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Special Treat ??“ Sharlett Hunt

Jan 4, 2006

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? Life and All it is Worth

?  Sharlett F. Hunt

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? Life is awesome!?  Beauty is all around.?  Inside and out, I hear the bird's chirping!?  This is the last day of this year.?  My new bird, Sweetie Two, has learned his name so well.?  He repeats it as I say it.?  It is a happy day for my parakeet.? 

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? Wasn't but a few moments ago, I buried his predecessor, the original Sweetie.?  I had gotten close to this little creature.?  He was all I had for three years, here in my lonely existence.?  He taught me much in his few short years, how to love, even when you don't feel like it.?  I look back and can see ways I could have been a better pet owner.?  But Sweetie and I could talk, and for hours on end, I would converse with that tiny piece of God.? 

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?  I buried him this past year, in a? small space behind my mobile home.?  He will always be in my heart.?  Little things gone but never forgotten.? 

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?  His voice was different than this new bird, I call Sweetie, two.?  This bird has a completely different personality, and recognizes me immediately.?  He was a gift from my friend and comrade, Nelson.?  Sweetie One was not socialized, only to me, and this little bird loves people.?  Our friend, Jim, called him Baby, and I want to call him the new name but sometimes forget, and just call him Sweetie, which he says now, repeatedly.?  My eyes fill with tears when he says, Sweetie, sweetie, sweetie, as if he knows.?  No, he is not a replacement for the one who took my heart but he is a living, breathing, creature that loves me, too.?  Now people, this is God and His mercy to me.?  Have you ever looked into a parakeets eyes and saw the love there?

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?  This is another thing I have received in this past year.?  I lost one and got another, different bird, yet, filled with love.?  Why, he hangs upside down like a bat.?  Never saw a bird do that before.?  He swings on the swing, I saw him yesterday, that his predecessor would ignore.?  I started singing, "Swinging," one of my favorite songs by country artist, John Anderson.?  Something about Sharlett swingin" on the porch swing.?  Anyway, thank you, God for differences.

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?  When we lose one thing, it is always replaced by another, if you just look around.?  No, we can't replace human beings or animals for the unique way they affect us in life.?  Thing is, God will always find us something else because He loves us, each in our own way.

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?  My dad just lost his older brother, but he was 93, do you think that is any different from losing a brother who is three years old??  No, not in my dad's perspective, for? he remembers when Gafford was young and they were both? little boys.?  What times they had!?  I can only imagine!? ? 

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?  Our family was so not functional, according to today's standards and don't get me wrong, I still hurt.?  My dad is sacred to me.?  All my life I longed for him.?  I found him, finally, when I was in my early 20's.?  Joy was mine!

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?  I shall remember to say thanks for this year I have been given.?  This year our country has suffered a lot, independently. as citizens, and as a whole.?  We have a war going on, that I am trying to refuse exists.?  I fail to understand why a president in this day and time would lead us into war that is based on the Holy word of God.?  There is no winner and no loser.?  We are looking toward the total destruction of this world as we know it, if something doesn't change.?  I want to go to Australia, where the people are free and they don't look for war, only peace.?  Please understand, I am afraid of what the next year will bring politically.?  I am so concerned for our country.?  So many things that have happened that are falsehoods that are being covered up by an agenda, not based on human lives, but politics and money.?  Enough said.

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?  My little cat Precious is brilliant, but you should have to put up with her little ways.?  She is the master, I am but a lowly slave.?  When did it come to this??  I was in the Army but this brat makes me walk the line.?  I am up at Reveille ( can't spell it), that is, whatever time she decides to get up.?  It is hard for me to see when I first wake up.? She sits at my door at any hour, just her decision.?  Usually still dark.?  I walk slowly after I open the door, Precious right underneath me and me shooing her away because I am so scared I will step on her.?  I am constantly saying, "move", as she inches her way in front of me.? I just want to go to the bathroom. ? I hope she still does this next year.? It teaches me how to walk in a maze.?  She just wants love.?  ? I salute.

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?  So much to be thankful for on this last day of the year, let me see, life.?  Yes life, the ability to breathe.?  In and out.?  ? 

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