel came into my world in the mid 80’s, he captured my attention in a rather forceful manner (how unlike him!) and ever since &lt;strong&gt;I have been reduced to a mere blood hound as I voraciously “sniff” through his pages for that final morsel! &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;And I laugh and I cry - simultaneously most of the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few times I got distracted and got side-tracked to return again, like with the Autumn of the General – &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;ay,&lt;/span&gt; Chihuahua, it gave a whole new meaning to page-long sentences and forever sealed my contempt for the “much acclaimed” Margaret Atwood constipated style – &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;Phuh&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;But, I never wavered with &lt;strong&gt;One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera&lt;/strong&gt; and now, late last night/this AM, with &lt;strong&gt;Memories of My Melancholy Whores&lt;/strong&gt;…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Must admit I had to get past the naming of women "whores" - but, the sad reality is, that many a horse-faced man does!)&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;Three sentences from p. 131 of any book... this one has only 115 - so, I will invert the numbers and quote from p. 113&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"It has to be, at any price, I shouted in terror. She hung up without saying goodbye, but fifteen minutes later she calles back: "All right, she's here."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt; Tag - from Krystyna's&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://evolvesmb.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://evolvesmb.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;who was herself tagged by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://cherries-and-blossoms.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://cherries-and-blossoms.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-3323982369223788031?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/3323982369223788031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=3323982369223788031&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/3323982369223788031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/3323982369223788031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/01/gabriel-garca-mrquez-photo-ap-infatuate.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rb0YaPN3qLI/AAAAAAAAAHo/sQspWuj06rs/s72-c/gabrielgarciamarquez_wideweb__430x294,0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-7823734428903135133</id><published>2007-01-23T16:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T02:34:10.893-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#9999ff;"&gt;The Goose Story&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RbajyvN3p0I/AAAAAAAAADY/qCGjrbSbimg/s1600-h/Geese+Flying.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5023382526441793346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RbajyvN3p0I/AAAAAAAAADY/qCGjrbSbimg/s320/Geese+Flying.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt; Next fall when you see geese heading south for the winter, flying in their familiar "V" formation, you might be interested in knowing why they fly that way. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;Science has learned that, as each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately behind it. By flying in a "V" formation, the flock together gains over 70% more flying range than if each bird flew on its own.Like the geese, people who share a common direction and a sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier, because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5023381293786179378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/Rbaiq_N3pzI/AAAAAAAAADQ/gyRTuEPiyUI/s320/geese+at+beach0001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;Whenever one goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to go it alone. It will quickly try to get back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the birds in front. If we have as much sense as a goose, we will stay in formation with those who are headed the same way we are going.When the lead goose gets tired, it rotates back in the wing, and another goose takes over the point position. It pays to take turns doing hard jobs!The geese from behind honk constantly, as you've no doubt heard whenever a flock passes overhead. They do this to encourage those up front to keep up their speed. An encouraging word goes a long way.Finally, when a goose gets sick or is wounded by a gun shot and falls out of the formation, two geese follow it down to stay with it and protect it. They stay until it is either able to fly again, or dies. They then launch out on their own or with another formation to catch up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt; with the group. If we have t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;he sense of a goose, we will stand by each other.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;~ Author Unknown ~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RbahsfN3pyI/AAAAAAAAADE/VAJi5gpd2Ok/s1600-h/geese+and+babies0001.JPG"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5023380220044355362" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RbahsfN3pyI/AAAAAAAAADE/VAJi5gpd2Ok/s320/geese+and+babies0001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lovely&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;to &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;have&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;in &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;life...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RbahsfN3pyI/AAAAAAAAADE/VAJi5gpd2Ok/s1600-h/geese+and+babies0001.JPG"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-7823734428903135133?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/7823734428903135133/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=7823734428903135133&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/7823734428903135133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/7823734428903135133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/01/goose-story-next-fall-when-you-see.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/RbajyvN3p0I/AAAAAAAAADY/qCGjrbSbimg/s72-c/Geese+Flying.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116770759579837403</id><published>2007-01-02T21:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-05T11:24:17.543-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3789/1204/1600/408725/images%20note%20pad%20purple.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3789/1204/320/615635/images%20note%20pad%20purple.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Ex-pect&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (ik spekt') &lt;strong&gt;vt&lt;/strong&gt;, (L. ex-, out + spectare, to look)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to look for as likely to occur or appear &lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; to look for as proper or necessary &lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; (Colloq.) to suppose; guess&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I EXPECT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;I have tried not to, as I have been told, particularly in last number of years that I should not have any expectaions; that is, after hearing for years that I have too high expectations of others…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do I?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or, has this been another one of those little “new age” convenient catchy phrases that would cover any one’s rear end absolving them from responsibility? Perhaps, a little mantra-phrase in the vicinity of the idea/concept of poverty being a virtue… highly convenient for a few, devastating for others?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I EXPECT.&lt;br /&gt;I expect that my expectations are part of my human nature, just as breathing is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What makes this statement really “extraordinary” is that what I feel as minimal, basic dignity and survival expectations, are perceived to be “too much” or in other words, unreasonable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I will monologue to myself most likely, but, this also all right, as it is an exercise on how to respond next time, when me and my expectations are not welcome. &lt;em&gt;When me and my humble expectation are being bulldozed around.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;It’s becoming rather old being told that people “do not know any better”. Well, &lt;em&gt;it IS high time they knew better!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;I am not going to give up or change my expectations simply because they are “inconvenient” to others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I expect kindness, compassion, respect, basic common courtesy – any one, at any given time will do… but the lack of, won’t. Particularly from those I interact with on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I EXPECT MORE AND BETTER.&lt;br /&gt;I DESERVE IT.&lt;br /&gt;EACH ONE OF US DESERVES IT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116770759579837403?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116770759579837403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116770759579837403&amp;isPopup=true' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116770759579837403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116770759579837403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2007/01/ex-pect-ik-spekt-vt-l.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116738104422656527</id><published>2006-12-29T00:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-02T00:35:29.140-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3789/1204/1600/404525/Debris0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3789/1204/320/824257/Debris0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; DEBRIS 2006&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;I shall leave my sorrows, hurts, disappointments and those that&lt;br /&gt;knowingly caused them behind, just as the sea left behind its debris. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;I shall cleanse my soul of uncertain and doubt-filled emotions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;imposed on me by my own lack of clarity and determination. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;I shall embrace the new, the changing with a renewed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;trust in my instincts, my creativity and my own brand of wisdom. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;I shall continuo the search; I shall explore the me &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;that has not quiet completely surfaced yet… &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;I shall &lt;strong&gt;BE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Un-afraid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116738104422656527?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116738104422656527/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116738104422656527&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116738104422656527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116738104422656527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/12/debris-2006-i-shall-leave-my-sorrows.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116699231339228753</id><published>2006-12-24T12:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-29T02:53:06.956-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3789/1204/1600/640154/Xmas%20WR0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3789/1204/320/101162/Xmas%20WR0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt; May you have the kind of Christmas your heart desires &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;and, may you also have a 2007 that brings you &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;all you need and dream of.... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Much love to you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116699231339228753?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116699231339228753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116699231339228753&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116699231339228753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116699231339228753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/12/may-you-have-kind-of-christmas-your.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116647471201527820</id><published>2006-12-18T12:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-29T02:43:49.773-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3789/1204/1600/862679/Frosty%20branches0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3789/1204/320/620881/Frosty%20branches0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt; "Service has a life of its own. A single act of kindness may have a long trajectory and touch those we will never meet or see. Something that we casually offer may move through a web of connections far beyond ourselves to have effects that may have never imagined. And, so each one of us may have left far more behind than we may ever know"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:78%;"&gt;Excerpt from "My Grandfather's Blessing" - Rachel Naomi Remen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116647471201527820?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116647471201527820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116647471201527820&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116647471201527820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116647471201527820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/12/service-has-life-of-its-own.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116597916465686251</id><published>2006-12-12T19:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-17T04:56:13.913-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3789/1204/1600/94683/A%20reason0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3789/1204/320/784205/A%20reason0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; A REASON, A SEASON OR A LIFETIME?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When we figure out which one it is, we will know what to do for each person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When someone is in our lives for a REASON… It is to meet a need we have expressed. They come to assist us through difficulty, to provide us with guidance and support, to aid us physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like godsend, and they are! They are there for the reasons we need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on our part, or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force us to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our work is done. Our prayer has been answered, and now is time to move on.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When people come to our lives for a SEASON… it is because it is our time to share, grow or learn. They bring us an experience of peace or make us laugh. They may teach us something we may have never done. They usually give us an unbelievable amount of joy. Let’s believe it! It is real. But, only for a season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LIFETIME relationships teach us lifetime lessons; things we must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Our job is to accept this lesson, love the person, and put what we have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of our lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*author unknown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3789/1204/1600/248880/A%20reason%20Season0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3789/1204/320/595877/A%20reason%20Season0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116597916465686251?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116597916465686251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116597916465686251&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116597916465686251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116597916465686251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/12/reason-season-or-lifetime-people-come.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116620916472668062</id><published>2006-12-12T10:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-17T23:51:55.286-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3789/1204/1600/119668/Shades%20of%20Grey%20One0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3789/1204/320/359822/Shades%20of%20Grey%20One0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#666666;"&gt;Shades of Gray&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;Shades of gray &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;Shades of fickle &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;Nature’s nature&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;Human nature&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;Weather vanes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;Most of us become &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;Strongly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;indicating&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;Who we really are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;Calm and stormy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;Sunny and rainy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;Still and windy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;Through life I go&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;One with nature &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;I feel myself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;So deeply affected &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;Can’t help the spell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;Shades &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;of gray&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;Shades of fickle &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;Nature’s nature&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Human nature&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116620916472668062?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116620916472668062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116620916472668062&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116620916472668062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116620916472668062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/12/shades-of-grayshades-of-gray-shades-of.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116397143577114362</id><published>2006-11-19T13:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T10:46:51.743-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/275/9218/640/A%20prayer%20to%20Heaven0001.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/275/9218/320/A%20prayer%20to%20Heaven0001.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;A Prayer to Heaven&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please…&lt;br /&gt;Let it be sunshine&lt;br /&gt;Let it be truth&lt;br /&gt;Let it be trust&lt;br /&gt;Let it be compassion&lt;br /&gt;Let it be honesty&lt;br /&gt;Let it be friendship&lt;br /&gt;Let it be communication&lt;br /&gt;Let it be understanding&lt;br /&gt;Let it be loyalty&lt;br /&gt;Let it be blessings&lt;br /&gt;Let it be comfort&lt;br /&gt;Let it be wealth&lt;br /&gt;Let it be creativity&lt;br /&gt;Let it be passion&lt;br /&gt;Let it be tenderness&lt;br /&gt;Let it be togetherness&lt;br /&gt;Let it be love&lt;br /&gt;Between you and me&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Amén&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/A%20prayer%20to%20Heaven%20Two%200001.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116397143577114362?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116397143577114362/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116397143577114362&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116397143577114362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116397143577114362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/11/prayer-to-heaven-please-let-it-be.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116397119556617333</id><published>2006-11-19T13:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-19T14:46:25.840-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/275/9218/640/Rain%20Gaia0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/275/9218/320/Rain%20Gaia0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RAIN &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gaia’s quenching elixir&lt;br /&gt;And wrath you are&lt;br /&gt;In one sweeping&lt;br /&gt;Passion filled journey&lt;br /&gt;Your waters may&lt;br /&gt;Nourish or devastate&lt;br /&gt;Your gregariousness absence&lt;br /&gt;Felt with long lasting effects&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you provoked?&lt;br /&gt;Oh, so precious being&lt;br /&gt;To appear impulsive&lt;br /&gt;Moody, and&lt;br /&gt;So unforgivably cruel?&lt;br /&gt;What pain are you&lt;br /&gt;Gyrating to extricate?&lt;br /&gt;What sores you&lt;br /&gt;Tumble to clear?&lt;br /&gt;Which wounds are you&lt;br /&gt;Flushing to heal…?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116397119556617333?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116397119556617333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116397119556617333&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116397119556617333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116397119556617333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/11/rain-gaias-quenching-elixir-and-wrath.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116366409717905483</id><published>2006-11-16T00:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-16T00:05:00.406-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/275/9218/640/Want%20to%20see%20more%20Two%20.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/275/9218/320/Want%20to%20see%20more%20Two%20.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Want to see more? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Visit my new  ~&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.studiogaleria.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;http://www.studiogaleria.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116366409717905483?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116366409717905483/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116366409717905483&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116366409717905483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116366409717905483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/11/want-to-see-more-visit-my-new-httpwww.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116304319032845360</id><published>2006-11-08T19:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-14T23:35:17.080-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc66;"&gt;Last Friday's Sunset - &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Nov. 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/Golden%20sunset0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/Golden%20sunset0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;The perfect prelude for your return...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116304319032845360?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116304319032845360/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116304319032845360&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116304319032845360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116304319032845360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/11/last-fridays-sunset-nov.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116226204656883835</id><published>2006-10-30T18:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-10-30T22:41:48.220-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/275/9218/640/Halloween%20Pumpkin0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/275/9218/320/Halloween%20Pumpkin0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Splendiferous!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Yeap.... Last Thursday afternoon... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;.... the knock on the door was faint. All to faint as if not to completely interrupt that ever so occasional siesta, product of trying to burn the candle at both ends… and giving in to the mid-afternoon sun flooding the room with warmth and glow. Soothing, gentle the drift away took place, like a content and spoiled cat curled up in a favorite chair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Knock-knock, I thought I heard or, maybe not… Slowly, I got up and closely listened to the whispers of sound in the room, were there none?&lt;br /&gt;Into the peep-hole I went to spy out, as a swift shadow vanished away. Quickly, I flung the door open as the one at the stairs slammed shut.&lt;br /&gt;Blocking my passage out, smack in the middle of my doorway a shopping cart -  in its bottom - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a completely undiguised (naked?), large, lone, round, &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;glowing orange pumpkin staring right back at me.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I swear I saw it wink.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;T&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;hey did again!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The guys doing what they like doing best: little-big, fun, caring things for others!&lt;br /&gt;Me included …&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thank you darlings!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;PS.: Thank you Krystyna for the &lt;strong&gt;Opening word&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116226204656883835?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116226204656883835/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116226204656883835&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116226204656883835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116226204656883835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/10/splendiferous-yeap.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116191357896690728</id><published>2006-10-26T18:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-26T19:03:27.293-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/rocky%20terrain%20two%200001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/rocky%20terrain%20two%200001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ffcc99;"&gt;Uneasiness &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;– that haunting call of deep instinct&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ever felt uneasy with someone? Toward something?  Perhaps, for no ”apparent” reason?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Uneasiness toward something or somebody is our powerful call from our sixth sense requiring our attention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uneasiness, accompanied by a strong sense of premonition – or clarity -  not to be confused with just a mere flight of the imagination, is an undeniable gift. A rather hard one to explain at that…, as one “knows” “sees” something &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;before everyone else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More that once I’ve found myself at the “wrong end of the situation” because heightened instincts warned me of imminent danger. Not necessarily physical, but rather emotional and intellectual danger.&lt;br /&gt;Being one of those people that highly invest in relationships – in all interactions - the cost of the loss down the road must be prevented,  &lt;em&gt;if at all possible&lt;/em&gt;… ouch!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hardest part of this “insight” is how to proceed with the information.&lt;br /&gt;While it is relatively easy to remove oneself from the social situation – how, ohhh how, does one gracefully (?) tell the other they reek of danger, &lt;em&gt;and I must run!? &lt;/em&gt;Just how?&lt;br /&gt;Particularly, when the other has refined the art of appearing a sheep – when in reality is an out of control wolf (poor wolves!) – in a magical, mesmerizing carefully choreographed act (smoke and mirrors) deeply engaging many at the time?&lt;br /&gt;But, it is only due to this carefully maneuvered curtain of smoke and mirrors behind the scenes (ain’t technology grand?) that the magic comes about…&lt;br /&gt;In the light of day – the entire act would be reduced to the cold and shriveled up soul of a pathetic, scared, also self-victimizing puppeteer… (I can’t even empathize with you!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, by some other equally extraordinary “Universal Magic” – for some reason unknown to me, the “show” goes on, and on, as so many others do  - in such great illusion/delusion – &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;too bad they are not announced as such!!!! Or,  is it that therein lies the lesson????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This IS for you –  one of the many that the Universe allows to engage others slyly with deceit, with impunity. You literally made me ill from the very first moment – still, I allowed myself to look/wait for “proof”.  AWOUH!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;It came out in a brief flash – nothing is perfect.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;I saw it!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also know – so, you know – that behind the smoke and mirrors you are playing the victim to increase sympathy for your cause, &lt;em&gt;and it appears the &lt;strong&gt;you &lt;/strong&gt;are “winning”,&lt;/em&gt; my dear…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since I am at this, &lt;em&gt;the other two of you&lt;/em&gt; – playing the caring/concerned  friends (with little and too, too late email – hah?) – drop the act already, I am reeeeally tired of indulging you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Let it rest, p-l-e-a-s-e!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;May you all be blessed where you most need it.&lt;br /&gt;Amén.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/rocky%20terrain0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/rocky%20terrain0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;PS.: I just about got it all out of my system - next post willbe a "happier" one. Thanks for those that DO contribute, &lt;em&gt;even when imperfect&lt;/em&gt; - like me....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116191357896690728?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116191357896690728/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116191357896690728&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116191357896690728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116191357896690728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/10/uneasiness-that-haunting-call-of-deep.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116174164220778971</id><published>2006-10-24T19:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-24T19:27:13.070-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/boat%20leaving%20two0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/boat%20leaving%20two0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;NO TRUE WORDS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As feelings surge&lt;br /&gt;thought s swell&lt;br /&gt;actions rush&lt;br /&gt;heart flutters&lt;br /&gt;soul aches…&lt;br /&gt;No true words&lt;br /&gt;may be spoken?&lt;br /&gt;No true acts&lt;br /&gt;may be dared?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The indifferent&lt;br /&gt;the judgmental&lt;br /&gt;the scared&lt;br /&gt;and the lame&lt;br /&gt;are just&lt;br /&gt;a large audience&lt;br /&gt;jaded by the game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As roles emerge&lt;br /&gt;reason clouds&lt;br /&gt;principles fade&lt;br /&gt;dreams evaporate&lt;br /&gt;plans halt…&lt;br /&gt;No true words&lt;br /&gt;may be spoken.&lt;br /&gt;No true acts&lt;br /&gt;may be dared. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66cccc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Written and Published in the Summer of 1999&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#33ccff;"&gt;Visiting a couple of other blogs reminded me of this poem.&lt;br /&gt;They were really good posts - completely different. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#33ccff;"&gt;What they had in common was, that &lt;em&gt;afterwards I felt I've said too much&lt;/em&gt;, particularly on one of them, as I later felt - despite having stated facts - &lt;em&gt;I had rained on someone else’s parade…&lt;/em&gt; S***t… !&lt;br /&gt;Interesting how lessons come about. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;One post brought some very interesting response to a question I have been asking myself for years… &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;why “people shoot the messenger”&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; Quiet an interesting revelation.&lt;br /&gt;The other one brought on regrets, as 1) I’m pretty certain my point was completely missed, misinterpreted and disregarded as of no use, 2) I realized that inadvertently – &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I made myself (actually twice) “the messenger”.&lt;/em&gt; S***t…!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#33ccff;"&gt;To think of it, ooooooooops ! It appears that I also managed to &lt;em&gt;put my foot in my mouth&lt;/em&gt; - at yet another blog. (Bad things come in "threes"?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ouch, ouch, ouch - mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116174164220778971?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116174164220778971/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116174164220778971&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116174164220778971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116174164220778971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/10/no-true-words-as-feelings-surge.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116139219481093768</id><published>2006-10-20T17:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-22T12:09:57.626-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/fall%20archiutecture%20two0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Today, on your birthday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unsettled I awoke&lt;br /&gt;Images of paintings&lt;br /&gt;Circles and&lt;br /&gt;Suspended&lt;br /&gt;Twisted lines…&lt;br /&gt;Exhausted&lt;br /&gt;I continued&lt;br /&gt;Pressing on&lt;br /&gt;Even more jittery&lt;br /&gt;With the black brew&lt;br /&gt;Sweetened and whitened&lt;br /&gt;Did not fill the spot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Delays, delays&lt;br /&gt;And fumblings more&lt;br /&gt;Much information&lt;br /&gt;To process&lt;br /&gt;And just go!&lt;br /&gt;Demanding attention&lt;br /&gt;Familiar feeling&lt;br /&gt;Of churning gut&lt;br /&gt;I want to go past&lt;br /&gt;There just might be a day&lt;br /&gt;That I’ll awake&lt;br /&gt;Whitout such strong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;feelings for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, the day&lt;br /&gt;Of your birthday&lt;br /&gt;Only a private&lt;br /&gt;Special prayer&lt;br /&gt;I’ll say for you.&lt;br /&gt;Not a word&lt;br /&gt;Nor a card&lt;br /&gt;Or email I’ll send&lt;br /&gt;My shrivelled up heart&lt;br /&gt;a dry sponge&lt;br /&gt;has become&lt;br /&gt;at last…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will not know&lt;br /&gt;That &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;I Lovingly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;Think of you&lt;br /&gt;Want to softly&lt;br /&gt;Whisper to you&lt;br /&gt;Warmy touch you&lt;br /&gt;Gently hold you&lt;br /&gt;Sweetly kiss you&lt;br /&gt;Passionately love you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;Today,&lt;br /&gt;On your birthday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116139219481093768?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116139219481093768/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116139219481093768&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116139219481093768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116139219481093768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/10/today-on-your-birthday-unsettled-i.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116058596453009813</id><published>2006-10-11T10:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-11T10:39:21.080-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/Sunste%20Oct%2011%20060001.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/Sunste%20Oct%2011%20060001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;"&gt;Truth or * T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;ruthiness?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;Much to my disappointment very few things in life are black and white &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;(only because black and white matters are usually easier to deal with)&lt;/span&gt; and thankfully,  absolute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;However one of them should be truth.&lt;br /&gt;Truth, as pregnancy is , should be absolute … &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;shouldn’t it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to a “Dateline” reported survey a couple of years ago, &lt;strong&gt;80% of us lie on a regular basis/all day long&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ay, Chihuahua – that’s pathetic!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;That had absolutely stunned me, as I was brought up to tell the truth and assumed, still assume, that all speak the truth, unless indicated otherwise - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;at least most of the time…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Seldom have I omitted or altered the facts, or told/tell a white lie… mostly to my mother, whom could never handle any kind of truth.&lt;br /&gt;Lied straight face twice in all these years – to save my skin – gave it a loooot of thought before hand and was engulfed in remorse afterwards, until someone I confided in suggested &lt;em&gt;“we need to do what we need to do”&lt;/em&gt; to survive… &lt;em&gt;no harm was done to another&lt;/em&gt;, just an impossible situation. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;(That little fact may account for my immense popularity at times! he-he)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;80% of the people lie most of the time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;So, why am I surprised even aghast to find, that someone I recently met consistently tells the approximate truth, tells the “truthiness”.&lt;br /&gt;This person does not tell a “total, complete lie”, but never-the-less, tells a misrepresentation of facts, &lt;em&gt;a misleading approximation&lt;/em&gt; to the truth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffff99;"&gt;Personally, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I find this style of behaviour impossible to stomach, as it not only creates an "uneven playing field", but it also eliminates any possible shred of credibility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Have we become accustomed to this possibility, and fator it in under “taking it all with a grain of salt”?&lt;br /&gt;Is truth in social interaction important to you?&lt;br /&gt;Is it still part of an individuals integrity and responsibility?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is truthiness here to stay?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;* Truthiness Voted 2005 Word of the Year&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In its 16th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted truthiness as the word of the year. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;"&gt;Recently popularized on the Colbert Report, a satirical mock news show on the Comedy Central television channel, truthiness refers to the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ffff99;"&gt;As Stephen Colbert put it, “I don’t trust books. They’re all fact, no heart.” Other meanings of the word date as far back as 1824.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116058596453009813?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116058596453009813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116058596453009813&amp;isPopup=true' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116058596453009813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116058596453009813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/10/truth-or-truthiness-much-to-my.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-116032479219546876</id><published>2006-10-08T10:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-08T22:16:05.826-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/greafitty%20on%20tree%20trunk0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/greafitty%20on%20tree%20trunk0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;Palabra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;y&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;Piedra &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;Suelta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;No &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;Tiene &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vuelta&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;Word &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;Stone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;once&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;Gone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;Cannot &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;be &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;Recalled&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;As a child&lt;br /&gt;trusting&lt;br /&gt;believing&lt;br /&gt;comforting&lt;br /&gt;words - image&lt;br /&gt;of another&lt;br /&gt;curiously&lt;br /&gt;giving&lt;br /&gt;from within&lt;br /&gt;and without&lt;br /&gt;bared&lt;br /&gt;naturally&lt;br /&gt;part of life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Encountered&lt;br /&gt;hidden&lt;br /&gt;truth&lt;br /&gt;from the obvious&lt;br /&gt;light&lt;br /&gt;in dark&lt;br /&gt;recess&lt;br /&gt;by accident&lt;br /&gt;or providence&lt;br /&gt;better&lt;br /&gt;sooner&lt;br /&gt;than later. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/pond%20one0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;Child's first&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;Lover's whisper&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;Guiding light&lt;br /&gt;Mind bender&lt;br /&gt;Hidden treasure&lt;br /&gt;Magical veil&lt;br /&gt;Streght provider&lt;br /&gt;Cradle of truth&lt;br /&gt;Mesmerizing wonder&lt;br /&gt;Lulling lullaby&lt;br /&gt;Fear conqueror&lt;br /&gt;Love promise&lt;br /&gt;Flower garden&lt;br /&gt;Secure nook&lt;br /&gt;Labyrinth of hope&lt;br /&gt;Beacon of faith&lt;br /&gt;Temple of justice&lt;br /&gt;Enchanting paradise&lt;br /&gt;Knowledge fountain&lt;br /&gt;Sacred gift&lt;br /&gt;Wonder sea&lt;br /&gt;Dark domination&lt;br /&gt;Manipulation tool&lt;br /&gt;Power house&lt;br /&gt;Spell caster&lt;br /&gt;Peace keeper&lt;br /&gt;Death sentence&lt;br /&gt;Birth announcement&lt;br /&gt;War monger&lt;br /&gt;Dream weaver&lt;br /&gt;Illusion breaker&lt;br /&gt;Deceptive caldron&lt;br /&gt;Soul scorcher &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Snake charmer&lt;br /&gt;Friendship mirage&lt;br /&gt;Void maker&lt;br /&gt;Uniting force&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;Inspiring &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uplifting&lt;br /&gt;Belittling&lt;br /&gt;Destructive&lt;br /&gt;Empowering&lt;br /&gt;Colourful shades&lt;br /&gt;Playful delight&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;Heartfelt &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And much, much more… &lt;em&gt;What else could it be but&lt;strong&gt; a word!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/pond%20two0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-116032479219546876?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/116032479219546876/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=116032479219546876&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116032479219546876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/116032479219546876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/10/palabra-y-piedra-suelta-no-tiene.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115994517235960096</id><published>2006-10-04T00:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-04T00:12:39.480-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.google.ca/images?q=tbn:x7XNF0bRTUkCOM:http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/IGS/IGS308/IS520-006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://images.google.ca/images?q=tbn:x7XNF0bRTUkCOM:http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/IGS/IGS308/IS520-006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt; Naked&lt;br /&gt;Alone&lt;br /&gt;Curled up&lt;br /&gt;In the dark&lt;br /&gt;Not a sound&lt;br /&gt;Only the thought&lt;br /&gt;Of a desperate&lt;br /&gt;Throat deep roar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No point to it&lt;br /&gt;There is no one&lt;br /&gt;To hear&lt;br /&gt;Rescue&lt;br /&gt;Comfort&lt;br /&gt;Protect&lt;br /&gt;Nurture&lt;br /&gt;Heal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Swallowed&lt;br /&gt;Feelings&lt;br /&gt;Offerings&lt;br /&gt;Love&lt;br /&gt;Wants&lt;br /&gt;Dreams&lt;br /&gt;Pride&lt;br /&gt;Pain&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115994517235960096?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115994517235960096/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115994517235960096&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115994517235960096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115994517235960096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/10/naked-alone-curled-up-in-dark-not.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115929937723366914</id><published>2006-09-26T12:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-26T12:37:49.803-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/Sept%2025%2006%20sunset0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/Sept%2025%2006%20sunset0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt; Last&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;night's&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sunset &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;over&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Saturna&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;and &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gabriola&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Islands&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;(no touch-ups!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.&lt;br /&gt;With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of [people]. I have wished to know why the stars shine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, And I too suffer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This has been my life; I found it worth living.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;from Bertrand Russell - adapted&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I fully concur....&lt;br /&gt;-.a.-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115929937723366914?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115929937723366914/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115929937723366914&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115929937723366914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/eelgrass%20manipulated0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I always will, &lt;em&gt;I know....&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I loved you&lt;br /&gt;and I loved you&lt;br /&gt;and I loved you some more&lt;br /&gt;I still do&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even when words spoken&lt;br /&gt;Forbid you to call&lt;br /&gt;My heart aches&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Broken&lt;br /&gt;Having to hurt you so&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More than a soul-mate&lt;br /&gt;Life showed you to be&lt;br /&gt;A fiery twin of miracles&lt;br /&gt;To show me you came&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our broken selves&lt;br /&gt;In each other&lt;br /&gt;A fountain found&lt;br /&gt;Of beauty, creativity&lt;br /&gt;Passion&lt;br /&gt;Compassion for all…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voyajeur and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Hermit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Lost&lt;br /&gt;In your our own&lt;br /&gt;Inspired&lt;br /&gt;Genius world&lt;br /&gt;Put, I am abandoned&lt;br /&gt;Devastatigly alone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time and again&lt;br /&gt;Patiently, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Silently&lt;br /&gt;Negotiating&lt;br /&gt;Even pleading words&lt;br /&gt;You listen to&lt;br /&gt;You heard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What forgetfulness&lt;br /&gt;Erased our wants&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Our needs ?&lt;br /&gt;Your mind and soul&lt;br /&gt;Turned away&lt;br /&gt;On your way&lt;br /&gt;To further explore&lt;br /&gt;Departing for hunts&lt;br /&gt;And distant huts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Out of reach&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eternities of scolding&lt;br /&gt;Un-breathable deserts&lt;br /&gt;You walked&lt;br /&gt;Vanishing into&lt;br /&gt;Mirages of my mind&lt;br /&gt;Where I found you&lt;br /&gt;Safe and sound&lt;br /&gt;Where I held you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;And held you tight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Old together&lt;br /&gt;I contemplate no more&lt;br /&gt;The comfort of knowing&lt;br /&gt;You by my side&lt;br /&gt;I am unable to hold&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I loved you&lt;br /&gt;and I loved you&lt;br /&gt;and I loved you some more!&lt;br /&gt;I still do.&lt;br /&gt;Even when words spoken&lt;br /&gt;Forbid you to call&lt;br /&gt;My heart aches&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Broken&lt;br /&gt;Having to hurt you so!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;My heart aches&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Broken&lt;br /&gt;Having to hurt you so …&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115894803145600932?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115894803145600932/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115894803145600932&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115894803145600932'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115894803145600932'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-always-will-i-know.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115837500767210584</id><published>2006-09-15T19:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-15T19:57:33.566-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/ok0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/ok0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Today's sunset... love to share it with you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have never seen a sunset I didn't like!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115837500767210584?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115837500767210584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115837500767210584&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115837500767210584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115837500767210584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/09/todays-sunset.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115821576922568707</id><published>2006-09-13T23:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-13T23:39:34.373-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/Some%20evenings0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/Some%20evenings0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt; Some evening walks capture in my heart the elating beauty of the shimmering waters caught in the temporary frame of dark foreground branches arching on my path...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#c0c0c0;"&gt;With gratitude - for the loveliest, warm, and skin tingling,  sunsets of late&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115821576922568707?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115821576922568707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115821576922568707&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115821576922568707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115821576922568707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/09/some-evening-walks-capture-in-my-heart.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115767163627425983</id><published>2006-09-07T16:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T18:19:40.040-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.whatthebleep.com/herald17/images/crystal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.whatthebleep.com/herald17/images/crystal.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;From (today's) &lt;a href="http://www.whatthebleep.com/herald/"&gt;The Bleeping Herald&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.whatthebleep.com/herald/"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;If you would like to help Dean Radin, Ph.D. in his second experiment looking at the effects of distant intention on water crystals, then please go to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.psiarcade.com/crystal2/intro.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;psiarcade.com/crystal2/intro.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt; and assess 50 pictures of frozen water drops. It should take about 10 minutes. This study is a triple-blind version of his initial study. Results will appear in the Explore (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.explorejournal.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;explorejournal.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;) in Sept., 2006.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More on "water experiments"&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;you have to see!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hado.net/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.hado.net/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.internationalwaterforlifefoundation.org/"&gt;http://www.internationalwaterforlifefoundation.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://masaru-emoto.net/"&gt;http://masaru-emoto.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115767163627425983?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115767163627425983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115767163627425983&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115767163627425983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115767163627425983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/09/from-todays-bleeping-herald-if-you.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115759878349663798</id><published>2006-09-06T20:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-06T20:32:00.996-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ffcccc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This evening's gentle, beautiful sunset.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/tonight"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/tonight%27s%20sunset0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffcccc;"&gt; "Indeed, to some extent it has always been necessary and proper for man, in his thinking, to divide things up, if we tried to deal with the whole of reality at once, we would be swamped. However when this mode of thought is applied more broadly to man's notion of himself and the whole world in which he lives, (i.e. in his world-view) then man ceases to regard the resultant divisions as merely useful or convenient and begins to see and experience himself and this world as actually constituted of separately existing fragments.   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffcccc;"&gt;What is needed is a relativistic theory, to give up altogether the notion that the world is constituted of basic objects or building blocks. Rather one has to view the world in terms of universal flux of events and processes."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffcccc;"&gt;- David Bohm -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffcccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffcccc;"&gt;This gentle, beautiful evening the "process" is repeating itselfs one more time as in Feliciano's lyrics... "Like the circles of a spiral, like a wheel within a whell, never ending nor beginning... "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ffcccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;To life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115759878349663798?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115759878349663798/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115759878349663798&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115759878349663798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115759878349663798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/09/this-evenings-gentle-beautiful-sunset.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115735187116084172</id><published>2006-09-03T23:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-03T23:52:00.330-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff6666;"&gt;"There is allways tomorrow"  -  Two&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/there%20is%20always%20a%20tomorrow%20two0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/there%20is%20always%20a%20tomorrow%20two0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, &lt;em&gt;can be given to one only by other human beings."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;em&gt;- Elie Wiesel -&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;And how miserably some of us fail to give one another such basic comfort. How some don't stop - not even for a moment - to "give life" to another - instead, life is literally "sucked away" with continued selfish demands, careless, thoughtless comments.... followed by failed face-saving denials&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;How sad that instead of compassion, true friendship and hope, some (think) leave each other by the wayside as meaningless by-product of so-called needs and priorities and... petty pride... and, think the other a fool - while the other has been well aware of the "charade" all along.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I only expect wonderful people and things coming into my life!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115735187116084172?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115735187116084172/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115735187116084172&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115735187116084172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115735187116084172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/09/there-is-allways-tomorrow-two-i-have.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115713971070459811</id><published>2006-09-01T13:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-03T20:41:48.370-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/Mardigras%20%20shores%20%20%2050001.2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/Mardigras%20%20shores%20%20%2050001.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff66;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff66;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff66;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"... joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff66;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;- Kahlil Gibran -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Oh... joy, joy, joy..... as gladness, is one of those sometimes ever so subtle feelings that come in moments of contemplation, quietude or while immersed in deep creativity - hovering, quietly in the subconscious - not even a deep breath can bring it forth... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff66;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;How I miss joy on the surface of my skin... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;as a soft tear causing its way down to my dry throat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;as the passionate inquisitive hands of my lover&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;as the sensuous caressing ocean, enveloping my feet &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;How you visit me - unexpectedly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;in a splash of paint&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;the words of a friend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;better yet, the kindness of a total stranger - no more...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Joy...... fill my heart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/Mardigras%20%20shores%20%20%2050001.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115713971070459811?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115713971070459811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115713971070459811&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115713971070459811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115713971070459811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/09/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115687343711727809</id><published>2006-08-29T23:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-29T23:27:46.966-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Mardigras" Shore&lt;/strong&gt; - Twelve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#33cc00;"&gt;("Manipulated" photo)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/Mardigras%20shore%20120001.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#33ff33;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/Mardigras%20shore%20120001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt; - James Oppenheim - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#33cc00;"&gt;Happiness and love... can rarely think of one without the other. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#33cc00;"&gt;So often under our feet, on front of our nose... Within our reach - for the "asking".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;I shall be paying a loooooot of attention starting this very minute! &lt;em&gt;As I must "recognize" the loving, nurturing, compassionate, gentle, generous partner I want by my side.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#33cc00;"&gt;I expect clarity and wonderful things are on their way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;*&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Help, from any source - welcome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115687343711727809?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115687343711727809/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115687343711727809&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115687343711727809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115687343711727809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/08/mardigras-shore-twelvemanipulated.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115673765077619407</id><published>2006-08-27T21:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-27T21:11:09.686-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#66cccc;"&gt;Iridescent  Shore - One&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#66cccc;"&gt;("manipulated" picture)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/irridicent%20shores%2010001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/irridicent%20shores%2010001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66cccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."&lt;/span&gt; - Amais Nin -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or - while not dead - one must let go... one more time. One more time facing the unknown... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66cccc;"&gt;yet, only anticipating something wonderful to come!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115673765077619407?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115673765077619407/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115673765077619407&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115673765077619407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115673765077619407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/08/iridescent-shore-onemanipulated.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115614139264531530</id><published>2006-08-22T12:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-26T10:40:47.213-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Shimmering Shore" - Two&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;©2006&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;("Manipulated" photo)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/shimerring%20shore%20two0001.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/shimerring%20shore%20two0001.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"We must be willing to relinquish the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."&lt;/span&gt; - Joseph Campbell – &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This quote happens to come to my life at rather significant times…&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#9999ff;"&gt;Times that need a shift in course…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#9999ff;"&gt;(I pulled it late last night from my “Little Miracles” card pile.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question is still, has been for a few weeks - again - which course?&lt;br /&gt;As letting life move in it’s own direction also requires my attention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a feeling of un-easiness in the air/around me I am not comfortable with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#9999ff;"&gt;Better to have “quiet time” for a few of days…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love, blessing and joy to you.&lt;br /&gt;-.a.-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#9999ff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115614139264531530?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115614139264531530/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115614139264531530&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115614139264531530'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115614139264531530'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/08/shimmering-shore-two-2006-manipulated.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115614129830748074</id><published>2006-08-20T23:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-20T23:47:29.110-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;Shimmering shore - One  &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;©2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;("Manipulated" photo)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/water%20shimer0001.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/water%20shimer0001.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Trust only movement. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Life happens at the level of events, not of words. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Trust movement." &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;- Alfred Adler -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115614129830748074?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115614129830748074/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115614129830748074&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115614129830748074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115614129830748074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/08/shimmering-shore-one-2006manipulated.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115553613503923534</id><published>2006-08-16T15:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T15:51:21.540-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;sad&lt;/span&gt; &lt;em&gt;adj. s&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ad’der, sad’dness&lt;/strong&gt; (OE.) &lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; having or expressing low spirits; unhappy; sorrowful &lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; causing dejection, sorrow etc. – &lt;strong&gt;sad’ly adj.&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sad’ness n.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/images%20-%20notepads%20various.16.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/images%20-%20notepads%20various.8.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;Sad, not “glad” (such wonderful word, such wonderful feeling).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;So sad about us...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Sad - suppose we’ll never make up &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sad, never meant… &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;I miss you my  friend. Suppose, we just “talk” as we used to... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I miss those I care about.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family." &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- Virginia Satir -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ccccff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The door for communication is open...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Write me a message - "talk" to me... It's ok, I won't snap at ya - promise!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ccccff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;Whenever you are ready, wherever you are ready&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115553613503923534?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115553613503923534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115553613503923534&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115553613503923534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115553613503923534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/08/sad-adj.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115570684175426458</id><published>2006-08-15T22:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-15T22:40:41.763-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cccc;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66cccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; our own self-fulfilling prophecy."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66cccc;"&gt;  - Brian Tracy -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;I EXPECT WONDERFUL THINGS IN MY LIFE. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;YES!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115570684175426458?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115570684175426458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115570684175426458&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115570684175426458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115570684175426458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/08/whatever-we-expect-with-confidence.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115544163620314808</id><published>2006-08-12T21:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-14T10:03:21.333-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- Frank Crane -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have found myself going from one extreme to the other...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why is it that sometimes we cannot distinguish between the true "red flags" and silly childhood programming and societal/peer pressure influences as well as our own demanding nature?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;What IS trust anyway?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115544163620314808?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115544163620314808/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115544163620314808&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115544163620314808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115544163620314808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/08/you-may-be-deceived-if-you-trust-too.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115527588850937429</id><published>2006-08-10T22:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-10T22:58:08.516-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ffcccc;"&gt;"... love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ffcccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ffcccc;"&gt;- Han Suyin (Elizabeth Comber, b. 1917 Chinese writer and physician -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115527588850937429?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115527588850937429/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115527588850937429&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115527588850937429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115527588850937429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/08/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115466759721110192</id><published>2006-08-03T21:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-03T22:11:01.933-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;love &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(luv)&lt;strong&gt; n.&lt;/strong&gt; (OE. lufu) &lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; strong affection or liking for someone or something &lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; a passionate affection for one of the opposite sex &lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; the object of such affection; sweetheart &lt;strong&gt;4.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Tennis&lt;/em&gt; a score of zero – vt., vi. &lt;strong&gt;loved, lov’ing&lt;/strong&gt; to feel love (for) – in love feeling &lt;strong&gt;love&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;strong&gt;make love&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; to woo, embrace, etc. &lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; to have sexual intercourse – &lt;strong&gt;lov’a-ble, love’a-ble adj. – love’less adj.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/images%20-%20notepads%20various.7.jpg" border="0" /&gt; Sometimes when we are fortunate to have someone share their life with ours, and the love that we feeel has a chance to grow, transform, mold, each step of the way, we are truly “experiencing” it.&lt;br /&gt;Love doesn’t need to be tired and old, it can be renewed with each new situation, encounter, even a glance!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do I give what is required by the other?&lt;br /&gt;How do I make his heart smile?&lt;br /&gt;How do I soothe and inspire along the w3ay?&lt;br /&gt;How do I explore yet another phase of his personality, another shade of his emotions?&lt;br /&gt;How do I react to his kind of “being”, giving… and so much more?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I find myself caring each step of the way as it all is of great significance – because I believe it is…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so many times I have missed to recognize, understand, accept…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so many times the world in its cruel delusional indifference neglects and fails to recognize, accept, love…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115466759721110192?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115466759721110192/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115466759721110192&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115466759721110192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115466759721110192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/08/love-luv-n.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115576629233652432</id><published>2006-08-02T14:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T15:39:39.763-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;LA CONDENA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dos hombres fueron condenados. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;La sentencia consistía en que en un día determinado, en veinte años, serían torturados lentamente hasta la muerte.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al escuchar la sentencia, el más joven se retorció de la pena y del dolor, y a partir de ese día, cayó en una profunda depresión. "¿Para qué vivir?" se preguntaba, "si de todas maneras van a arrebatarme la vida, y de una manera inconcebiblemente terrible?"&lt;br /&gt;Desde ese día nunca fue el mismo. Cuando alguno de sus cercanos, compadecido por su estado, le ofrecía apoyo para tratar de alegrarlo, respondía rencorosamente diciendo: - Claro, como tú no tienes que cargar mis penas, todo te parece fácil.&lt;br /&gt;En otras ocasiones también replicaba: - Tú no sabes lo que sufro, no es posible que me entiendas... Y, a veces, alegaba en voz alta: - ¿Para qué me esfuerzo? Si de todas formas...&lt;br /&gt;Y así, poco a poco, el hombre se fue encerrando en su amarga soledad y murió mucho antes de que se cumpliera el plazo de los veinte años.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El otro hombre, al escuchar la sentencia, se asustó y se impresionó, sin embargo a los pocos días resolvió que, como sus días estaban contados, los disfrutaría. Con frecuencia afirmaba: - No voy a anticipar el dolor y el miedo empezando a sufrir desde ahora.&lt;br /&gt;Otras veces decía: - Voy a agradecer con intensidad cada día que me quede. Y, en vez de alejarse de los demás, decidió acercarse y disfrutar a los suyos, para sembrar en ellos lo mejor de sí. Cuando alguien le mencionaba su condena, respondía en broma: - Ellos me condenaron, yo no me voy a condenar sufriendo anticipadamente y, por ahora, estoy vivo.&lt;br /&gt;Fue así que, paulatinamente, se convirtió en un hombre sabio y sencillo, conocido por su alegría y su espíritu de servicio.&lt;br /&gt;Tanto, que mucho antes de los veinte años, le fue perdonada su condena.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;El 99% de los miedos no se realizarán. Cree en tu fuerza, disfruta la libertad de ser feliz. La verdadera libertad no está en lo que haces, sino en la forma como eliges vivir lo que haces, y sólo a ti te pertenece tal facultad.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115576629233652432?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115576629233652432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115576629233652432&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115576629233652432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115576629233652432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/08/la-condena-dos-hombres-fueron.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115404658927435271</id><published>2006-08-02T14:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T15:33:36.446-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AMABLE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;adj.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Digno de ser amado. Afectuoso, complaciente. Superl.: &lt;strong&gt;amabilísimo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/images%20note%20pad%20purple.18.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/images%20note%20pad%20purple.15.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Amable", amable, amable........... amable!&lt;br /&gt;He descubirto una "nueva" palabra. Llegó envuelta, como en ragalo, a meterse y prendérse a mi ser.&lt;br /&gt;La he compartido y ha provocando la repetición del descubrimiento...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115404658927435271?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115404658927435271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115404658927435271&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115404658927435271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115404658927435271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/08/amable.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31676432.post-115389506096777803</id><published>2006-07-31T23:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T15:06:01.756-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;war&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n. 1.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;open armed conflict as between nations &lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; any hostility or struggle &lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; military operation as a science - &lt;strong&gt;adj.&lt;/strong&gt; of, in, or from war - &lt;strong&gt;vi. warred, warring&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; to carry on was &lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; to contend; strive - &lt;strong&gt;at war&lt;/strong&gt; in a state of active armed conflict&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/images%20note%20pad%20purple.17.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/320/images%20note%20pad%20purple.14.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;May I ask?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Just how unforgivably stupid are some of our leaders and fellow men (and women) that after all the recorded history of devastating results of war we still think of it as an option and a solution... ?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;And, have any of them ever heard the oldest description of "insanity"?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I will share - obviously there is a need...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The oldest description of insanity is to repeat the same behavior and expect a different result&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;There you have it!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3789/1204/1600/images%20note%20pad%20purple.17.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31676432-115389506096777803?l=wordrapture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/feeds/115389506096777803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31676432&amp;postID=115389506096777803&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115389506096777803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31676432/posts/default/115389506096777803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordrapture.blogspot.com/2006/07/war-n.html' title=''/><author><name>The Terra Studios - StudioGaleria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11330807567104236747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vokfTanZLow/TRuMG1Du0qI/AAAAAAAAFto/ezQw6xYxVs8/S220/n704154702_1181362_1694_2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry></feed>
