Tag: compassion
member name: Fred Hose
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September 13, 2007 09:40 AM EDT --
I do most of my writing at a coffee house known as the Casablanca. On the walls is that kind of dark wood panelling that gives the interior a warm feeling. The casual coffee drinkers that come to visit . . .
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September 13, 2007 07:26 AM EDT --
I'll leave this on the board here for a week so that everyone konows what happened.
Dear dear friends. I've missed you all more than you'll ever know. I've missed my close friends with . . .
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September 03, 2007 08:10 AM EDT --
A contribution to Amy's "The Sea" Competition
My happy sojourn in the spiritually rich Basque country was sadly drawing to an end. I had worked on a farm, I had seen and heard . . .
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January 18, 2008 02:46 PM EST --
Forgiveness is an amazing act. When it's used, a person can change a dark and dismal scenario into a warm glowing celebration.
In South Africa, they tell a story about the speed with which God . . .
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April 17, 2009 09:33 AM EDT --
Altona was a youngish man in his thirties. One night, after being restless for most of the night. Eventually he fell asleep and had a wild dream. The dream seems to have had a message for him. He felt . . .
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December 13, 2006 10:24 AM EST --
Brown Eyed Girl Of Kabul
Last night I saw again your big brown eyes
You always look at the camera in big surprise
Whenever there's news of a shot or a blast
I see you as the camera swings . . .
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April 05, 2009 11:06 AM EDT --
Hello everyone
I've been away for a while. I know that many but not all of you have forgotten all about me.
Not all of you because some of you are my most dear friends.
But . . .
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January 05, 2007 04:31 PM EST --
As I emerged from the pub I felt that I was in an exalted state. Our beautiful river, which flowed majestically past the bank near the riverside road, only served to heighten my mood.
I walked over to . . .
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October 28, 2007 05:29 AM EDT --
I wondered if I had heard her right.
"What was that? Can you repeat that?"
It was obvious that the cricket had done her ego a lot of good and some forthrightness was beginning to show.
"It's . . .
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January 06, 2007 04:29 AM EST --
I looked again at her besmudged face and then asked her to sit down again facing me. She stared at me like an obedient child as I wiped her cheeks with my handkerchief.
"Hmmm that's just about . . .
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January 06, 2007 09:36 AM EST --
I wondered if I had heard her right.
"What was that? Come again?"
It was obvious that the cricket had done her ego a lot of good and her forthrightness was beginning to show.
"It's a . . .
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March 17, 2007 10:39 AM EDT --
As the sun began to rise, Rahul was allowed to visit Ashal for the first time. Her eyes were closed. As he entered, she stirred and opened her eyes. When she saw him, she closed them again.
Her voice was . . .
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April 12, 2007 10:15 AM EDT --
While I was in Germany as an exchange student, I worked in the town of Duisburg on the Rhine, during one vacation.
On my way to work, I would pass a building site with a site office, a car park and a storage . . .
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April 27, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
As the sun began to rise, Rahul was allowed to visit Ashal for the first time. Her eyes were closed. As he entered, she stirred and opened her eyes. When she saw him, she closed them again.
Her voice was . . .
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July 03, 2007 07:17 AM EDT --
As Alexis played the last notes, he stared thoughtfully out of the bus window. Suddenly his expression changed to one of great relief and joy.
"Hey folks. The repairmen have arrived. How about that? . . .
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September 22, 2007 05:50 AM EDT --
Preamble
Thank you Tom for so kindly inviting me to submit my life attitude details here but I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you and quite unforgivably not stick to any protocol.
But. first . . .
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August 10, 2009 05:32 AM EDT --
While I was in Germany, as an exchange student, I worked, during one vacation, for a company in the town of Duisburg, on the great Rhine river.On my way to work, each morning, I would pass by a building . . .
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October 23, 2008 05:08 PM EDT --
Hi all
Here's a poem about three aspects of a relationship....especially if one happens to be a writer.
I am the thief
Who comes to you
And steals a moment
By taking something . . .
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April 18, 2009 04:57 AM EDT --
While I was an exchange student in Germany and because of a sufficient skill in handling a strangely curved stick and a small hard ball, I was chosen to represent a German Students Team at a hockey tournament . . .
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May 03, 2009 08:19 AM EDT --
I was having coffee in one of those wood panelled coffee houses that you would find in Vienna and Prague. One of those that make you feel somehow excited and ready for an adventure. Perhaps one feels . . .
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