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    Another Vet On His Way Out

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    Beside a Grove and Standing Down a Dale

     

    For Norbert

     

    The widowed vet, his vigil kept apace,

    His life gradatim grinds its measured steps,

    Towards that rest where smiling lies his love,

    Beside a grove and standing down a dale.

     

    His daughters fret so far away and pine,

    His sons grim-lipped giv’n tret for wasted miles,

    As measured steps descend a-down the path,

    Towards that grove a-standing down that dale.

     

    The maidens coo and fuss to ease his steps,

    The sawbones scribble, rearrange effects,

    While he continues down, a-down His path,

    To rise, be raised with her, be raised by Him.

     

    © Ronald L Dunn (13 August 2021)

     

     

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    Hie to Kolob Lyrics

    in General Discussions

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    7 hours ago, Kenngo1969 said:

    Good to Cyber-see you, My Friend. :friends:

    I'm sorry for your recent loss, but I hope you take joy in the resurrection. :)

    It's actually been just short of a year. So much kindness. Even in the manner of his death.

     

    Thanks for the kind words.

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    Hie to Kolob Lyrics

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    On 7/24/2021 at 1:28 PM, InCognitus said:

    I had an inkling of an understanding of the meaning, but I looked it up in the 1828 Websters Dictionary anyway before I made my post, and I got a chuckle out of how it phrased its usage:

    In other words, very few people use the word unless they are trying to do fancy poetry.

    "Tim, Tim Benzedrine!

    Hash! Boo! Valvoline!

    First, Second, Neutral, Park!

    Hie thee hence, you leafy narc!"

    Like that?

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    Close Call Today, I Wonder Has Anyone Here Suffered This?

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    I hadn't seen my handicapped son since Valentine's Day. I first saw him a week ago Friday after his fatal accident had left him brain dead. It was just a matter of time till the autonomic processes shut down.

    Happily Utah Valley had put in place more liberal visitation policies the very day he was rushed to the ER. My daughters, my wife and I were permitted at least to be with him and sit vigil two at a time.

    Will I ever get over my resentment over being locked away from him his last six months?

     

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    Absalom

    in Social Hall

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    12 minutes ago, MiserereNobis said:

    My deepest condolences, USU. I cannot know the pain, but I wish you didn't have it. It's a Catholic prayer for those who have passed, but I think LDS will find it acceptable: "Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace."

    Lovely sentiment. 

    I've been ruminating over the spaces between quarks and wondering where in there the finer matter of which the spirit is made might be hidden. Is my Jon maybe just over there, aware of me and watching my preparations and my foulups with amused interest? I could always make him laugh with my impromptu compositions and my doggeral and my silly faces.

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    Absalom

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    My handicapped oldest son. A choking accident at his care facility. 33 years old. Nobody's fault. Always a choking risk. Can't tell you how many times I cleared his throat.

    He wasn't supposed to live very long. Such a sweet disposition. Such a stinker. Like the time he was faking the severity of an ankle injury. He got to be in a wheelchair, including in the short bus. Getting wheeled by the cute high school girls. He crawled around the house. We let him. Until I caught him with a tablespoon and the chocolate milk mix. It was all over him and all over the kitchen. I let out a yell. He booked it as fast as he could up the stairs to his room and slammed the door. Such a stinker.

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    'The Righteous Need Not Fear'

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    1 hour ago, pogi said:

     

    I think I said it first.  I am not a leftist.  It has nothing to do with where she is from or the color of her skin.  It has to do with her witchy medical views of having sex with “witches and demons” and alien DNA bologna.  That sounds like witch doctor nonsense to me, not standard medical practice based in scientific and medical theory.  There is nothing racist about calling her a witch doctor, I use it to discredit her medical views which are intertwined with witch theories.  I would say the same thing if she was a white Norwegian doctor spitting out witch medicine.

    Uh huh.

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    'The Righteous Need Not Fear'

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    12 hours ago, The Nehor said:

    Please stop posting the rambling blatant lies of Trump's favorite witch doctor. If you want to take a possibly dangerous placebo instead of taking real precautions I guess you can risk your own life but please stop trying to convince other to follow you off the cliff.

    So ... because the woman is a) black and b) over exhuberent and hails from subsaharan africa she's a witch doctor?

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