A Post for an Amazing Poster

I've been gone for a long time, not posting or reading bI am writting at the request of a dear friend. I would like to send a prayer and a good word to a Post to Poster Sandy Kessler. Sandy is ill and needs support and strength. Sandy we are all here for you.

Here is a few sweet words for you strength, from an unlikely source...GET WELL SOON SANDY!!!:

Sick
'I cannot go to school today, 'Said little Peggy Ann McKay.'

I have the measles and the mumps,

A gash, a rash and purple bumps.

My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,

I'm going blind in my right eye.

My tonsils are as big as rocks,

I've counted sixteen chicken pox

And there's one more-that's seventeen,

And don't you think my face looks green?

My leg is cut-my eyes are blue-It might be instamatic flu.

I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,

I'm sure that my left leg is broke-My hip hurts when I move my chin,

My belly button's caving in,

My back is wrenched,

my ankle's sprained,

My 'pendix pains each time it rains.

My nose is cold, my toes are numb.

I have a sliver in my thumb.

My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,

I hardly whisper when I speak.

My tongue is filling up my mouth,

I think my hair is falling out.

My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,

My temperature is one-o-eight.

My brain is shrunk,

I cannot hear,

There is a hole inside my ear.

I have a hangnail, and my heart is-what?

What's that? What's that you say?

You say today is...Saturday?

G'bye, I'm going out to play! '

---Shel Silverstein

From Kat...A little about myself

Here is a survey...I copied and pasted from My dear friend Poetikat's blog...

Format:
1. Name? (First name or nickname is good)
2. Age? (approximate is okay)
3. Favorite book? Poem? Song?
4. Top band in your iPod? (or if you're like me, on your cd player)
5. Favorite blog? (besides mine, of course)
6. Starbucks/Tim Hortons (for Canadians) Drink?
7. Anything Random?

Heres me:
1. Courtney...Court for short...
2. 21...um...almost 22 in a few years
3. Some many...but only one... "I Thou"
4. I have an I Pod...so I guess...that would be...I don't know...I don't really only collect one...but A-ha is a favorite
5. Stark Files
6. Venti Cafe Americano
7. I love to color in colorbooks!

Goodnight Cyberspace!

No Offense!

My saying of the day:
"I hate flies...Didn't you know...The devil made flies, chocolate, men and size 0"
--Shay Montesnique

Unbelievable

Is it really almost summer time? Land of graduates...children running the streets...summer vacations and swimming pools? It can't be....I am too tired, too broke, and too busy for it really to be summer time already. It seems like just yesterday that it was Winter. I seriously can't believe it. I have finals next week...and my Senior thesis is due....I can't believe it...unbelievable

Avon....From a Softhearted Hardhead

Check this out! I am going to do a little personal promotion today. I am an Avon representative. I have an e-business selling avon. Please Visit my website: http://www.youravon.com/courtneymorris
You can all buy avon online, from me...and have it sent directly to you! I will post specials on my blog frequently, to try and convince people to drop by...so keep an eye out...if you get a chance.

Why buy Avon?
By the end of 2006, total Avon philanthropy worldwide will have raised and awarded more than $500 million for initiatives and organizations of vital importance to women. Voted "a most trusted brand" on three continents, Avon was also selected by Businessweek as one of "The Top 100 global Brands" and honored as one of Fortune magazine's "50 Best companies for Minorities."

Further, Avon was one of the first cosmetic and personal hygeine companies to pledge a no "animal' testing policy. None of Avon's products are ever tested on any of our animal friends.

The Avon Foundation is an accredited 501(c)(3) public charity in the US that was founded in 1955 to improve the lives of women and their families. Now past the half century mark, the Avon Foundation brings this mission to life through two key areas of focus: the fight against breast cancer and support for women's empowerment, including economic advancement and the issue of domestic violence, and more than 300 grants area awarded each year for these important causes.

The flagship programs are the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade, which works to advance access to care and finding a cure; and Speak Out Against Domestic Violence, focused on ending the cycle of domestic violence, with a special focus on children. Avon is proudly the largest corporate supporter of the breast cancer cause, with programs in 50 countries, and the commitment to domestic violence is growing.

Avon and the Avon Foundation also respond quickly to national and international emergencies, raising funds and providing support for women and famiiles affected by incidents such as the attacks of September 11, 2001; the tsunami in Southeast Asia; Hurricanes Rita and Katrina; and the military conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Funds are raised through a variety of events, such as the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer series, and the sale of special fundraising products by Avon Sales Representatives. In 2006, the combined global philanthropy of Avon and the Avon Foundation reached an extraordinary milestone: more the $500 million raised and awarded.
More information is available at www.foundation.org.

Why buy Avon from me?
I am a new representative. I am a University student...trying the self-empolyed thing in order to help out with high gas prices and school costs. I will do whatever I can to make sure everything works out for you. Trust me when I say Avon brand is one of the best from cosmetics, clothes and cologne to tools, toys and trifles.

Is there a difference?

Is being lonely and alone the same thing? Have you ever really been alone....in the depths of solitude and heard the sound of the air seeping in and out of your lungs? The sound of the hair brushing your cheek? Or maybe your stuck in the brush of cellphones, TVs and car alarms.

Yet, one can be so lonely in the middle of a crowd. You can be talking and the life of a party and yet, in your heart, you fill as though the room is empty and your sitting in the center. I've battled bouts of loneliness my entire life. Not depression really, but I feel as though at times I am trapped between two worlds and belong in neither one. My family and friends have a hard time really grasping the significance of such an oddity. They say "your not alone," but they really don't understand the distinction between the terms.

Being alone is fine, actually at times I believe the human person craves aloneness to clear the mind and reinvigorate the soul....Loneliness on the other hand is toxic....it leads one down roads of darkness. Loneliness leads to bitterness, pain and sorrow...How do you cultivate aloneness and do away with loneliness...I'm in process...but here are my thoughts:

You learn about yourself....Therefore...I guess you could call my life a soul journey...My University education, my jobs, the books I read, the religions I investigate...my own personal relation with God...all a soul journey to discover the root of loneliness so that I can embrace aloneness.....serving others...I learn to better appreciate the self I was dealt....I walk the line...the line between alone and lonely...I may walk alone....but beside each and everyone of you out there...I am not lonely although there are times when this illusion rises to the surface...walk through the dark...you are the light...I walk through the darkness and embrace the light....for me...loneliness has become a muse for discovering my negatives and positives...although I travel through the valley of the shadows I shall fear no evil...for before me stands my soul...and it is....

Loneliness may actually be a blessing in disguise that has taught me more than any other teacher...but it took aloneness to learn that loneliness isn't as terrible as it seems.

Goodnight Cyberspace....Be good to your fellow human...remember he or she must wear the same skin...metaphorically speaking of course?

Literary Tag...

This is a first for me too...Dragonraid. Here goes:

The rules
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people

My first go:
Nearest Book: I and Thou

5th sentence: "The innate You is actualized each time without ever being perfected."

3 next sentences: "It attains perfection solely in the immediate relationship to the You that in accordance with its nature cannot become an It. Men have addressed their eternal You by many names. When they sang out what they had thus named, they still meant You: the first myths were hymns of praise."

Lets give it another try:
2nd Nearest Book: Miss Marple The Complete Short Stories...by my favorite author Dame Agatha Christie...mmmm

5th sentence: "Yes, it was rather tough luck on Miss Barton-or Miss Amy Durant-whatever you like to call her.

3 next sentences: I became a ship's doctor for a while, and landing in Melbourne, the first person I saw as I walked down the street was the lady I thought had been drowned in Cornwall. Shew saw the game was up as far as I was concerned, and she did the bold thing-took me into her confidence. A curious woman, completely lacking, I suppose, in some moral sense."

Tag your it:
Poetitkat
Mr. Stark
Maxxo
Shemley
...to be continued

Check out my links list to find their blogs...they are well worth the read...all very entertaining personalities.