Love Stretches Us (Edited Repost from Last December)

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iliana
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0 posted 2004-12-22 03:12 AM

Memories are funny things
Like ages shown in growth rings
'Round the tree of profound truth
They circle us, encapsulate youth.

Tonight I ponder growing things,
Living, breathing, hurting things.
Somewhere within the deep tree rings,
I also remember Decembering...
When making taffy was great fun,
Pulling here and pressing thumbs,
The more we pulled, the tougher the share;
Then sweet chewy candy everywhere
Waiting for the next morning to reach its ultimate goal.

Tonight that memory lends new meaning
To hardships of today.
Pulled and stretched, then cut and cooled,
hardened in that way,
Love stretches us, it makes us grow,
     can chew us up for evermore.
Oh Love, great love, soul’s taffy pull!
Stretching us until we’re whole
Or ‘til we break apart at last, stretching us to a point of grace
Pleasing its appetite with the flavor.

passing shadows
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1 posted 2004-12-22 05:25 AM

glad you reposted

a wonderful theme

Sunshine

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2 posted 2004-12-22 05:29 AM

So good to see you...
and to see this again!
Keep in touch, y'hear!?

miscellanea
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since 2004-06-24

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3 posted 2004-12-22 08:53 AM

Jo,

   I had missed reading your thoughts.  It's so nice to have them in written form to ponder them without distractions.  This was a very nice surprise!  Yes, stretched like taffy at Grandma's.  But, oh, wasn't it sweet!

   Perhaps you can include the recipe?  I don't remember how to make it, just the pulling and teasing!  Talk to you soon...

        love,
         cathy

Susan Caldwell
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4 posted 2004-12-22 09:16 AM

Very nice surprise Jo!

come around more often!

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

5 posted 2004-12-22 09:19 AM

Gee it's good to read you again..
Please come by more often ya hear?
Sending big hugs your way!

Season's Greetings!

iliana
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6 posted 2004-12-22 11:45 AM

Dixie, Karilea, Nancy Lee, Susan & Cathy, thank you sweet sisters all for stopping in and for your dear words. Things have not been normal for quite some time around here but I think they are beginning to settle down....at least I hope. I hope you all have very a special and sacred holiday season and love to you all!

.....jo

Earth Angel
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7 posted 2004-12-22 12:44 PM

lily jo, I so enjoyed ~ and understood, your words. A very interesting comparison you have made here. Quite appropriate and identifiable.

As a teenager, I used to make my own brand of taffy. Actually, I tapped the maple trees in the woods behind my northern Ontario home and then I'd boil the sap in a big, black pot ( a cauldron! lol) over a fire that I would build all by myself. When the clear sap turned golden and thickened, I would pour it over the snow. As it cooled I would stretch and pull it. Then I place it on trays lined with wax paper and put it in the fridge. MMM! Tasty treats!

Thanks for stirring up some pleasant memories of my own!

Love you, lily jo!
Linda

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