Monthly Archives: August 2015
Bruised Soul
My soul was bruised
Before you, yes
I was living but
With the feeling of
Being played and being used
My soul was bruised
My pillow was wet
I forgot about myself
But its hard to forget
The feeling of being used
My soul was bruised
Yes it was bruised
But until
I was blessed with your love
Kissed by your soft lips
I forgot what I had gone through
You have cured my soul
And now if God offered me heaven
Without you, that offer will be refused
YAZ
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#WDBJShooting and Trust Communities
by Kathryn Marguy
As a publicist, my days are consumed by social media. I post to our JHU Press Twitter and Facebook accounts, solicit content for our blog, and communicate with the media to schedule events and interviews. This position has allowed me the opportunity to connect with authors, reporters, corporate organizations, and fellow book lovers from around the world. There is a sort of safety that comes from this comradery. The WDBJ shooting on Wednesday seriously violated that level of trust.
A real-time communication tool like Twitter allows each user to create his or her own social circles. JHU Press author Irene Wu calls these groups “trust communities.” The idea of trust communities, Dr. Wu writes in her book Forging Trust Communities: How Technology Changes Politics, “joins the ideas of network and community as a social group with the capacity to take collective action but without the rules…
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Nice Pad – Towerama
I can’t remember whether this place is a hotel or private … I like it from this angle either way 🙂
It’s four (1wx4h L) photos merged with Photoshop Photomerge
Enjoy 😀
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Path of Life
With a crisp breeze gently caressing my soul, I stroll in the cool morning light relinquishing my thoughts of a sleepless night passing. Nature
whispers in my ear as the collection of wings flutter and dance in a harmonized fashion with joyful song.
The trail is winding back and forth like the unbridled path of my life. The smell of nectar in the air filling my senses with tasteful pleasure.
The journey is long as my legs repeat step after step the body directs. A lonely loon cries out on the lake a warning to others a stranger aloft. Currents of life fill the air of a once barren space. A rabbit emerges to check me out, and then scampers off to hide from this intruder. Humans gone now, the ravages of war. Alone I am as I look for meaning, will I enter the darkness as did the rest…
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Montreal: A Wonderful Summer day at the Mount Royal
An unfamiliar language, increases the time spent on doing routine things.
Well, we were in the city of Montreal, where 70% of the people speak french and it is also the second largest french speaking city in the world after Paris. With everything in French and not in English (as we are used to), everything took longer – from getting directions to reading a menu.
Lesson learned – Before traveling, pick up more than a few words of the local language to make things easier.
Our visit to the Mount Royal (Mont Royal)
The trip began right from the time we settled in our car and the GPS started pronouncing the street names differently & we couldn’t figure out the directions. Our Drive from the hotel to the Mount Royal Park, though it wasn’t long, took quite some time – maybe an extra half an hour. And finally, when…
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3 Reasons to Quit Your Job and Travel
Honoring those that serve us
Tournament of Roses 2015
Alhambra, California honored the Japanese-Americans in WWII with their “Go For Broke” display:
Go For Broke!
Please click on photos to enlarge!
Honoring Louis Zamperini
Mr. Zamperini was made Grand Marshall
For those who care!
U.S. Marine Mounted Honor Guard
Helsingor Pigegarde Elsinore Girls Marching Band from Denmark playing “Anchors Away” while marching in an anchor formation
Thank You !
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Military Humor – cut-backs are international!
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Farewell Salutes – 
Kenneth Bridgham – Rutledge, TN; US Army, Korea & Vietnam, Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Brian Carrothers – Vancouver, CAN; Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s), WWII, D-Day
Cecil Corts – Leslie, MI; US Navy, WWII
Gordon Douglas – Veedersburg, IN; US Army, WWII, ETO, Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Terry Lewis – Little Rock, AR; US Navy (Ret. 25 years), Vietnam
John Mcrath – Canton, GA; US Navy, WWII
Robert Thomas, Melbourne, FL; US Army…
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K TV show: Cool Kiz on the Block
What Would You Say
You have been in the hospital now for the past 14 weeks with an incurable illness that has won the battle against numerous experimental drugs. You are in severe pain and have lost more than 50 pounds since the sickness invaded your body. The doctor has just informed you that you now only have one hour to live at most. All ten of your grandchildren are standing around your hospital bed to say their final good-byes. They have been singing beautiful songs to you all day and praying that somehow GOD will change the outcome that appears imminent. They have the voices of angelic beings. You hold the tiny hands of your youngest grandchild tight and look deep into his eyes with precious last moments of love. You feel cold all over and know the end is very close now. With tears running from the corner of her eyes and dripping…
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Ancien Hippie 