September 10, 2010

ArtBrushed Photo Gallery 10

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Safe Harbor

Through the magic of technology and computers, the World of Words by Elias Tobias presents a portfolio of ArtBrushed images that originated as digital photographs by Mike Hall.  You save the entire image to your computer free, and use the ArtBrushed photo for wallpaper or the screensaver.  You can print it and frame it, too. Just click on the image on this post and and choose the “Save photo as” option when you right click again.  Select which folder the file will go, then you name that file. Approve the change and you’re set.

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September 9, 2010

Hand-me Down Dreams

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Hand-me Down Dreams

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Rev. Paul Abernathy, reflects experiences of his youth in this poem.
Hand-me down dreams 

Hand-me down dreams are like that
big overcoat with the sleeves too long,
or those old shoes that don’t fit.
Hand-me down dreams are like that
blue denim shirt sewn on the side.
I would never wear that kinda thing.
Hand-me down dreams are good
enough for you, but not me, it seems.

I don’t want any of your hand-me down dreams.
I’m a person who can discover what I can be.
I don’t want to be a prisoner of your faded
memory, or of what you could never be.
Hand-me down dreams are like that
big overcoat with the sleeves too long,
or those old shoes that don’t fit.
Hand-me down dreams are like that
blue denim shirt sewn on the side.
I would never wear that kinda thing.
Hand-me down dreams are good
enough for you, but not me, it seems.

I don’t want any of your hand-me down dreams.
Don’t you know I have eyes that can clearly see?
Just let me live up to my possibilities.
I will not be a part of any calculated scheme.
Hand-me down dreams are like that
big overcoat with the sleeves too long,
or those old shoes that don’t fit.
Hand-me down dreams are like that
blue denim shirt sewn on the side.
I would never wear that kind of thing.
Hand-me down dreams are good
enough for you, but not me, it seems.

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September 8, 2010

A cowboy’s work is never done

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A cowboy’s work is never done

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A cowboy’s work is never done

There’s a song that says a cowboy’s
work on a cattle ranch is never done,
and it’s a true statement as anything
That has ever been sung.
There’s the smell of bacon cooking
With the rising of the sun,
and he works at different tasks
until the fight with light is done.
To keep himself out of trouble,
he carries extra bullets and a gun.
There are lonely nights in the open
land when he feels like he’s the only one,
but when it comes Saturday night, he
takes a bath, and heads to town for fun.
There’s beer to be bought, and a card game
with good hands to be won.
They really need the water, and then the
storm that’s been brewing finally comes.
But the cattle scatter in the brush, and
a cowboy’s work is never done.

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September 7, 2010

Cielo

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Cielo

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Para ver la versión original en inglés, haga click aquí.

Cielo

Antes de que nacieras, Jesús,
Señor Jesús, sabía su nombre.
Color de la piel no hace ninguna diferencia.
A sus ojos, todos somos lo mismo.
Dios nos salva de la ira del pecado
cuando damos nuestro corazón a él.
Pedid y se os va a
una nueva paz interior real.
Bendecido con gloriosa gracia,
Su amor brillará en su cara.
Hoy puede ser un nuevo día
si solo arco y rezar.
Déle a su alma al Señor,
y abrirá la puerta con
las llaves de un lugar llamado Cielo.
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September 6, 2010

Licence à l’amour

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Licence à l’amour

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Licence à l’amour

J’ai une licence à l’amour,
Mais je suis prêt à lui donner sens.
J’ai une licence à l’amour,
Et j’ai besoin de quelqu’un comme vous pour rester
A côté de moi.

J’ai une licence à l’amour en arrière maintenant,
Et il est tatoué à votre cœur.
Vous êtes le seul pour moi maintenant,
Et je suis sûr que nous ne nous séparerons jamais.
Pour certains c’est la fin, mais
Vraiment pour moi, c’est juste un début.
J’ai une licence à l’amour,
Mais je suis prêt à lui donner sens.
J’ai une licence à l’amour,
Et j’ai besoin de quelqu’un comme vous pour rester
A côté de moi.

Je sens votre amour partout où je vais.
C’est une émotion que je ne peux pas nier.
Je sais que vous avez été blessé auparavant.
Je suis content que vous donner de l’amour une autre chance.
Vous êtes le seul pour moi maintenant,
Et cela, ma douce, n’est pas un mensonge.
J’ai une licence à l’amour,
Mais je suis prêt à lui donner sens.
J’ai une licence à l’amour,
Et j’ai besoin de quelqu’un comme vous pour rester
A côté de moi.

Pour lire ce poème en anglais, cliquez ici.

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September 5, 2010

All Things Considered, post 36

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All you need of love

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John Lennon was and continues to be a controversial figure, and his message, :” All You Need Is Love,” is an echo of a message from another man who lived 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ.  There is no comparison of the two lives, but the concept of respecting diversity is just as strong.

This message is not reflected in the current events and issues concerning America.  We have a diversity education program at our church for our youth and for our adults, too. Those who believe in true diversity are optimistic about our future. According to a Creed for Optimists by Christian D. Larsen, one of the statements goes something like this: we should think only of the best, work for only the best and expect the best.
What is happening now is the worst. There are three decisive issues that are being fought in the courts and protested in the streets.

The first guess would be racism, but that is on the back burner.  Topping the list is the fight over gay marriage in California, a state which paves the way for the rest of America in many ways. Some judges are for it, and some are against it. Even the judges can’t agree.  The issue of immigration, especially along the southern border, even has legal Mexican–Americans paranoid in Arizona.  Does a local police department have the same authority as federal agents in controlling the flow of immigrants into this country, many of whom came here legally under a temporary Visa system but ended up staying.

A third issue is the proposed multi-cultural center  to be built on private property near the site of the Twin Towers Ground Zero in New York.  Our president has supported the group’s right to build the temple on freedom of religion expressed in the U.S. Constitution.  It can’t be any worse than the legal strip clubs in the area, based on moral issues.  Politicians from Washington, D.C. and elsewhere are challenging Obama’s position, which is part of his oath as President.  Some conservative opponents are comparing the building to the infiltration of the Nazis in this country, but who are the real Nazis in this controversy?  Who is against the religious tolerance and diversity? What examples of this attitude are being show our youth when these and the two aforementioned issues are hot topics burning the cable pundit news shows?

All we need is love. These three issues, and a few others, have lingering economic and social integrity consequences not fully explored, however another thing to consider is how are other countries viewing us with a hypocritical message of respecting diversity.

Peace be you with always,

Rev. Paul Abernathy

“Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.” -2 Peter 1:2

Contact Paul Abernathy at paulabernathy@gmail.com.

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September 4, 2010

101 Words of Wisdom

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101 Words of Wisdom

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There are phrases that are often repeated that have information that make us wonder why we do things when we do them, and these are called words of wisdom. Here is a collection of such phrases in several categories that were gathered by the staff of this website for your interest.
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1.    Change is the law of life. Those who only look only to the past or the present are certainly to miss the future.
2.    Change… I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
3.    Wisdom is knowing what to do next, and virtue is doing it.
4     Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it, we go nowhere.
5.    If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more
6.    Experience is yesterday’s answer to today’s problems.
7.    Every problem is a possibility in disguise.
8.    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
9.     We are the facilitators of our own creative revolution.
10.    Adaptability is not imitation.  It means power of resistance and assimilation.
11.    Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
12.    Just about the time you finally learn all the answers, they change the questions.
13.    Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal
14.    The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
15.    If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.
16.    In the book of Life, the answers are not in the back.
17.    The best way to kill a good idea is to get a committee to work on it.
18.    It is more important to know where you are going that to see how fast you can get there. 19.    The distance is nothing; the first step is the most difficult.
20.    Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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1.    Success that goes to a person’s head usually pays a very short visit.
2.    Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
3.    Excellence is not a skill, but an attitude.
4.    Aim for the moon, and even if you miss you’ll be among stars.
5     When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
6     Being truly successful means having the freedom an time to be able to enjoy the company of the people you care about.
7.     The lesson is in the struggle, not the victory.
8.     Love only what you do, not what you have done.
9.     Where there is risk, there is also reward.
10.    The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
11.    The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
12.    One half of responsibility is ability, the other is response.
13.    The best way to predict your future is create it.
14.    The door of opportunity won’t open unless you do some pushing.
15.    If you take no chance, you have no chance.
16.    Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
17.    Every problem is a possibility in disguise.
18.    Eighty percent of success is showing up.
19.    Your dreams come true when you act to turn them into realities.
20.    Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
21.    Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so some people miss them.

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1.     Love all, trust a few, and do no wrong.
2.     Love only what you do, not what you have done.
3.     Everybody wants to live how they want to live, and love how they want to love.
4.     To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
5.     When a person is in love for the first time, they think they invented it.

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1.    The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
2.     Don’t count the days; make the days count.
3.     Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
4.     Enjoy the little things, for someday you may realize they were big things.
5.     Time spent speculating about another’s actions is time well wasted.
6.     A man who dares to waste one hours of life has not discovered the value of it.
7.     No one can lose what is already past, nor what is yet to come.
8.     Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
9.     The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
10.   To plant a tree is to believe in tomorrow.

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1.     The road to a friend’s house is never long.
2.     There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
3.     Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
4.     Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
5.     You can fix anything but a broken promise.
6.     Take care of your character, and your reputation will take care of itself.
7.     Small acts of care and grace can mean more than you dare to think.
8.     Enemies will see through you;  friends wills see you through.
9.     No person was ever honored for what he received.  Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
10.    Do more than listen, understand.
11.    Another way to get rid of an enemy is to turn him into a friend.
12.    You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon will be too late.
13.    Good advice is no better than poor advice, unless you follow it.
14.    All that is worth cherishing in this world begins in the heart, not the head.
15.    Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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1.    Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
2.    Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
3.    Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
4.    Fear is simply unbelief in disguise.
5.    People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
6.    We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.
7.    The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
8     We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
9.    Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.
10.   Style has less to do with what your wear and more to do with who you are.
11.    If you can’t laugh at yourself, someone will do it for you.
12.    A smile is a curve to help set things straight.
13.    The great person is the one who never loses their inner child.
14.    Now and then it is good to pause and just be happy in our pursuit of happiness.
15.    Peace is more than a season.  It is a way of life.
16.    If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.
17.    Challenges make you discover things about yourself you never really knew
18.    Some people like to understand what they believe in, while others believe in what they understand.
19.    Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
20.    Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.

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1.     Courage is nor the towering oak tree that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom from the acorn that opens in the snow.
2.    The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
3.    Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
4.    Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
5.    Patriotism is not just waving the flag, but it is striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
6.    If our country is worth dying for in time of war, let us resolve that it is truly worth living in time of peace.
7.    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
8.    We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
9.    We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much our freedom cost.
10.   Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

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Clark’s Cabin 1

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Clark’s Cabin 1

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(Photos by Mike Hall)

A replica of the cabin built by George Rogers Clark in Clarksville, Indiana. The original was built in 1803 overlooking the Ohio River.  Clark received this land as payment for his heroism in the American Revolution. In that war,  he raided British outposts south and west of Detroit. He captured Kaskaskia on the Mississippi (1778) and, in a daring winter assault, Vincennes on the Wabash (1779), securing American claims to the Northwest. He led an expedition against the Shawnee Indians in Ohio (1782). The financial records of Clark’s raids were burnt by Benedict Arnold’s troops in a 1781 attack on Richmond, Virginia. As a result, he was never paid for his expenditures and finished his life in poverty.The original cabin was part of a farm that also included a barn, corn crib, orchard and slave cabins.   For more information about Clark, go to http://www.answers.com/topic/george-rogers-clark.

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September 3, 2010

ArtBrushed Photo Gallery 9

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Garden Path

Through the magic of technology and computers, the World of Words by Elias Tobias presents a portfolio of ArtBrushed images that originated as digital photographs by Mike Hall.  You save the entire image to your computer free, and use the ArtBrushed photo for wallpaper or the screensaver.  You can print it and frame it, too. Just click on the image on this post and and choose the “Save photo as” option when you right click again.  Select which folder the file will go, then you name that file. Approve the change and you’re set.

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September 2, 2010

September 2010 Newsletter

September 2010 Newsletter

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Newsletter for the World of Words by Elias Tobias

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Words of Wisdom ready for your use

There are phrases that are often repeated that have information that make us wonder why we do things when we do them, and these are called words of wisdom. Here is a collection of such phrases in several categories that were gathered by the staff of this website for your interest. Click here or on the above graphic to see the full list and seem wise beyond your years.

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World of Words has second Trivia Quiz

Test your knowledge and skill of the World Of Words by Elias Tobias web blog, and take the blog’s Trivia Quiz for fun. It’s like a scavenger hunt. No prizes are involved, though. No points for merchandise are available since everything on this web site is already free. The World of Words by Elias Tobias has several free items to easily download, including logos, posters, autographed photos, ArtBrushed photography and a complete brochure about the Web blog that reaches more than 2 million people daily. These  free images and products can be used for screen savers, material for a new Elias Tobias fan club, T-shirt iron-on designs, window clings, mouse pads, coffee  mugs and other items.

Use the search box to help find information from all posts.  Click on the logo to go to the quiz.

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Mike’s Book Café has free books online
The gift of reading is a gift that keeps on giving, long after the Christmas presents have been opened.  The best presents are free and there are hundreds of books online for no cost from a variety of sources.  So when it’s cold outside, and you have time on your hands, fix yourself a cup of coffee and then pick up a book or anthology of poems and relax.

If you just want the latest news from your own hometown to the nation and world, go to Topix at http://www.topix.com/. The type in the name of your city or town in the search box and get information from your neck of the woods.
Here is a set of links from Mike’s Book Cafe:
1. Thousands of books available through http://www.readbookonline.net/
2. Turn page after page at http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
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This is just a start of what can be found for free.  Reading in fun-damental.

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“Lines of Life” Theme for September
The theme of poetry for the month of September 2010 is “Lines of Life” for all daily posts, including the Poem of the     Month below. This is the title of of one of my favorite poems, and it has also been published before and during the time this poetry blog began.  This months work will explore snapshot of life in lines of poetry and photographs.
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Life is Like a Lottery
Life is like a lottery,
and the numbers change daily,
Success and popularity
are a matter of fate and destiny.
The odds change with
effort and ability.
Angelic assistance is heavenly.
There are insurance companies
who determine life expectancy
like the odds of a lottery
based on age and activities.
Life is like a lottery.

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