Storytime Tapestry Newsletter

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

June 29, 2006

Today’s announcements

My husband will have surgery again...the dialysis has caused a small hernia and is leaking. Pray I'll be strong, I am getting mighty weary over this.

carol dee meeks

c_pmeeks@hotmail.com

Hi everyone.. the news isn't the best today..

Nikki is being started on a new medicine because the steriods aren't helping and she's getting worse...

Oh God Mom, they started her on a new drug today called Pentostatin.......... if
this doesn't take effect her life expectancy isn't long..

but I need you
...............I'm losing it........... she is fighting for her life
again......... the steroids are not helping.................... I'm
trying to call on God but its getting hard to keep the
faith................ I can't speak to her...... I basically help her
to the bedside commode and clean her up (and clean the floor if she has
made a mess)............I'll never forget the smell of stomach acid for
as long as I live.............please help me, its killing me to see her
like this............. but as long as she needs me to be here I will be
here................ ..................please help
me.......... our lives are falling apart........... we both pray and
try our best to stay godly, why is this all happening?

David has made a group page that he'd like to have everyone look at and join if you would..

Here is the link, dear friends, please take time to do this for Nikki and David.... God bless everyone of you with love, Al

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/godblessnikole

I will send the address out soon, He's hoping to get many people to join and post messages to her to help encourage her...Thank you all, love, Al

Now onto the good stuff!

Today’s Queue Stories

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What dud you say?

Norma Liles

Sometimes, life can become so frustrating when you lose one of your senses.

I should know as I have not entirely lost my hearing but it is not as good as it

Used to be. In fact, I am not real sure when I was able to hear as clearly as I

Wish I could.

We all have our burdens to bear and at my age, I have carried my share but I

Have found that my partial loss of hearing has been a most difficult cross to

Bear but on the other hand, it has to be less difficult than losing your sight,

And other senses.

As unhandy as it is for me to miss a lot of what is being said, it has to be most

Difficult for the person that I am with who has to clarify things that I do not

Properly hear. I do wear two hearing aids and I am thankful that I do have them

But when you have nerve damage, there is not a lot that can be done. It is my

Concern that I may lose my hearing completely although my audiologist says not.

I hang onto those word like a man who is hanging onto a life preserver in deep

Waters.

I feel at a loss during church services if the speaker is not clear with his words.

Most people feel that you need to raise your voice to a hearing impaired person

But that is not entirely correct. Speaking slower and distinctly is easier to hear

And I do find myself doing a lot of lip reading.

I live in an apartment complex and I wish to treat the other tenants with the respect

That they deserve but it is always within my mind that I should not play the TV or

The stereo too loud. I have found that if I let them know that I am hearing impaired

That they are very understanding. So far, no problem in that area.

Forgive me if this seems like I am having a pity party for yours truly as this is not

The case, at all. I am a very happy person and very thankful for all the blessings

That the Lord provides. I treasure my friends at Storytime_Tapestry and I am sure

That you all have your burdens that you carry. We do not live on an island but it is

So nice to be able to bear my feelings to an understanding group.

Love to you all,

Norma Liles © hoopla214@yahoo.com or leedy76@adelphia.net

Norma Liles is a retired data entry

Clerk/supv who is 76, a native of Ohio

And still resides there. She is very

Outgoing and loves to make new friends!

Her hobbies are: writing poetry and

Stories, living for Jesus, reading,
Enjoying her family, and her use of

Her computer.Her ambition is to add

Pleasure to those who read her writings

As well as sharing her faith. She enjoys

Southern Gospel Music and loves to sing.

Her writings have been published on Starfish,
Driftwood, Sandollar, Morning Spirit Lift,
www.poetry.com, PrayerofGod, Jan Karon's
Newsletter, American Poetry Writer's league,
Lucy's Inspiration, Faithful Hope reading room,
Poetry of Today publishing, Hope in Him,
Bonnie's Place, America will remember,
News Moose & Penworm prayer warriors as well as

A senior writer for STorytime_Tapestry.

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Poetry Section

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Phantom Graduation

April 28, 2006

Jene' Lind

I bought a rose for MaryLou

To celebrate our graduation day

My whole life was before me

I knew just what I'd be

If only I'd said no...and walked away

I was the scholar of my class

The boy with all the fun and charm

Elected studen council president

But I liked to party with my friends

Stay out late, time and again

Man...I thought booze and pot would do no harm

Now no diploma's in my hand

The rose is frozen to be saved

No baccalaureate for me is said

The funeral march is played instead

And Mary placed a wreath upon my grave

If I could be there for awhile

Walk with my classmates down that isle

I'd take the mic right from that speaker's hand

I'd let it echo through the halls

I'd let it bounce right off those walls

Say no! To drugs. And live to be a man

Now no diploma's in his hand

My rose is frozen to be saved

The future's gone for Jim and me

My tears will flow on endlessly

And I will place a wreath upon his grave...

Jene' Lind

Imauthor4u@aol.com

About Me:

I have many poems, writings and songs online. One song would touch your heart, especially today with Iraq, but it is my granddaughter at age 5 or 6 singing our Christmas Without Daddy song. ? I wrote it with her one cold December night.? Another, my nephew is singing for me, and it too, is Patriotic. I was hoping it could be an Anthem for the Air Force. It is NATO's Flying Pride. I have it on a CD as I don't know how to send it online, but I do have the words and a midi of it online.

If you ever put me in google search you would find a lot of inspirational poetry but I am not here to brag. I write because the good Lord gives me every thing. He took me from a crippled mother and placed me in a foster home on my 8th birthday. I was raised the way my mother wanted me to be raised. To be a child of God's for eternity.

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TEACHER'S PRAYER
Stella Thompson

Cruel days spent in the chair
Writing notes
Reports or jottings in notebooks
Books marked, checked, coded
Fixtures and fittings mended
Back to work
No slacking off
Sicknotes on the desk
Beside my pen jar
No talking - Silence Please
Examinations in progress
Totting down your results
Keep on writing daily
Teacher's Prayer - God will guide us
Into success in the film world
Or field of education
Top score in the Country
Teacher's Prayer keep on writing for money
Nothing wrong it that
It seems like yesterday - my students!

from: SM THOMPSON: SOUTHAMPTON: UK: AUTHOR & TEACHER:
email: smtompson@yahoo.com
BIO:

I have been teaching for 25 years and recently retired
- however, always look on the bright side of life - I
can now teach in retirement/full time writer also:
Nominated: poet of the year 2006 by Poetry.com in USA
in 2006/await results:
No:1 writer: FreeVerse/UK www.forwardpress.co.uk
Winner: Silver Pen for Poetry awarded: Europa Hotel:
Belfast: NI: in 2004:

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Destination Unknown
Gautami Tripathy

What do I seek?
How do I seek?
Why do I seek?
Do I really know?
Will I ever know?

Maybe yes, maybe no
But I have to try

Where do I go from here?
How do I go from here?
Why do I go from here?
Do I really know?
Will I ever know?

Maybe yes, maybe no
But I have to try

What I am
is not what I am.
Only when I go seek
I find myself.
Will I ever do that?
Will I find myself?

Maybe yes, maybe no
But I have to try

(c)2006 Gautami Tripathy
s_gautami@yahoo.com
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com


Brief bio: I am secondary school teacher. I teach
Mathematics. I love to write. Poetry, prose whatever.
I read a lot too.

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