If you take to yourself a woman, and with her, raise up a home and family, you have given hostages to fate, and the day will come when you must put your hand in the fire to ransom them.
Awalan
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Hand in The Fire
Apr 21
Three Marys
Apr 9
Three Marys by W A Adams Three Marys on the road going to a tomb One old one younger one in bloom Hurrying thru a world changing as they sped The dark of the first new day ‘The sun is coming’ the oldest said She carried frankincense to anoint the dead The shadows grew lighter on […]
The Third Thing We Learn
Apr 6
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It’s been said that a human child is a learning machine. We are born with our eyes open and the lessons begin immediately and never stop. At one year or so we take our first steps. In the effort to walk we learn three things. The first two we discover ourselves, the third thing we learn is […]
$4,000.00 Per Word
Mar 27
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My first-born son; recipient of centuries of Highland blood, wavy red hair [ he was the wonder of the hospital nursery – the only newborn the oldest nurse there had ever seen born with long red hair ] keen-witted, native good humor, easy-going, soft-spoken, with the heart of a lion. When I stand before the judgement seat […]
A Parable
Mar 7
Once upon a time there was a little boy named Frank who lived on a farm with his mother, father, brothers and sisters. Frank was five years old. One morning after breakfast; when the men had gone to work the fields, and his older brothers and sisters were off to school; Frank found himself with […]
Words
Dec 20
In the movie “The Cinderella Man”, Russell Crowe plays real life Depression Era boxer James Braddock. After a promising start as a contender for the Heavyweight title, “Gentleman Jim” breaks his hand and must stop fighting. The onset of the Depression sees the family reduced to a cold water basement flat where the faithful wife and […]
A Little Learning–
Apr 4
When I was about six years old and starting first grade, somewhere I picked up the term Trap Door Spider. I don’t recall where or how I acquired the phrase; if I overheard it, or read it. I had not the faintest clue as to what or where such a thing might be. I […]
Everything in its Place
Jan 8
My mother is the oldest of ten kids born to a sharecropper and his wife. She has a rich store of memories and stories of growing up in the fields of east Texas during the Great Depression. She tells of moving from Oklahoma in a covered farm wagon, because they could not afford a car;hoeing corn, chopping cotton, […]
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