tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63737494183386732942024-02-19T14:32:33.711-08:00Working Gal Rock and Roll PoetAnne Leighton's Poetry Book, THE LEIGHTON EXPLOSION Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-69223231201361622192024-01-30T01:27:00.000-08:002024-01-30T20:24:59.302-08:00Bronx Poet Anne Leighton Presents First Real World Performance this Decade February 20<p><span face="Impact, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Night Dedicated to Spoken World Artist’s Late, Great 100
Year & Two Day Old Mom </span><span face="Impact, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Art in the Basin Presents Working Gal Rock and Roll Poet and
Spoken Word artist Anne Leighton, who will share her poems on February 20, at 7
pm. This event takes place at Mon Amour Coffee & Wine, 234 W 238th St, New
York, NY, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The venue phone is 718-
708-7804.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This get-together takes place off of Broadway, in Riverdale,
and is on the 9 and 12 bus routes, and the 1 Train.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Art in the Basin’s event page is <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/o/art-in-the-basin-30517892264?fbclid=IwAR13Q5UGqChS1jH8ioTETiMjDkVgMrrR3l5A4BQzpORwvbRdzk0zmEOhgsU">www.eventbrite.com/o/art-in-the-basin-30517892264?fbclid=IwAR13Q5UGqChS1jH8ioTETiMjDkVgMrrR3l5A4BQzpORwvbRdzk0zmEOhgsU</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Their Facebook page is www.facebook.com/artinthebasin <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anne’s program will include new poems including one
dedicated to her female ancestors, especially her late Mom Halin, who would’ve
been 100 years and two days old on the day of her reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“My Mom taught me to collaborate with my
creations,” says Anne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She also plans to read fan favorites from her poetry and
prose book,<b> The Leighton Explosion </b>(Soul Asylum, Canada). Her work shows
a range of stories and interests, especially in rock music and creating peace
and love in her world. Anne’s publisher Ken Cowle says she “made me laugh.”
Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, who writes the book’s foreword, praises her
“lilt” and “personality” in an encouraging note to her. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While Anne usually works as a music publicist with musicians
including Jethro Tull, Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius, Sharon Katz &
The Peace Train, and Michael Veitch, she’s made money and helped improve her
social status from her poetry work. The “rock climbing” includes appearing on
the Grammy-nominated album, Healthy Food for Thought: Good Enough to Eat,
(Audio & Video Labs) with Anne reading her poem “Feed Your Parents
Well.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Her poems have been published in The Indie Collaborative’s
“Holiday Program,” “The Literary Parrot Anthology,” “Elephant Journal,” “BOG
GOB,” “Powerline,” “the Aquarian,” and “Nickel.” A member and occasional
officer in the Bronx Toastmasters Club, she has performed live at the Nuyorican
Poets Cafe and Peter Max’s Studio. Some of her plays have been performed
live—one by the Poets Repertory Theatre of Long Island and another by the San
Antonio Living River Church, and at New York City’s Howl Fest.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anne’s other books are Paws For Thought: How to Understand
What Your Cat is Thinking (Rockwell Books, UK), Using Your Art & the Media
to Comfort People (Free To Run Books, West Hills, CA), and the self-published
e-book, Get the Gig (Common Sense Career Consulting). Anne recently started
producing pop singles. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Poems and songs on Soundcloud: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/leightonmedia/sets/the-leighton-explosion?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing">https://soundcloud.com/leightonmedia/sets/the-leighton-explosion?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">She taught me to sing “Rock and roll all night</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">And party everyday”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">While I did most of the sweating.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I sing, "Babe, I’m a hard-work woman"</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Jaki belts “Get It While You Can"</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">‘cause rock stars expect sex and not my brains</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">and I should learn to fuck</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">instead of being who I am</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">In college I developed clout</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">to learn that Kiss rocked that live</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">and me on the radio through the night</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">dancing all the way to class</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">mates that rock us inside and out</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I smile and hug Kiss’s music</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">The gateway to more rock and roll</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">jocks liking artier notables</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Todd Rundgren, Frank Zappa, Queen</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">New wave, punk, fusion, progressive.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Good Jacquie made me listen</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">in Buffalo my gigs went up</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I got big bucks to teenybop!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Scorned by big jocks, I still gushed</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">loving living a rocking fan!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Friends for life, Jacquie gave me</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">kick in the butt, work me harder</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">to move downstate for my career</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">read letters to Hit Parader</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">and after work show biz soirees!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">The same room with the demon</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">His voice like a radio host</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Filling a room with clarity</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">A warm basso resonating</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Welcoming this pushy woman</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Paul dancing gave us good views</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">His energy made us hot</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">“And nobody’s gonna change me”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">He sang, “‘cause that’s who I am”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Eric Carr & Bruce liked my moves. </span><span face=""UI sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">😊</span><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Jacquie gushed all over it.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">On a long distance phonecall</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">She said I’m moving to L.A.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I went to work the next day</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">The boss scolded ‘cause I danced</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Screw him, ‘cause that’s who I am!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">So sad he doesn’t understand</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">It’s about the demon—the man</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I met Gene Simmons last night</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I’m gonna interview HIM!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">We talked about his mother</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">And how she taught him to grow up</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">His ideas on how women talk</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">They think with their hearts, he said</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">That’s still making me wonder.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">One night Hit Parader rocked</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Sponsored a Limelight show with KISS</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">And indie rock bands we respect</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Gene & the guys in the lounge</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">They liked my look all dressed up</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Chubby me wearing a t-shirt</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Smiling he said they were pretty</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I never thought that of me</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I felt more like a bad ass</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Not needing my editor’s snort</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I know my boss thinks I am weird</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">But I’m faithful and love my work</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">While discerning what I hear</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I get on with most people</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Loving them all near and dear</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I transition as freelancer</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">supporting artists, bit by bit</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Bruce and I reconnected</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Through Grand Funk with Don, Max, Tim </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">seen in the Kiss newsletter.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Read KISS AND MAKE UP in college</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I studied Jewish history</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">It’s bad people keep hating</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I like he’s anti-bullying</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">It makes me feel extra blessed.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">And I love all the dramatics</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Live rock and theatre are kin</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">You collaborate you win</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">That lets you let it all hang out, </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Which makes you fly past the limit</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">spectacular influences</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">From Twisted Sister, my friends</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Helen Wheels, Gwar and Poison</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Michigan rock stars Madam X</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">all inspire the audience</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">My friend Phoebe - Phoebe Legere </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Always working magic live </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">She said Gene gave her advice</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">You can tell, ‘cause her shows go big</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">She won’t say what he taught her</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Jacqui’s ears were buzzing</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">For a week, we talked tongue and star</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">She cried—we lost Eric Carr</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">We loved Black'n’Blue and Badlands</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">We loved Buffalo Rock City</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">In nearby Rochester</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">And far out in California</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I found something similar</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">All these guys named Mike- all true fans</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Small world learning from our rock stars</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Something I once had seen</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">of Joe who’s most special to me,</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">A photo of him wearing</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Sunglasses, playing violin</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">He looked like a brother to Gene</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Joe was like an old soul</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Who kept going as his best fan</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">A book, concerto, his band</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Collaborations connecting </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">On stage and off, he’s rock and roll</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Imagine Gene’s support</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Buying Joe’s merch at stratos band</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Dot com slash shop for album,</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">cup, and sheet music, mp3s</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">I dream of Gene, such a great thought….</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Sigh!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">They built such an Empire</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">State Building support in the end</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">at Madison Square Garden</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">The idea whatever you do</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">is to light your passion on fire</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Good Jacquie’s loving KISS</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">She’s working in L.A. with smiles</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">and her friends it’s often good times</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">Customer service and great art</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;">It all inspires her to do this.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "MT Pro serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; outline: none;"> </span><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="824" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GLfMmwNkWCA" width="991" youtube-src-id="GLfMmwNkWCA"></iframe></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-23689643045308983622023-11-27T00:40:00.000-08:002023-11-27T00:40:36.398-08:00Thank you, December<p><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">
Thank you, December<br />
and anthropologists that love cultures.<br />
I’m grateful to the complainer<br />
that didn’t want the crèche in Town Square.<br />
<br />
“Gracias” to this last month.<br />
That exclusion gave me realization<br />
all holy days are for all from now on. <br />
Holy days holidays for anyone.<br />
<br />
“Shehr-scher,” holydays, for epiphanies!<br />
Bodhi, Kwanzaa are journeys<br />
Yalda and Christmas help families.<br />
Hanukkah, Winter Solstice love peace<br />
<br />
“Ahhh Bahd,” December 8<br />
Bodhi Day is what Buddhists celebrate <br />
and their own enlightenment <br />
and that Buddha awakened! <br />
<br />
Hebrew: “To-dah Rah-bah,” Hanukkah,<br />
8 days lighting the menorah<br />
500 BC a temple restored<br />
in Jerusalem where many found their Lord. <br />
<br />
“Moo-shoo-sha-kuh-rahm,” first day of winter<br />
The Solstice and Yalda December 21rst<br />
Yalda is Zoroastrian from Persia <br />
Pssst! Freddie Mercury’s their most famous worshipper! <br />
<br />
“Goh ruh MAH Hahhguct,” gods and goddesses<br />
The Pagans’ fires and earth’s excesses<br />
are the sun’s life-giving manifestations <br />
and Winter Solstice’s celebrations!<br />
<br />
“Danke Schoen,” Christmas day,<br />
created for baby Jesus in the Middle Ages,<br />
doesn’t have to be about money.<br />
It’s really a day that you create<br /></span></p>
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">“Engosee,”
South Africa, giving us all<br />
the Day of Good Will as its own reward. <br />
For Christians that aren’t commercial <br />
the day after is quite thoughtful! <br />
<br />
“Ah-sahn-te” for the first of January is holy.<br />
Kwanzaa’s seventh day of GROWING<br />
harvesting Faith, Unity, and beauty <br />
and living responsibly and creatively! <br />
<br />
“Wanìshi,” Powerful Creations:<br />
the air, water, earth inspiration<br />
plants, animals, humans living<br />
night and day thanking all imaginations.<br />
<br />
Thank you for listening, <br />
and being understanding<br />
‘cause I believe in love, peace<br />
and every spirituality! <br /></span>
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<!--[endif]--></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="613" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AeRoU7ji7wM" width="737" youtube-src-id="AeRoU7ji7wM"></iframe></div><br /><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-75186890147581231702023-06-24T01:16:00.008-07:002023-06-24T20:52:41.771-07:00Hugs In the Hood<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">(To Robin Lane)</span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">If you’re trying to
see where I’m going<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">I’m trying to learn what
I’m knowing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Like promoting my
poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">And asking to help me
get a reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Somewhere with
somebody<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">I asked a friend who gets
on these bills<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">She told me I’m unreasonable.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Time to boldly hug like we've done before</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hugging we need it more each day, and even more</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">There’s no scene if
people are mean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hugs Hugs Hugs in the
Hood <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Life would be the way
it should<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">If we all understood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The power of good<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hugging for everybody<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Including me!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Bring back Hugging<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hugging in the Hood!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">I’ve been dealing
with the politicians<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">They’re saying they’ll
bring jobs to the Bronx<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">I speak up for
musicians<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Making sure they get
compensation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">For feel good
entertainment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Playing for exposure doesn’t
pay bills<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Politicians, it's time to be respectful. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; mso-themecolor: text1;">Time to boldly hug like we've done before</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hugging we need it more each day, and even more</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">There’s no scene if
people are mean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hugs hugs hugs in the
hood <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Life would be the way
it should<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">If we all understood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The power of good<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hugging for everybody<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Including me!! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Bring back Hugging<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hugging in the Hood!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">This bridge is about the guy I love</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">I want to see him
rise above<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">But he acts like an
unhappy schmuck <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">the bearded evil Mr.
Spock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">not humane as normal
Star Trek guy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">and I observe lies no
matter how hard I try<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">he finds ways to be
mean and play games<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">sad to see we were
never twin flames<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">He could be helped by
some crazy hugging<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Doctor McCoy healed just
sending good vibrations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">To him, my poet
friend and all the politicians!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Woo! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hugs hugs<br />
Everywhere a hug<br />
Hugging up the scenery<br />
Hugging my mind deliberately<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">Healing--<br />
Hug me, don't stop that<br />
Can't you hug my mind? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; mso-themecolor: text1;">Time to boldly hug like we've done before</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hugging we need it more each day, and even more</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">There’s no scene if
people are mean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hugs Hugs Hugs in the
hood <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Life would be the way
it should<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">If we all understood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The power of good<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hugging for everybody<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Including me!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Bring back Hugging<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hugging in the Hood!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">-2023 </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="571" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/apBWI6xrbLY" width="687" youtube-src-id="apBWI6xrbLY"></iframe></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-39666298875579384752023-04-19T01:04:00.004-07:002023-05-11T18:03:28.818-07:00tanka<p>Friday night aging</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It takes time to write punchline<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">no stiffer than me<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">listening to the YouTube<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">eating and reading emails<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-April 20<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="493" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JSt9f6Zos9w" width="592" youtube-src-id="JSt9f6Zos9w"></iframe></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-9200773736762608052023-02-27T00:49:00.003-08:002023-02-27T00:49:43.119-08:00Mind Full<p>In between</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Therapists<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DePressed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Figure-atively, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Literally.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-February 2023<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="339" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D6Aw3ZnqQrY" width="748" youtube-src-id="D6Aw3ZnqQrY"></iframe></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-88884922700539743852023-02-12T00:44:00.004-08:002023-02-12T00:44:56.305-08:00Writer and Rider - Spiders At Peace<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Writer the Spider<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and Rider the Spider<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">sat down beside <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">one so playful<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">with intentions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that flowed stomps.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Writer the Spider <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And Rider the Spider <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">jagged their fright<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">in flight forced<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">them to die.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Feb. 2023</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="589" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qnyJta54-MA" width="709" youtube-src-id="qnyJta54-MA"></iframe></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-59312434479943522892022-12-28T23:44:00.009-08:002022-12-29T20:52:55.167-08:00I'll Bed On Me<p>I don’t make my bed in the morning</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and tend to wake after eleven<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">well, when it darkens on the outside<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and inside as I stall turning on lights<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The sun-blocked by concrete walls<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">protect a million dollar muscle<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">when it should cost just 10 thousand<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and constructed in course of one season.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My process runs, twerks, splits & sits all day</p><p class="MsoNormal">when I’m dancing, cleaning, emailing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">before a movie on Netflix<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">playing with blankets as my aerobics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">blankets mature as workout props</p><p class="MsoNormal">hold them tight like ropes you don’t drop<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">wave one at a time, make it fun<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">shaking arms and abs getting me strong.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stretch from legs to brain<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">from plans, attempts to completion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">moves from matter to energy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and time –it’s much too early to sleep!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-December 28, 2022 </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="760" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PLEQRIisP_Q" width="914" youtube-src-id="PLEQRIisP_Q"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-7819554092848454262022-12-13T01:27:00.003-08:002022-12-13T01:27:25.815-08:00Everybody<p>my stepmom organized</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">diminished leftovers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">so bowls of all sizes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">found melting and melding<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">with her stews and sauces<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of veggies and Butter.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-December 2022<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="581" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-AphKUK8twg" width="699" youtube-src-id="-AphKUK8twg"></iframe></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-41054735801123055892022-11-13T22:03:00.002-08:002022-11-21T20:25:10.919-08:00Poem on Progress<p><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Looking for a five-syllable phrase</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">on a sobbing Saturday</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">my rain and the skies tears<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">reminding
me it’s here<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="516" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VKWdp4H5vlk" width="620" youtube-src-id="VKWdp4H5vlk"></iframe></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-53439852402598726072022-10-27T16:02:00.000-07:002022-10-27T16:02:03.015-07:00Working Gal Rock and Roll Poet: Puff’s “Brandi Carlile”<a href="https://workinggalrockandroll.blogspot.com/2022/10/puffs-brandi-carlile.html?spref=bl">Working Gal Rock and Roll Poet: Puff’s “Brandi Carlile”</a>: New poem that helps Puff the Magic Dragon deal with his depression through love and reaching out to him.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-41080298400248088482022-10-27T03:06:00.003-07:002022-10-27T03:08:57.523-07:00Puff’s “Brandi Carlile” <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It seems that my colleagues in the Bronx Toastmasters Club of
Riverdale have been the first to receive some of my awakenings. I’m
going to make you the second to hear about what my experiences have been at
Toastmasters. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I
talk about ways to make the world a better place. Folk music professionals,
such as me and Peter, Paul, and Mary inadvertently created generations of
children whose lives were affected by a depressed dragon, who gave up his
fearless roar because he lost a friend.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As
fellow human beings, we should reach back when someone—especially a creature so
strange—gives up. You have to keep reaching back to them, trying to share
love. I do this. Some of my best friends withdraw from friendships
and soak in anger and isolation. Reaching back in love and giving them
space when they need it is a good way of showing compassion and understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">One
of today’s folk artists, Brandi Carlile has set an example of how it’s
done. Check out her story about helping Tanya Tucker make a
comeback. Now she’s helping Joni Mitchell perform again…. One day at
a time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Here's
what I’m doing for Puff the Magic Dragon, Brandi Carlile-Style.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">One blue night I was lonely</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">And set off for Honah Lee.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">My feelings I could not ignore</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">for I missed Puff’s fearless roar.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I knew he hid in his cave</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">and that we both needed to be brave</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">We also need dragons of magic</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">their strong intrepid spirits.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hey, Puff you magic dragon,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Tell us what’s going on</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">With some support you’ll get through this</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">‘cause you helped us feel so blessed</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Puff felt like we were listening</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">and smiled his firery grin, ‘cause love
reached him--</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">our attention returned his old flames </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">and so did playing tag and chess games!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This dragon lives forever.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">He has his people everywhere.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Together we all are friends</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">our courageous roars will never end!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Puff the magic dragon still lives by the sea</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">And he loves it when we play</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">And now he’s happy most everyday</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">in a land called Honah Lee!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Yay!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">--October 2022</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="531" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wkEPoarfKK0" width="639" youtube-src-id="wkEPoarfKK0"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-40527273150080635212022-06-11T01:31:00.003-07:002022-06-11T01:31:35.072-07:00Anxiety<p> Sometimes I walk closer</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to New York City buildings,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">so I’m not alone<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I need a human<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not just anyone will do.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Comforters like me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-June 10, 2022<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="525" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p-ktZ1jARKQ" width="632" youtube-src-id="p-ktZ1jARKQ"></iframe></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-55502285275833857122022-01-07T22:57:00.006-08:002022-06-11T01:26:12.950-07:00 Yes, it’s Super Broke!<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Super Broke</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">saves what he can<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">which saves the day someday!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Intriguing adapting! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh my gosh,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he gave away his secret identity,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the guy working at the deli,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">behind the counter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when the shopper asked for a loan!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m Super Broke!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">believing in truth justice <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and the American dream!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Super Broke<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">willing to fight<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He’s the one who speaks up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">no matter who objects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He can’t fly,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he’s going to amount to something!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He knows responsibility<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">balancing his budgets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and coming to his own rescue!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s Super Broke!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He never makes enough- but<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he knows he is enough!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Super Broke<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">finding free pleasures,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and when the car breaks down <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he rides early bus to town!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Poverty <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the system built by people struggling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">from cotton to textile mills,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rags to riches, do the dishes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and cooking up peoples wishes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s Super Broke! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A true protagonist <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">defines antagonists!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Super Broke <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">who loves to help<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and eats what he affords…..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">mmmm-hmmm -- looks good in tights!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Yes!!! It’s Super Broke!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="567" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ghLWjyOOLno" width="682" youtube-src-id="ghLWjyOOLno"></iframe></div><br /><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-53034782908106749372021-11-27T17:18:00.005-08:002021-11-28T14:05:32.833-08:00Our Mother's Prayer<p><b>(RESPECT, the movie and me)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>That was the scene<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>at the piano<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Jennifer Hudson as Aretha<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>and Audra McDonald her mother<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From beyond.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Aretha was<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>A natural mom<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>To Jennifer and music girls<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>I think of the roles my mom played with me<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>I had needs.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Sometimes darkness<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>replaces losses<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>When we couldn’t mother our hurters<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>the folks we wanted as our special friends<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>were dead ends<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="531" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tsk83YuFeB8" width="639" youtube-src-id="Tsk83YuFeB8"></iframe></b></div><b><br /></b><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Nov. 25, 2021</b><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-24143861250821279652021-10-09T23:52:00.005-07:002021-10-11T00:22:52.042-07:00Read All About It<p>"You treat your pets special"</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Says the dude w the big muscles<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Held the door open<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"I like you lady, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You mind your own business<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes oh yes oh yes."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">OH NO! I don’t<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Whatever happened to truth telling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And "If you see something, say something"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But now folks aren’t living it<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">so many so apathetic?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oh he was so
beautiful<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His biceps, triceps visual<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I pointed next door<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some things I won’t ignore<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He flexed and then he hissed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Yes oh yes oh yes"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">no way, jose<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Whatever happened to truth telling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And "If you see something, say something"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But now folks aren’t living it<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">so many so apathetic?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Said he knew all about it</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And told me to forget it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Said not to speak up<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He’s someone that’s
xo tough<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Stay safe," he punched with snickers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes oh yes oh yes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oh yes, siree, ! I’m saying it</p><p class="MsoNormal">‘cause I see it!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Next door to me<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Where these ladies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Show cruelty<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Animal neglecting<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bullying, abusing, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">then lying.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So here’s me preaching<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And saying what I’m seeing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Won’t you join me<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In seeing and saying!?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Time to wake up<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It’s time we all bring back truth telling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And "If you see something, say something"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cause now folks need to say it<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and stop being so apathetic!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">C Anne Leighton, 2021, All Rights Reserved</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="576" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u9Dg-g7t2l4" width="693" youtube-src-id="u9Dg-g7t2l4"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-90111086912880576552021-07-04T00:17:00.001-07:002021-07-04T00:17:15.682-07:00Firecrackers<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">UnAmerican!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Your Made in India Bombs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">hates Cats, Dogs, Veterans!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Spewing pandemic-<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">crazies, unpatriotic <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">bang bang bangs no brain just sick<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="455" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bJIndDAw9pg" width="547" youtube-src-id="bJIndDAw9pg"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Dean Friedman's song has alternatives to illegal fireworks. :)</b></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-59697267720226037832021-06-21T18:55:00.001-07:002021-06-21T18:55:03.808-07:00Working on a Christmas song at Triangle Studios, in the BX<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/KKhpxv-65-I" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In the summertime when the weather is fine, we work on Christmas music.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><a data-attribute-index="0" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=musicbusiness&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#MusicBusiness</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a data-attribute-index="1" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=jinglebells&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#JingleBells</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a data-attribute-index="2" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=christmas&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#Christmas</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a data-attribute-index="3" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=hiphop&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#hiphop</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a data-attribute-index="4" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=femaleemcee&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#femaleemcee</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a data-attribute-index="5" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=familyreunion&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#FamilyReunion</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a data-attribute-index="6" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=sleighride&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#sleighride</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a data-attribute-index="7" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=sleigher&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#Sleigher</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a data-attribute-index="8" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=christmasmusic&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#ChristmasMusic</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a data-attribute-index="9" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=holidaymusic&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#HolidayMusic</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a data-attribute-index="10" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=songwriting&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#Songwriting</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a data-attribute-index="11" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=christmas2021&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#Christmas2021</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><a data-attribute-index="12" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=drums&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#Drums</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> by </span><a data-attribute-index="13" data-entity-hovercard-id="urn:li:fs_miniProfile:ACoAAClYOJQBl9tMfUzAnGaBWKXfvPofN-2qitw" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAClYOJQBl9tMfUzAnGaBWKXfvPofN-2qitw" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Mitzner</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><a data-attribute-index="15" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=production&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#Production</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and </span><a data-attribute-index="16" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=coachingby&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6812919661148143616" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;">#coachingby</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a data-attribute-index="17" data-entity-hovercard-id="urn:li:fs_miniProfile:ACoAABVrBk4B8KF9q7oBOs1HDK2ZouFN2pch8_w" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAABVrBk4B8KF9q7oBOs1HDK2ZouFN2pch8_w" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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font-size: x-large;">She bought herself tuna fish<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: x-large;">He got salami</span><o:p></o:p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="508" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XCIUY6kf7S4" width="611" youtube-src-id="XCIUY6kf7S4"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-53346633514517105252021-05-24T00:03:00.002-07:002023-12-28T01:58:01.926-08:00Conspiracist In Spite of Himself<p><span style="font-family: times;"> I’ve had enough of crazy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Our minds have become lazy<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Call me a jerk for being blunt<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">There are lies we must confront <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b><span style="color: #1c1e21; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Let’s Contradict conspiracies<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">You and me, and everybody <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">My name is Anne, and I’ll be a true friend<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">and speak up when you go off the deep end<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Five times I went out to hug a tree<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">As I watched a film about conspiracies<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Trial of the Chicago 7<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">At first I laughed when the defendants<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Said “CONSPIRACY!” when they answered the phone<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">But that judge lied and made them feel alone<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">When leaders put people though this schtick <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">I think of Elvis Costello’s words “I used to be disgusted<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Now I try amused” even at smearers <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Be they J Edgar Hoover or my neighbor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">the one lying and full of much deceit<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">letting her cats get lost in the street <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">These conspiracies lie to you<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Oh, glorious humanity, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">No more notorious insanity<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Those foolish things, they go BOO!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">He wasn’t the best mind of a generation<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">And lacked Solomon’s kind of wisdom<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Writing an autogenerated<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">personal note; do you get it?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Let’s take comments on a case-by-case basis<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Conspiracies in Spite of themselves<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">These conspiracies lie to you</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Oh, glorious humanity, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">No more notorious insanity <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Those foolish things, they go BOO! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">The boss thinks his workers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Are like him scheming and hurting others <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">When all they’d like is some humanity <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">And opportunities for decent money<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Instead Armageddon to others he meets<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">complaining accusing them all of greed <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">Vaccinate before a vacation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">as we’re all ready to look at your brain<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; line-height: 107%;">immunologists</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">
therapists,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">the next best conspiracists<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">warning if we research on the Internet<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">our searching will not be our little secret<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">These conspiracies lie to you</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Oh, glorious humanity, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">No more notorious insanity<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Those foolish things, they go BOO!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;">My future
ex-mate smears</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1c1e21; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">you
and me without any cares<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">And my doctors, they will not atone<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">for birthing my hormones and body groans<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">from butter, chocolate, and coffee <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">could they be satanic or healthy for me,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>baby!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">These conspiracies lie to you<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Oh, glorious humanity, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">No more notorious insanity<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Those foolish things, they go BOO!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Kennedy, Bruce Lee and Lady Di<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Painful ways the greats say goodbye <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">If climate change is something you believe<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Then why do you freeze when it’s 60 degrees?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Let’s not talk about eating the babies <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">
Lies destroying friends and families <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span style="color: #1c1e21; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span style="color: #1c1e21;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;">When UFOS and billionaires meet <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;">as Josie and Pussycats save music
industry<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;">from lies of the world’s conspiracies<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;">stopping all of them becoming realities <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;">I hope we don’t fool ourselves <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;">Believing we can fall victim this mental hell <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1c1e21; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">I’ve had enough of mind games</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">I’ve had enough of insane brains<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Call me a jerk for being blunt<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">There are lies we all must confront<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b><span style="color: #1c1e21; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Let’s Contradict conspiracies<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">You and me, and Everybody <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">It’s time we become true friends <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">And tell our loves when they go off the deep end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">These conspiracies lie to you</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Oh, glorious humanity, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">No more notorious insanity <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Those foolish things should make us seek<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">truth.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="644" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/umRMknaQQF4" width="775" youtube-src-id="umRMknaQQF4"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-76043238864881459252021-04-20T22:16:00.001-07:002021-04-20T22:45:28.251-07:00 The Gift of Truth-Telling Women<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our Responsibilities on the
Centennial of Women’s Right To Vote</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">I was unfriended for posting that
Marianne Williamson supports vaccinations. It was during the 2019 political
campaign when social media insisted she was a fat-shamer and an
“anti-vaxxer.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my intelligent
friends blocked me when I insisted that Big Cat Rescue/Tiger King’s “villain” Carole
Baskin was loved by the Cat Writers’ community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The City of Boston excommunicated
Anne Hutchinson, in 1638, because she taught religion in her home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In her trial, the church leader that,
initially, helped midwife Anne bury a stillborn baby, betrayed her confidence.
He testified against her.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The “witches” of the Middle Ages
disturbed the male-led world order as many were midwives who brought new babies
into the world. They were accused of eating babies and having their cats sneak
into religious leaders’ bedrooms to infiltrate their dreams!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">I would have been burned or hanged
as a witch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love cats, and have spoken
up for myself. From firing an assistant who bullied a black man to pointing out
a dear friend’s hypocrisy, I’ve angered friends whom I’ve confronted!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">I’m grateful to be alive today,
thanks to my mom, ancestors, and inspirational big sisters like Gloria Steinem,
and those activists who fought for women before her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m glad that people like me are speaking up,
and setting records straight, because we’re getting great work done in honest
and powerful ways. We care about people, and many men and women know it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">I think that because the “crazy”
women have purposeful lives and reflect historical archetypes of the “witch”/ ”mother”/
”sage,” these females are scorned even by other women. Carrie Chapman Catt was
a leader of the women’s suffrage movement that helped women the right to vote
100 years ago, August 26, 1920.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First
Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Michelle Obama are powerful and magical women, but
regarded negatively by those with too much time on their hands and too little
brains in their heads.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">50 years after it was first
introduced to Congress in 1971 (after almost 50 years of the first draft!),
we’re on the verge of ratifying it to the United States Constitution. If it weren’t
for the neighborhood feminist, who called me “Ms.” Leighton, I might not have
voted for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was my first time at
the polls, and I didn’t know that I could be self-dependent being so new in the
working world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Fortunately, nobody made my way
easy, and I adapted, taking care of business. What keeps us working is that we’re
here to serve the planet and its people. I developed a professional showbiz
career on my terms both as an artist and music services person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">News of corruption, sexual
misconduct, using government funds for personal use from national heroes,
allegedly responsible leaders, and public figures coincided with the declining
physical health of our world. We yell at our neighbors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw our sisters lose careers if they spoke
up against on-the-job abuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of us
put them down, instead of going the extra mile to find out what was hurting
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">One of the reasons we still
struggle is that the truth-telling woman has been ostracized since the
beginning of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Smear campaigns… gossip…
rumors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marianne Williamson posted on
her social media, August 5, 2019 “There’s an ancient strain of misogyny that
labels any women who doesn’t toe the line with the status quo of her time as
‘crazy’ or ‘dangerous.’ We will not have full empowerment of women until we
face that head on.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Gloria Steinem speaks of the
importance of building up other women, not breaking them down. She never felt
she could succeed alone. One of my showbiz online forums had a man posting that
the Chicks were insincere and pandering to the public for dropping the
offensive “Dixie” from their name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
woman spoke up for the performers, “We should be happy they’re supporting blacks.”
When he called them “irrelevant,” a lesbian posted that she appreciated their
support all these years to the LGBTQ community, and that they collaborated with
Taylor Swift. We can show the same support for our friends when they’re
disrespected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">None of us like gaslighting, nor
people telling lies about us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if
there’s readily accessible proof of our innocence, we’ll see dishonest
accusations. Maybe the bully is overwhelmed by the amount of content
online.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then again, perhaps the attacker
has anger at the world, and wants to start a fight by belittling others.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Women need to speak up for
themselves, especially if they’re the only ones willing to stand up for
themselves!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">We need to speak up for one
another.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I first heard about Carole
Baskin being bullied on the Netflix series “Tiger King” from Paw Project
activist, veterinarian Dr. Jennifer Conrad.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I was appalled as the Big Cat Rescue owners had been a great source when
I wrote about jaguars and needed photos for CatFancy.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tigers In America owner William Nimmo
(tigersinamerica.org) said her rescue is a top tier animal sanctuary. Animal
Planet’s Jackson Galaxy posted support on social media. She’s admitted on her
website that she made mistakes in her early years, when she bred wild cats. But
she moved on, and became a responsible animal rescuer. Part of her mission is
lobbying Washington, DC politicians to pass HR 1380 and S2561:“The Big Cat
Safety Act.” The goal is to diminish breeding and trade of wild cats.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Famous “witches” are Hillary
Clinton, the Chicks (now and when they were Dixie), technology geeks,
bodybuilders, Madam CJ Walker, Cher….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
with deliberate adversity, these women seem to magically prove themselves
because they’re smart, productive, and not involved with smear campaigns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re busy making the world a better place,
including doing their homework and being there for their friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">These women work in mysterious
ways. They know their talents and purpose because they served the public, even
making others powerful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re so
connected with the universe because they play and work with honesty, working
for inclusion, especially for the underdogs....or abandoned cats. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="461" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VOEFh5042JQ" width="554" youtube-src-id="VOEFh5042JQ"></iframe></span></div><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-91355994831695799472021-03-01T17:49:00.004-08:002021-03-01T17:50:33.322-08:00‘less<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Push me out into space</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 2.95pt; margin: 2.95pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 87%;">make me see good mother earth from the outside.</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #1000;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto; mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 2.95pt; margin: 2.95pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 87%;">I wanna see this place</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #1000;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto; mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 2.95pt; margin: 2.95pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 88%;">I wanna be in Space—I gotta be in space</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #1000;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto; mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 2.95pt; margin: 2.95pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 91%;">outside of this big ole world.</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #1000;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto; mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 7.35pt; margin: 7.35pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 86%;">Faster than the speed of sound.</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #1000;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto; mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 2.95pt; margin: 2.95pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 90%;">More powerful than the world being round.</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #1000;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto; mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 2.95pt; margin: 2.95pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 89%;">Riding through the universe.</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #1000;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto; mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 2.95pt; margin: 2.95pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 90%;">Floating with you in verse and in reverse</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #1000;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto; mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 2.95pt; margin: 2.95pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 91%;">outside of this big ole world.</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #1000;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto; mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 7.35pt; margin: 7.35pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 89%;">Making rings around the moon,</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #1000;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto; mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 2.95pt; margin: 2.95pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 91%;">I’m doing everything up and down</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #1000;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto; mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 2.95pt; margin: 2.95pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 90%;">acrobatic clown—a naturalistic sight.</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #1000;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto; mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 2.95pt; margin: 2.95pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 88%;">I have caught the speed of light</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 7.35pt; margin: 7.35pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 91%;">-1984</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -28.35pt; margin-top: 7.35pt; margin: 7.35pt -28.35pt 0in 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="425" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XeC4nqBB5BM" width="512" youtube-src-id="XeC4nqBB5BM"></iframe></div><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-74503241813380905362021-01-18T00:31:00.002-08:002021-01-18T00:33:20.898-08:00Anne Answers The Esquire Questionnaire<p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">According
to Esquire Magazine, this evolved from a game that Marcel Proust helped
popularize in 19th-century parlor soirees. People would take part purely as a
party entertainment, though supposedly they often walked away with a greater
insight into themselves. I can’t guarantee that that outcome, but it is fun and
what the heck, we could all use a bit of amusement and/or enlightenment, so why
not? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>What
is your idea of perfect happiness? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Close
to what I have, where I can sleep with cats, write, dance, eat great food, but
also hang out with my neighbors and friends again!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 11.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>What
is your greatest fear?</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Homelessness</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 11.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>What is the trait you most deplore in
yourself?</b></span><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 11.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> I believed in people that weren’t worth it. </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> <b>What is the trait you most deplore in others?</b> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Cruelty,
not listening</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> <b>Which living person do you most admire? </b> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Besides
my friends, Oprah.</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 11.5pt;"> <b>What is your greatest extravagance? </b> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 11.5pt;">Italian
food on Arthur Avenue, and working in the recording studio</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>What is your current state of mind? </b> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Thoughtful.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> Just b</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">eing my own angel.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>What do you consider the most overrated virtue? </b> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Greed</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">("Greed is good."-The Movie, "Wall Street")</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>On
what occasion do you lie?</b> T</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">o protect friends. Sometimes to myself, especially if I want to achieve something the universe seems to be saying "no" about.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>What do you most dislike in your appearance? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">I’m
fat, and would love to be trimmer.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">What living person do you most despise? </span></b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Of
the people I know, I’d say there are about dozen people that bullied me when I
wanted to mend fences with my artist.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>What is the quality you most like in a man? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">listening</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>What is the quality you most like in a woman? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Same
thing.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">We should be encouraging each
other.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>Which words or phrases do you most overuse? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Folks,
</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> Meow, Woof, </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Joe.....</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>What or who is the greatest love of your life? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Myself</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>When and where were you happiest? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">When
I’m in bed with my cats</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>Which talent would you most like to have? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">The
right touch when I play piano or guitar.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Being able to play those instruments coherently and fluently.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Even on kalimba, I’m jagged.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">I
want to be more lean.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">I work at it, and I know it'll be amazing, someday.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>What do you consider your greatest achievement? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Believing
that we can all create opportunities for ourselves.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">It’s possible to make a profit as a writer.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what would it be? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">A
neurologist.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">I’ve planned my next
life.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>Where would you most like to live? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Right
here in the Bronx!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>What is your most treasured possession? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">My
current computer and my poetry book "The Leighton Explosion."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">People
deliberately being destructive and hurting or killing others. That comes from making assumptions and prejudice.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">What is your favorite occupation? </span></b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Of
me, I’d say creative and artist development, including myself.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>What is your most marked characteristic? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">My
voice and my smile.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>What do you most value in your friends? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">They understand where I’m coming from.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>Who are your favorite writers? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Bruce
Lee, Nelson Mandela, Dale Carnegie, King Solomon, Susie Rakowski, Elliott
Murphy</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>Who is your hero from fiction?</b> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Xena and Nancy Drew!!!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>Which historical figure do you most identify with?</b> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Frank
Zappa</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>Who are your heroes in real life? </b> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">My
friends Joe, Joe, Phoebe, Sharon, Ian, Larry, Hank, Greg, Catalina & her family</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>What are your favorite names?</b> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Renee</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>What is it the you most dislike? </b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">When
I was younger, I didn’t see my beauty. Now it's just my weight that I dislike. I've embraced all of me. I understand the weight issue, and am working on it.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>What is your greatest regret? </b>That I didn't always know how to work things out with people, and I'm still not succeeding with it.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>How would you like to die? </b> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">After
I got all my work done.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>What is your motto? </b>"It's not what you know, but who you know. And if you don't know 'em, go out and meet 'em!!!" </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p><span style="color: #660000;"></span></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI5Xl5xsyK_O3GJXM9Ed_L2z9OUHy-L7K6QJ_wBAQHqxUfVogZ67aXoLBKRcPNuWQqfYcX6kBREaLz8I-khqsDZS_w8oi99IwdW9VOybC3idC09_MHFgh764tdpcSgNTXM2kpXEPMTZLo/s1256/AnneLeightonLogo2020.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1256" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI5Xl5xsyK_O3GJXM9Ed_L2z9OUHy-L7K6QJ_wBAQHqxUfVogZ67aXoLBKRcPNuWQqfYcX6kBREaLz8I-khqsDZS_w8oi99IwdW9VOybC3idC09_MHFgh764tdpcSgNTXM2kpXEPMTZLo/w680-h390/AnneLeightonLogo2020.jpg" width="680" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373749418338673294.post-5802009463751879892020-11-05T20:15:00.003-08:002020-12-27T20:12:13.552-08:00The House That Stood Alone<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Though we see its narrow path</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">and we see its towering trees,</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">it's the house that stood all alone,</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">house that survived the war.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">It’s the only one of its kind to do the deeds that it did<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">It’s the house that stood all alone<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">house that survived the war.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Let its glory shine on,</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">And it’s truth be known<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">it’s the house that stood all alone<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">house that survived the war<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;"> </span></p><p><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">You’re no one’s property</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Join the house party<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Say it loud and proud-- I’m white and
listening</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">We can be allies for all our friends<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">‘cause you need me and I need you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">like Oprah and Maya Angelou <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">You’re no one’s property</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Join our house party<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">The white leaders told this country</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">the negro’s our property<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">I believe it’s evil <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Dreadful Scott decision<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Like that Hunchback who cries</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">They changed Dred’s life<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">they messed with his mind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">‘cause one of a kind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">You’re no one’s property</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Join our house party<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">We can’t look the other way</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Gotta make it better day by day <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">We can’t be so rotten, man!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Kindness helps everyone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Only that loving home</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">is standing alone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Like a lonely soul that’s speaking up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">without anyone as back up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">You’re no one’s property</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Join our house party<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Let me talk in the microphone</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">‘Bout The house that stood alone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my
first song<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">it’s about freedom and equality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">why it keeps happening <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">this face of cruelty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">well, finally this house is not alone <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">This time love will go on and on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">It’s our house party, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">and it’s just beginning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">You’re no one’s property<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Join our house party<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Let’s ROCK THE PARTY!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">THE HOUSE PARTY!! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">The underground railroad</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Took on a heavy load<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">‘cause fighting for freedom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Goes on for everyone! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">
There’s too much apathy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">We felt it when we’re bullied<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">Some will be hateful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;">But we’ll rise like Maya Angelou!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qviM_GnJbOM" width="320" youtube-src-id="qviM_GnJbOM"></iframe></div><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Let its glory shine on<br /></span></span><p></p><div><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">and its truth be known!!!!!</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com