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The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke
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Joy's Updates - Straight from the Horse's Mouth.
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Thursday, September 08, 2005
Our Country
I've cried so many times over the tragedy in the Gulf because of Katrina as well as the mishandling of the whole thing. It's heartbreaking. Many of the survivors are being treated like prisoners. Watching their faces when they wonder about family members they haven't seen for days and when they are reunited with them and their pets is just too much. This is all such a disaster. I can't even imagine what they are experiencing and how they feel, but my heart goes out to them.
Help is pouring in from all over the country as well as the rest of the world. The whole area and water will take years to clean and recover. I don't know what all those people will do.
Where are we supposed to get the money to clean all these places? How will we rebuild and recover? There was a surplus and even before the war in Iraq, it was gone as well as much, much more. We're trillions of dollars in debt. George Bush bankrupted every business he tried to run (into the ground) and left Texas in huge debt. It didn't take him long to do it to the U.S. government. It's going to take forever to dig our way out of this debt. Then he appointed his cronies and supporters to offices for which they aren't qualified. We see how that's turned out.
Clinton was more intelligent with half his brains in his pants than this group. I miss him and Jimmy Carter. I don't understand how people still support Bush. Sure, they can still be Republicans but to think he has done even an adequate job defies reason. I just don't get it and never will. Why can't they see it? Can we impeach them yet?
5:52:00 PM
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