Sweet Talk
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Sweet Talk: Like husband, like dog
“Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware of giving your heart to a dog to tear” from Rudyard Kipling’s “Power of the Dog” (date unknown).
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Sweet Talk: Using exercise to sync body and mind
The English poet John Dryden, in the 18th Century, wrote a letter of advice to a kinsman: “Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work, for man to mend.”
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Sweet Talk: Our long road of marriage taking an interesting turn
Robert Burns, in an obviously poetic and pensive mind, wrote to a friend, sometime during the 1700s, “To make a happy fire-side clime, to weans and wife, that’s the true pathos and sublime of human life.”
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SWEET TALK: I need to lie down - but can’t
In 1710, English writer, Johnathan Swift wrote in “Journal to Stella” a pair of comments regarding weather. One was written in October, when he called the weather “Plaguy” and cheapened it to a value of “twelvepenny.” The other, written in November, told us that “’Tis very warm weather when one’s in bed.’”
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Sweet Talk Christmases, and the gifts, have improved over the years
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. ‘Now they are all on their knees.’
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SWEET TALK: Christmases, and the gifts, have improved over the years
“Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. ‘Now they are all on their knees.’ An elder said as we sat in a flock, by the embers in hearthside ease.” Penned Thomas Hardy on a Christmas Eve in the late 19th Century England.
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Sweet Talk: Pets haven’t had the best of luck with us, nor us with them
“Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so…” according to a 15th/16th Century poet named Isaac Watts, in a poem, ‘Against Quarrelling’, line xvi.
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Sweet Talk: Something to laugh about later
Upon losing the 1942 presidential election, Adlai Stevenson quoted a saying by Abraham Lincoln, when asked by a fellow-townsman how he felt about the election: “I am too old to cry, but it hurts too much to laugh.”
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Sweet Talk: Despite hardships and pain, the blessings are many
What a great Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24, 2011! I can never expect another which will be better in the near future. My early morning “quiet time” alone with my Heavenly Father revealed to me many of His blessings of the past year.
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Sweet Talk: The convenience of AutoPay not always so convenient
I am experiencing some of the most aggravating and exasperating events of my long, illustrious (?) life!
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