Lagniappe - It’s Okay by Nightbirde

 

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Ah, the IRONY!!!  

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A Nation’s Strength 🇺🇸 by William Ralph Emerson

 

🇺🇸 Our National Anthem 🇺🇸

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A NATION’S STRENGTH By William Ralph Emerson

What makes a nation's pillars high
And its foundations strong?
What makes it mighty to defy
The foes that round it throng?

It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand
Go down in battle shock;
Its shafts are laid on sinking sand,
Not on abiding rock.

Is it the sword? Ask the red dust
Of empires passed away;
The blood has turned their stones to rust,
Their glory to decay.

And is it pride? Ah, that bright crown
Has seemed to nations sweet;
But God has struck its luster down
In ashes at his feet.

Not gold but only men can make
A people great and strong;
Men who for truth and honor's sake
Stand fast and suffer long.

Brave men who work while others sleep,
Who dare while others fly...
They build a nation's pillars deep
And lift them to the sky.

"A Nation's Strength" first appeared in Our Little Kings and Queens at Home and at School (Louis Benham & Co., 1891). This poem is in the public domain.

Volcanoes - Mother Nature’s Power

 

🔥 Magnificent, glorious views of the currently erupting Icelandic Volcano by ‘Drone Zone’ on YouTube.

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🙏🏼 Pray for the people of the Goma, Congo area where Mount Nyiragongo recently erupted, displacing hundreds of thousands of people who lived along side the volcano. 🙏🏼

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A still—Volcano—Life— 
That flickered in the night— 
When it was dark enough to do 
Without erasing sight— 

A quiet—Earthquake Style— 
Too subtle to suspect 
By natures this side Naples— 
The North cannot detect 

The Solemn—Torrid—Symbol— 
The lips that never lie— 
Whose hissing Corals part—and shut— 
And Cities—ooze away— 

Emily Dickinson

Here Comes Hurricane Season 😎

Thank you, Kelly, for this awesome “CATegory” hurricane chart!! 😝

Oh, the Roses!  This Spring is in love with Roses! ☀️

Weather Channel song

Garfield, my mouser & snake killer.  He turns 20 this year. 🥳😻

Kitty Paws

My peach Roses in the setting sun...

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Ah, Emily Dickinson 📚 Spring Has Sprung! 🌸

My Hummingbirds and Dragonflies are back!  My Bluebirds have babies!  Springtime! 🌹🐇🦋🧚🏽‍♀️

Garfield, pretending to be a plant. 🐚🌻🌱

Trust me... 🤣

Garfield in my backyard jungle on the deck...

“It was a cold bright day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”. “1984”, George Orwell

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If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

By Emily Dickinson 

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

 

When I Die by Rumi - Happy Easter ✝️

 “Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.” – Charles M. Crowe 🌸🧚🏽‍♀️🌺

My Mint came roaring back! 💚🥰

My first Iris this year. 💜

WHEN I DIE by Rumi

When I die
when my coffin
is being taken out
you must never think
i am missing this world

don’t shed any tears
don’t lament or
feel sorry
i’m not falling
into a monster’s abyss

when you see
my corpse is being carried
don’t cry for my leaving
i’m not leaving
i’m arriving at eternal Love

when you leave me
in the grave
don’t say goodbye
remember a grave is
only a curtain
for the paradise behind

you’ll only see me
descending into a grave
now watch me rise
how can there be an end
when the sun sets or
the moon goes down

it looks like the end
it seems like a sunset
but in reality it is a dawn
when the grave locks you up
that is when your soul is freed

have you ever seen
a seed fallen to earth
not rise with a new life
why should you doubt the rise
of a seed named human

have you ever seen
a bucket lowered into a well
coming back empty
why lament for a soul
when it can come back
like Joseph from the well

when for the last time
you close your mouth
your words and soul
will belong to the world of
no place no time

My new Water Oak tree in front has tripled in size. 🙏🏼

I Miss President Trump and Common Sense...

Dance like nobody’s watching... 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Dancing Compilation 🧚🏽‍♀️💃🏽🕺🏼

“I tell them dance begins when a moment of hurt combines with a moment of boredom. I tell them it's the body's reaching, bringing air to itself. I tell them that it's the heart's triumph, the victory speech of the feet, the refinement of animal lunge and flight, the purest metaphor of tribe and self. It's life flipping death the bird. I make this stuff up.” 

― Lorrie Moore, “Birds of America”

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Sick of covid Bullshit, so Cats!

This is a joke...but a fact. 😼😂😼

My old Garfield, always on my lap.

Little Debbie, always in a box or basket...

 

God Bless the South! 1970s Music is the Best!

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything”.  ~PLATO

The music of my youth, back when freedom & free speech reigned.  Good times & great memories.  Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.  Weekend mood:

FREE BIRD - Lynyrd Skynyrd - 7/2/1977

So many gorgeous Southern girls, rocking down...

We were so young & beautiful...

SWEET HOME ALABAMA 7/2/1977

Southern music is the best...

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Sorry about the Democrats!

Okay, I’m royally and officially pissed off now.  BookBurnerBiden (or whatever Pelosi cabal is pulling his raggedy puppet strings since he’s OBVIOUSLY in the early stages of Dementia) has decided that Dr. Seuss’s books are racist.  Apparently, with our country fighting COVID-19, massive job losses due to COVID-19, school children having mental health crises, Cuomo killing grannies & sexually harassing young women, a monopoly on leftist Internet companies, massive election fraud, HAARP and general Democrat insanity at the southern border, BookBurnerBiden decides to 1.  Bomb Syria, then 2.  Ban Dr. Seuss books. Every morning I wake up and feel like I’m in a badly written YA Dystopian novel.  

I rest my case.  I miss President Trump. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 The Grinch is waving at Biden.