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Midnitesun
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0 posted 2005-12-31 05:51 PM



Four old angst signs:


You reach for the stars
but only find them in your hands
while fumbling for your shoelaces.

You feel vigorous, vibrant, and energetic
until you open your email
and find a message from AARP.

You reach for the moon,
but find your arms are too weak
to grab it anymore.


You crawl back in bed
and quickly grab the controls
of the ‘lectric blankie
instead of your mate.



© Copyright 2005 Kathleen Kacy Stafford - All Rights Reserved
iliana
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1 posted 2005-12-31 05:54 PM


If it weren't so sad, I'd laugh, Kasey!  Maybe laughing is the best medicine for old angst signs.  Great play with the words.  Happy New Year!   ....jo
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2 posted 2005-12-31 05:58 PM


lol, well JO, I have no 'lectric blankie (but no mate either)
and still enjoy (the thought, anyway)
of reaching for a full moon

so this is just for grins
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all!

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3 posted 2005-12-31 06:14 PM


This is cause for laughter. Sometimes we take our lives  much too seriously. We can not change the world, as much as we try. best to you, martyjo
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4 posted 2005-12-31 06:17 PM


How about being told,  "I love to be waited on by older people, like the people who work at McDonald's" This and other like words have been expressed to me as I check in students. I want to answer, "Go directly to your room, do not pass go". LOL martyjo
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5 posted 2005-12-31 06:39 PM



martyjo, that is so funny!
too bad it's also so true!
happiest of calendar changes to you

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6 posted 2005-12-31 07:01 PM


Thanks, if not for our deep love of people and our sense of humor we could not make it through...Best, martyjo  
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7 posted 2005-12-31 07:36 PM


laughing because it is so true~~


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8 posted 2005-12-31 08:42 PM


Kacy...you make me happy to have a mate and not an electric blankey!  Happy New Year!  
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9 posted 2005-12-31 08:52 PM


thanks M,
we are happy for you, Martie (green here)

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10 posted 2006-01-02 12:20 PM


Kacy
These "angst signs" are more apparent in winter...which is prime time to use your imagination, and by reading you, I know you have a large one...and that is important to a sensitive person living in a world that seems insensitive to your fears.


"What matters it that all around
Danger and grief and darkness lie,
If but within our bosom's bound
We hold a bright unsullied sky,
Warm with ten thousand mingled rays
Of suns that know no winter days?"

( from "To Imagination" -EMILY BRONTË)

May your angst turn towards those suns for solice...

_______  ____ice
     ><>


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11 posted 2006-01-02 12:37 PM


Kacy, you are witty and charming ~ and truly adorable!

May you be grabbing a WORTHY man's moon instead of a "lectric blankie" in this new year!

~ and may stars twinkle in his eyes as they do in yours! Stars


Linda

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12 posted 2006-01-02 01:53 PM


HA - Oh My . . . I am like that NOW.

(skeery)

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13 posted 2006-01-02 04:53 PM


lol, thanks EA
ice?
that IS skeery LW, cuz you are TOO young!

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