Tag: culture
member name: Bill's Spirit
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August 07, 2006 09:45 AM EDT --
I own a 1986 Chevrolet S-10 4x4 long-bed pickup truck. Her name is Chuck, and I love her dearly.
For more than just financial reasons I do most of the mechanical work on her when she needs it. Unfortunately, . . .
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June 16, 2006 09:27 AM EDT --
In a couple of days I will change my Gather Name from Bill's Spirit back to Bill S. The picture will remain the same for a few weeks to help people with the transition.
I've gotten the feeling . . .
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April 24, 2006 07:16 AM EDT --
I resist authority. Idealistically, by nature and most importantly, by conditioning. An authority figure seriously betrayed my trust and loyalty when I was very, very young. That authority figure ordered . . .
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May 13, 2006 02:12 PM EDT --
Between allergies, physical disabilities, low tolerance for tyrannical management and my own inner restlessness I have worked in over a hundred different facilities in America. I changed jobs an average . . .
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June 19, 2006 08:16 AM EDT --
I am obligated to retract my statement that "Tolerance for playfulness seems scarce." here on Gather.
I didn't plan on getting responses to my article and letter entitled "Changing . . .
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October 19, 2006 07:47 AM EDT --
It's almost midnight. I'm sitting in the dark, smoking Blend 27s, watching Great Expectations with the sound down too low to hear over the fan blowing in the window. Keeping things quiet so . . .
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November 27, 2006 11:16 AM EST --
I was walking back from the library this past Friday afternoon. I'd gone down to snap a picture of the building for a banner I'm crafting for the Community Library Group; and to check-out some . . .
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November 15, 2006 12:12 PM EST --
At forty-seven, do I qualify for being over the hill?
That illustrious sill was crossed at thirty or forty, wasn't it?
All I can say is that the view from whatever side of the hill I'm on still . . .
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July 31, 2006 10:40 AM EDT --
I believe in Peace Movements
and that makes me better than you.
I believe in following the Geneva Conventions
even though the enemy does not
even though you no longer do
and that makes me better . . .
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March 29, 2006 09:45 AM EST --
Suitcase dreams
lose ground
to suitcase realities.
Moving, that is.
Last November
sugar-honey-love-muffin
and I
moved north
twenty miles or so
the last of our belongings
now demanding a journey
to a . . .
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April 17, 2006 04:52 PM EDT --
Ah, the drama youth can bring. When I was a youth I crashed my parent's car. Not one month into owning my driver's license, trying to impress some friends, I took a corner too fast and sent a friend . . .
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April 23, 2006 09:52 AM EDT --
A constitution We once wrote
Privacy, Freedom, Liberty bespoke
The government's powers were limited by creed
To protecting the people from evil's dark deeds
From bloodshed and invasion both . . .
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April 27, 2006 11:12 AM EDT --
Home & Garden Quilts:
Quilt Month at the Alexandria Museum, April 2006
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Alexandria is a small community just a few miles down the road from where I live. It was featured last week in my . . .
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October 16, 2006 09:34 AM EDT --
In a recent press conference President Bush said that setting a deadline for pulling troops out of Iraq equals cutting and running.
What a great line. I wish I had thought of that when I had bosses breathing . . .
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May 04, 2006 12:13 PM EDT --
God spoke to me today. A power surge rebooted my cable box to it's first channel, WSFJ-TV Channel 51, Guardian Television Network.
A show called John Hagee Today, listed as "Series/Religious" . . .
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August 16, 2006 09:58 AM EDT --
I've gotten in the habit of taking our digital point-and-shoot with me wherever I go.
On a trip down to the corner gas station last Saturday I beheld a troupe of Micro-Buses that had descended on . . .
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December 26, 2007 04:19 PM EST --
I like to make the bed.
It's been a part of my character since I left my parent's home.
I did not like to make the bed when I was living in my parent's house.
I tended then to just . . .
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December 07, 2006 11:14 AM EST --
Here is a bug for the ear of Secretary of Defense Nominee, Robert Gates.
Everyone keeps referring to "The War" in Iraq.
But we are not at war with Iraq, are we?
The initial mission was to . . .
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August 15, 2007 12:29 PM EDT --
Congratulations. We have another mission accomplished in the surge to spread Americanism around the globe.
We have created an Iraqi government that perfectly mirrors our American government, in that their . . .
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October 03, 2006 01:05 PM EDT --
Reports on the recent Nickle Mines (PA) shooting are stating that the shooter (Charles Roberts) may have been suffering emotional instability from the loss of a child some three years previous and may . . .
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