tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53581817341899868862024-02-19T08:21:22.296-08:00Prosetry in Motiona love affair with wordsKathleen Sara Shattuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672181043824757491noreply@blogger.comBlogger301125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358181734189986886.post-39985985815633805792019-05-27T19:31:00.000-07:002019-05-27T19:31:00.233-07:00On This Memorial Day<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I remember when....I remember the war where hate filled the German air with Hitler's breath, where patriotism was the order of the day here in the US. I remember my dad coming home, and my uncles coming back, after being shot out of a plane, being hit with mortar...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I remember the war and how we thought and how we felt and how we lived. You then voted for a President who can lead, not one who thanks the world for watching him blunder his way down the hallway to the TV to watc<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">h a news channel that thinks he's god's latest gift to greed and hate.</span></span></div>
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The people who chant tRump's name, who clap their hands, this is the death knell to our democracy if you can't understand who this person is who is standing in front of you...he's a killer, as if he held the gun himself..he's killing us all, a slow death.</div>
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We honor this Memorial day's passing of heroic people, men, women and children. I honor only them.</div>
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<a href="https://medium.com/@steverouach/trumps-very-fine-people-are-really-stepping-up-their-game-59cdd706bbcc?sk=7ee302c342b526b36ecba68e3cdad535&fbclid=IwAR0YcnsqS359o9BtD39RgU_2C2h3C3WjQ1TpHPTIVui6XPkKQPmQnfO88VU">https://medium.com/@steverouach/trumps-very-fine-people-are-really-stepping-up-their-game-59cdd706bbcc?sk=7ee302c342b526b36ecba68e3cdad535&fbclid=IwAR0YcnsqS359o9BtD39RgU_2C2h3C3WjQ1TpHPTIVui6XPkKQPmQnfO88VU</a>Kathleen Sara Shattuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672181043824757491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358181734189986886.post-37503452075524423602019-05-18T06:20:00.000-07:002019-05-18T06:20:10.950-07:00My haiku for you~Search Your Soul<div style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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Kathleen Sara Shattuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672181043824757491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358181734189986886.post-56168813853033815712019-05-11T00:06:00.000-07:002019-05-11T00:06:18.829-07:00"The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek", a review<h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 19pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
Kim Michele Richardson's novel, "The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek".</h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">April 14th, I picked up my book. April 28th, I put the book down. Usually it doesn’t take me this long to read a book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It never fails, but when I read Kim’s words, the cadence of a metronome starts to click back and forth in my head. That’s when I start to feel the words, the characters, the beat of these hearts start to connect with mine. Every good writer has a cadence, but none I feel more than Kim’s.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chapter 3, I see the old mule Junia plodding along carrying Bookwoman Cussy Mary, stopping in the middle of the stream, she hesitates, listening; I can feel</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the trepidation of continuing, but when Junia does it's steady and forward. The beat goes on, one step after another...then it’s either a full stop, or a full gallop. Yes, good writing is like music to my ears, and Kim adds just the right amount of beats to her lines.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stories like these always have me stopping and starting, hesitating to take time out to think; sometimes I’m upset about what’s happening to a character, one </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">like Cussy Mary, the blue skinned bookwoman. She’s endearing, she’s loved, she’s hated, she’s ridiculed. You name it and Kim will take you there with unbridled emotions. And being an emotional reader, I’m sensitive to the words of every character in this novel. It levels me to unbelief, even though I know it as truths. How one human being can treat another human being, it doesn’t matter that this novel takes place in the 1930s, it still rings true in this year of 2019.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Years pass, but feelings don’t where prejudices exist. Hate versus love, love soothes my being, where hate turns my anger over and over within my soul to the point where I have to lay what I'm reading down before I explode.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cussy Mary has blue skin, a rare genetic anomaly, and is treated as “colored” where anything other than white isn’t acceptable. She’s nineteen, living with her coal miner father, who also has his day to day trials; health, danger, unions, corporate greed; it feels like there is no relief in this downtrodden life where they find themselves in. To bring joy of the written word is hard to come by in this story, even with the deliveries of books and letters to patrons along Cussy Mary’s book traveling route; trying to add a bit of love and caring along the way to the people, both adults and children, it’s simply a struggle of one sort or another.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have to put the book down and rest my eyes and my heart. This story isn’t just about the book women; it’s not just about the blue color of Cussy’s skin, or another colored skin; it’s not just about the hardships of this Kentucky life, it’s about human rights and the color of human hate that tries to squelch those rights to be able to live and love free, to work free and to marry free. Freedom is at the core of this story. How each of us finds it is shown to all by Kim Michele Richardson.</span></div>
<br />Kathleen Sara Shattuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672181043824757491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358181734189986886.post-5253471984704516632019-01-30T05:33:00.001-08:002019-01-30T05:33:40.285-08:00My Haiku for you~~ Spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Catch me if you can<br />Put your warm arms around me<br />Hold on to Springtime</span></div>
Kathleen Sara Shattuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672181043824757491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358181734189986886.post-3818972774847093302018-10-27T21:16:00.002-07:002018-10-27T21:17:07.358-07:00Haiku for you...Heaven Only Knows<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">the brutality</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">the hate filled world of humans</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">evil is not kind</span></span>Kathleen Sara Shattuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672181043824757491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358181734189986886.post-50274636065788295732018-08-28T16:32:00.000-07:002018-08-28T16:33:47.828-07:00A Haiku for you~The Future<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">all that's going down</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Nine years a widow, Marge still wears her ring</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They’ve been through divorces and babies and wakes</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They do for each other whatever it takes</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They’ve already buried Marcia and Kate</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Open bottles of wine and forget their sore feet</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So here’s to the waiters who keep orders straight</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c741f12f-7fff-f663-55dc-ddd071dbfb83"><br /></span>Kathleen Sara Shattuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672181043824757491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358181734189986886.post-33145194960647974392018-06-25T19:37:00.001-07:002018-06-25T19:42:38.734-07:00An Old Friend<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sitting down and playing the piano and singing today, after so many years...felt like I lost a dear friend.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">My hands aren't what they used to be, I know, and neither is my voice...the old saying comes to mind, if you don't use it you lose it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I bought my current piano from one of my neighbors after she passed away...she was one of our piano accompanist when I was in a singing group….this piano just never has fit me. I know that may sound strange to anyone who has never played, but it's like a car, it has to fit the driver.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I had bought my baby grand while living in California, from a piano company in Oceanside... it was in the back room as a trade in. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I walked into the showroom, I ran my hands over the keys of all the new pianos...why I don't know, because I’m never happy to play new pianos….the keys are so stiff and unresponsive...the sales gentleman saw me, asked if I’d like to see the one they had just gotten in...in the back room… As soon as I saw it I fell in love...I sat down and touched the keys. I knew it was mine….and they were so happy to see me buy it, they had no use for old used pianos. At no extra charge they shipped it to me and paid for the tuning!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I moved that piano five more times, and the fifth time was to my nephews home in Utah. When I moved to Utah I had no room for it in my duplex, but it fit right in with the decor of my nephews home, which was just two doors down the street. They tuned it up and took good care of it. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">After a few years I moved back to California but left my baby grand with its new owners, it couldn't be moved again, and I knew they'd take good care of it and love it as much as I did. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I do miss it though, the music sat at just the right, eye level height, the keys were ivory, the soft touch and tone was magical…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">Words layer, mounting refuge within lines</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">Cold then hot, seeking temperatures blind</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">There is no right, there is no wrong</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">Sing to me refrain, your beautiful song</span></span>Kathleen Sara Shattuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672181043824757491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358181734189986886.post-8716549843706608052018-05-22T16:58:00.000-07:002018-05-22T17:03:34.332-07:00Review: James Comey, "A Higher Loyalty"<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Comey managed to lay it all out in plain sight. As he wrote, nothing he has said is classified, you can be sure of that, and what he did say had to be told, I was sure of that. As was said in this book, the press has made it perfectly clear what the truth was and is. No fake news when the majority of reporters are reporting the same thing!</span><br />
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And as far as Comey's relationship with Trump, Comey's based it on his relationships that go way back in his history, far beyond one president; his background in state and federal law is beyond extensive; his background is beyond reproach in knowing right from wrong, truth from lies; as he's prosecuted and represented people of notoriety and all walks of life, which I hadn't known before reading his accounts of some of these trials...some accounts are limited and brief in the telling, some are expanded and interrelated, all following a common thread...<br />
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Kathleen Sara Shattuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672181043824757491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358181734189986886.post-22599550822875883702018-04-23T03:04:00.000-07:002018-04-23T03:18:18.982-07:00Review: "What Nora Knew" by Linda Yellin<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Kathleen Sara Shattuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672181043824757491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358181734189986886.post-34228613638938227052017-12-22T02:16:00.001-08:002018-01-12T14:16:56.241-08:00My Review~ "The Sisters of Glass Ferry" by Kim Michele Richardson <div class="big450BoxBody" style="background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat-y; color: #181818;">
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My first insight: Her words are nothing less than poetic...She sculpts her
words with texture...a true artist indeed. I read her stories and absorb the
beauty of each word...they hang in midair, then slowly and softly fall between
leaves to an earth as warm as her voice.<br />
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My second insight: She doesn't write for the faint of heart, this story is not
a story to be reading at night. There are scenes that are alive with
ghosts...the past haunts Ebenezer Road; and the people who traverse this road,
which passes by the once old dwelling that harbored it’s secrets, are deemed to
regret their actions.<br />
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My third insight: I've been reading this story slowly, mainly trying to go with
the flow of language steeped in Kentucky bourbon vernacular - sometimes easy to
grasp, sometimes hard, sometimes just curiously mysterious. I was about
half-way through last night and couldn't put it down...but I did, three times!
Each time the light went out I found I couldn’t sleep, then turned the light
back on and read further.<br />
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My fourth insight: My heart twisted like a corkscrew at times, I cried at the
hurt these people felt; I hurt easily from the words that Kim puts in her
character’s mouths. Touching and gentle at times, I cried...then harsh and
hurtful, or caring, or hateful...these are the people of Glass Ferry, Kentucky.<br />
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Lives matter, people matter, but lies and gossip cultivate hate, and disquiet
the memories of those we love in this small community. Kim finds these memories
and puts this mixture into a story of Literary Fiction that is not for the
faint of heart.<br />
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My fifth insight: Kim pokes and prods at these memories and emotions until I
cry again...the mystery that is contained in this story, and of her characters,
are ominous and compelling until it came to an end. It’s one story my emotions
got the better of me. She left me wondering throughout each page...who did what
to whom and why? The “why” is what I wanted answered on many occasions.<br />
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Of course characters have a mind of their own, they aren’t you and they aren’t me,
and their actions and reactions aren’t always ours. Yes, I questioned their
motives, and impatiently waited for the answers until I found them.<br />
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Like I said, lies are a mainstay in this story...we tell them, we complicate
life with them, and we end up digging our own graves with them. Kim doesn’t
fool around, she cuts to the heart of the matter, and takes your heart along
with these characters', and with her's.<br />
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I recommend this book to those who love words, loves an emotional
challenge...but there are the gentle sway and tilt that leads to the harsh
realities of life; all of which creates a complex story in a mystery of two
sisters and the people they touched - and All is ultimately left to the eye of
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<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><i style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prepare for a feast my hungry </i></span></span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"> friends, </i><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><i style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;">find</i></span></span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"> you a chair, to be served</i><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>finest</b></span><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"> fair.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Kathleen Sara Shattuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672181043824757491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358181734189986886.post-47298562688392220292017-12-16T05:52:00.000-08:002017-12-16T05:52:51.550-08:00My Haiku for you~Light<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "merriweather"; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>you love me, she wished</i></span></span></div>
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Kathleen Sara Shattuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672181043824757491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358181734189986886.post-23756134528433100712017-10-26T01:57:00.001-07:002017-11-02T00:49:03.385-07:00Thanksgiving Blessings To All<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kathleen Sara Shattuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672181043824757491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358181734189986886.post-14190078186674053822017-10-13T12:42:00.001-07:002017-10-13T12:42:49.420-07:00NO MERCY!<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Kathleen Sara Shattuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672181043824757491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358181734189986886.post-73818069549447459042017-09-16T03:51:00.003-07:002017-10-01T03:45:39.988-07:00Dancing In The Rain, My Haiku for you<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">Photograph by Julie A. Shattuck</span></i></div>
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