It was for a time necessary,
this soft porch light painting
everything in a hazy ray.
The moon looking down
with gentle eyes. The scene
taking on an artistic quality.
For a moment you forget
the hail and rain that came
before, remembering only
a tranquil breeze and the calm
that came after. Your Milky Way brain
tinged with only things that brighten.
You become poet and astrologer.
Yesterday’s rainbow still in
your mind’s view. You choose to forget
the unbending hardwoods or how
the horizon constantly shifted.
Tonight you only see light,
and your forest green heart banishes nothing.
How certain you are of daisies and clover.
You don’t acknowledge the stone wall or
how you stubbed your soul. Knowing you’ll be
nostalgic until the old ache decides
to diminish and finally moves along.
For now you avoid the pine needles,
and carry on.
-Tosha Michelle
Wonderful. So many great lines. This was my fave —> Knowing you’ll be nostalgic until the old ache decides to diminish and finally move along. Bravo. Happy weekend. xoxo
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Thank you! Happy weekend to you too xo
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Lovely Tosha. There is something about the light this last couple of days I reckon. A few people have been writing about bright light or fading light or even fading bright light (like me 😀 ). Sunday hugs to you my friend. xoxo
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Thank you. I need to catch up with your blog. I’ve been busy this week and fallen behind in my reading here. Hope you and yours have a wonderful weekend. Love ya
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Welcome and thank you. We actually resume work tomorrow as our Sunday is like your Monday 😀 Hope you will enjoy your Sunday 🙂
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Ugh. Well enjoy the rest of the day xx
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Thanks and you too
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You’re welcome xo
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xoxo
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Wow! Great post! I love how you write. Keep it up!
I have a new post too, hope you can check it as well. Here you go: https://wisketofgem.com/2016/04/16/make-up-brushes-that-youll-love/
Thank you and have a great day!!
Cheers! 😊
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Ah, nostalgia. My longtime friend. Just like you. Love. xo
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Yes, 12 years and on we go. Lots of love
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Love the sound of this language.
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Thank you!
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Ah, such a wonderful poem, Tosha. “Milky Way brain” — I think I have that today (had it yesterday too)! And “How certain you are of daisies and clover” — Wunderbar! The whole poem, exquisite. 🙂 Glad you’re back. 😉 Wishing you a relaxing weekend!
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Thank you! I wish the same for you and your Milky Way brain. 😉 xoxo
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Hoping a little sun chases the cobwebs outta my Milky Way brain 🙂
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I wish you luck and only lovely weather.
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Beautiful, so much in vivid detail.
My Milky Way mind needed a deep breath between each line. ♡
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Thanks. Happy Saturday, sir xx
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Beautiful, exquisite and nostalgic.
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Thank you!
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Wow this whole thing shines and gets even better! 😊
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Thank you. xo
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Of course! 😊
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Ha, Ha….easy on the Sir, I’m a nobody, in nowhere land. 😉
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It’s just those pesky Southern manners coming out. 😉
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Lovely! I can see both sides of the story clearly. Yes, there is much about light going on at this time. The song, “Under the Milky Way” comes to mind, too. ❤️☀️
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That’s a wonderful song. We need more light..even if it’s only light that we perceive or create in our imaginations
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Yes, I agree, wholeheartedly!!! ❤️☀️
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Sounds good to me! Love the image!
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Thank you. happy weekend xx
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I glad you’re feeling ya oats. 😉
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Ha-ha. Better than sowing. 😉
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Reblogged this on unstilledheart.
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Thank you
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He’s at it again. He did what I said a month ago in front of my sister and he popped my 55-60xs in 10 minutes. Now 250 xs in 25 minutes, all views and no likes
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Oh no. Sorry.
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I have to start using a masked ip, do you use one? I used to but I think those sites are down. At 3 Am I had Fios change it. So I can post here until I get an ip masking site. Bc if I use the other site he will have the new IP and then if I post here he will have this site too.
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I don’t know what that is.
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I figured it out. Got a free one but banged a lot of usage out. If I make a comment you will see in comments an email address, this one is fkk but it should have now an Australian IP. I can swap out. I had a manual transfer from Fios, so he can’t remotely get into my computer which he did before and deleted 90 percent of my iTunes library, just left Xmas songs right before Xmas
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Oh dear. He’s quite the hacker. I don’t know a lot about computers. In fact turning my laptop on is the extent of my knowledge. haha
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OK, well some I was forced to learn. Your number was NY, your IP and email shows I think South Carolina. He has been monitoring both ends of anybody being nice to me. Technically that would be everyone but he singled out 4 or 5 people
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That’s not cool. I hope he leaves you alone.
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He won’t he’s a total douche.My sister is basically following the breadcrumbs he has left out and has her on this wild goose chase. I told her he was doing all of it and he has 2xs in 3 days while sitting next to her went through my account. He also called up violations for my fits before I had it installed and they played the call back. He is causing all of this. His dumb ass spent 2.5 hours installing a deadbolt, I figured it was 7 and she is supposed to leave next week and she has gone through and admitted going through and having her kids go through my room. I am stranded in my room. I have been trapped all day on calls or I would be writing about it. If you say you are not literate I will teach you something pretty quickly.:)
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Wow. He sounds like a real peach
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Actually apropo. So many spellings so little time:). Yea I wrote a whole other one about him taking 2.5 hours to install a deadbolt earlier. He is as he probably never had anything but fuzz, peach fuzz. I am no genius but I do not pretend, he is a tool and more like one used in The Flintstones.
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Sounds like it!
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Yes indeed
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Yes indeedFelt the need to add some tunes for my last 3 after pub. A good eclectic group
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Tunes are always an added bonus
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Yes indeed. I put my other private as he hit it 15xs in 2 minutes. That was after a added a break line I will unrestricted it later. I know there is a way to invite ppl but I am unsure as to how to
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yes, not sure.
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I had just replied. I am surfing from Paris, so he can’t link anything. He can’t find this site unless I let him. But he has been stopped when I popped the continue reading line and then I set that one to private. I use two different browsers and as you know the sites look nothing alike and I have a much smaller number of ppl following here. He would really have to be bored as hell with my sister downstairs to try to break through what he said was WP having wuss like security. He is now bothering the dog.
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Very cool
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Im going to try something
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Stopped him in his tracks for 30 minutes and he is dumb enough to be talking about it
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I’m glad
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😉
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Of course you know this one reached in and grabbed my tree-loving soul by the throat. I wrote about the daisies and clovers today as well. 🙂
My favorite line has to be this:
“You don’t acknowledge the stone wall or
how you stubbed your soul.”
Yep. Exactly right.
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No. We just keep running right into the darn thing. Off to read you.;)
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You would *think* we had learned something by now….<3
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Never. Where’s the angst in that? 😉
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Very true…sanity does make some serious problems for a poet, doesn’t it?
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Yes! Most creative souls. It’s funny. I’m much happier than my poetry might suggest but I am a total mental case 😉
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Let’s be secret happy besties, I promise not to give away your secrets if you’ll hold onto mine. 🙂
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Deal! I’m in.
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Great note to end on, “For now you avoid the pine needles,
and carry on.” Lovely as usual. ~ Mia
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Mia, thank you. I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend.
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You’re welcome. I am thank you, how about you? I hope Saturday has been good to you so far, please enjoy the rest of the day and evening, raise a little hell. 😉 ❤
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It’s been great. The weather is gorgeous. Oh and I’ll do my best. 😉
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So glad to read that! The weather here is almost always gorgeous, it’s total beach weather right now, the surf has been great, off-shore winds, come on down. I promise to be a good influence! Lovely one, have a wonderful night. 😉
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That’s right. It never rains in Southern California. Of course, you could be in the Northern part Please feel free to be a bad influence. You have a wonderful night too.
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Thank you. Southern Part of L.A. County, it occasionally rains, not often! Well for sure I could definitely be a bad influence, not a problem there. 😉
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I’ve been to the northern part of California but never the southern I learned everything I needed to know about the southern part by watching Beverly Hills 90210 and The OC ha-ha
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There’s never been a more accurate depiction of Southern California. 😉
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ha-ha!
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Reblogged this on wwwpalfitness.
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Thank you!
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You’re welcome:)
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No worries. I will shine a light on you that is permanent that you can bottle in a jar and use as many as thrice to ensure there’s always one availed to you and the pine needles while slowly placing without your light and me without shoes or socks, I was just summoned and will keep them as memories as well as being the only male wearing the occasional flower in their hair while being straight. 🙂
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Ha-ha. As long as it’s a pretty flower. 😉 xo
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It would be one of a small number. I am partial to burgundy star lillies:)
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Nice! 😉
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I have some taste;)
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Clearly!
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OOOh that sounded bold. Plus I moved to France Mon Ami
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If you do, please send me some French pastries. 🙂
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Fresh made Cream puffs with custard and rolled lightly in powdered or Creme Brulee. I say both!
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I’m with you. Both for sure.
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I’m a double appetizer, desert person myself and it depends on the mood and the locale:)
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Me too.
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The sister I live with for not much longer hated that I eat like that. I always had money and my grandfather always owed me money and I always eat how I want, even if I was alone. In a casino for a couple of days I always have a list of what is being eaten at least once. One night at Paris in Vegas I had a massive appetizer for two that should have maxxed me out but still went with surf and turf, Creme Brulee and whatever pie I desired. 🙂
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That’s great. It’s always nice to be able to eat what you want.
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I had elder relatives that kept dooming me for how I eat. I’d eat 5000 in a day then barely eat for 3. My body adapts and I haven’t been in what I call in shape in a while. Just 6’1 180 give or take
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That’s sounds like a healthy weight for your height.
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I can be 15-20 lighter and stronger, it just depends. Heavier and pain is no bueno:)
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True!
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I do have a bit of training, not much but safety here is part of it
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Safety always
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3 sets in keeping shoulder in where it should. Safety.
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Im guessing this will go through to you but may not on the return even though I initiated it
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Yes. It did
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OK, so I saw that work with someone else too. Being it went through as a comment and came back, are you able to view my site? I will change it later but it is a test. It would not allow me to put my second and I made a 3rd site to test and all, yours and 3 other people all said the wp user does not exist. I was about to add your email address but I can’t see how that would work for some people if they are always on their computer and are not logged into email. I would guess a device with both goes through…Making a test post.
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It’s says unable to retrieve posts. I’m off to bed but I’ll check again tomorrow.
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Yea I am about to come off private I had aol issues.
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OK. I can see it again. Happy Monday.
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Happy Monday my friend. He tried for a few hours and gave up for the moment. Just the good part is when the ip is masked nobody can catch you dl ing a movie, (which only someone telling on you like him would have that happen) but if he gets an ip out of the way he would have to search millions to find my other site or he would use my top 3-5 commenters.
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Happy Monday! Glad all is well now!
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Thank you, you’re not too bad yourself.:) Seriously, I value our friendship very much, and I think you are one of the sweetest, most generous and compassionate person I’ve ever known. ((((Big Hugs)))) Happy Monday to you and your beautiful family!
It’s supposed to hit 90 F today, and was about 80 yesterday. Spring is certainly, finally here and I’m loving it!
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Ugh. That’s so hot! Thank you for the lovely words. I value your friendship too. It’s always lovely to connect with authentic and genuine people. The world needs more Dustins
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It is really hot, but at least it isn’t overcast and raining all the time. And now we’re able to take Carter outside to play for hours! He was cooped inside our two bedroom apartment all winter, so you can imagine how bored he became. Also, I thrive off the sunlight. We get the humidity, too, but I know it’s nothing compared to what you get down South.
You’re welcome.:) Yes, ALWAYS. I value honesty and genuine above all things. Ahhh, thank you!! The world needs more of you, too.
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I’m glad you all can get out and enjoy the weather!
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Happy Monday to you as well. I have been learning new things about my using toys and how they effect other things
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That’s interesting 🙂
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Yea it is gonna be a bit of work. I routinely email from my phone. If I have my wifi on sometimes it acts up, since yesterday I have to go public and turn wifi off. Depending on where the vpn is it effects speed and some websites do not work, one specifically that I always use called ookla speed test. It works on my phone app and always was best on my computer’s Firefox and Safari was ok. Now, even after clearing history, unplugging and such Ookla does not work on Firefox. Plus I used my computer as a router for my VOIP phone Vonage and it normally needs hard wiring into the cable modem. My sister knew this and locked the router in her room. Getting Fios and my mac last year has been night and day but depending on where VPN settles it turns off Vonage, so I gave in and hard wired and the first caller said I can’t hear you. I was like oh hell no, after all of this. But it was their line.:)
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It’s an interesting world you live in 🙂
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It does get jump started in a couple of weeks and I would otherwise say to take a road trip. I will be Bartending at Belmont at least 3 xs for 1500-5k per plate guests. But I wish things were not interesting, that I did not need to know how to fix something and things worked or if training obscure injuries come from everywhere do not, but they do. I normally do what you are doing and stand outside and look in. I actually prefer that:)
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Sounds like life is going to get very busy for you
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Not really most people actually work and I do not so much. Though it will be a bitch. I worked for the parent company last year before working for a temp place. I did a NYC gig in November and the ppl there were nasty. While I was outsourced from Belmont I am merely hoping the nonsense of that day do not effect me. If it doesn’t the first Saturday in May I will have to be there around 9am I think. That means taking a 730 train, riding 7 miles, changing and being ready. The trains do not allow bikes westbound in the morning during the week. So, Belmont week will suck as I have to cab it unless I get a friend to apply. If not Friday sucks moneywise but Saturday. Have to be there at 700 AM, leaving at 445, riding 7 miles, changing and then setting up a huge room and then being the lead Bartender in the signature party. Hopefully there will not be a horse going for the Triple Crown again. There are 5 horses good enough to win the first 2 races but in the next two weeks anything can happen.
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I wish you luck with it. I hope it’s a good experience
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Thanks. It is a lot of stress. First, does my alarm go off on time or early. Is the train running on time even though I checked a couple of hours ago? Is my bike OK? Is the weather OK? I hope I do not get put in with the cattle that go to these daily and get my actual gigs? Some like the JJ Center you get prodded and pushed somewhere if you are not careful or have nobody to help. I was careful but had no help and ended up serving instead of setting up 5 bars and just waiting. Then, do I want to stay the night in the adult hotel for 99 or 50 back for a cab the second week?
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Stay safe. Take pictures if you can
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I intend to. Despite the newer Iphone having more battery it has less. I bring my charger. I had photos from an old friend that won the TC in 78 Jean Cruguet and we got into the winner’s circle pic as he was a friend of my grandfather and he knew me since before I was 10. They thought I would ride as I had perfect form, then I grew half a foot:)
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Ha-ha Cool
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Gorgeous!!
“this soft porch light painting
everything in a hazy ray.”
— My heart translates that line perfectly. ❤❤❤
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Thank you. Happy Sunday xo
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Happy Sunday, Tosha! ❤
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Happy Sunday, doll face xx
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Excellent… it seems hope might prevail at the end… great poem. Sending you all my best wishes!. Aquileana 😀
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I think hope must xx
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This resonates with me the most:
“The moon looking down
with gentle eyes.”
I’m not sure why, either, other than the creativity behind your words. I love the whole thing (shock, shock,) and it’s only when you consider its entirely that the beauty and profundity sinks in. I cannot sing your praises high enough!
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You’re really kind. I appreciate it xx
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