tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63074780303645400932024-03-19T05:46:32.987-06:00XOXOShawn&SGTexOXOXShawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.comBlogger510125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-40082622381309315892018-03-28T04:52:00.001-06:002018-03-28T04:52:15.146-06:00 I'm going to...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...just leave this here.<br />
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<br />Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-31379414366789281972018-02-23T00:26:00.001-06:002018-02-23T00:26:58.069-06:00The gun people problem<div class="MsoNormal">
“D-uh, gun control laws can’t ever make a difference because
criminals are always going to break the law, duh yup-yup.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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It needs to be sharply, federally illegal to sell firearms
or ammo to unqualified purchasers. There must be a ban on the sale of
high-capacity magazines, bump stocks and whatever, and firearm ownership and
operation needs to be more regulated than that of vehicles, with stringent
programs of licensing, registration, instruction, inspection. No one is
pretending crazy lunatics and evil bastards are going to obey such laws; it
will be in the compliance of the sane and decent general public that such laws
diminish the incidence of atrocities.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gun lovers too often fail to recognize that strident control
and regulation of all firearms possession will be consistent with a better
armed law-abiding public. Making it much
more difficult for the wrong people to obtain guns goes nicely with the right
people owning and carrying them. That flip side will likely contribute to
public safety, too. Liberals will be as
happy as conservatives when someone takes out a shooter before he gets underway.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s way past time to have posted armed protectors at all
public schools, but I still wonder why no one particularly advocates nonlethal
school security measures. Other all-too vulnerable
venues as well, for that matter, might as well set up high-tech surveillance systems
that can deploy taser and CS gas to stop a dangerous intruder. Not necessarily *instead* of armed security,
mind you, but as a perimeter that much more secure. That way, too, someone mistakenly taken for a
danger might survive it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Of *course* it’s not supposed to be this way. Here is
the one thing we can do that will help the most: People, for the love of God, please
-- vote Democrat or progressive, promising never to vote Republican/conservative
for as long as you shall live. I’m
convinced that one measure would save countless lives and usher in a halcyon
era for America.</span>Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-35002376647252830642017-12-20T17:46:00.000-06:002018-02-23T23:57:34.769-06:00Health issues! Gesundheit...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yes, I hope to be back after 2 months in 3 hospitals, 2 ICU stints and 1 code call, etc... Way past a mere "Gesundheit."<br />
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ShawnShawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-7864183312384101502017-10-15T13:05:00.000-06:002017-10-15T13:08:21.416-06:00Wait!! What about October...?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's always been a favorite month of mine, with my husband's birthday (always a low key affair, but one of these days...) and our Bluebonnet Wedding celebration anniversary, the leaves across America turning their colors, and of course, the business of the Celtic New Year and Samhain. Those things serve to make it a wonderful introduction to the best time of the year--the Holidays.<br />
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I have an inordinate number of pumpkin spice recipes. Who would have thought that a particular flavor would became a major controversy and that pumpkins would start wars on the Internet? Did you see the Christmas-themed Jack-O-Lanterns on the Hallmark Channel ads? Mind blowing for many, they are. Haha!!<br />
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Well, here's another post that means very little, but I do hope that if you happen by sometime and find yourself reading these words that all will be blessed and prosperous in your Celtic New Year.<br />
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Come again!<br />
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Shawn<br />
****Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-55006474148689667452017-09-10T16:05:00.000-06:002017-09-10T16:05:00.956-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Like so many evangelical Buddhists,
I was born in Brownwood and grew up in San Angelo. When I first moved to Abilene 30 years ago, the
local paper carried stories of a town awash in church culture and creationism, and
I saw at once that I had been called here, yes and summoned. I got busy writing
letters to the editor about evolution, and offering occasional rebuttal to the
Billy Graham column.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In those days, Christian
education mavericks Tommy and Carolyn Walden (Don’t miss their creation “science”
Discovery Center at S. 8<sup>th</sup> and Butternut!) were reportedly expected to
appear at all Abilene elementary schools with R.O.D.N.I.E. the religious robot.
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I guess that program had subsided
later on, thank goodness, as my son attended K-12. By middle school I was at least able to find
the word “evolution” in his science books, but still many of our community’s
science teachers almost certainly fell in the category of skimming past the
topic or, worse, making positive mention of creation “science” as though it merited
consideration alongside reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I don’t know whether the exasperating
folly of creationism is presently indulged in AISD classrooms – oh wait, whom
am I kidding, of <i>course</i> it is, and
twice as much at Wylie and Clyde. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">People have suggested to me
that the creation-evolution “debate” is an academic sort of matter, and of no great
practical relevance. I only wish it were
so, frankly, now that the consequences of malignant science denial come blowing
class 4 and 5, again and again. But I
suppose Texas incurred this sorrow and ruin by not going hard enough on Planned
Parenthood and LGBT residents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Having teamed up with
Vladimir Putin and the white supremacist faction to pervert the presidential
election, now the cult of creationism is gleefully at work circumventing the “no
establishment” promise of the constitution –hoping to fulfill their mad fantasy
of a “Christian nation.” How tragic that despisers of intellect and education
have prevailed, replacing the worthiest statesman ever to hold the high office
with a pretender thereunto, a shameless panderer who’s Christian only in the
most hypocritical possible sense. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">To the delight of the crazy
fringe that mis-elected him, this villain has of course done his blundering
best to dismantle the advances America enjoyed during President Obama’s enlightened
administration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">An immediate casualty was environmental
protection. Great! The fake religion
Trump pretends to belong to drives an evil initiative to abandon regulation of
industry, turning remorseless capitalism loose on a long-mistreated planetary
environment. Such an attitude can be
expected to come of the popular doctrine that all this was quickly and easily
poofed into existence just recently by One who’s going to come and carry us
away to paradise any day now, if we but make ourselves believe a few things
that fly in the face of, well, science. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mind you, many American
churchgoers are not that way at all but have adapted to the news of the century
before last and manage to maintain Christian faith that is worthwhile and
beneficial. Apparently they contemplate a
God consistent with the actual supreme reality that science and Buddhism have
detected. I sure wish those good Christians all the best and hope they overtake
the others ASAP. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Diversity, diversity in faith
and philosophy is the treasure of constitutional liberty. My heart is with the underdog minorities –
Pagans such as my wife, and the Atheists and those who self-style on
metaphysics in what has been called a new age.
Blessed are they who, in such times as these, stand up for the
progressive ethic and resist the machinations of a dysfunctional regime. May future elections repair and restore
America!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-88553148843195291292017-09-03T14:33:00.000-06:002017-09-03T14:36:10.009-06:00Oh Nine Oh Nine Oh Nine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Shawn and I have more than one anniversary date to
celebrate, having online documented inaugural moments like the first “I love you”
and marking a romantic milestone with Will You Marry Me Day. Our public wedding was in 2010, as some
friends hopefully recall. Interestingly
enough, that date of October 23 is also the wedding anniversary celebrated by
Shawn’s first and second best friends in her life – to us, just another numerologic
coincidence phenomenon. I suspect things
like that are planned or consented to in past lives.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But prior to our tying the knot at MCM Elegante that
blessedly rainy day, we had already had a private ceremony elopement-style at heartily-recommended
Star of Texas Bed and Breakfast in Brownwod TX. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Okay, we got a little wedding-crazy, it’s true. There were actually 3 ceremonies in all, the
first being an informal or what used to be called “common-law” proceeding at
the Taylor County Courthouse to culminate our shacking-up period, as we are the
hip, progressive sort.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The enchanted and spiritual outdoor private BnB ceremony was
at a time marked celestially, starting at nine seconds past 9:09 a.m., 09/09/09
C.E. The date and time are so mystically
agreeable that we decided to consider Sept 9 our “actual” Wedding Anniversary,
when theoretically I spring for multiple dozens of roses, limo, etc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I recall Shawn’s radiance that day, cool bare feet and Sheep
May Safely Graze, champagne and cheesecake to follow. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Happy Anniversary, Sweetie, and many more to us.<o:p></o:p></div>
Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-82653120630264102872017-08-22T02:16:00.002-06:002017-08-22T02:16:52.564-06:00I think we've come a ways....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-11009674694673392932017-08-19T22:03:00.002-06:002017-08-19T22:03:20.679-06:00These days...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...it seems like I'm never sure things will be as I expect. Things are going along fine, as far as I am concerned, but then in a flash it's all turned upside down, spilled out and stomped on. Whew. My day. Week. Life.<br />
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This photo spoke to me. I can imagine my life being filled with shadows and dark, mysterious places that hold the frayed bits of memory of days long gone. <br />
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Back then, did I appreciate how simple life was? Was I aware of the beauty and kindness of those dear people who cared about me and loved me? Did I know how soon so many would be passing from sight, crossing The River into their next existence, having been "promoted" (according to one of the dearest of all)?<br />
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The colored light reminds me that those were pretty easy days shared with great people. <br />
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It's a blessing to have family and friends at hand, and it's time well spent and never wasted when one can be with people who genuinely care.<br />
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Shawn<br />
****Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-57358742475844265182017-08-02T23:32:00.002-06:002017-08-02T23:32:14.891-06:00What was I thinking?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Right now, I could probably write for miles. <br />
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I won't. I've erased much of what was posted here and will spare you everything but this hello.<br />
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I like this picture that my nephew E said I could use. See how it matches? :)<br />
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Have a wonderful rest of your week!!<br />
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Shawn<br />
****Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-91966733248580239662017-07-30T10:56:00.000-06:002017-07-30T10:56:35.674-06:00I kinda wish we'd...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...have skipped July altogether. <br />
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You know, try as you might, your attempt at keeping an even keel (what is that, anyway?) and wanting a normal routine, peaceable coexistence at home with everybody on the same page and heading the same direction can be flat-out ruined when it's not, shall we say, important to all interested (or disinterested) parties.<br />
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I know. That was the longest run-on sentence and it just barely makes sense.<br />
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I am currently at a crossroads. Continue with how things are, or....what? Answers are elusive. I can't do any more changing in the attempt at pleasing when there is no pleasing to be had. That half-full cup is always half empty, you know. <br />
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This all might seem pretty vague to you, but you'll just have to read between the lines or disregard. I'm pretty sure that any speculation as to what may or may not be going on with me would pale next to the reality.<br />
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I know, many say that God is good all the time, and that's nice. Others have more serious things with which to deal, and perhaps I can "endure." Someday I might tell you why I dislike the word "endure."<br />
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So, this is me, feeling kinda blue and bewildered. <br />
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Cheers (eyeroll)<br />
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Shawn<br />
****Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-22108897337550606782017-06-24T04:41:00.002-06:002017-06-24T04:44:45.846-06:00I'm awake...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...and I'm mad.<br />
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Good manners. It's always been important to me to remember the little ditty my mother (the one who reared me, not the bio mother who deserted me without ever looking at me) ---anyway--the little ditty my mother basically branded on my fanny: <br />
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We love you, and we want other people to love you, too.<br />
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What that meant was this: Always be polite and use your best manners and people will love you, or like you, or at least enjoy your company, or at worst tolerate your presence.<br />
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Do you know what? Not necessarily so. HAH.<br />
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It has come to my attention that I can do all the right things and be as proper and polite as can be and say "please" and "thank you" and make sure the person with whom I deal or am depending on for help and am causing inconvenience knows how much I appreciate it....and BAM!!!! It backfires.<br />
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Have I been duped? Good manners are considered to be "pretentiousness." Is that even a word? My attempt to show gratitude (which has been genuine, by the way) has been basically flung back in my face. <br />
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It's beginning to dawn on me that some of the words I heard and took to be concern and care might have been something else. In other words, I've been giving credit where it wasn't necessarily due.<br />
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Lesson to me: Get real. Quit being a sap. Sometimes people aren't as noble as you'd like them to be. Or need them to be.<br />
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In the middle of the night, Texas time.<br />
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Shawn<br />
****Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-37275966115063160572017-06-11T13:27:00.001-06:002017-06-11T13:30:16.917-06:00June sneaked up on me and...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...you wouldn't believe what's been going on at the Love Shack. <br />
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Earlier today I heard someone say that it wasn't a good idea to let yesterday's disappointments dictate tomorrow's decisions.<br />
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Or something like that.<br />
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Anyway, it gave me something to consider. I have lots of time on my hands these days to do plenty of thinking, and I'm starting to wonder if that's a good idea. I used to not mind alone time and enjoyed my own company, but that was when everything I loved doing was close by and I was being creative and doing just what I pleased, pretty much. Other people were near by who shared the same interests and appreciated my gardening or efforts in the kitchen. The antique dealers liked to see me coming because they'd obtained items with me in mind and I could be separated from my $$ pretty easily- haha! Now the alone time is something I do not enjoy. At all.<br />
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I think what I started to say was that rather than doing some of the things I love to do, I've been limited (for various reasons) to just thinking about them. I can reminisce, wonder how to do them here in a totally different world (or so it seems to me) or plan on a future that seems far off in the distance.<br />
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Whatever happens, I am going to try and not let the past negatives have such an effect on the potential future.<br />
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Toodles!!<br />
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Shawn<br />
****Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-8315394353314651772017-05-11T18:03:00.003-06:002017-05-12T05:09:20.441-06:00Catching up with May...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...Whew!!<br />
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Thankfully, a blog reader left a comment which I stopped by to answer, or I may not have ever gotten something said in May. <br />
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I really don't know what to say, other than lately my stress level has been stuck at "whiny" much of the time. Things will get pretty excruciating over the next month or so, and then we should be able to breathe deeply and feel it's safe to peek out from under the sheet on most mornings. I know I'm being somewhat vague, so will just drop a clue when I say "Oh, did you hear about the couple who sued their bank?" Boyhowdy,<br />
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We're going to manage just fine, thanks. I'll be back soon and have something to say. Maybe something actually meaningful.<br />
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Good evening!<br />
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Shawn<br />
****Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-48976226182833567002017-04-10T11:27:00.001-06:002017-04-10T15:18:48.514-06:00FB trolls be advised: We support compassionate interventions in Syria, even when conceived by the likes of Trump<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm no Trump fan, but I care about the Syrian population's
plight and would be ashamed if we, the USA, sat on our hands and still did
nothing to retaliate against the use of gas by the Syrian government on its own
people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you want to moan and groan about Trump "starting a
war" or distracting from XYZ, then go ahead, but I won't be agreeing much
with anyone who's not had word one to say about those who've lost everything
and everyone, just because they had the misfortune to dwell in a country that
is being systematically destroyed by the monster at the top.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You who are disgusted and wish to complain about the USA
doing something to put its foot down and shake its saber at Syria's corrupt
leader are entitled to your opinions, but until you've watched the news, seen
the videos, been FB friended by people who live in that hellish situation,
please just hold your tater when passing near my newsfeed. I beg your pardon,
but—<o:p></o:p></div>
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--it appears my Irish is a bit up at the mo<o:p></o:p><br />
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Shawn<br />
****</div>
<br />Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-63946603868007318722017-04-08T01:13:00.001-06:002017-04-08T01:13:40.453-06:00Just fell into 'a day late...'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...and a dollar short, as they say. The 7th was the anniversary of my Mama's death back in 2000 and this meme states her attitude in a great way. She truly had it down, being grateful along the way. ;) <br />
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Me? Still working on that. <br />
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Shawn<br />
****Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-3498784033632623872017-03-18T01:14:00.000-06:002017-03-18T01:16:26.978-06:00It's been the worst day ever for me......but I think I'll just post this.<br />
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Shawn<br />
****Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-63418539520279056862017-03-09T17:28:00.000-06:002017-03-09T17:28:03.775-06:00If you love this planet....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-11329264275597621152017-03-06T20:52:00.001-06:002017-03-06T20:52:27.520-06:00I did it my way......<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-83870257189574303252017-02-23T13:26:00.000-06:002017-02-23T13:26:57.588-06:00The big question...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...the other day was asking what you'd tell your younger self. You know, the words of wisdom that you'd share with the younger you that would make your life so much nicer.<br />
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I questioned myself and came up with the "don't throw away those letters or pictures" and "be more forthcoming in your journal and keep it up." I think really there must be a journal's worth of good ideas that the younger me would have been able to use, had the younger me been so inclined.<br />
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Meanwhile, this picture says it all.<br />
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Shawn<br />
****Shawn and SGTexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352496265750247153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307478030364540093.post-47159513183312962742017-02-03T16:54:00.001-06:002017-02-03T16:59:19.405-06:00Happy Birthday, Grandma...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I wish for you all the lady luncheon style shows, shopping sprees to Seattle, Frango chocolates, designer linens, Finnware, Best Sellers, camellia and rhody bouquets, pastries and plain cake donuts, pots of coffee, meat market sausages on a string, lime molded salads and finger sandwiches you shared with me. Annual holiday shopping trips to Seattle to see what color Frederick's and The Bon would do and visits to Santa were a delight to me. Coming home with something new to show Grandpa, the giant shopping bags and Christmas Carolers singing were the stuff of my dreams.<br />
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You didn't know how much your kindnesses to others and trips to the library and historical museum would stick with me. It meant a lot that you didn't tire of going downstairs to see Ezra Meeker's covered wagon and the mummy every single time we visited.<br />
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You didn't know that the trips you took to far away places inspired me to do the same, and your letters meant the worlds to me.<br />
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You couldn't imagine that your baby picture would hang on our bedroom wall in Texas, but it does.<br />
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Thanks a million, as you'd say.<br />
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Shawn<br />
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...of Inauguration Day, I'm thinking about the last 8 years and all the hope and dreams. <br />
Are they yet to be fulfilled? Were they lost? Did I just up and hand them over to someone else who didn't want to be my dream keeper?<br />
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Over share them?<br />
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Where are they now? Gone? Or just on hold?<br />
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Shawn<br />
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