Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:56 AM CST
Alone
Edger Allen Poe
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:08 PM CST
Hmm
My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but it's surprising how often they head in your direction. ~Author Unknown
Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 5:09 PM CST
I do not know?
As I was walking up the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd go away.
~Hugh Mearns
Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:05 PM CST
J.D. Salinger
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody"
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:44 PM CST
Genesis
Genesis Chapter 1
1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
JEREMIAH 4
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Isaiah 45
18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Nahum 2
10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness
Zechariah 12:
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
Psalms 33
6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth
Job 26
7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, hangeth the earth upon nothing.
2 And the earth was (or possible became) without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
2Peter 3
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
3 ¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Psalm 33
9 For he spake, and it was ; he commanded, and it stood fast.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:05 PM CST
Eeyore
Eeyore is a delightfully dismal donkey. Eeyore doesn't see himself as gloomy -- he just has realistic expectations. He expects nothing from anybody, so whenever his friends do come to his aid his expectations are met beyond his realistic expectations, and he is sincerely grateful. Eeyore's tiny bright pink bow on his tail, the one hint of color against his gray, is a perfect symbol of the kernel of joy that occasionally surfaces in Eeyore. Though he may pretend he's helping because there's nothing better to do -- make no mistake, Eeyore is always there for his friends.
Posted: Tue Feb 5, 2008 3:51 PM CST
Milk an' Freewater
I wouldn’t think Milton-Freewater would have a snake problem. I have been through Milton-Freewater a couple of times. Never saw any snakes. But when I was a little boy. Very young. I thought that the city was “Milk an’ Freewater“. We never stopped to get any free milk. I always wanted to stop. I mean free milk. Why not stop. My Grandma would say, “Douglas not Milk an', Milton!". I heard, “Douglas not Milk an', Milk an‘!”. It made no sense. Free milk, and nobody wanted any, and Milton wanted to give away, "Milk an’ Freewater".
More about “Milk an’ Freewater“. I have four bothers. One older, two younger, and two cousins, one the same age as me, and one the same age as my oldest brother. I do not remember what I am about to tell you, but it is a family story told by more than one person, so it must be true. My youngest brother must have been a brand new baby, less than six months old. The year and month was probably July, or August 1957. The younger brother must have been a toddler, my older brother, my two cousins, and myself would have been between three and, four. Highly mobile, but with no real direction. Back then nobody had car seats, seat belts, doors that could be locked, so that the door could not be opened from the inside. Six very young boys with a four year age spread, and one very stressed out Grandmother stopped at a gas station in Milton-Freewater. Five boys, and one very stressed out Grandmother left Milton-Freeewater. I was left behind in “Milk an' Freewater“. The Gas station man, might of have been Milton, must of known that my Grandmother would eventually return gave me a bowl of soft ice-cream to eat while I waited. She only went a few miles north of Milton-Freewater. About halfway to Walla Walla WA. She said that it was quiet in the back seat, so she counted heads. True story, and I am sticking to it! So you are from a town that might have free milk, and a snake problem. That must be hard to explain to little boys.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:47 PM CST
Genesis
Genesis Chapter 1
1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 4
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
2 And the earth was (or possible became) without form, and void;
Isaiah Chapter 45
18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 ¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 ¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. (God does not say that day two is good.)
9 ¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. (First time day three was good.)
Day three was noted to be good two times.
From Genesis Chapter 2
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. (This is on the third day.)
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (This is on the third day)
8 ¶ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. (This is on the third day)
9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. (This is on the third day)
Genesis Chapter One Continued
(Third day, after forming Adam, and placing Adam in the Garden.)
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
(The second time on the third day God said it was good.)
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Posted: Mon Oct 1, 2007 10:40 AM CST
Assumptions
Quote From Signifying Songs: The Double Meaning of Black Dialect in the Works of George Washington Cable By Gavin Jones.
The Tragic mulatto is a stereotypical fictional character that appeared in American literature during the 19th and 20th centuries. The "tragic mulatto" is an archetypical mixed race person, who is assumed to be sad or even suicidal because he/she fails to completely fit in the "white world" or the "black world"
People have assumed that TicTac is sad or even suicidal because she fails to completely fit the live birth human model. She fails to completely fit the full term live birth world, or the nine week dead abortion world. Society views her as a tragic mulatto. As a victim of society. A society divided by aborted babies. A society reluctant to acknowledge aborted babies as human. As a mulatto she is a woman of quad-human species. One egg donor, one sperm donor, and stem cells (DNA) from two adult men. She must endure the hardships of a Quad Mullatto. TicTac looks human enough. It is not immediately obvious that she is a aborted fetus. Allowed to develop in a artificial uterus outside her mother's uterus. The name implies, mulattos most always meet a bad end. Not true! No one can determine what it takes to be her. No will determine what her end will be. It will not be a ideology that denies the full humanity of a live aborted fetus.
Mostly fiction by Nobody54 member of The Center of Creative Reality.
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:07 PM CST
January 6th 1957
I am sure that some of you are wondering how TicTac was aborted when abortion was not legalized until Monday January 22 1973. She was aborted Sunday January 6th 1957 by accident. The egg donor was a intravenous drug user, and had injected heroin. This time, though, something went wrong. The heroin had been cut with some kind of salt solution that induced delivery. Her egg donor became ill. She did not know that she was pregnant. Some one dropped her off at the ER. Possible the sperm donor. Shortly after admission a nurse thinking that the egg donor needed to go to the bathroom placed a bedpan in the proper location for use, and left the room. When the nursed returned she flicked on the lights and pulled back the covers. She found TicTac in the bedpan moving her arms and legs. The nurse gathered the bedpan with the squirming tiny mass in loose bed covers, and walked slowly down the corridor calling to the other nurses. She did not take her to an intensive care nursery, but deposited her instead on the stainless steel drain board of a sink in the maternity unit's Dirty Utility Room. A large closet where bedpans where emptied and dirty linens stored. Other nurses and a resident doctor gathered. The head nurse telephoned the egg donors Doctor, at home, apparently waking him. "He told them to leave it where it was, and to watch it for a few minutes. It will probably die in a few minutes." The nurses and the resident doctor left her, under a light, in the closet with the dirty linen. A few hours later the Doctor, and a Biologist came to the hospital. She was still alive, so they moved her to a artificial womb that the Biologist had been developing. She became a test case. This was her first job. To reject the accidental abortion and live. The Biologist would later become her adopted step-father. Family, and her first Hall Mark moment.
Some Fiction by Nobody54.