Real love is like a jigsaw puzzle, only the right pieces fit together.
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In For A Penny
A shiny new penny,
Mint fresh from the bank.
Crossing the palms,
Of a Clint or a Hank.
The journey it’s had,
It’s perils unknown.
To a fountain perhaps,
One day it was thrown.
Lost was the penny,
Alone in the dirt.
Tossed from the pocket,
Of a young woman’s skirt.
Perhaps kept in a jar,
For decades untold.
The journey’s not over,
There’s more to unfold.
A child’s favourite coin,
Was once in a box.
Hidden from view,
Just under the socks.
An actor once flipped,
That polished up prop.
For his role in a movie,
As a villain or cop.
Our penny has journeyed,
In distance and time.
A life in the sunshine,
And others in grime.
The dimes and the quarters,
They all have a place.
But the penny’s held dear,
In a long state of grace.
Some words are remembered,
Like our copper sublime.
In vernacular speech,
It surely does shine.
One for your thoughts,
Another to save.
Songs to be sung,
Our penny so brave.
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The sun rises every morning even if we can’t see it and with that simple act, there is hope.
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Our principles separate us from the beasts of the world, two legged and four.
Paper clips
Today is overcast and cold. We had a snow storm yesterday and there is a significant amount of snow on the ground. I live in a downtown area so it isn’t a pretty, white, pristine snow, it’s the ‘cars just drove over me and spewed exhaust that made me brown’ snow. The last few weeks have been… unsettling. It’s cold but not really cold, it’s not exactly sunny or cloudy, it just seems to be in between everything. meh. It’s January and it’s not acting like it. It has made me… unsettled. So, I thought that I would write a post for today that was uplifting and inspiring and… I got nothin’. Plan B: I wondered what the most innocuous thing was that I could write about and I came up with the paper clip. Yep. The ubiquitous and yet rarely noticed device that has been used for hundreds of years to clip paper together. The paper clip.
According to Wikipedia:
The most common type of wire paper clip still in use, the Gem paper clip, was never patented, but it was most likely in production in Britain in the early 1870s by “The Gem Manufacturing Company”,
Nowadays the shape has changed in some. Gotten bigger, gotten smaller. Sometimes they are made of plastic. But I would bet that for the most part there are trillions of small bent wire clips in every office. Years ago, we talked about going paperless in our society but I don’t believe that’s actually a possibility and therefore we will always need to be able to clip paper together. Because we like control. And then I started to wonder about how much like life is that lowly little paper clip.
In order to become useful, little pieces of wire are bent into shapes that function. Aren’t we? We are born into a world knowing nothing and we are shaped by our education and later by our experiences into people that are functional and can contribute to society. Just like that paper clip. There are also those who are perhaps overworked and therefore become useless. Have you ever unbent a paper clip? Of course, then it is great for sticking in teeny tiny holes in our computers to make things reset. So, not all bad. How many times have you taken a handful of paper clips and clipped them together to make a chain or a strange creature. It’s amazing what we can do when we’re bored.
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Sometimes we are convinced to fear the wrong thing.
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Not everyone passes their personality test.
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Those who brag about how righteous they are, aren’t.
Rainbow Moments
A second in time,
Never before seen.
But special the colour,
In blue, red and green.
So very dear,
And then it is gone.
But the memory remains,
With each breath that is drawn.
A vision in colour,
It plays in your mind.
Your life becomes better,
The memory entwined.
Believe in yourself,
Be the best you can be.
And those moments of rainbows,
You always will see.
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Good neighbours can become good friends.
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