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I Can't Get No... By Mona Lease
Satisfaction. Hi, all!! Forty degrees outside and I hear it's too cold. Where's spring? I wish it would get warm. 85 degrees outside and I hear it's too hot. Where's the rain? The poor farmers need rain. It rains two days in a row and I hear it's too much rain. The poor farmers won't be able to get in the fields. A week with no sunshine and I hear we need the sun. The poor farmers will have crops rotting in the fields... read more
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Good-Byes, By Mona Lease
Hi, all!! I attended a Celebration of Life. I've never been to one. So I submit the following to you because I thought it was unique - you could feel the love in the air...and people were actually saying they could feel it. "If I speak in all the languages known to man and the angels, but do not have love, I am like a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I can know the future, know all mysteries... read more
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Darke County Senior Scribe… Flag Day, By Lois Wilson
Once again Senior Scribe Poet Laureate Lois Wilson is on top of the season with her insightful look at the important events of the day. This time it’s Flag Day. “On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the first official national flag,” she says. “Both only children, my husband and I met at a square dance at the Dayton YMCA. We were married on June 14... read more
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A Dreamer's Dream? By Mona Lease
Hi, all!! I was wondering the other day - how can we - as a people... have so many problems?? National problems...sexual problems...mental problems...health problems...child problems...drug problems.....insurance problems...financial problems...it seems endless. But, I don't understand why. We are the most "open" - as a people - in how many generations? Women wanted their "rights"... read more
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Darke County Senior Scribe… Politics as usual, By Lois Wilson
Once again Senior Scribe Poet Laureate Lois Wilson offers her insightful look at the important events of the day. This time it’s politics… well… one particular aspect of politics. There seems to be a revolution bringing in new faces, new approaches – even an historic first woman to be on a major ticket run for the White House…  but we just can’t seem to get away... read more
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Stray Thoughts?? By Mona Lease
Hi, all!! The following started out when I saw a commercial - as it were - on the internet. It showed a somewhat scruffy looking guy wearing a thong-style, one-piece, women's swimsuit. The caption under it read: "Would you want your daughter in a public restroom with this?"  This was posted by those who do not want men in drag, in the women's restroom. OK - So... read more


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