Fireball's Diary Entry
Trying to bring Rudolph's experience into the way kids who are different are treated in school today.
~ Happy Holidays ~
Wonderful holidays to brighten up our days!
~ Thanksgiving ~
Tis the Holiday season to adding weight to the belly line "Happy Holiday"
~ A Family Get Together ~
A day of Thanksgiving
~ Scary Halloween ~
Boo! Beware! The Ghosts & Witches are coming! On Oct 31, 2018
Ghosts
Getting ready for Halloween with some ghost stories I've heard among my friends and family.
Strawberry Pie
Taking the day off from work to go to a parade and homecoming football game for the college here in Platteville tomarrow.
If The Dead Could Speak
I am going to visit some graves this weekend, even a pet cemetery.
Message from Santa
a Christmas poem I wrote years ago
Ground Hog Day and a Blue Moon
Next week brings Groundhog Day on Friday, February 2 and a lunar eclipse at 6 am on January 31, which is also a blue moon as it is the second full moon of January. We have another blue moon coming in March.
Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you have as much peace as I am going to have for the next ten days, outside of visiting my crazy family!
Christmas blues
The house is filled with Christmas cheer The lights on the tree twinkle like a star The candy bowls are full Yet my heart feels so bare I’m just not in the Christmas spirt this year I hung the stockings with great care The kids are grown
Lost In Translation
Sometimes we become so intent on getting our children that special present, or stressing over financial burdens directly caused by our expenditures during this season that we lose sight of what we're actually celebrating.
I Saw Santa Eating Children
Krampus is Christmas figure from German folklore that comes to whip bad children and eat really bad children. He takes the really bad ones and puts them in the basket he wears on his back.
Thanksgiving
I am looking forward to the time off and just enjoying some good food and a good parade as I do every year.
Life is Festival
Life is a festival, celebrate and drink Spirit and Nature, dance in sync Melancholy of laughter, make you pink Keep gazing beauty, do not blink Pairs of organ, want to think If one fails, you not on brink Light some candles, lamps and incense
~ Christmas Holiday Time ~
Happy Holidays
$3.50 Black Friday Paper
I have never bought anything on Black Friday. I just buy a newspaper to see why over 45 million people go nuts over this stuff.
Due Thanksgiving
“Due Thanksgiving” is a poem I wrote a couple of weeks before the American holiday of Thanksgiving. Our “Harvest Festival”, if you like. And it’s celebrated on the last Thursday in November, each year. And, a couple of weeks before the actual holiday, I got into a reflective mood, thinking about that first Thanksgiving, (Which has devolved into a very commercialized excuse for a “family feast/get together”, now.) and what it was about. And I ended up writing the poem, “Due Thanksgiving”. It’s my take on what “Thanksgiving” is really SUPPOSED to be about. Although it rarely is, today. And there certainly is a religious aspect and context to the holiday, as well as the poem. It started as a Celebration of God’s bounty to his people. And the particular people who started this great “Thanksgiving” were, in fact, “Christians”. A small offshoot branch of “Christianity”, but Christians, nonetheless. And, for such a long poem, something that you may find interesting, is that, from start to finish, this poem only took me between 2 and 3 hours to write. It was almost like there was a hand guiding mine. But the poem isn’t meant to proselytize Christianity. Most people that know me, will tell you that I’m NOT a “religious” person. And, if you’re speaking in terms of “organized” religions, and/or churches, that’s true enough. But I DO have a “spiritual” side. But I think that a man’s “spiritual” nature is his own business! Between him, and HIS “God”. (Just as I don’t feel MY relationship with MY “Higher Power” is anybody’s business, but mine and His! And you might be interested to know that this poem was originally written in a 4 beat meter (as are the majority of my poems, for some reason I’ve never discovered/understood). But, after people bugging me to “do something” with this poem (which is one of the few poems of mine that I’ve shared, openly, with people who I thought might appreciate it) for somewhere around 30+ years, now, I’ve finally broken down and had a poster made up, with this poem. And, to do that, I tried to break it down into a more natural “spoken” rhythm, which is the version you just read. But there are actually several versions of this poem. (I have a propensity for RE-writing my poems. I NEVER consider one of my poems “finished”. They’re ALWAYS open to rewriting, if I think of a way to say something that “I” feel is “better” than my initial phrasing.) Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.
Where to Go
Just got done watching Planes Trains and Automobiles with John Candy and Steve Martin
The Shining
Finishing up the movie The Shining and thinking of all the talk about the massacre that happened Sunday night in Las Vegas. I love how the family acts totally innocent, they did have some influence in how he turned out.
Halloween Traditions
I have a lot of fun celebrating Halloween.
dylan
don't criticize what you can't understand
Casey at the Bat Lawrence Thayer
I like to read this out loud to my friends
Canada
Today is Canada Day.
Mum..
For all the things that you do for me, For being my rock and crutch, For always caring and believing, For loving me so much, Through all the mistakes and ups and downs, You've always been by my side, For showing me how to live and love,
Monster Powers
Just a few of the monsters in some of the movies I watch during the Halloween season. The last movie I watched is Halloween III, about an evil factory owner who makes Halloween masks to kill children.
Christmas Wish List
There are so many more, and endless list that could be made better if Bernie Sanders could have been our next president.
It's A Wonderful Life
I thought of this a long time ago. In a way Mr. Potter never really comes to face any bad consequences for stealing the 8,000 dollars from forgetful Uncle Billy.
Money I've Spent on Christmas
Just thinking back to all the Christmas presents I have bought. My favorite ones were for my nephews because I could get creative and have fun with it. I got a game one year where you pull boogers and try to keep the brain from popping out of the head.
Silent Dreams
Dublin
The Feast
I was watching Ms. Scrooge and heard this story told by a preacher. It is a retelling of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. My favorite retelling of this story is Bill Murray's Scrooge.
Turkey
Celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday by deboning a turkey today. It is the only time I buy a real turkey. The rest of the year I just buy it in a package already formed into thin slices.
Christmas Quandary
I lived this poem about eight years ago, and , the poem just popped in my mind. I printed a picture of Santa along with the poem and put some cash in an envelope and everyone was happy. They had a Merry Christmas ! studecar
Halloween Challenge Reply
A response to the Halloween challenge :)
Somebody Loves You
I might a girl at Kentucky lake on 4th of July we were at the park there and our parents were drinking this guy who was in a RV was telling us how he had to use the bath room he had only his right leg not the left one nothing happen there were about 8 kids there I think we were drink a little but I got this girls name and we wrote each other and then lost contact she wrote this poem for me I can't remember her name I wish I could
Bali (Trip 2 - circa 1992)
* prozzies English slang for prostitutes ** mozzies Aussie slang for mosquitos *** cozzies Aussie slang for swimming costumes (One day I'll go back and give that chef a piece of my mind!).
Beware, Beware
Everywhere I go I am reminded as to what is coming up
Bali (Trip 1 - circa 1990)
Well so it was the plane was born aloft - Goodbye Sydney (if only for a week). Tarmac vanished as up into the soft Clouds the big bird flew (we felt like sheikhs) - Not like jaded jet setters (who did this oft);- So happily we settled in our sea
Memorial Day
Where do we go? That question is probably the one that scares people the most.
POEM FOR IRELAND
After a holiday in Ireland the block on writing lifted for this one poem.
Spring
The weather is only getting better here. I long for an early Spring this year. Thanks. Blessings, Pink. Enjoy your Sunday!