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The Prized Treasures

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  “Will the prized treasures of today always be the cheap trifles of the day before? Will rows of our willow-pattern dinner-plates be ranged above the chimneypieces of the great in the years 2000 and odd? Will the white cups with the gold rim and the beautiful gold flower inside (species unknown), that our Sarah Janes now break in sheer light-heartedness of spirit, be carefully mended, and stood upon a bracket, and dusted only by the lady of the house? . . . .   The “sampler” that the eldest daughter did at school will be spoken of as “tapestry of the Victorian era,” and be almost priceless. The blue-and-white mugs of the present-day roadside inn will be hunted up, all cracked and chipped, and sold for their weight in gold, and rich people will use them for claret cups; and travellers from Japan will buy up all the “Presents from Ramsgate,” and “Souvenirs of Margate,” that may have escaped destruction, and take them back to Jedo as ancient English curios.” Jerome K. Jerome, “T...
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my personal hubble

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everything on the inside looks like everything outside the mirror should be a glass not reflecting what is out there in here evanescence effervescence wash the glass see
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prayer

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"God . . ."
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From Pope to Soap (and paramecium)

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The Internet Monk once used this moniker: "Read.Think.React.Write.Live." Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) gave us this ditty called "The Mad Gardener's Song." This is how it goes: He thought he saw an Elephant That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realize,' he said, 'The bitterness of Life!' He thought he saw a Buffalo Upon the chimney-piece: He looked again, and found it was His Sister'ss Husband's Niece. 'Unless you leave this house,' he said, 'I'll send for the Police!' He thought he saw a Rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek: He looked again, and found it as The Middle of Next Week. 'The one thing I regret,' he said, 'Is that it cannot speak!' He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk Descending from the 'bus: He looked again, and found it was A Hippopotamus. 'If this should stay to dine,' he said, 'There won't be much for us!...
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Partly cloudy with dunder-heads.

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I am amazed at the constant ineffeciency of so many people. This is probably the most arrogant thing I have ever said. Most people I depend on surprise me occasionally with questions and issues that really rock my world--and it drives me nuts! I have to say it--THERE ARE DUNDER-HEADS ABOUT! I wish sometimes I had a big old iron skillet to just haul out and clang upside someone's noggin. There. I said it.
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The Holy "Duh".

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When God answers prayer, do you think he sometimes says, "Duh"? Does God even use this word? I think so. Example: I have a mailing of about 600 pieces to get out by Friday. I prayed, "Lord, there must be a faster, more efficient way that making 1200 copies of letters and inserts and stuffing envelopes. Postage is outrageous as it is." The still small voice came, "use postcards." "You have GOT to be kidding. There is no way I am going to sit and write 600 postcards. Printing labels is easy, but I will not hand-write the content of 600 postcards." The still small voice came, "use the printer. Duh." And He gets all the praise anyway! Duh!
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