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THE SOPRANOS AND MY ITALIAN HERITAGE 3/9/06

click the link and then watch the return of the cast of the hbo show the sopranos--->NJ.com: News Video

pic is from bronderbundprintmaster16gold.

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THE SOPRANOS AND MY ITALIAN HERITAGE

i love the sopranos! i grew up in new jersey. i have italian ancestors. the show reminds me of home in a lost era to me now.

~spike q

CHRISTIAN STATE OF MISSOURI 3/5/06

http://www.house.mo.gov/bills061/biltxt/intro/hcr0013i.htm

SECOND REGULAR SESSION

House Concurrent Resolution No. 13

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

4572L.02I

Whereas, our forefathers of this great nation of the United States recognized a Christian God and used the principles afforded to us by Him as the founding principles of our nation; and

Whereas, as citizens of this great nation, we the majority also wish to exercise our constitutional right to acknowledge our Creator and give thanks for the many gifts provided by Him; and

Whereas, as elected officials we should protect the majority's right to express their religious beliefs while showing respect for those who object; and

Whereas, we wish to continue the wisdom imparted in the Constitution of the United States of America by the founding fathers; and

Whereas, we as elected officials recognize that a Greater Power exists above and beyond the institutions of mankind:

Now, therefore, be it resolved by the members of the House of Representatives of the Ninety-third General Assembly, Second Regular Session, the Senate concurring therein, that we stand with the majority of our constituents and exercise the common sense that voluntary prayer in public schools and religious displays on public property are not a coalition of church and state, but rather the justified recognition of the positive role that Christianity has played in this great nation of ours, the United States of America.

~a very sad and frightening commentary on the times that we live in and on our rapidly escalating theocratic union.

thanks ischade for sending this to me

~spike q enraged

NEW DOMAIN 3/4/06

i am having an experience or three managing my new domain. hopefully i will be visiting blogging buddies sites monday or so. forgive me please. this weekend is becoming a long strange trip.

~spike q

ANOTHER POEM FOR MARIE WHO DIED 3/2/06

another poem for marie who died.

i remember cruising with you down the boulevard
in your little blue car. we talked about quakers
and poets and traumatic brain injury and art
and reasons for things that had no reasons
and the moon and the stars and vision.

we were the hood sisters, you said. we both wore
our gray hooded sweatshirts proudly,
with the zippers down. you in your french chapeau
and me in a faded baseball cap trying to keep
the sun out of my eyes-- we both
had overcome so much, had lived through
so many nightmares. we laughed richly
knowing that the regular people
and the therapists and the docs and the mhps
did not know, would not know, and
could not know the utter joy
of it all, of dreaming, of being.

our laughter was the sound
of distant worlds colliding--
we didn't know it that summer.
the sticky sweetness of rita's ice
and of hindi tobacco and women singing
in graceful saris gave way to a bitter
bitter reality for which even the poets
had no words.

you left that early november
morning when the church bells
were numb before even god
could wake and smile.

~spike q

THE FROG by Hilaire Belloc 3/2/06

The Frog

Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,
As "Slimy skin," or "Polly-wog,"
Or likewise "Ugly James,"
Or "Gap-a-grin," or "Toad-gone-wrong,"
Or "Bill Bandy-knees":
The Frog is justly sensitive
To epithets like these.

No animal will more repay
A treatment kind and fair;
At least so lonely people say
Who keep a frog (and, by the way,
They are extremely rare).

Hilaire Belloc

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*thanks again ischade from spike q*

as most of you know, i love frogs and in particular i love MY frogs. ronskis gave me the nick froggie gurl and i have kept that. it only seemed fitting to post a poem celebrating the frog. have a froggie day! ~spike q