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Do what you can with what you have where you are. -Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
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Snippett Zone – Slow and Steady
n this time of concern and trepidation regarding the COVID-19 (CoronaVirius), pending recession along with the upcoming 2020 election, many of us feel like our lives are totally out of control from events and forces of which we have zero influence. While we are a part of the global community, we are also islands of individuals. While we are seemingly powerless as to the events and direction of our nation and the world, we do have the power to control what happens on our individual islands.
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Snippett Zone – Counting words
For the next few minutes, sit quietly and we will control all that you read. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe, mystery, and imagination which comes from writing.
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Some thoughts
“You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word, ‘environment,’But spirit scorns it, and is free. “It masters time, it conquers space; It cowes that boastful trickster, Chance, And bids the tyrant CircumstanceUncrown, and fill a servant’s place. “The human Will, that force unseen, The offspring
“Mai Veri Spacial Day of Science” to drop 3/19/2019
I studied with Dr. Science, Dr. George, Mr. Wizard, and Bill Nye. Mai Veri Spacial Day of Science 31 new poems by Randy Stark Release date: 03/19/2020 Mai Veri Spacial Day of Science I lernd of a thing I never new. Grubs crawl on their back Because there legs are not strong So there
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Attention: Interoffice MEMO
PLEASE DO NOT FILE the self-activated mouse/vermin extractor-disposal system.Obviously it renders its usefulness null and void. Thank you.
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Snippett Zone – Winning the race
A penny saved wins the race.
Super Tuesday is March 3, 2020.
What does this mean? Fourteen state primaries and the American Samoa caucuses will take place, amounting to 1344 pledged delegates—33.8% the nationwide total.
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The Trucker Zone – Getting to the Church on Time
Every trucker faces the challenge of getting home for a major family event. Here’s the account of one such event which occurred in the summer of 2000. The event – the nuptials of one trucker to the love of his life.
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Blahsday
You wake minutes before the alarm sounds and remember there’s no coffee. You pry yourself loose from your pillow, fumble the alarm off, and sit up. And think, “What in *&%! am I doing?!” You know before you even look no two socks will match, or that last pair of hose has runs. The dog
Would you act like that at the Peabody Theatre?
Lady Witherspoon in costume, in character, regarded her calm face in her mirror. Yes, she looked exactly as she should: determined, quiet, genteel… perhaps a quirked eyebrow would contribute emphasis? A discreet knock on the door. “Curtain up in ten minutes!” She didn’t deign to answer, staying in character. Another knock. “Curtain up in five
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