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Memories of Backwoods

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Never feeling any shame
Proud of family tree
Born and raised in backwoods
Harmony plays for free

Filled with daily confidence
Travels always remind
Heart remains in backwoods
Throughout each daily grind

Landscape’s refreshing waters
Muted by midnight train
Life wrestles in backwoods
Creeks rise with blessed rain

Sweet corn ready to harvest
Lessons from lifetime’s love
Light searches from backwoods
Sunrise witnessed above

Front porch needs fresh coat of paint
Always be home to thee
Memories of backwoods
Destiny’s breath born free

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Rosa Parks Quotes

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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.

Memories of our lives, our works and our deeds will live in others.

Rosa Parks (1913-2005) was an American civil rights activist. She has sometimes been called the “mother of the civil rights movement.”

Gillian Flynn Quotes

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Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

Everyone has their own version of a memory.

Gillian Flynn (born 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, and producer.

Trivia’s Facts and More (4/11)

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This informative post will be published on Saturday in place of my regular one.  You are invited to participate with the opening question.

Brain Teaser Question

You go at red and stop at green.  What are you eating?

(answer found at the end of this post)

Featured Facts

As a dues-paying member of the Baby Boomer generation, this 70-year old can remember many things from the past.  Perhaps others in this age group or older will enjoy a trip down memory’s lane.  

S & H Green Stamps

With another week, one can be found licking each stamp and filling one more book for rewards at the grocery store.

Original “Miracle on Ice”

The United States mens ice hockey team experienced the first “Miracle on Ice” in 1960 at the Winter Olympics hosted by Squaw Valley, California. The American team brought home America’s first gold medal in the sport.

Howdy Doody

Buffalo Bob with his sidekick and marionette puppet, Howdy Doody.  “The Howdy Doody Show” debuted with its first episode in 1947.

Home Milk Delivery

Fresh milk delivered to your doorstep.  Notice the glass bottles, which will eventually be replaced with cartons.

Rotary Telephone

Remembering the challenge of dialing a telephone number, especially when it contained an extra zero or two.

Mail-Order Catalogs

First introduced in 1888 by Sears & Roebuck, shopping by catalog became a part of American life.  Their first Christmas catalog came out in 1933.  The one pictured is from 1966.

Wide World of Sports

Many can remember being glued to the television set on Saturday with the weekly broadcast of ABC’s “Wide World of Sports.”  Perhaps you can remember the introduction which highlighted the “thrill of victory” and the “agony of defeat.”

Bicycle Becomes Motorcycle

Many children added baseball cards or playing cards to their bicycle spokes.  Racing down the street, their bikes sounded more like well-tuned motorcycles.  

Transistor Radio

Arriving in the 1950s and popularized during the 1960s and 1970s, the transistor radio became the first portable audio device.  Teenagers loved them!

Typewriter

Many can remember learning how to type on a manual typewriter.  Today’s younger generations really have no experience with this invention, which can be traced back to the late 1800s.  Pictured is a more modern version of the typewriter, the IBM Selectric.

Answer to Brain Teaser Question

A watermelon.

Childhood Interactions (Haiku #368)

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Delicious Memories

Postponed adventures

Rushing to Mother’s kitchen—

Freshly baked cookies

Soothing Presence

Child protests bedtime

“Gonna stay up all night long”

Stardust dreams fly in

Change Anticipated

Springtime approaching

Arriving any day now—

Playfulness rising

Night’s Lasting Charm

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Night’s gentle peace

Moonlight’s silhouette

Dreams dancing step by step

Playing harmony’s cornet

 

Night’s final act

Cloudless sky above

Memories at full tide

Editing script, filled with love

 

Night’s breathless tone

Voices gather round

Echoes escaping past

Transforming passion abounds

 

Night’s flaming light

Home’s welcome fireplace

Bright warmth breathes eternal

Kindling spirits to embrace

 

Night’s lasting charm

Upgrades at sunrise

Contentment rewritten

Savoring morning’s franchise

 

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Kitchen Table’s Witness

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Farm’s eternal footprint

Memories held tight

From each generation

Nurturing what’s right

 

Kitchen table’s witness

Writes each diary page

Chronicles history

Filling life’s rain gauge

 

Precious hope’s future link

Tough times overcome

History comes alive

Leaving each bread crumb

 

Confidence builds each spring

Another crop sown

Expected fall harvest

Paying back bank loan

 

Farmer’s faithful outlook

Every season’s birth

Tomorrow remains bright

Blessing Mother Earth

 

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C. S. Lewis Quote

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Every day in a life feels the whole life with expectation and memory.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) was a British author and Christian theologian.  His full name is Clive Staples Lewis.

Transitions (Haiku Series #353)

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Repurposed

Raking piles of leaves

Trees now empty of color—

Autumn’s leftovers

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Unhurried

Morning’s icy breath

Winter playing hide ‘n seek—

Goodbye autumn friend

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Treasured

Lonely tree branches

Always full of memories—

Final leaf falling

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Autumn Quotes

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Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist.  In 1957, at the age of 44, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Autumn is a spring when every leaf is a flower.

Yoko Ono (born 1933) is an Japanese-born artist, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker.

Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.