Please, READERS, keep any input on the posts ON TOPIC. Thanks!
ALSO: Please give $11 a month to the Stephen Siller Tunnel toTowers Foundation!,
It's so worthwhile!
https://tunnel2towers.org/
The chief danger that confronts the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost,
Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration,
politics without God, heaven without hell.
William Booth
“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.”
― William Saroyan
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill
Ignorance is not an opinion, liberals
I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C. S. Lewis
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
THERE WILL BE NO THREATS OF ANY KIND AT THIS BLOG, TO POLITICIANS OR OTHER COMMENTERS. thank you.
geeez2014
GeeeZ .... 
I think the baby thing is very 2016. I think that stuff should be kept to a personal nature and not shared with the world as such, but given they decided to draw attention to themselves like that, then I’d say they only went half way. She should have been topless.
On the 2nd part, I was thinking last night actually that there really is a lot to be thankful for, even if it is just the beauty and entertainment value of the planet we live, breathe, eat and play on. All the diversity of life etc. – to keep it brief. As far as a life partner, yes, mine sure provides a lot of value. I wouldn’t trade her for door # 3.
LikeLike
For several years it’s been my practice to write a tribute to Milady on her birthday. Some are in verse, and most have fotos or ‘toons integrated to supplement and augment the text. Those would be, of course, much too long to post here. A few have gone to 15 pages or more.
One, tho, is mercifully brief. I did each stanza on a separate page 5″ X 7″, each in a different color paper sheathed by a plastic foto protector and bound into a booklet. The backside of each page was a snapshot from various moments of our life together over the decades.
The poem is in unrhymed iambic tetrameter. The font shifts, colors, and other styling touches are lost in the reposting, of course.
Por la Regina
Gracias a la Gracia
There are those special things and times
Those satisfying sounds and sights
Which give us pleasure, peace, and joy
Without the weight of judging thought,
The gratifying “Aahhhs” of life
Which make the next tomorrow glad.
Such things are gifts of providence
And happen with or without prayer.
Too few are fully recognized
And radiate their warmth and charms
Upon insensate lumps of flesh
Like flowers blooming in a swamp
And trod upon by predators.
Of course some things should not be touched
But simply loved because they are,
Like sunsets with no urban blight
Or snowfields without muddy tracks
Or children sleeping, tired from play —
Just simple beauty at its best.
Some special things need special times:
Dom Perignon for wedding toasts
But orange juice for ham and eggs.
And surfeit only yields contempt,
So men prefer to hunt with men
And escort princesses to plays.
For me those special times occur
Soon after sunrise certain days
When Asian beauty, gentle class,
Serenely plays her Solitaire
Or teases lovingly her pets
As I observe, mere steps away.
A child still lives behind those eyes,
Beneath that strong maturity,
That look without a past of sin
Or selfishness to speak in lines
Around those lips, those eyes, that brow
And spoil the springtime of that smile.
Deep mystery lies in the locks
That frame her healthy woman’s face.
A clean and wholesome purity
Pervades the space she beautifies
And radiates from deep within
The total female that she is.
The best and most successful clans
Of noble Oriental lines
Could not together re-create
A product synthesizing all
The traits and features she displays
In one “Hello” or greeting smile.
And to the ones which did unite
And culminate in her good self
I give my thanks for all those smiles
And special moments she creates
Which start my days on pleasant notes
With pleasant thoughts of pleasant things.
It just can’t be that only I
Can see her in this special light.
If so, then I am greatly blessed
With vision far beyond the norm
And fortune as the only man
Whose days improve when she comes home.
LikeLike
Bocopro, I’ll bet your wife appreciates your poetic talent. I know mine would had I written that for her. But alas, my talent, should I posses such, lies elsewhere and not in prose. 😥
As to the above picture, the first thing I noticed is she is wearing a bra and not “sans bra” like you say, Z. Flesh colored. You can see the lines of the cups, don’t you think?
LikeLike
Mal, it’s the article that says she is “sans bra,” I didn’t…she just has a criss/cross pattern of some weird bit of clothing…she’s nude from the waist up. And I don’t think that matters…I find the whole thing disgusting and sad for a decent society.
Where do your grandkids go from HERE? In 20 years, what then? Just like animals, except not so kind and sweet?…just naked to everything…sex in public?
Bocopro…very nice…I had a husband who loved me like that and it’s the greatest gift in THE WORLD. But, he’d do much, much shorter little lines that also meant SO MUCH. I just found the RSVP card to our wedding which he’d sent back to me! It said “Busy having dinner with my beautiful fiancee that night…” I framed it.
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Bocopro!
Kid, it’s SO GOOD to feel that way about our spouses…many don’t have that, and that’s a life pity.
She was basically topless…..this personal event should make them laughing stocks for what they did, but in our world of “anything goes,” it gets accolades.
When I was singing , I did “Anything goes” and thought “When Anything goes, EVERYTHING goes”…and I think I’m right 😦
LikeLike
Who was it that said..”Typical New York values”? Two hipsters from SOHO or TriBeca.
LikeLike
Oh. I see, Z. As to where we go from here, if history repeats itself, back to modesty! Why? We went from the “no bra” era of the roarin’ ’20s to ankle length skirts and dresses of the ’30’s. We seem to go from one extreme to another.
LikeLike
Remember the “flappers”? (1920’s).,
LikeLike
Kid: Door #3 is part of the famous Monty Hall problem. I believe that the advice is to change choices when Monty Hall reveals one of the doors. I am not sure what your wife would say.
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/precalculus/prob-comb/dependent-events-precalc/v/monty-hall-problem
LikeLike
I don’t have a problem with the woman baring her baby bump. Of course, I just don’t care. If this starts some fad, then I will be glad to stare at pregnant women’s bare bumps, and perhaps to take pictures of them just to drive them back into respectable clothes. There’s nothing like the stare of a dirty old man to make a woman think about what she’s wearing.
LikeLike
Bob, Exactly. I initially chose Door # 1. Poor choice, picked Door # 2, Working Well, won’t need Door # 3
LikeLike
Kid says:
won’t need Door # 3
🙂
LikeLike
I can’t believe anybody would have no problem with young women baring themselves like that, particularly when they’re expecting a baby, what used to be called, funny enough, A “Blessed Event”…not anymore. No dad (they’re not married yet), no reason to think this child will be raised with any morals.
But, of course, today…who am I to use the term MORALS? Maybe there are no more morals. WOW…
LikeLike
So much to say.
So little energy.
I’m more concerned about her marital status (and the baby’s prospects thus) than her baring her belly and some of her boobs.
Scherie is stay at home due to her health, but I don’t need a letter.
I have her love.
LikeLike
I’m amazed how the men here don’t have much problem with a pregnant woman’s unwed father of her baby kissing her naked belly with her breasts practically exposed.
And, trust me, I am NO prude. This just disgusts me…it’s “LOOK AT MEEEE!” \
I don’t WANT to look at you! billions of women have been pregnant, this is nothing special …but it is special for YOU and you’re not treating it that way, lady.
I find this so disgusting I’m stunned at all your responses, totally respect them because I like you all, but sad at the same time. If grown, good Christian men find this fine…..maybe I’m the one..??
LikeLike
how’s that for a chewing out? !! HAA!!! cxxxxxx
LikeLike
The letter is very touching. Makes one wistful for what one missed out on in life. I’m so glad you had that kind of relationship with Mr. Z.
LikeLike
Perhaps I came across from us I don’t find it acceptable, it’s just that I find the story behind it worse than the picture.
LikeLike
My previous comment was spoken in to my phone and I thought I reviewed it thoroughly. But in reading it I don’t even know what “across from us” was supposed to mean.
Perhaps I came across poorly, I don’t find the picture acceptable.
I find the danger that baby faces more unacceptable. At least it wasn’t killed in the womb.
LikeLike
Ed, I get that….thanks for explaining…makes sense
LikeLike
And my ‘so 2016’ comment applies to celebrities. It’s what they all do now. No talent? Take your clothes off.
LikeLike