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Velvet Sacks: "Just make us be brave and make us play nice..."
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For the safe preservation of thoughts, memories, wishes, and dreams. Saturday, August 01, 2015. Just make us be brave and make us play nice.". The song is "Don't Let Us Get Sick," by Warren Zevon. Thanks to This Is Not An Exit for posting the video on YouTube. To read the lyrics. Read more like this: music. Linda, your Saturday song selection.I think it was meant for me. Thank you. Joy, thats exactly how I felt the first time I heard it. Glad it made its way to you just when you needed it. Yours and mine,.
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Velvet Sacks: October 2014
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For the safe preservation of thoughts, memories, wishes, and dreams. Wednesday, October 22, 2014. Preparing for the Inevitable. Life writing class has officially ended until February. I will miss those weekly get-togethers with strong, good-humored, thinking women. Our last assignment, just in time for Halloween, was to write our own obituaries. Wait.if you think you've already read this, you haven't; we did the same assignment. To be published in the event of my untimely demise. Photo by Michelle Gomez.
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Velvet Sacks: July 2015
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For the safe preservation of thoughts, memories, wishes, and dreams. Friday, July 31, 2015. It seems to be getting harder and harder for me to organize my thoughts and retain them long enough to sit down and work them into a coherent post here. They're too scattered, entering my mind like tabloid headlines read in the supermarket checkout line with no point-by-point stories to clarify them. Here's a sampling, not necessarily in chronological order:. I should put away the folded laundry. And this one was ...
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Velvet Sacks: February 2015
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For the safe preservation of thoughts, memories, wishes, and dreams. Saturday, February 28, 2015. Back in November I wrote about Levi's attention to bells and timers. Haircuts are coming soon, just in time for warmer weather. Read more like this: dogs. Saturday, February 21, 2015. And always remember, the dark clouds pass with time". It may be a sad song, but those memories are happy, happy ones. The song is "The Little White Cloud That Cried," performed by Johnny Ray and The Four Lads. To read the lyrics.
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Velvet Sacks: What I've Been Reading
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For the safe preservation of thoughts, memories, wishes, and dreams. Tuesday, July 07, 2015. What I've Been Reading. It's embarrassing to admit that I've forgotten the basic plots of almost all the books on this list, even though I'm fairly sure I enjoyed each one while I was reading it. I know for certain that I've liked every Barbara Freethy book I've read so far, so Daniel's Gift. Must have been good, too. In The Sweetest Thing. The Virtues of Oxygen. Out on a Limb. When I Married My Mother. Angela...
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Audrey's Ambition: Want to Print?
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Audrey Smith Barclay (1900-1987) loved writing her whole life. It was her dream to have her stories published. Now they will be, right here. Better late than never, right? Might as well save all the paper and ink we can, right? Your comments are welcome and encouraged. Please share whats on your mind. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I wrote a letter yesterday. And sent it winging on its way. With words of love and hope and cheer. To one whose friendship I hold dear. The day was bright, the skies were blue,.
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Audrey's Ambition: Audrey's Eldest Son - 1921-2015
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Audrey Smith Barclay (1900-1987) loved writing her whole life. It was her dream to have her stories published. Now they will be, right here. Better late than never, right? Wednesday, October 14, 2015. Audrey's Eldest Son - 1921-2015. The only time I saw Harold after I reached adulthood was in 1996 at a family reunion in Springfield, MO. We talked on the phone a couple of times after that, and he kindly thought to send me a packet of family history he knew I'd find interesting. Harold Barclay - mid-1930s.
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Audrey's Ambition: February 2014
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Audrey Smith Barclay (1900-1987) loved writing her whole life. It was her dream to have her stories published. Now they will be, right here. Better late than never, right? Saturday, February 1, 2014. Untitled Essay on Patience. By Audrey L. Barclay. Patience is a virtue." Or so we were taught when I was a schoolgirl. It is a virtue with which few of us are born, but must be cultivated daily in order to develop it to best serve our needs. It is not acquired. If you'll click on the images to enlarge them, ...
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Audrey's Ambition: The Cake Snatcher
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Audrey Smith Barclay (1900-1987) loved writing her whole life. It was her dream to have her stories published. Now they will be, right here. Better late than never, right? Tuesday, January 21, 2014. Remember when I told you Grandma Audrey wrote a lot of fact-based fiction. Today's story is a perfect example. In this one she changed the names of everyone but Robert Clary. The Markles were really the Barclays, Audrey and Erna, and the Markles' son Lynn was my father, Paul Linvel Barclay. We visited with th...