Peace & Truth
Wishing everyone a fantastic day!! Learning to to let go of the past and what has hurt us is not always easy to do but is entirely possible. You must first realize that if you are unable to let go it will more than likely be very toxic for you to hold onto that pain and that is a very difficult way to go through life.
Andy Rooney on sex!
These are great! Too bad he’s not around anymore…..he was a beauty!
1. When I was born, I was given a choice – a big pecker or a good memory….. I don’t remember what I chose.
2. Your birth certificate is an apology letter from the condom factory.
3. A wife is a sex object. Every time you ask for sex, she objects.
4. Impotence: nature’s way of saying, “No hard feelings…”
5. There are only two four letter words that are offensive to men – ‘don’t’ and ‘stop’, unless they are used together.
6. Panties: Not the best thing on earth, but next to the best thing on earth.
7. There are three stages in a man’s life: Tri-Weekly, Try Weekly and Try Weakly.
8. Virginity can be cured.
9. Virginity is not dignity, its lack of opportunity.
10. Having sex is like playing bridge – if you don’t have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
11. I tried phone sex once, but the holes in the dial were too small.
12. Marriage is the only war where you get to sleep with the enemy.
13. Question: What’s an Australian kiss?
Answer: The same thing as a French kiss, only down under.
14. A couple just married were happy with the whole thing.
He was happy with the Hole and she was happy with the Thing.
15. Question: What are the three biggest tragedies in a man’s life?
Answer: Life sucks, job sucks and the wife doesn’t.
16. Question: Why do men find it difficult to make eye contact?
Answer: Breasts don’t have eyes.
17. Despite the old saying, ‘Don’t take your troubles to bed’, many men still sleep with their wives!
Send to the men who need a laugh and the women with a good sense of humour!
Edmund Charles Tarbell (April 26, 1862 – August 1, 1938) was an American Impressionist painter. A member of the Ten American Painters, his work hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, DeYoung Museum, National Academy Museum and School, New Britain Museum of American Art, Worcester Art Museum, and numerous other collections. He was a leading member of a group of painters which came to be known as the Boston School.
Edmund C. Tarbell was born in the Asa Tarbell House, which stands beside the Squannacook River in West Groton, Massachusetts. His father, Edmund Whitney Tarbell, died in 1863 after contracting typhoid fever while serving in the Civil War. His mother, Mary Sophia (Fernald) Tarbell, remarried a shoemaking-machine manufacturer. Young “Ned” (as he was nicknamed) and his older sister, Nellie Sophia, were left to be raised by their paternal grandparents in Groton, a frontier town during the French and Indian Wars that the early Tarbell family helped settle.
As a youth, Tarbell took evening art lessons from George H. Bartlett at the Massachusetts Normal Art School. Between 1877 and 1880, he apprenticed at the Forbes Lithographic Company in Boston. In 1879, he entered the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, studying under Otto Grundmann. He matriculated in the same class with Robert Lewis Reid and Frank Weston Benson, two other future members of the Ten American Painters.
Tarbell was encouraged to continue his education in Paris, France, then center of the art world. Consequently, in 1883 he entered the Académie Julian to study under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. Paris exposed him to rigorous academic training, which invariably included copying Old Master paintings at the Louvre, but also to the Impressionist movement then sweeping the city’s galleries. That duality would inform his work. In 1884, Tarbell’s education included a Grand Tour to Italy, and the following year to Italy, Belgium, Germany and Brittany.
Tarbell returned to Boston in 1886, where he began his career as an illustrator, private art instructor and portrait painter.
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GOOD OVER BAD
Am I good, am I bad?
Question perplexes.
I know there is good in me;
That means bad is not far
Somewhere around
In the immediate vicinity.
There is no good
Without the bad
Or vice versa
None is all good
Or expressly bad
We aren’t Gabriel
Nor are we Beelzebub.
When you accept me
You don’t merely accept
What is good in me
And not deny the bad,
Oh no! That’d be impossible
I am an amalgam
Of good as well as bad.
If you ever want me
Please don’t say
You accept the good
But unfortunately not the bad.
If you still do…
And if you insist
Let’s call in experts
Why not call Shylock?
Or an eminent surgeon
To make a sure incision
To remove the bad surgically
A malign tumor if you like
Suture it secure enough
To pack the good in
To leave bad out
When none is looking.
So don’t ask the measure
Of the angel and devil in me
You’d not reach anywhere
Come to no decision
As I hang in the balance.
A mere commodity
And not a breathing, living
Dynamic entity.
But all these arguments
To me remain futile
Although wrote and sung
By philosophers, poets galore
The answer is not to justify
The bad in you;
But to constantly strive
To turn the evil
Into good all the time;
And become closer
To being wholly good
Or near enough
By letting the good win
Over evil every time
All the time.
Imagining you’d come to say goodbye,
I made a doll of raffia and string.
I gave her thatch hair, and a broomstick skirt
of patchwork satin rags. Around each eye
I stitched thick lashes. Such a touching thing
she was! That even you could not debate –
impassive, undemanding and inert.
Yes, surely she’d cause you yourself to sigh.
Around her breast, I sewed a loden ring
to guard her cotton heart from being hurt,
then sat down in the fabric scraps to wait,
between the rafters and the furnace grate,
needle in hand, and never so aware
no craft on earth is master to despair.
Tree of Life Needed Pruning By God
Taking it one step further to prune any tree of life you need first to remove all the fruit that has gone bad and keep the ones that are in need of care.
Take off the leaves of despair …..remove the twigs of pain and the branches of hurt.
Now you have the boughs of self-righteousness and the self-opinionated of the world that think they are stronger than the meek and the weak. So remove them and free yourself from being right over others.
Now freedom is in sight you can see the wood for the trees and a trunk needs to be brought to its knees just as peoples need to realise that the ❤️needs to rule the head of indecision and knowing what is taught by others and not by listening to God.
Onetime removed all that’s left is the roots of how it all began, by Adam disobeying God in favour of hearing what someone else said and believing and thus acting without proof.
So how do you remove the roots and begin again?
Tree of Life Needed Pruning By God
Taking it one step further to prune any tree of life you need first to remove all the fruit that has gone bad and keep the ones that are in need of care.
Take off the leaves of despair …..remove the twigs of pain and the branches of hurt.
Now you have the boughs of self-righteousness and the self-opinionated of the world that think they are stronger than the meek and the weak. So remove them and free yourself from being right over others.
Now freedom is in sight you can see the wood for the trees and a trunk needs to be brought to its knees just as peoples need to realise that the ❤️needs to rule the head of indecision and knowing what is taught by others and not by listening to God.
Once removed all that’s left is the roots of how it all began, by Adam disobeying God in favour of hearing what someone else said and believing and thus acting without proof.
So how do you remove the roots and begin again?
Just by following the path of listening with your ❤️and putting others first without expecting anything in return, as God gave without expecting anything in return say that you follow ‘ The Path of Righteouness ‘ not for self but for others.
Amen…🙏’s For friends and families at this time and always.
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