‘For behold, the winter is past, Ā The rain is over and gone.’ (Songs 2:11)

There’s no more denying it! Nature has sent a memo announcing Springtime. It reads: ‘Let’s Party!’. šŸ™‚

It’s a bit hard to believe that just a few weeks ago we were up to our tractor cabs in snow. But so it goes. 8:28 this morning I’m was standing in a field of sandy dirt. It Ā is still barely frozen as the last of the morning frost melts into the porous ground. But it’s ready…. to be broken, anxious to get at those seeds and then to bear forth.

It’s like winter has come to a screeching halt like that yellow-breasted birdĀ I’veĀ seen landing on a fencepost. It’s body thrown backwards as the feet come way ahead of it for a touch-down. If the world is like a symphony with all of it’s going ons representing all the different movements and pieces of the orchestra than these first few days of springtime are certainly a light piece of classical. Perhaps not yet your Wagner or Beethoven, but certainly a Debussy.

And if it’s a country music tune. It’s from Mary Chapin Carpenter in a song called “On and On it goes”:Ā And on and on it flies, on a new bird’s wing;Ā In a beating heart, the moon that rose,Ā And the gift of spring…

 

 

“How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
— Ā Dickinson

 

We need help, the poet reckoned- Edward Dorn.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Isaiah 5:20.

Current State of affairs. March 2011. Pinnacle of civilization. Jingle-jangle morning that we’ve been following to has led us to the present.

Today has been.

Abby Johnson came through town. She’s an ex-director of one of the countries largest Planned Parenthood clinics. She awoke to the realities of Abortion and is now a Pro-Life advocate touring the country giving talks about how Planned Parenthood is lying to mothers and how abortion is murder.

In September 2009, she saw something that forever changed her mind on the issue of abortion. Abby was asked to assist in an ultrasound guided abortion procedure. On the ultrasound screen she saw a 13 week baby in the womb fight for its lifeā€¦only to lose the battle in the end.

Read Abby’s full story atĀ http://www.abbyjohnson.org/

I’m appalled that in our society abortion is ok. I don’t know where i was around the time of Roe v. Wade. Where were all you people?! How come we have allowed this to go on. Where is the angry masses of the church protesting frantically at this murder? Or is it murder. Is abortion cool? It just seems that i don’t see much over-wrought animosity about the issue. Or actually any issue. Nobody’s talking about anything.

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves…defend the rights of the poor and needy- Proverbs 31:8-9.

i dunno…. maybe im just disconnected. To many hours alone with Stephen King and afternoon radio can do that they say….

Today i went to the dentist. Today i went to the dentist. Yay! thanks for readin my loyal followship. Nah! seriously at my last (serious) blog post at erm, New Years we agree (me and this one reader that i have) that i will blog more. Because quote “people are seriously trying to read this stuff”. hehe. that comment makes me laugh everytime. If it was on twitter i’d fav it, and star it, and probably giver er’ a retweet. Actually i do too much of that stuff on twitter. No wonder my followers are dropping like Arkansonian blackbirds. . .

Unfortunately i was not able to bring one of these home to my mother, like little Johnny er…. little Bobby did that day. Alas i have some, what the dentist call’s ‘very small cavities’. whatever, i’m at the point already where i’m giving up on dental health. so frustrated. I brush! I floss! i even got one of those whatyoucall Sonicare toothbrushes. Maybe i’m brushing the enamel right off the teeths. My brother Rudy is convinced of that one. He says which other industry would give you a toothbrush out the door if cavities make business for them. So by giving you a brush, their actually counter-working their own you know, business. Makes a bit of sense. Your thoughts anyone?

Something interesting happened too in town. After dropping my mother off at a doller tree (whoops i spillt that can of bean, hutterites shop at dollar trees, eep :O ) i found a small interesting looking used book store. There were some neat old books in there but they had some ridiculous prices. I think it was more of an exchange type-of-setup where you trade in old ones for other old ones or something to that effect…

After sniffing around in shelves laden with yellow cat-eared paged Buchens I stumbled upon a book called: Bob Dylan, Chronicles Volume 1. A bit taken aback. Bob Dylan wrote books?! are you kidding me, and why has no one told me of this?

For some reason i’ve identified with Bob’s (musicians are my firstname basis friends) music and songs from the very first track i listened to. I dunno, i guess i feel like i’m a wayfaring stranger and a confused one at that, just like Bob. He’s the man. One of the most inspirating artists without question. The first time i heard him say “You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, When I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give” and “The tune that is yours and mine to play upon this earth, We’ll play it out the best we know, whatever it is worth” i knew it. He’s the man. šŸ™‚

I was meant to own this book. All the signs pointed to it. $12.00 on the inside cover! Twelve dollars for a very very used book?! are you kidding my, bookstore lady?! Plus i forgot my monies and my little brother only had eleven dollars! So i figured, ah i’ll just Hutt’ er down (similar to jew’ ing one down). So, in my most charming voice i explained the clerk that i only had eleven dollars, and it said Twelve, do you think we that would be enough? You know what she said?

“Actually with tax your total would come to $13.04”

Great. Alas i didn’t feel like explaining to her that i was fated to own this book so whatever. Maybe i’ll just find an extra dollar and get it when i come to fill these durn cavities. Lovely.

Posted: January 26, 2011 in Random Stuff
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