A Brush with hate

I received this message on my Youtube profile today:

Pakistan is where they grow terrorists. YOu scum have infected the earth. You don’t know how to live in peace with anyone. The sooner you all die, the sooner the world can get on living.

I’m surprised I’ve been attacked like this, because I don’t use Youtube much, [...]

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Somebody had to Say it

Colin Powell stood up and said what had to be said. He showed honesty and integrity and decried the mudslinging, the dirty tricks and the racist and prejudiced tactics of the Republican Party in its quest to win another election. Watch it here, it moved me to tears.
I have never been an admirer of the General, but here’s a [...]

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Little Girl Talk No.3

I was working on the computer the other day when I heard the bedroom door open. I had a quick look and I saw my daughter running with her hands in front of her as if she were holding the reins of a horse. She’s horse-mad, so she does this all the time.
“Come here, little horse!” I [...]

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Daffodils

The Daffodils
I wander’d lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
a host of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
 
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle in the milky way,
They stretch’d in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand [...]

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