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  The Pacific Northwest

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  Where I live now, we have redwoods, but not the coastal fog. The summers are hot.

  
  

  THE SEVEN REDWOODS

  Seated in a lounge of cushioned steel, I lean

  back and follow my wandering eyes up seven

  towering trunks till their limbs and needles mass
  

  as one, hiding rigid shafts that pierce the sky.

  Removed from native soil and coastal fogs, I
  

  marvel that dry and hot have harmed us not.

  I, too, was born in mist but truly grew though
  

  warmth was scarce and a steely cool prevailed.

  Thrive I do amidst a scorching heat, the parching
  

  wind; like our trees, somehow, we shall survive.
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  I Await the Call

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  my day's long and arduous journey winds down.. infinite night gracefully descends and takes me into her.

  welcomed embrace.. i have no reason to fear the inevitable,.

  that transition into a higher and.

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  THE WANDERER

  I am going home, yet not without sorrow;

  for too long have I been adrift.

  There was no place to call my own nor

  anyone to take me in.

  The price I paid for careless days of youth
  

  spent has been far too dear.

  I look upward to a welcoming sky that beckons,

  reassuring that, soon, this

  wanderer shall be home, in the warm and loving

  embrace of the cosmos . . .
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  I Await the Call

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  my day's long and arduous journey winds down.. infinite night gracefully descends and takes me into her.

  welcomed embrace.. i have no reason to fear the inevitable,.

  that transition into a higher and.

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  compound complex

  Thank you, wifibandit, for your question.

  Yes, that is mine, I'll post more soon.

  I appreciate your thoughts very much.
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  I Await the Call

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  my day's long and arduous journey winds down.. infinite night gracefully descends and takes me into her.

  welcomed embrace.. i have no reason to fear the inevitable,.

  that transition into a higher and.

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  MY DAY'S LONG AND ARDUOUS JOURNEY winds down.

  Infinite night gracefully descends and takes me into her

  Welcomed embrace.

  I have no reason to fear the inevitable,
  

  That transition into a higher and

  More glorious state

  Than allowed me upon this

  Beautiful but angst-filled

  Habitation.

  I rejoice in what has been

  Prepared from early on.

  I await the call . . .
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  The Pacific Northwest

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  I watch the black oaks of my woods sway gently against an early morning expanse that is an uncharacteristic gray, but a gray illumined by a softer and gentler summer's sun.

  
  

  What yesterday had been the regal, glossy green leaves of the stately sentinels are today, rather, a buffed sage foliage that I do not recall ever having viewed before. Somehow, the look, the feel, the mood that overtake me at this moment transport me back to the foggy coast of my youth. At that particular time of my life, I was not so taken with the unrelenting cool of a Pacific summer.

  
  

  Now, in this land of perpetual sun whose increasing rise in temperature is, in a frightening way, relentless, this sudden and uncommon wafting of damp and fresh upon my body is healing . . .

  
  
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  Words for the Day; please share

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  greetings, word lovers:.

  in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.

  one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.

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  One bro kept mispronouncing organism -- he left out the "ni"!

  Lots of blushes and giggling in the audience.
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  Words for the Day; please share

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  greetings, word lovers:.

  in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.

  one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.

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  Thanks, Everyone!

  Sylvia:

  Why do children pick up languages so easily?

  Their minds are uncluttered!
  
  
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  Words for the Day; please share

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  greetings, word lovers:.

  in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.

  one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.

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  Mondegreen:

  From the mishearing in a Scottish ballad of “laid him on the green” as “Lady Mondegreen.”

  “Very close veins” is a mondegreen for “varicose veins.”

  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mondegreen
  

  
  
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  Watchtower/Bethelite Volunteers and US Self Employment or FICA Tax?

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  with so many aging bethelites being "laid off" after years of volunteer service, what hope do they have of collecting any social security retirement?

  i ask because i recently learned that my mother will not receive any government retirement benefits because she did not work enough to collect the 40 credits required.

  this got me to thinking about bethel volunteers.

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  AnneB, et al.:

  Brenda Upton, Bethel chiropractor

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/175375/bethelites-entitled-compensation

  
  http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/boroughs/jehovah-loses-comp-case-church-forced-pay-millions-article-1.611540
  
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  Bethelites Entitled to Compensation

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  i feel that this old information on dr. brenda upton deserves a thread of its own as its earlier post on another thread elicited no comment.

  needless to say, it was still seen and reviewed by not a few readers.. isn't this situation a reflection of what is happening now in spain?.

  church may be forced to pay millions .

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  compound complex

  This subject seems apropos, given current interest in newly, and formerly, axed volunteers workers at The House of Hurtfulness . . .