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  I Await the Call

  by compound complex in

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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

  Thanks, Village Idiot:

  This film clip was totally new to me, and certainly apropos!

  I really enjoyed it.
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  Has Anyone Ever Just Gotten Mad and "Popped" an Elder?

  by Cold Steel in

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  it has to have happened.

  people get stressed out, an elder or overseer takes just two steps over the line and gets a fat lip for his trouble.. does that ever happen?

  or maybe someone "counsels" a brother at the wrong time and tempers flare at the old kingdom hall?.

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  Figurative "popping." In this case, the entire BOE.

  Regarding very sensitive family issues, the elders never talked to me and asked what was going on nor did they offer help. A few letters to the Society, from me, seemed to get their attention.

  As I have related in other threads, privileges were taken away from me but never was there a word of explanation, never advance notice.

  "POP!"
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  I Await the Call

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  It seemed but yesterday though, Heaven knows,

  it has been millennia since I embarked upon that

  peaceful, dusty sleep.

  Then, so startling, comes the clarion call from
  

  quickened legions that the hour has arrived to

  rise and be awake.

  The celebrators of Earth and Moon beckon that
  

  all rejoice as Sky unfolds and Earth proceeds

  to kiss our Lady Moon.
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  I Await the Call

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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

  Thanks, snowbird, nancy, OUTLAW:

  Looks like OUTLAW is on the better end of the shovel!

  Not so much the hope of Heaven as taught in Christianity; I just wanna be up in the sky with the clouds, floating about . . .

  On my own power, like Icarus, but not too close to the sun.
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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

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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

  by compound complex in

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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.