tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-268951162024-03-07T13:06:47.873-05:00The Why ManPastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.comBlogger236125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26895116.post-17990184582585832942014-05-11T08:03:00.000-05:002014-05-11T09:20:04.763-05:00Value of Moms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">According to the Universal Life Coach
Institute, Life Coaches earn anywhere from $128/hr. to $321/hr. The salary
range goes from $28,000 at the lowest to $275,000 at the highest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Cooks have a take home salary that ranges from
$22,000 to $75,000, and a chef can make $85,000/yr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Nannies make between $12 and $18/hr. and on a
live-in basis, may work between 40 and 70 hours a week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">House Cleaning services $25 to $45/hr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Moms also end up being part time nurses, laundry
operators, delivery drivers, and psychologists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Salary.com suggests <a href="http://www.salary.com/mom-paycheck/" target="_blank">mom is worth nearly$120,000</a> as a stay at home mom, and a working mom is worth $70,000 above what she
makes at her work. I think salary.com has undervalued moms significantly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">And yet, moms do this all and more for nothing but love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Pastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26895116.post-49703621456603285502013-12-11T10:35:00.001-05:002013-12-11T10:35:08.073-05:00Dog Harmonies - Crash sings along<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_g-JBo5B2_Q" width="480"></iframe>Pastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26895116.post-37992924904220278912013-06-26T15:52:00.001-05:002013-06-26T15:56:57.466-05:00Sonnet #14 - a sonnet with your name on it - Shah AfsharSonnet #14, a Sonnet with Your Name on it: Shah Afshar<br />
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We read of heroes, heretics and fools<br />
between the lines of truth become confused<br />
Conformity confused with "one accord"<br />
is stamped with affirmation by the board<br />
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and God looks down to see the hero's shame<br />
Declared as guilty takes the rebel's blame<br />
and enters it into the Book of Acts<br />
where Heaven's judgment will reveal the facts<br />
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But we see Jesus entering the boat<br />
and pushing off the shore as rulers gloat<br />
The plans of men are laid and set as traps<br />
so honest men like Christ will take the rap<br />
like fingers point at Jesus just offshore<br />
so Shah Afshar through shame gains God's rapport<br />
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for more information about this sonnet see <a href="http://www.philwyman.org/">www.philwyman.org</a> <br />
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The audience gave him a standing ovation. John King offered little defense of his question as should be expected of a good moderator, whose job it is to allow the debaters to freely interact with the questions. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/john-king-newt-gingrich-south-carolina-debate_n_1230528.html" target="_blank">Later they exchanged</a> once again after the debate, and Gingrich was far less convincing than his moment during the debate.<br />
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His daughter is coming out and defending him, but the open marriage question is not answered even during these interviews, and of course in such a "he said, she said" private issue, how could we ever expect a deciding result?<br />
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When I first saw the debate response by Gingrich, I immediately felt that this was Gingrich at his fiery best. He may be the clearest communicator, and perhaps the most intelligent and visionary politician among anyone running for president in either party right now. But, my second (and almost immediate) sense about his response to the open marriage accusation by his second wife has stuck with me longer, and seems to be proving itself out. The exchange did not leave me with a good feeling, and these are the reasons why:<br />
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1) The response by Gingrich seemed philosophically dishonest. Even if it is a genuine response to how he feels about the question (which might not have been true if the question was asked of someone else, or of a Democrat) it does not accurately portray the general feelings of the Republican core. From a basic philosophical consideration of leadership in the Republican party, faithfulness matters, and manifests itself in sexual issues. Something so far outside the societal norms of marriage and sexuality as Open Marriage or polyamory are not things most Republicans would consider acceptable in a leader.<br />
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2) The debate point was sure to bring forward discussion in the public arena about Open Marriage and polyamory. Giving it a place in the discussion of everyday news affairs and offering its advocates a grand stage to share their views on the benefits of the lifestyle. Is this something a leader of the Republican Party wants to be known for - being a culture changer for radical liberal sexuality? Somehow I think not, but indeed, almost immediately <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16657620" target="_blank">articles</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-a-sussman-lcsw/do-open-marriages-work_b_1222016.html" target="_blank">discussions</a> popped up around the world. The questions on the validity and potential benefits of open marriage are still going, and its proponents have the grandest stage they have perhaps ever had.<br />
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I do not see Newt's brilliant political maneuver in the debate as a high point for the Republican Party, and I do not see it as a high point for American culture either. That's my thoughts on Newt's response. What are yours?Pastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26895116.post-64835004179149655292012-01-06T10:47:00.000-05:002012-01-06T10:47:17.564-05:00Your life is a poemI have read poetry, beautiful prose and deep philosophy birthed out of adventurous lives. I have also read poetry, beautiful prose and deep philosophy birthed out of what would appear to some to be mundane existence.<br />
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So I find myself considering the fact that all life is poetry - all life is beautiful prose - and all life is deep philosophy. We may not see it in every day, and every experience, but I assume it must be there.<br />
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What then makes our lives so mundane if all life is poetry? Our perspective I suppose. One of our great needs, then, is to be the poet - to be the mystery writer - to be the philosopher who finds the art in life.Pastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26895116.post-64729842905233903922011-12-22T12:04:00.000-05:002011-12-22T12:04:16.875-05:00God looks down upon the atheists (a parable)<span class="inline_editor_value">God looked down on the atheists of the world. He slumped over in His great throne, and shook His head. He said to Himself (because He really is the only one smart enough to get Himself and He tends to talk to Himself a lot because of it), "What the heck are they thinking? All that argumentation about things they don't understand, and things they can't possibly figure out is absurd. Their lying and gross immorality offends me."<br />
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Then God turned and looked to faithful Christian Pastors and Christian religious leaders like the Pope, and smiled. He listened a little closer, slumped in His great throne and shook His head. He said to Himself (because now it was really obvious that no one was smart enough get Him), "What the heck are they thinking? All that argumentation about things they don't understand, and things they can't possibly figure out is absurd.</span><span class="inline_editor_value"> Their lying and gross immorality offends me.</span><span class="inline_editor_value">"<br />
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Then God said to Himself again, "What the heck am I gonna do with this mess? I'm afraid that this freewill I've granted them is beginning to look like a catch 22. They can choose to believe in Me or choose to disbelieve in Me, and yet now I see that their damned if they do, and their damned if they don't - and damn it all, so am I!"</span><br />
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<span class="inline_editor_value">And so God responded to His frustration in the best way he could think of: He took up with a few medieval monks and started brewing beer. </span><br />
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<span class="inline_editor_value"><i>This parable outlines my feelings about God. I feel bad for poor ol' God. What I mean is that He is in a tough position and has placed Himself there knowingly. The problems of sin, and the curse, brought on by the dynamics of freewill have made it almost impossible for a good deal of humanity to imagine a good God in the midst of all this tragedy.</i></span><br />
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<i><span class="inline_editor_value">Generation after generation continues to argue about His existence or the impossibility of His goodness, and He suffers that behavior for millenia. As a result he has chosen to take up working with us in many simple ways, and to express His love in those simple joys of life. If you look close enough you just might find God in the party.</span></i>Pastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26895116.post-15180412232558691392011-08-01T17:53:00.002-05:002011-08-01T17:54:39.689-05:00The Cash Poem, (a purposely mediocre work) by Phil Wyman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjTrRUKOrV0_eSwQVRUcCC_L_xwQS__NGVH0eyBHVTVCIiuEB6SokC3NpGmNiEYTQbFXCq4pxV8_4_egKOYtjTXckILOCyNlSpFT93ThrnfdCrpXexy2as4XFLOw7tud-arZ90/s1600/Photo+on+2011-08-01+at+18.48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjTrRUKOrV0_eSwQVRUcCC_L_xwQS__NGVH0eyBHVTVCIiuEB6SokC3NpGmNiEYTQbFXCq4pxV8_4_egKOYtjTXckILOCyNlSpFT93ThrnfdCrpXexy2as4XFLOw7tud-arZ90/s320/Photo+on+2011-08-01+at+18.48.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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The Cash Poem, (a purposely mediocre work) by Phil Wyman <br />
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I received a letter in the mail<br />
called a risk alert<br />
Don't <a href="http://www.jewishfederations.org/page.aspx?id=57821">dash</a> to read a poem it said<br />
or with the law you'll flirt<br />
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Please note the date of copyright<br />
and the name upon<br />
a poem of inspiration about<br />
loved ones come and gone<br />
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It will cost you lots of cash<br />
helping those who hurt<br />
about $250 bucks<br />
for copyrighted works<br />
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For it is the cash that matters<br />
and the things that we can buy<br />
at least this is so for the poet<br />
though not for you and I<br />
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So before you copy a poem<br />
to comfort a forlorn friend<br />
consider the risk of a lawyers' notice <br />
of copyright infringement<br />
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Now, take it slow and consider<br />
writing your own poem<br />
it may take time but it is worth<br />
not being sued for your home<br />
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So be less swift to copy<br />
and show a little brains<br />
in the face of people who will write<br />
dear, sweet things for gains<br />
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If you don't then you will learn<br />
respect for lawyers and courts<br />
especially when you find your cash<br />
goes flying out the doors<br />
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Avoid an edict being read<br />
at the courts and dash<br />
right back home and write your poem<br />
and save yourself some cash<br />
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<i>addendum to my work of <a href="http://firemark.com/2011/01/17/asked-answered-parodysatire-copyright-infringement/">Parody</a>…</i><br />
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Now my little mediocre poem<br />
is free for you to share <br />
I wrote it in 25 minutes<br />
no cash - cause I don't carePastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26895116.post-83357049496221456792011-07-06T08:33:00.001-05:002011-07-06T08:36:44.131-05:00Book Report: Peter Rollins' "The Orthodox Heretic: amd other impossible tales"<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=sqnomo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B0035G04U2&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>A couple weeks ago I finished Peter Rollins "The Orthodox Heretic: and other impossible tales." Phyllis Tickle called the book his "most engaging and accessible book to date." I think that was a way of saying that Pete probably hasn't written anything this easy to read since he was 3 years old. He does tend to write over most of our heads, and I have loved his previous books. So I was a touch skeptical coming into this one.<br />
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It is a collection of short stories followed by an interpretation of their meaning. As is the way of Pete, he turns the tables on what we expect and challenges us to rethink theology and life with God. There is a significant number of these stories which focus on social action, or as some will call it "the social gospel." This was to such a degree that about three quarters way through the book I thought perhaps the stories in the latter half would all turn that direction, but then Pete changed course again and created a number of interesting tales with deep personal challenge.<br />
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This may be Peter Rollins' easiest read, but it is by no means simple in its approach to dynamic transformation. I have been using some of these stories during our Lectio Divina scripture meditation evenings.<br />
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My opinion: Good book. Worth the read. It will change the way some of you think.<br />
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<i>Next: I am now reading Tony Jones' book The Teaching of the Twelve. A book highlighting the Didache and applying it to Christianity today. Tony and Pete are friends who have been battling it out over facebook about whose stuff is better. I will give my opinion after I finish Tony's book.</i>Pastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26895116.post-76214672042013305322011-06-24T10:11:00.000-05:002011-06-24T10:11:33.586-05:00The Do Lectures: My Favorite Lecture VenueHere's another lecture from that wonderful lecture series which happens once a year in West Wales - in a tent. This year, a second venue has cropped up in California. This presentation is from <a href="http://thedolectures.co.uk/speakers/paula-le-dieu/">Paula Le Dieu</a>. about Copyright law.<br />
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Left Behind: The Song<br />
by phil wyman<br />
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Uncle Elmer had a truck<br />
and it was my sin<br />
lusted for his F-150<br />
and that sick lift kit<br />
Uncle Elmer was a preacher<br />
mean as could be<br />
told me 'bout the rapture<br />
and the plagues that I would see<br />
But now he's in a box<br />
six-feet deep<br />
but his pickup in my name <br />
is a sign that God loves me<br />
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Left Behind, Left Behind<br />
Uncle Elmer is not with us<br />
but now his truck is mine<br />
Left Behind, Left Behind<br />
he could't take it with him<br />
so now his truck is mine<br />
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Voltaire told a story*<br />
'bout a battle on the town<br />
sounded like the last days<br />
when few would be around<br />
They surrounded the city<br />
to starve them out<br />
the soldiers were all dying<br />
cause the food was running out<br />
So, the doctor hatched a plan<br />
to save the day<br />
chopped of the ladies' right buttocks<br />
and all had rump filet<br />
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Left Behind, Left Behind<br />
she sacrificed her right cheek <br />
now we call her Left Behind<br />
Left Behind, Left Behind<br />
not sure I'll like the menu<br />
when it comes to the end times<br />
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I went to a church<br />
where the preacher did tell us<br />
of that day when we would fly away<br />
to be with Jesus<br />
He said it was comin'<br />
any day<br />
and the church secretary<br />
prophesied as we all prayed<br />
May twenty-first<br />
God will take us all away<br />
but the preacher and the secretary<br />
disappeared that day<br />
<br />
<br />
Left Behind, Left Behind<br />
the church and the pastor's wife<br />
they were left behind<br />
Left Behind, Left Behind<br />
now we know that God is not the one<br />
who left us all behind<br />
<br />
Left Behind, Left Behind<br />
It's your judgments and not God's<br />
that left us all behind<br />
Left Behind, Left BehindI just might throw a party<br />
if I get Left Behind!<br />
<br />
* Found in Voltaire's <u>Candide</u> <br />
<br />
and I am throwing a party. Yo can find it Facebook, or you can join the community and start your own party! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Left-Behind-The-Party-May-22nd/195231757182863">Left Behind: The Party!</a>Pastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26895116.post-43559322332621583882011-04-15T17:41:00.003-05:002011-04-15T17:42:38.659-05:00Palm Sunday PrayerPalm Sunday thoughts: identifying with the season of bright sadness <br />
<br />
Today we come with Jesus<br />
into the gates of Jerusalem<br />
we hear the lifted praises<br />
and the voices of the mob<br />
but in the pattern of their praise<br />
we hear their turning camouflaged<br />
beneath the joyous cries<br />
those who praise the loudest<br />
will next week shout "crucify!"<br />
<br />
i, among the frenzied crowd<br />
take my place to find<br />
that i have shouted both in praise <br />
and in betraying jeers<br />
and i as well have sat upon<br />
the ass trudging into town<br />
the bright sadness lies before us<br />
as fandom becomes betrayal<br />
and betrayal turns to lovePastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26895116.post-24993343018445468522011-03-31T01:18:00.001-05:002011-03-31T01:18:44.987-05:00Nor smiles upon these leeches' lipsFor we have dreamt about things that darken the days<br />
We smile in our sickness and celebrate another's pain<br />
Our strength is in their sacrifice<br />
We eat their flesh<br />
We drink their blood<br />
Not in humbled thanks, but gorging pride<br />
<br />
And when another day shall dawn, darkening our eyes<br />
There shall be no sacrifice nor smiles upon these leeches' lips<br />
Our weakness is the loss of strife and harm<br />
No flesh to eat<br />
No blood to drink<br />
But in hungered cries, we'll surely starve<br />
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my thoughts are my own<br />
at least, I think so<br />
one moment they are controlled<br />
The next unhinged and swinging wildly<br />
squeaking in the winds<br />
from cursed tri-tones to harmonious hymns<br />
I vacillate ALONE<br />
<br />
LONE<br />
independent soul?<br />
or whited, blighted bone<br />
now sanded down to whistling moans?<br />
from barren desert dust staring blankly,<br />
blinkless to each gust<br />
with eyes as holes and empty trust<br />
I exemplify the LONE<br />
<br />
ONE<br />
looks down from stark sun<br />
caught bare I can not run<br />
knowing this, I am undone<br />
and blistering heat becomes some comfort<br />
where our souls might meet<br />
sorrow sucks from joy's warmed teat</div><div style="text-align: left;">multiplied by ONE</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>still working on the hope of bardic transference after sleeping on <a href="http://myonethousandthings.blogspot.com/2010/02/accomplished-1-climbing-cadair-idris.html">Cadair Idris</a></i></div>Pastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26895116.post-29828778751295207442011-03-26T14:39:00.000-05:002011-03-26T14:39:21.105-05:00Hark Dark Night<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hark Dark Night</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hark</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dark Night</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Light Flies</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sighs Hiss</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Kiss Fears</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Years Pass</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ass Speaks</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Freaks Bard</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Scarred Mind</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Kind Word</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Heard Late</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Fate Dodged</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Lodged Dreams</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Streams Free</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Flee Dark</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hark</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Light</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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She's 23 and already has 30 children. Wow! What a story. Really you need to hear it. This is reason number two you should join the <a href="http://www.dolectures.com/">Do Lectures</a>.<br />
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Thanks Tyler. <br />
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<u>Blackout</u></b> is a self-published book by Tracy Ann Williams, the self described Welsh Mountain Girl - exhibitionist - writer looking for a publisher to take notice. Sounds like me: well, not the Mountain Girl - exhibitionist part, but the rest of it. She calls herself the "Naked Blonde Writer," which I am sure gets significant attention on Twitter, and probably more than a few undesirable requests.<br />
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Since nothing Welsh on Twitter gets by me for too long, I happened upon Tracy some months back shortly before my trip to Wales. I tried to connect with her in Wales to pick up a book while I traversed the nation from South to North and back again, but I am sure that strange Americans asking Naked Blonde Writers for a personal delivery of their books are frequent and sketchy propositions. So it was a couple months later I received it via the volcano-dust delayed air routes.<br />
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Back to the book:<br />
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<u>Blackout</u></b> is a raw, dark, and desperate picture of Rhondda Valley life among druggies, and factory workers. It is filled with F-bombs, anger, wild dreams, and hopelessly trapped people caught on the painful knife edge of poverty and addiction. It is not something which would typically make my list of of books, but then the picture with a stack of some of the other things I am reading right now might suggest that.<br />
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The mountain wandering protagonist, a 29 year old blonde meets the dreamer boy, wannabe rockstar from the moneyed English family and they stomp off angrily toward his dreams of success in a secluded house in the Brecon Beacons of South Wales. (I am sure I have driven by that house, even though this is a fictional tale.)<br />
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English privilege is juxtaposed against the struggling Welsh working class. A deadly paced party life stands against a healthy on the outside only well-to-do lifestyle. The hopelessness of the daily drudgery of the working class, and Valley addicts is contrasted with the laissez-faire attitude of the rich who do not have to work or scrape along for survival.<br />
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I have a pre-release copy, which still had corrections to make before final printing, so the beginning of the book was chopped up a bit with sections printed twice, misspellings, and incorrect chapter divisions. Despite that it read smoothly enough, generally transitioned well. The second half of the book moves at a frenetic pace like an action novel. It lifts you toward hope, and drops you toward despair, and captures a wild bi-polar movement in between the two extremes.<br />
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Don't read this if you are thinking of moving to the Rhondda, because it won't encourage you. Don't read it if you are troubled by nightmares after dark readings. Do read it if you like dark literature, don't mind F-bombs, and certainly read it if you like to support new writers, or artists coming out of Wales. It is a good read.<br />
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Tracy is a talented, Welsh mountain hermit actress who spent some years in Hollywood and now likes stay on top of the mountain only to pop out every now and then and show off.<br />
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You can get your copy of <u><b>Blackout</b><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=sqnomo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B003AOAZLC&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></u> from Amazon. If you get it, blog about it, and pass the word on. You can find out more about Tracy on <a href="http://www.tracyannwilliams.com/">her website</a>.<br />
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So Cymru am byth! and buy a book to support struggling artists and for the sake of easing your aching hiraeth.Pastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26895116.post-32192681247752788002010-04-09T17:01:00.001-05:002010-04-09T17:10:21.274-05:00Poem: The Woes of the Ornamental Sword<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>The Woes of the Ornamental Sword</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">standing sword, in the corner</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">unsharpened, tarnished blade pointing downward</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">too dangerous for play</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">too benign for war</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">standing sword, in the corner</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">casts its thin shadow toward the coward</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">too alike are they</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">too hopeful for more</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">too violent to pray</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">too far from the door</div>Pastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26895116.post-24273507205652873242010-04-09T16:47:00.003-05:002010-04-09T16:50:05.145-05:00Poem: embracing the hangman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieWZTHvadwfUAPqHxYm0JH1z2iz0Z901YtTHz_XS-jSR4dJz0yXNbfdr_jYVkhfW1bjuTnjddB-wsc7DLTb_TzIyOA41-lwh5maqXVxRf2wbE1sQZuIjEnpm5V_zHryCyR3oXE/s1600/DSC_0556.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieWZTHvadwfUAPqHxYm0JH1z2iz0Z901YtTHz_XS-jSR4dJz0yXNbfdr_jYVkhfW1bjuTnjddB-wsc7DLTb_TzIyOA41-lwh5maqXVxRf2wbE1sQZuIjEnpm5V_zHryCyR3oXE/s400/DSC_0556.JPG" width="265" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>embracing the hangman</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">for aching joints, and scratchy skin</div><div style="text-align: center;">I know I am alive </div><div style="text-align: center;">for clutching chest, and labored breath</div><div style="text-align: center;">I know I am alive</div><div style="text-align: center;">for downcast eyes, and heavy heart</div><div style="text-align: center;">I know I am alive</div><div style="text-align: center;">for troubled mind, and wanting words</div><div style="text-align: center;">I know I am alive</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">in pain and not in pleasure, in sorrow not in jest</div><div style="text-align: center;">in loss and not in treasure, in tossings not in rest</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">these muted tones of struggle from graying days of rain</div><div style="text-align: center;">the lonely rooms of silence with clicking clocks as friends</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">send me to the hangman - a full embrace I give</div><div style="text-align: center;">that which is killing me is teaching me to live</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Have you ever found it necessary to embrace your pain in order to keep your sanity?</i></div>Pastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26895116.post-7331424921993899912010-03-15T00:19:00.002-05:002010-03-15T00:21:02.952-05:00Poetry belongs on paper (a poem)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WcfjnGdV0SGf-djauSZFJndwHjW4Q5wEnWC_ICC0YcESIfSu1AimCbeBDu2hWOnNCcVNzulJXsdlApwHM0YR3vu4XjL_LB6NQMr8gOhM246Wpk-DarsboY3hcUl1AtfZAPR9/s1600-h/Picture+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WcfjnGdV0SGf-djauSZFJndwHjW4Q5wEnWC_ICC0YcESIfSu1AimCbeBDu2hWOnNCcVNzulJXsdlApwHM0YR3vu4XjL_LB6NQMr8gOhM246Wpk-DarsboY3hcUl1AtfZAPR9/s400/Picture+1.png" width="287" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WcfjnGdV0SGf-djauSZFJndwHjW4Q5wEnWC_ICC0YcESIfSu1AimCbeBDu2hWOnNCcVNzulJXsdlApwHM0YR3vu4XjL_LB6NQMr8gOhM246Wpk-DarsboY3hcUl1AtfZAPR9/s1600-h/Picture+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>This poem was written rather quickly as I was waiting for a video of Mary the Goth Theologian to download onto Youtube. Rather than get up off the bed, and get my notebook, I typed it on my Mac. There is something rather sterile about writing poetry on a computer. So, as you can read that was the theme of the poem.<br />
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This is also the ongoing pursuit of the poetic skill I should have acquired by sleeping on Cadair Idris. The only real way for me to discover whether I have poetic prowess beyond song-writing is to offer this to people who actually read my stuff. So, here it is - offered as a screen capture from my Mac.Pastor Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344719487413688550noreply@blogger.com5