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Special Treat ??“ From Debra Shiveley

Aug 26, 2005? 

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Nature??™s Cathedral

D.E. Shiveley

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Strands of hair dance about my face as a sweet, cooling breeze washes over me.?  I breathe in the scent of water, fish, ducks, geese, new mown grass and impending rain.?  It is a green day.?  Green and damp and cool and fragrant.

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Fountains play music upon the water as white emir skim the surface like so many diminutive, white sharks, their dorsal fins jutting above the lake??™s turquoise surface.?  A blue heron struts along the shore, searching for a quick aquatic snack while bullfrogs sing their baritone serenades.
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The quaking of the ducks blends with the honking of the geese, merging into a soaring symbiotic symphony of sound. Birds twitter in the lacy, green canopy of leaves overhead and the distant sound of a mower plays gently upon my ear.

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I am in my temple; my deck is my pew.?  I sit and worship and am uplifted.

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Gravel crunches; I turn my head.?  A neighbor walks by, lifting a friendly hand in greeting.?  I nod, smile, and return to my reverie.

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Shadows shift; rain is imminent.?  I hear the distant sound of thunder.?  Soon the storm will roll in and I will bear witness to the glory of Creator: lightening! rain! thunder!?  My sister would say that the Thunder Beings are here.?  I say ???God is showing off.???

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There is a great noise to the West: honking and flapping as 90 odd geese rise from the lake and in V form glory, mount, mount, mount toward the sky.?  They pass me at eye level.?  I am in awe!?  I cannot breath!

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Debra Shiveley

merribuck@merribuck.com

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About Me:

Hello, my? name is Debra Welch.?  I'm 52 and the very proud mother of a soon-to-be 13? year old son named Christopher.

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Christopher is adopted, so I have some writings on the subject, and he was? born with a moderately severe unilateral clefting of the lip, gums and hard and soft palates.?  He is beautiful!?  Chris also has learning differences:? ADD, Dysgraphia, and Executive Function and? Working Memory Deficit.?  He is the joy of our lives.

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I have been writing since age nine.?  My father came to visit and plopped down a pad of paper and a pencil.?  "Write me a poem," he said "and call it 'Poetry Problems.'"?  This is when I learned that my father and great grandfather both wrote poetry.?  I was being tested.

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I have just finished co-authoring a novel with my cousin titled "Jesus Gandhi Jetta Mae Adams," a murder mystery set in Columbus, Ohio and am starting my second novel.

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