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Gargoyles were the original rain gutters of the 13th century. They diverted rainwater from running down the exterior of buildings.…

I've had fame and fortune, women come knock on my door

I've lived to the limit and maybe a little bit more

There are so many stories of how I got out of control

Some say it's a woman, some say it's my troubled soul

I'm like a crazy old solider fightin'a war on my own

Just me and the whiskey and the bottles are ten thousand strong

You'd think I'd give up as many times as I've been hit

But like a crazy old soldier, I just don? t know…

"Twenty One"

Joe Pesci

Baby you're sixteen. That's not old as it may seem.

As for me I can't believe that it's true.

How a little girl who looks and talks like you,

is not mistaken more for twenty two.

Looking in your eyes it's so hard to realize,

that you're a girl who's only in her teens.

But as a woman of my world you are the one

that makes me feel I'm still twenty one.

What am I gonna do, when a young man calls for you

to take…

I remember being told once that you can't ever go home again,

well you can but not to the home you left that rainy day in 66.

November 1967

I look out the window at the rain washing down the streets of my Southern California town

and shiver at the cold 49 degree weather.

" I'm still in Vietnam" I whisper wondering if I'll really ever return from that hell hole,

it's only 10 AM and I'm already on my 3rd scotch of the day heading to 10 or more before…

Just in case there is a hero out there

Horses needing a ride out of the fires in Northern California...

Anyone near Bangor CA - Here is a distress call...

Please share to horse people close to Grass Valley. There is a bad fire very close to (ERC) Equine Rescue Center. They have no PGE and can't get much out. She asked someone to post and get the word out that she needs help. Please share as far and wide as you can! Text Monica at 831-840-1412. They are at 1944 Robinson Mill…

Success puts you up on a Mountain

You are what you wanted to be

But are you humble and thankful

For all those valleys you walked

That taught you how to survive

Built your courage to change

And the strength to follow through

The greatest times in my life were in those…

REALLY HAPPENING IN Puerto Rico.

First hand report from on the ground in Puerto Rico,via a friend via a friend. They encourage your sharing widely, though you must cut & paste copy perhaps, as it was sent as text from cellphone:

"Its 0400 as I write this, can’t sleep again. I keep thinking about what needs to be done. Sure, we have a plan, ration the water, the gasoline, the food. We’ve been very fortunate. We didn’t get flooded, thanks to 4,100 pounds of sand bags. Yes, I’m…

I. Bissell’s Ride

By Clay Perry

Listen, my children, to my epistle

Of the long, long ride of Israel Bissell,

Who outrode Paul by miles and time

But didn’t rate a poet’s rhyme.

A postman was this Israel Bissell.

Who on his horse, sped like a missile

On April nineteenth, seventy-five,

And few there are who are now alive

Who’ve read of that ride with the “Call to Arms”

Which summoned men with war’s alarms.

At Watertown where the…

A few months back, I met a Lakota woman in town. There were allot of Lakota's here.

Introduction.

As a Catholic, I have always wanted to ease the pain the Christians have wrongly caused the tribes. I read their books, learned their culture. I went to Catholic school. I learned their ways. In 2nd grade we were learning from the Bible of how those who live in Harmony with the Creator's laws are disease Free. Then I had my first vision, it was of a plains tribal people. It's a…

Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1

Ghosts of the Sun Dance

1. The Path

A quest dating back through our history

Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path

Human endurance, road to mystery

Dark trail winding through the gardens of wrath

It echoes through me, this deep ambition

Half century of miles, lifetime compressed

Much more than a race, a sacred mission

With light of hardship I hope to be blessed

To outsiders, an act of madness…

Queen of the Valley hospital in Napa is trying to reach all on call physicians and nurses. Just saw a notice on the news due to the cell service being down. Landline for the Queen is 252-4411 ext:2911. Can everyone share on their page by copying and pasting? here and on Facebook

173rd Airborne AShau Valley Airborne Assault

Many Vietnam Vets, frustrated, bricky hot, dirty with an ageless dirt, tired beyond physical endurance, weary to the bone, scared, skeptical of authority that had lied to them too many times before, boys who had done more than they could in good conscience do, seen more than they could bare to see, lost more than they could afford to lose, when conditions seemed impossibly unbearable, uttered these painful words that became a common…

Like the covered bridges that are all but gone,

so are some words missing in our lives.

"LOST WORDS"

In today's fast world, "TIME", is slipping away from us, literally.

So have some words that were common-place, in daily life.

Words that were used to show an individual's character,…

Many times when I feel the world is in total chaos I find wisdom and a peaceful feeling knowing that Brothers and Sisters are feeling the same way..

Wisdom from Brother Tsoi

Osiyo Sister,

Yes we live in interesting times...seems to be so much anger in the world of humanity and I sometimes wonder…

So many tell me they are strong and independant

Yet they cannot close the door on the past

So they can live for today

They refuse to forgive hurts

Dragging those hurts into each new day

Blinding them

From the truth

Through out history this style of reoccurring mass murders is not natural,

Its unusual for a mass murderer to show up as a super hero with green hair or

for that matter

who shoots up schools? Now its church's, and concerts.

I know scolopamine can produce a state of making its user have no will power.

I found out Billy Ayers ,Obama's ghost writer,

designed the school curriculum of the original shooter attended,

gives one for thought.

I started noticing…

Jeanne Robertson

1 hr · time posted 6:04 PM

Friday. September 29, 2017. Delta #1814. Atlanta to Pensacola. Packed plane. And on the plane with us was an American who made the ultimate sacrifice. And was going home. A coffin draped with the American Flag was in the underbelly of the plane. It was being escorted home by a member of the military, full dress, carrying a folded American flag & other special items for the family. A passenger in first class gave up his seat for this…

ESA Europe at night

Europe at night by ESA from Doug Hagens on Vimeo.

Where Oh Where did my little blog go

where oh where did it go

Was it's language severe or to scary

to appear

Oh where oh where did it go

Oh my oh me oh woe

where oh where did it go

is it playing with peers upstairs

or did someone send it below

it's content au-contraire mon frère

Oh where oh where did my little blog go

where oh where did it go

was the topic too frisky

it's photo too risky

oh where oh where-yes where…

After Years

Of battling the war in my head

Of walking with my dead

Of reliving them all over once again

Of trying to run away from them in the bottom

Of every bottle I could find

Of popping every pill I could ever get my hands on

Of trying to run away from those places

Of where I once had been

Only to find

When that run was over

I was right back where I started from again

Nothing in this world could

Take away from me what…