mamaloyal's Blog
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Update
2/25/08 0 CommentsMy partner's surgery went better than expected. The surgeons removed a football size tumor, weighing 1 to 2 pounds; they aren't sure yet if it's malignant, but doubt it is. The hard part started after that.....
J had a hard time breathing afterwords because of his COPD and Emphysema. He was doing well when I left to come home on Sunday afternoon. But, this morning I get a call from the doctor telling me they were going to put in a vent. His lungs aren't healing, and he was struggling with his breathing, and he told me that this was what he wanted to do.
So, we'll see what happens in the next few days. It will happen the way it's supposed to.
Hope everyone is doing well
Peace
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Happy new year y'all
12/30/07 1 CommentWishing all of the Loyals, and Criss and his family a happy and prosperous 2008.
Peace
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Merry Christmas
12/23/07 0 CommentsTo all. May the season bring love and brotherhood to your lives
Peace
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Yes, Virginia There Is A Santa Claus
12/13/07 0 Comments
Famous Editoral printed in 1897 in The New York Sun
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered amoung the friends of The Sun:
Dear Editor --- I am 8 years old. Some of my friends say that there is no Santa Claus. Papa says"If you see it in The Sun, it is so. " Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon
Yes, Virginia There Is A Santa Claus Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virgina, whether they be men's or children's, are little In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exists, and you know that they abound and give your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary the world would be if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existance. We should have no enjoyment except in sense and sight. The eternal light which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You can tear apart the baby's rattle and sees what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, and romance, can push aside the curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all the world there is nothing else as real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God, he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten-thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
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Even the Grinch figured it out
12/4/07 1 Comment
Three thousand feet up! Up the side of Mount Crumpit, He rode to the tiptop to dump it! "Pooh-pooh to the Whos!" he was grinch-ish-ly humming. "They're finding out now that no Christmas is coming! "They're just waking up! I know just what they'll do! "Their mouths will hang open a minute or two "The all the Whos down in Who-ville will all cry BOO-HOO!"
"That's a noise," grinned the Grinch, "That I simply must hear!" So he paused. And the Grinch put a hand to his ear. And he did hear a sound rising over the snow. It started in low. Then it started to grow...
But the sound wasn't sad! Why, this sound sounded merry! It couldn't be so! But it WAS merry! VERY!
He stared down at Who-ville! The Grinch popped his eyes! Then he shook! What he saw was a shocking surprise!
Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small, Was singing! Without any presents at all! He HADN'T stopped Christmas from coming! IT CAME! Somehow or other, it came just the same!
And the Grinch, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow, Stood puzzling and puzzling: "How could it be so? It came without ribbons! It came without tags! "It came without packages, boxes or bags!" And he puzzled three hours,
till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! "Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. "Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"And what happened then...? Well...in Who-ville they say That the Grinch's small heart Grew three sizes that day! And the minute his heart didn't feel quite so tight, He whizzed with his load through the bright morning light And he brought back the toys! And the food for the feast! And he...
...HE HIMSELF...! The Grinch carved the roast beast!
