Water Nymph - Creative Challenge 137

Welcome back to another week of Creative Challenge. I hope you all will be just as inspired this week as you have been in the past. There have been some phenomenal posts that's for sure!

The Rules:

Post anything (i.e. a story, poem, photo or artwork) you have created using word/phrase below as the inspiration or theme.

Please do not use other people's words.

If you wish to use an image that is not your own, please let us know it is not your work (i.e. "photo found on the internet" or "the photo was taken by my friend").

Bring the link back here and post it in the comment section.

Your link must be a Multiply link. (At the discretion of the admin.) all other links may be deleted.)

Leave your blog open to "everyone" so we can view it.

This week's word/phrase: alive

Water Nymph

I'm fifty-five

I'm still alive

Although perhaps just barely

Yet I still see

Good things for me

If I'm to tell things fairly

I have a girl

Who colors my world

And makes me smile each day

If only you knew

What she's gotten me through

You'd see why I yell hooray!

She sings to me

And helps me see

That there's still good in the world

She brings me light

When no hope's in sight

And everything's seems unfurled

Though far away

She's here each day

Bringing me laughter and love

She's dear to me

The world can see

An angel from above

She makes me smile

It's all worthwhile

She makes my tired heart sing

With joy and youth

Displaying truth

She makes me feel a king

Copyright � 2011 Cal Jennings

Which Party Wants to Reduce the Deficit?

Republicans often talk about reducing the deficit and rail against increased government spending, but talk is cheap. What does the record show as far as actions are concerned?

Coming soon to a theater near me...

Subject: Conroe Tea Party
To:

Dear Friends,

We will be having our next Tea Party meeting on Monday, January 24, 2011. Our meeting will take place at Incredible Pizza which is located at the intersection of I 45 North & Loop 336 South, in the Kroger Parking lot. The meeting starts at 6:30 PM, but be sure to come early between 5:30 & 6:00 PM to enjoy the great buffet of pizza, spaghetti, pasta favorites, soups, salad bar, baked potatoes, hot dogs, desserts, etc.

Our speaker will be that Tea Party favorite speaker, Scott Taylor. Scott will be speaking on Social Security which is of importance to everyone over the age of 50. It is of special interest to those who are currently receiving Social Security benefits. How those benefits can be protected for those of us who receive them in light of the necessity to reign in the overspending of the US Government, and the budget cuts which are coming. Armed with information, and common sense suggestions that we can present to our Congressional Representatives, we can contact them and tell them what they need to do.

Our next meeting will be on Feburary 14, 2011 and will be held at the Montgomery County Library which is located at the corner of I 45 & FM 2854. We will be in the small meeting room located just across from the reception desk.

We are hoping to rebuild our membership. Since we lost our place at the former Country Roads Restaurant, we have suffered a dramatic loss in attendees. Please come and help us rebuild and get involved. We must do everything we can to defeat Barak Obama, and Nancy Pelosi in the November 2012 election. Harry Reid was just reelected las November for another 6 year term, so we can't get him out until 2016, but maybe we can get him to retire. If we don't become involved, then by November, 2012, we may not have the freedoms we now enjoy.

I hope to see you on Monday the 24th at Incredible Pizza.

Sincerely,

Patricia Carr

Greater Conroe Tea Party Patriots

Kindness In the Aftermath of Tragedy

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To Overcome - Poem

To Overcome

Blazing daggers

Cutting, stabbing, slicing

Leaving nothing untouched

No mercy, no sympathy

In the hearts of those wielding

Common man suffers

The cruel injustices of their onslaught

As their quest for blood continues

What hope has mankind

As long as they stand?

When will the winds change

To blow a softer breeze on humanity?

Are the gods blind to mankind's pain?

Let us each blow a soothing wind

That together we may overcome

The morbid insensitivity

For alone, our breaths can do little

Yet, combined,

We can create a cyclone

Which will tear the daggers

From their hands

Copyright � 2011 Cal Jennings

Our Social Environment

Do you want your children to be raised in an environment of fear and hatred or would you rather raise them in an environment of love and understanding? Think about it. If Jesus were here today, I think he might sing this:

Jeesh!

I just lost a long blog that had to do with people with disabilities, encouraging them not to listen to idiots who condemn them for not having "real jobs." I thought it was probably a toss up as to whether to trust Multiply or my computer as I wrote the blog. I'm unsure as to whether it was the fault of Firefox or if it was still a remaining fault on the computer, but it was am little disheartening losing the blog.

I'm not going to re-do the blog, at least not for now, but I will include the video that I included in the blog.

As Christopher Reeve showed us, having a disability does not mean that you can't do anything to improve society. You can use your hearts, minds, and talents to do whatever you can in order to improve your lives and lives of those around you. My hat's off to the late Christopher Reeve.

Love, Hope, Peace, & Christ Is With Us All,

Cal-el