SSA Blog #019     By Michelle Drew     November 28, 2005

Today is a traveling day for us. We will write from Wyoming!!

Reader Contribution

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with my family here in New England. During dinner, my father told us that he had some poems that he had written. He promised to email them today, which he just did. So, of course, I am proudly showcasing one of his poems.

Autumn

By Mike  F.     9/21/05

Fall begins when nature creates a piebald canvas

across the contours of the land.

Emboldened by crisp, cool nights

and raven skies that are studded with diamonds,

she daubs and strokes and lays her paint


With a glance up you can see bounteous swarms of V’s

Silhouetted ; sweeping silently and swiftly

and available for your introspection.

Soon the wind chills your senses more and more

and your multicolored landscape becomes

a somber brown and grey.


But don’t be dispirited my dear friend

For if you look skyward at a tree

you will see an intricate latticework

in a resplendent and stunning symmetry

and soon she will dip her brush in white

and again satisfy your need for beauty

All Good Thoughts

"It takes one a long time to become young."
- Pablo Picasso

"Things do not change: we change."
- Henry David Thoreau

"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it
flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."
- William James

"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get
the urge to throw a snowball."
- Doug Larson

"One thing you will probably remember well is any
time you forgive and forget."
- Franklin P. Jones

"A memory is a photograph taken by the heart
to make a special moment last forever."
- Anonymous


"Memory is the personal journalism of the soul."
- Richard Schickel

For those who follow the strange news, here is one from Orlando, FL...A true story...

A note from Michelle...

It doesn't get sadder than this folks....This holiday weekend, a man in Orlando Fl, who cut in line at a local Walmart, was wrestled to the ground by the crowd. Unless they were actually selling time in a bottle or water from the fountain of youth this seems a little intense for me. If you just can't live without that $300.00 laptop, you have a bigger problem at hand.