tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83458852024-03-12T18:16:30.583-05:00HeartstringsThere are times in our lives that create memories of the heart~Nancy Hoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960887401770810071noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345885.post-48357390323868866282018-04-16T15:24:00.003-05:002018-04-16T15:27:02.256-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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autumn and winter are almost days in the past</div>
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spring and summer are rapidly on their way</div>
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ah, my sweet friends, i already miss you</div>
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and await your return ~</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">It's spring fever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">That is what the name of it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">don't quite know what it is you <em>do</em> want, but it just fairly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">makes your heart ache, you want it so!</span></div>
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Nancy Hoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960887401770810071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345885.post-3733592041481159142016-02-01T14:07:00.001-06:002016-02-01T14:07:55.790-06:00<div style="text-align: center;">
i am a winter's lady</div>
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through and through</div>
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i love and always will</div>
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the overcast days</div>
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the crisp wind that nips</div>
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and pulls at the sweaters</div>
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jackets and coats</div>
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cheeks turn rosy</div>
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and noses need handkerchiefs</div>
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hot chocolate and jammie days</div>
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books and books to read</div>
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snow flurries that manage to exist</div>
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in the south but fly away</div>
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too soon oh too soon</div>
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a time of dreaming</div>
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of planning</div>
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of cleaning out and</div>
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rearranging</div>
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but mostly</div>
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a time of quiet</div>
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of solitude and peace</div>
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listening to the silence</div>
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and loving the cold night</div>
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burrowed under quilts</div>
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on a cloud that drifts</div>
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a time of waiting</div>
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for rebirth to begin</div>
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i can get totally lost in a photo just wondering~</div>
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take the one from above, a Pinterest grab</div>
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it's misty and there's a creek naturally</div>
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there's woods and there's seasons</div>
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aren't the colors gorgeous.</div>
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who has passed through this covered bridge</div>
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it doesn't appear old, was it rebuilt</div>
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can one wade in the creek and walk</div>
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to where an homestead used it for water</div>
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the sounds made when you drive on the wooden boards.</div>
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where do the locals work</div>
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are their days as filled with peace as i feel now</div>
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how many are native to the area</div>
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and how many moved in looking for a slower pace</div>
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ah, life. you are wondrous and filled with mystery.</div>
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Nancy Hoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960887401770810071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345885.post-60109172269254201992015-07-02T14:52:00.000-05:002018-04-13T17:47:31.984-05:00<br />
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"What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,</div>
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nor the human heart conceived,</div>
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what God has prepared</div>
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for those who love Him"</div>
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<i>{this just makes my heart sing</i></div>
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<i>and I get soooo excited!)</i></div>
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there are some that come into your life for a bit</div>
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some stay longer and some leave</div>
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some remain forever</div>
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some have no choice but to leave</div>
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and return when He feels it's time</div>
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i'm celebrating and thanking him today</div>
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for bringing a sweet piece of a scary part of my past</div>
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back into my life</div>
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my heart is smiling</div>
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and i know she'll be here for a long time</div>
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for she never left my heart</div>
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and Spring arose on the garden fair</div>
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like the Spirit of Love everywhere</div>
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and each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast</div>
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rose from the dreams of it's wintry rest</div>
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~percy bysshe shelley</div>
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Have I told you, Valentine,</div>
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That I'm all wrapped up in you?</div>
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My feelings for you bring to me</div>
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A joy I never knew.</div>
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You light up everything for me;</div>
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In my heart you shine;</div>
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Illuminating my whole life,</div>
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My darling Valentine.</div>
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I love you, Johan ~ </div>
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"I heard the bells on Christmas Day</div>
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their old, familiar carols play</div>
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And wild and sweet the words repeat</div>
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of peace on earth, goodwill to men"</div>
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Ah, December, a sweet month of Winter~</div>
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Nancy Hoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960887401770810071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345885.post-81436763672596930102014-08-28T19:29:00.001-05:002014-08-28T19:30:17.039-05:00A Baby's Birthday ~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yes, he's our baby</div>
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Our youngest grandchild</div>
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Our fourth grandson</div>
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Sweet child, first birthday</div>
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This week? First haircut</div>
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Soon, too soon,</div>
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it'll be his birthday again ~</div>
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Ah, the days they go quickly</div>
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Into years before months</div>
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Soon this sweet child</div>
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Will be two digits as his cousins ~</div>
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he'll always be our baby</div>
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Through empty heaven with repose;</div>
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To slip his golden fingers through.</div>
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The dusty attic spider-clad</div>
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He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;</div>
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And through the broken edge of tiles</div>
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Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.</div>
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Meantime his golden face around</div>
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He bares to all the garden ground,</div>
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And sheds a warm and glittering look</div>
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Among the ivy’s inmost nook.</div>
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Above the hills, along the blue,</div>
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Round the bright air with footing true,</div>
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To please the child, to paint the rose,</div>
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The gardener of the World, he goes.</div>
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little boys come with their dreams</div>
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their curious nature and love for dirt</div>
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they wrap our hearts with arms</div>
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that go from tiny to muscular</div>
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before we have time to say, wait!</div>
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while we are looking for the matching sock</div>
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they're daddies and then</div>
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they're pa's and poppa's and pawpaws</div>
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the circle of love and little boys</div>
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Welcome 2014~I love you already.</div>
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