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What a beautiful thought

The Eyes

Your eyes are the access
To your soul


Make sure that you
Maintain control

Spring Is Upon Us Yellowly

The Essence of Yellow

Ah yes, the Yellow Cab...
To ride in one is quite fab

But for a real delight
Consider this sight:

In the daffodil, oh so bold,
Yellow is a sight to behold!

And then?

The Tectonic Slide

For years it’s been going on. You may have thought that As the World Turns was just a Soap Opera. Well, of course, you would have been correct in the limited sense of the phrase. But, for those more scientifically inclined, it refers to what actually happens to the earth as it turns. It’s been going on for millions of years, according to scientists in the know.

As the earth turns it puts great pressure on the tectonic plates lying on the bed of the earth’s molten core. These plates have been crunching together for years. In some cases the result has been mountain ranges along the eastern and western edges of our North American continent. In other cases it involves great cracks or rifts between plates, which try to shift to the North or the South as a result of the great pressures involved. I call these two phenomena The War of the Plates…

The former events occurred thousand, even million years ago as mountains rose around the globe. The latter is a more recent series of events which continue to occur around the world and are exhibited in explosive events called earthquakes. For years, scientists have tried to predict when these events would occur, with little success, even though they used various monitoring techniques that appeared to report accurately the many small changes that happen over time along these earthquake zones.

What is happening represents the natural evolution of our planet as it ages and travels through space. It is a result of the forces of nature and unknown factors in space that are in conflict. Or is it God’s planned correction to His creation that we’ve seen before?

As astronomers and other space scientists continue their studies of the true nature of space and it’s make up, they will discover a currently unrecognized element that makes up the fabric of space existing between all known stars, planets, cosmic dust, particles and other elements.

I will call this other element the “anti-grave” force. It is the force that exerts friction on the surface of the earth as it turns, resulting in the shift of the tectonic plates relative to the molten core beneath. If not unchecked, this activity will eventually rip the tectonic plates from the surface of earth and hurl them spinning out into space, resulting in a second asteroid belt coursing around the sun. Earth will then become much like the planet Mercury with its searingly hot surface. The human race, if it has not succeeded in colonizing other planets in our, or in other solar systems, will likely disappear in the process. It goes without saying that what is left of the tectonic plates, as they course around the sun in their new orbit, will not be individually large enough to maintain an atmosphere of necessary oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen required to support any type of life beyond the level of the most basic microbes.

And God said “Noah, I command you to build an arc... for I will cause great rains to cover the earth with waters.” Before the tectonic plates rip loose and the earth is consumed by fire, a new Noah will be instructed to build a space arc to save those few remaining faithful to God and his commandments. Do you believe in His awesome power to save us? Space awaits… are you ready?

Rain

Hi all...

Yesterday morning I stepped out into an almost
oppressively close, moist, warmish atmosphere
that smelled of water. It inspired this poem.

It’s Gonna Rain

The forecast was for rain

I know: my joints are in pain

And when I walked outside

The air fairly stuck to my hide

In the words of my beautiful wife

You could cut the air with a knife

You could feel the water in the air;

Today I’m gonna have “bad hair”

Though the rain was not here

I knew it was awfully near

Sure enough, lightning split the air

And there was water everywhere!

By the way...

my joints don't pain as a warning...

but my wife's do

How about yours?

Work

My Career

When I came to St. V

I used to do EKG

When I decided it wasn’t for me

I considered Physical Therapy

I then decided with uneasy fear

That it wasn’t to be my career

Next came the Cath Lab

That just sounded so fab

But along came serendipity…

You know how that can be

It was Echo

On the go

I got exposed to Ultrasound

As it was getting off the ground

And then Cross Sectional Anatomy

Suddenly made good sense to me

Forty years of internal imagery

Finally made something of me.

Now I’m in therapy

Writing this poetry

Funerals

I went to a Funeral

I went to a funeral the other day…

Something strange was at play

Everyone was smiling I saw

Even down to the distant in-law

What could account for this behavior

Didn’t someone just meet their maker?

Memories of a life well spent

Could not darken this event

Fabulous stories and pictures all revealed

Events and celebrations of a life well heeled

Not of money but of love of family and friends

Like the Love from above that just never ends.

They were celebrating the continuation of a life

Which was now surpassing its final strife.

A Spoof on California

The Quakenator

First came Arnold the Schwartzeneger

Then came “The Terminater”

Next it was “The Governater”

But this is not to be the end of the aters.

What’s next you say?

Arnold has a new plan to solve an old problem…

in fact it’ll take care of two of his problems.

He will introduce the Political Jump Contest. This

contest will pit Democrats against Republicans

in the most Democratic state in the nation.

No contest, you say? Watch!

The contest will be set for May First and will be

the first of state sponsored official annual

May Day Celebrations in California.

In this contest, Democrats, because they are liberal,

and everyone knows the most liberal are in the West,

will line up along the Western edge of the San Andreas Fault.

The Republicans, because they are mostly from the

conservative Midwest, will line up along the eastern edge

of the San Andreas Fault. At the stroke of noon

the Republicans will jump straight up and down,

followed immediately by the Democrats. This

alternation of jumping will continue for 45 minutes,

or until one side or the other finally tires out and falls down…

which ever occurs first. The group left standing

will be declared the winner.

Here comes the kicker…

Arnold, being the biggest and most intelligent

Austrio/Californian has determined through scientific

methods, that this continued oscillation along the length

of the San Andreas Fault will resonate deeply into the earth,

reaching to the deepest edge of the tectonic plates lying on

either side of the fault. This will effect a loosening of the

friction that holds the East and West plates together.

This will allow them to slip North and South,

releasing strain energy and causing the largest earthquake

since 1906, when San Francisco caught fire.

When the smoke clears the California of the West will have

fallen into the sea, taking her Democrats with her. That will

be the end of the California earthquakes... and his opposition.

Arnold will be declared Quakenater The Liberator.

Oh… and the annual May Day Celebration will then be called

the Califrornia Liberation Day Celebration.