tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85076157916665625582024-02-07T14:52:56.944-05:00SMFairytales“Memories…like the corners of my mind”…..Oh no…not so dramatic!
The mission of this blog is to be a collective of friends, fifty years strong & still climbing.
Having met in first grade & still sharing all that life has to hold, let us continue to share our laughter, light & insight as this is what carries us through life.
Let’s see…“Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.”
There, that’s more like it!Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05455938088861467528noreply@blogger.comBlogger702125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507615791666562558.post-64682209865264325852013-06-14T20:56:00.001-04:002013-06-14T20:56:22.642-04:00Happy Birthday Cathy!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05455938088861467528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507615791666562558.post-16241514052724353022013-06-09T20:29:00.002-04:002013-06-09T20:29:30.806-04:00Happy Birthday Linda!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05455938088861467528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507615791666562558.post-25999956639288322982013-05-01T20:20:00.004-04:002013-05-01T20:21:59.294-04:00Happy Birthday Donna<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05455938088861467528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507615791666562558.post-58412886499262453492013-04-03T11:13:00.004-04:002013-04-03T11:13:48.908-04:00Happy Birthday Anne<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: x-large;">Wishing you a happy birthday </span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: x-large;">and a wonderful year.</span></div>
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consider the center of the life source of the lilies of the field…the heart of
God and His love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the
field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin;</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05455938088861467528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507615791666562558.post-13556683771091843902013-03-24T22:53:00.001-04:002013-03-24T22:53:46.537-04:00The Time Traveler<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As I sat
quietly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Earth
spoke to me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It spoke
through a speck of dust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A time
traveler<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I gazed upon
it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Insignificant
in size and appearance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ordinary for
sure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yet, unique…no
two specks alike<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not even
colorful was it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yet as I
pondered it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I questioned
the occasion of our meeting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How is it
you came to me today?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By way of the
Earth did you set out in ancient time?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A mighty
rock or boulder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What is it
you have seen?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By way of
fire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A molten
path from a volcano,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Or Vulcan
itself?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By way of
the oceans…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You have
traversed the seven seas?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What did you
see?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What wisdom
do you carry with you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Have you
been lifted up to the heavens?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ridden on an
eagle’s wing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Or a
castaway in the rhythm of the wind?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Has this
mighty wind brought you here today to speak to me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Or do we
just commune<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Akin to each
other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On this our
journey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sharing the
moment?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I’ll tell
you my story if you tell me yours, I thought!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Fair enough!”
the speck replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I sat amazed
and intrigued<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What could
this speck possibly expound?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I began in
greatness, a speck in the vast universe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have taken
many forms as you have speck-u-lated! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have
travelled many firmaments<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Travelled light
and dark alike<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Elementally speaking,
I have seen it all<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Earth, air,
fire and water are all known to me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But it is my
‘spirit’ within the universe that brings me here today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I say this
to you…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘You are on
the right path’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You are
perfect in all ways<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The questions
you have are meant to be asked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The doubt
that you have is meant to be examined<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Your curiosity
will drive you to the answers that you seek<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once sought
and answered, you will find your peace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You are as
you were created<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A ‘seeker’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One with the
divine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One with the
universe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Finding your
place in this world at this time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am a
humble messenger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Travelling through
time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A speck left
from the tumble weed I once was<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then speeding
at a steadier pace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now slower,
yet not done with my experience of this my life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I tell you
this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I gather
your questions and your quest for this communion with me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And I will
carry this with me forever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I will
extoll your tale of ‘us’ to the universe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of your
awareness of our oneness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We will be
timeless<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We will be
forever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As we are
now we will always be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Never to
part, yet when parted, connected<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I feel the
elements readying me for the next steps of my journey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The wind
stirs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The rain
swells in the clouds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I shall be
carried forth soon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I bid you
well<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all, much more than the ‘Luck-O’-The Irish’, but the faith of St. Patrick. May
all you do today and in the days to come be in the footsteps of Christ as
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the ear of God hear me,<br />
the word of God speak for me.<br />
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the way of God lie before me,<br />
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Christ with me, Christ before me,<br />
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Christ on my right, Christ on my left,<br />
Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit,<br />
Christ when I stand,<br />
Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me,<br />
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Christ in every eye that sees me,<br />
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I can recall too many times staring out the windows…the inside looking out…housebound…watching
the snow fly… then watching the rainfall compact and compress the snow into
mini-glaciers…then watching the mini-icebergs float down the street. These moments
of semi-wonderment (repeated from year to year) were only replaced by today’s greater
surprise …all of it disappearing overnight in the rain. WOW!...to what do my
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peered to the heavens, rather to the tree tops, looking for signs of spring.
There are some very ambitious trees in the sunniest areas with buds ready to
burst with the most recent snow fall not deterring their lofty spring dreams. As
I spied the yard today I too noticed the buds on the quince bush. The azalea is
not quite there, but soon to follow I’m sure. Two days in a row of fifty-degree
weather does give rise to the human spirit in this muddy month of March. With a
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with daylight savings time in place, we are regrouping for spring. As the ice
and snow melts in fifty degree weather and the sun lingers just a bit longer on
the horizon, we delight at the nearness of spring. Snow days and snowmobiles
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progress as we exchanged patterns and crochet tips while clicking away at our shawls.
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and feel that it is very easy for a beginner. The fact that it fully encloses
the body and leaves your hands free is both appealing and comfortable. I am
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our new ministry. Our previous sites have been added for quick reference. I
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Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05455938088861467528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507615791666562558.post-54147052906482265522013-01-26T19:46:00.002-05:002013-01-26T19:46:45.503-05:00Rainbow Rings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05455938088861467528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507615791666562558.post-44608756423233378182013-01-24T20:43:00.003-05:002013-01-24T20:43:14.385-05:00Winter Winds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05455938088861467528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507615791666562558.post-27276098871402334052013-01-23T20:06:00.003-05:002013-01-23T20:06:29.301-05:00Chickadee<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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for those who wish to contribute but have little time, a big heart and not
having the knitting & crocheting skills yet for the two previous shawls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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right now. A small amount of contrasting thread for the edge will make any
fleece into a beautiful prayer shawl. If you do not have a fabric store readily
available to you, I suggest buying any of the fleece throws from your local
department store or chain stores. Find a pretty color or pattern and cut them
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