Storytime Tapestry Newsletter

The newsletter devoted to spreading love and cultural awareness around the world.

August 24, 2006

Today’s announcements

A very special Anniversary wish goes out to our most cherish Storytime Tapestry couple; Hart and Helen Dowd are celebrating their 49^th wedding anniversary.  You can send them a card at: hmdowd@telus.net

Our writer Roger Dean Kiser is in need of special prayers. His home was struck by lightening and he has lost his computer, 4 tv's a fax machine and 5 phones.  He has no insurance.

Now onto the good stuff!

Today’s Queue Stories

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MY NEXT 40 YEARS

By: Joseph J. Mazzella

I was looking at the calendar the other day and noticed that my 40th birthday is just a few months off now. I did a quick peek over each shoulder to see if that dreaded mid-life crisis was trying to sneak up on me. I didn't see a sight of him anywhere, and I doubt that he will show up at all. Yes, I have made more than my share of mistakes in my past that I am sorry for. My past, though, got me to where I am today. It made me who I am now. I can't change it. I can only learn from it and use it to better live the time I have left.

I am not sure how long I will have left on this world. None of us ever know when our time here will end. Some of us get a century and some of us get only a day. One thing I do know, however, is that if I get them: my next 40 years are going to be my best 40 years. I am going to love more, give more, and live more. I am going to sing more, laugh more, and dance more. I am going to smile more, hug more, and listen more. I am going to take in more sunsets, pet more dogs, and thank God more for my life. I am going to take more walks, watch more fireflies, and smell more flowers. I am going to choose more love, more joy, and more oneness with God all day long, everyday I am given. I am going to share it all with the whole world and show everyone everywhere that they can do the same. I am going to spend everyday I have left here bringing a little more Heaven to Earth before I leave Earth for Heaven.

It doesn't matter if you have 60 years, 40 years, 20 years, or 6 months left. You can still make it the best, most glorious, and most loving time of your life. The longest life here is still very short indeed. Do all you can then to live it in laughter, love, happiness, joy, goodness, and oneness with God. Then when you die and get to see God's smiling face you will know that your next billion years will be your best billion years.

The first part of this is a story I wrote  maybe 4 or 5 years ago.  I called it The Rainy Evening.  I think I should add a few things to it now that we know more about that war and the ways, and what could have happened.

Joe Mazzella

Joecool@wirefire.com

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 "I Like The Way Canada Does It!"

(Maybe America could use their example as a blueprint?)

Paula Booher

Canada really knows how to celebrate it's history with style and recognizes that being happy is a good way to keep spirits alive and well you must dance!  I appreciate my northern neighbors enthusiasm and their rich customs.  Maybe if we Americans took their example and just celebrated our history More we wouldn't be reporting so many school shootings or gang drive by murders.  I applaud Canadas' continual ways of coming up "on top" of us.(no pun intended...they are naturally positioned to the north).  They are a beautiful country.  They have won many battles, contributed to the world time and time again in a positive way and continue to do so... AND they strive to invite anyone to visit them on an ongoing basis without the threat of guns pointing at you.  I salute this wonderful place called Canada!  By the Grace of God they have found a way to stay at peace...unlike our neighbors to the south, east, and west of us.

I'm amazed that China is overpopulated and yet Canada has alot of land with not enough people to fill it up.  That makes no sense to me.  Don't get me wrong.  I don't want too many people to fill up the beautiful countryside and ruin it but it doesn't make sense somehow.  Could it be there is a secret that God is keeping all to Himself about this special place?  I don't know.  I'm just thankful that it's there and we can enjoy all the wonderful fruits of their labor, talents, and education.  Thank you Carol for being a Canadian and bringing this to my attention.  I didn't know as much before you came into my life.  Thank you very much.  It's one thing to learn things from books...it's quite another to get it "live" from the people who live there first hand!

copyright 7/10/2006 3:19 a.m.

Paula Deann (Roe) Honeycutt Booher

wrappednword@yahoo.com

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Poetry Section

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May I Live In This Life I Know

Linda Ann Henry

May I live in this life I know

Helping people as I go

May I touch someone's heart

I hope they remember me

And never will we part

May I live with my soul

Give love to someone I do not know

Can you look in my eyes

Do you see the reflection in the stars

I have tried my best, to get you through life's test

Never take the gift from your heart

And give it away, for there is only one you

No one else can understand, what to do

Do not cry any tears, for Jesus is here

When you are lost, or in despair

You are never alone out there

The love to create,

Is in writing about the life you face

I will give away my cares and worries

Jesus  carry me, for I know I am weak

It is so hard for me to see,take me on this road, so deep

Hold onto my shoulder

I know for my life You care

Let me touch the sun and the waves of an ocean

No one can touch me, without going through the Son.

Linda Ann Henry

Do you remember me

The people's poet

linda11231949@aol.com

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A LITTLE PIECE OF LIFE

Linda Ann Henry

I heard my little one crying

I heard my little one in tears

How do I protect her

Year after year

A little piece of life's sadness

My little one found today

She asked me to help her

Make it go away

I can feel my little one's sorrow

And make it my very own

What do I tell her,

Of this world I have known

My little one told me

She does not like the life she sees

Even if she is very brave

She tries so hard to be me

A little piece of life

In all the war she sees, will there come a peace

Will it ever come, will we hear the sound of it's voice

How can I tell my little one, the cost of war is great

To lose a family, is so much pain to take

Yet for the most part here, people are free

The USA has human rights, both for you and me

So when my little one cries herself to sleep

Maybe tomorrow, the sweeter piece of life she will meet.

I pray to God The Father, who is listening everyday

He will be with my little one's soul

God Himself, will hold her all along the way.

Linda Ann Henry © 2006

Do you remember me

The people's poet

Linda11231949@aol.com

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 A Young Mother

Linda Ann Henry

A new day is coming, I can see the sun
I have tears in my eyes,
I have been searching so long
For the child I lost when she was born
What does she look like, can I see her in me
I wonder if she is loved and lives happily

When I look out my window
Watch the beauty of life going by
Why did it happen, I do not know why

They would not let me hold her when she was born
I was not able to kiss her dear cheek
They left me alone with my grief

I searched for my child who was lose to me
I pray to You Dear God, up in Heaven you stand
Help a young mother, please answer my pray

Our Lord Jesus loves little children
Please hold out your hand
I am so loving and kind
I love my daughter,
I give my heart and my soul
To see her once more, before I get old
 
Linda Ann Henry
Do you remember me
The people's poet
Linda11231949@aol.com

Readers Feedback

Oh, sweet angelsis, Sharon .  .  .  you made my night with your snake story.SOOOOOOO funny.   I was as intense as you were thinking  what  an extraordinary occurrence with
Carol sending the snake pix and then you seeing one coiled in the half~light.
Then when I read the ending ~ what a LAUGH !!! I KNOW you weren't laughing at first though

Welcome to  our Storytime family,  Ian and Abram. We are so happy you've chosen to join us to share your talents with us. My name is Maryxo and, I enjoyed your poems, Abram.   Your poem DID pick me up, Ian.   God is a wonderful "picker~upper":-) Love and blessings, Maryxo:-)

I don't like snakes either !!! You go girl :-) Love and blessings, Maryxo

Dear Carol..

    Thanks for putting my poems in the newsletter. I was really honoured. I sent copies of your letter to my parents. Thanks again for the wonderful honour and treat.

yours truly-

Abram

Carol,

That was a heart wrenching story about Jackie.  Your writing continues to  improve everytime I read you my friend.  A best selling Author couldn't have told this story better.  Keep up your wonderful writing.  Wishing you every
joy, Joe

Carol: I thoroughly enjoyed Love Child. As a former rehabilitation counselor, I have met the same type of woman, several times. Sometimes it takes a major tragedy for them to wake up.

Aro

Thank you Carol for sharing that story.  I know it's going to reach a lot of people, not just females that are in abusive relationships.  Possessive, abusive women are out there also.  No matter the circumstances, anyone who claims to love someone and harms them in any way does not love them.  Controlling another human being comes from a sickness and that man deserves to be exactly where he is behind bars never to be at large to have rule over another woman again.  I pray your story reaches as many women as possible and gets through to them before it's too late for them also.

Are you going to share it with other newsletters as well?  You should.  I'm going to pass it along to others that I know that don't receive Storytime and ask them to pass it forward as well.

"The World It Is A Changing" by Roger Kiser - A great example of 'give and you will receive.'  Thanks Roger for a well written work.      Gabrielle Morgan.

Senior Writers

Chief writer: Sharon Bryant

Chief researcher/historian: Hartson Dowd

Agee, Vance; Apted, Violet; Baker, Kathy; Batt, Al; Berry, Nell; Blaine, Pamela; Boda, Ginger; Booher, Paula; Buhagiar, Victor; Cassady, B.J.; Costner, Joan Clifton; Cavalera, Robyn; Crider, Mark; Dees, Mary; Deming, Barb; Doherty, Maria;  Dowd, Hartson; Dowd, Helen; Gilbert, Robert, Jr.; Gold, Ron; Goodier, Steve; Grisham, Mary-Ellen; Braun-Haley, Ellie; Harris, Kathy Anne; Henry, Linda Ann; Hunt, Sharlett; Hymes, Christina; Jacobson, Gary; Kiser, Roger Dean; Kerens, Claudia; Kevin, Tim; Jenkins, Pamela; Liles, Norma; Lily Jodi Flesberg; Lock, Joyce; Marlor, Janice Bumbalough; Mazzella, Joe; Mizrany, Mary Carter; Morris, Deepak; Ojeibge, Georgewaters; Petry, Dianna Doles; Roberts, Susan; Shiveley, Debra; Shaw, Bob; Sims, Richard; Streidel, Saskia; Swarner, Ken; Vaknin, Sam; Verhoeff, Jan; Walker, Bill; Walker, Joe; Warner, Gordon, K; Walsh, Sue; Weymouth, Barbara J.; Whirity, Kathy;

Wainland, David; Westerfer, Clara; White Robert;

Storytime Tapestry Staff

Carol Roach - Founder/publisher

Thelma Hartselle - Co-Founder, Moderator

Clara Westerfer – moderator

Bob Johnston - moderator