Thanks to Mom for reminding me of this poem. 
A PSALM OF LIFE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real!  Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of […]

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 Tonight, quite by chance, I was watching Comedy Central after I got home from the EVIL grocery store.  My DVR thought it was recording Scrubs.  I sat down at the computer, as I usually do about 12 hours a day, and heard this guy in the background (TV is on in the background almost always).  […]

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Thanks to my aunt who sent this to me.
 Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and […]

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I recommend that you  Download a copy of this in Word if you would like. It’s REALLY long. Also, there is some issue with the html that I am transferring.  The stupid wordpress is messing up the formatting, and adding in colors that weren’t there.  This keeps happening to me. You may want to print it […]

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