Funnies and poetry have been updated.  Enjoy.

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If you have never read or heard of “The Velveteen Rabbit”, I recommend it.  It’s a child’s story, but like most children’s stories, adults learn more from them than children.  Sent in by Mom.
 Excerpt from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams:
“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day  … “Does it mean having things that […]

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Sent in by Dad. 
The House by the Side of the Road
Samuel Walter Foss
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
In the place of their self-content;
There are souls like stars, that dwell apart,
In a fellowless firmament;
There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths
Where highways never ran –
But let me live by the side of the road
And be […]

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Read at my grandfather’s funeral. 
Crossing the Bar
Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson
SUNSET and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening […]

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Thanks to Dad again for another one… 
The Day Is Done
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight.
I see the lights of the village
Gleam through the rain and the mist,
And a feeling of sadness comes o’er me
That my soul cannot […]

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