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Mar 13 15, 17:11
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pliers of this format cannot but find themselves writing with many syllables that dance across the page in matching pairs but occasionally they drink an errant screwdriver and they can't use pliers
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Mar 15 15, 13:16
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first try and I screw up by mixing Tetractys middles with the Rictameter and duplicating ten syllable lines instead of double checking forms so my apologies are sent for my first try
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Mar 17 15, 16:25
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To act as though I am someone who I am not involves my lying to myself. I close my eyes to God, who ever sees, and think my private life is hid in dark to Him who watches through the night and sees as day. It's time I bare my heart to act.
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Mar 17 15, 23:22
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Okay Daniel,
Howzit spozed to be?
2,4,6,8,10,8,6,4,2
or
2,4,6,8,10,10,8,6,4,2
You've written it both ways and I'm just starting in this genre. Help!!!
Larry
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Mar 20 15, 01:38
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So sorry to have misled you, Larry. I HAVE written with an extra 10-syllable line several times, it seems, and each time was a MISTAKE!! I've been working on our property in Vineland with my son, with hopes we'll be able to start moving there in the early summer, so I've been distracted from participating here, coming home from the work there very tired. But I hope to soon catch up again! Have your heard from Alan? Missing his participation!! Giving to those who need because it comes from God reminds me that it isn't mine By grace you have received, so freely give The love of money is the root of evil of all kinds Grace is what spurs giving
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Mar 20 15, 12:58
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Vineland is beautiful so I hope you complete all your repairs and are able to start moving before it’s summertime because by then it will be hot so you can’t mow the yard and it looks like vine land.
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Mar 24 15, 04:28
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To go where no one's gone should cause its burial so followers don't step in it and wonder what poor soul had squatted here: Why couldn't he have found some leaves to cover up the mess from when he had to go?
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Mar 25 15, 14:27
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actions carry more weight than speeches to spur them. Anyone can say they will help but those who pitch in without being asked will show the world, without saying that kindness can be mute. A word without acts, shuns!
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Mar 27 15, 11:00
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feelings aren't bad or good but have connection to discordant, contradicting thoughts that need to be talked out with caring friends to help sort out the person lost inside some secret fear that shames those hid feelings
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Apr 9 15, 13:55
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green leaves sprouting in spring give off lots of pollen causing massive sinus problems if you happen to have that allergy but for me, it's not a problem; I always become sad whenever the green leaves
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Aug 6 15, 08:20
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left one of my clippers on the hood of my truck after we'd been trimming our trees on our new property in North Vineland; we had all stopped to have the lunch when the clippers slipped off stabbing in my left one
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Aug 6 15, 14:24
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She’s dead but never fell because all her children she had scattered throughout her life had grown tall and strong. Her leaves had turned brown and fell to form a soft cushion for her eventual resting place where she's died
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Aug 8 15, 01:19
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What is the difference if you simply slack off? Do most people care any more? When I was growing up I learned to do the best I could no matter what my fellows want to do; I will show them what is.
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Aug 9 15, 13:48
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Lacking the incentive to change your choice in life and doing what you want instead may be satisfying in the present but in the future we all share death will come with judgment and you’ll be found lacking.
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Aug 9 15, 15:12
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Aw, some wild black cherries have fallen in my pool; each day I have to fish them out so I may as well use them for something. First I must remove the large pits; so far I don't know how, but once I do... awesome!
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Aug 10 15, 10:01
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Bings go in a large pot of boiling hot water so as to soften the tough skins. Then strain and drain and gently press each one. The large pits should pop out with ease and hopefully, the smell of chlorine’s gone. Bingo!
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Aug 10 15, 17:26
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'Wild' ones are very small and they say 'plup' not 'bing' and there's no chlorine in my pool except what the salt water system makes. Some say to use a colander and press them till the pits are all that's left-- wild ones.
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Aug 11 15, 07:50
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Wild ones can be bitter so it’s best to taste it before going to the trouble of removing the pits from sour fruit. Some varieties are real sweet and if you have that kind you will find that wild won.
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Aug 12 15, 17:33
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I'd ride to any place someone may show me how to take out pits with small effort but since pits constitute half the wild fruit, the work it takes to get them out has caused a little tear in that sad eye I dried
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Aug 12 15, 23:13
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I tried to find answers to your pit dilemma and I found a number of things. A paper clip, a pastry tip and then a drinking straw; all tedious and time consuming too. So, I’d just let it ride.
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