tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25607266111321942962024-02-22T01:06:05.065-08:00Odds & EndsMickey Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557765780497179492noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560726611132194296.post-34740188327015682802011-10-29T06:15:00.000-07:002011-10-29T06:15:21.008-07:00Just A Thought -- You DecideYou wake up in the morning<br />
And you go outside<br />
Try to breathe the air<br />
But it’s too smoky<br />
To survive<br />
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You’re parched, and you’re thirsty<br />
And you need a little drink<br />
But the water is so polluted<br />
That you can’t even think<br />
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Your stomach growls<br />
You’re hungry<br />
But the food<br />
Taste just so bad<br />
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Too many chemicals<br />
In our life<br />
To try and survive<br />
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The products that we use<br />
To try and make us safe<br />
Are far too incomplete<br />
That is really just a waste<br />
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The good Lord<br />
Gave you something<br />
But you just don’t’ understand<br />
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That you gotta have your mojo<br />
So you do all that you can<br />
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And when the afternoon comes<br />
And you’re in the same ol place<br />
Who care about the colors<br />
Who cares about the race<br />
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The evening comes<br />
You’re sorry about the things you<br />
Did that day<br />
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You ask the lord to forgive ya<br />
And you try and change your ways<br />
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But the world just keeps on turning<br />
And you try and make your way<br />
To a place of personal safety<br />
And a place where you can stay<br />
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There is a place in heaven<br />
But you die before you go<br />
So you better have some seeds<br />
For your personal safety do you sow<br />
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You can buy a lot of products<br />
For yourself<br />
And for your kin<br />
But when it comes a time<br />
For atoning<br />
They call your markers in<br />
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So don’t you get caught up<br />
In the money grabbers way<br />
Just try and read on up<br />
About the proper way to pray<br />
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And if you ever worry about<br />
The very simple life you live<br />
Just remember everybody<br />
Has got something to give<br />
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You can’t preach the word<br />
For those who have no ears<br />
But you can show and tell them<br />
How they need to live<br />
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The media try’s and tell us<br />
Just how the world should be<br />
But just open up your eyes<br />
And the word will make you free<br />
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We don’t care about the products<br />
And how they make you feel<br />
Just give us some loving<br />
And that will turn our wheels<br />
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They say it’s a free society<br />
but all they do is make us pay<br />
It’s all for your personal safety<br />
They say it is the way<br />
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To do unto others<br />
As they would do unto you<br />
It’s not what you say<br />
But it is the golden rule<br />
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So have a bit of fun<br />
In the things that you do<br />
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And hope the stars above ya<br />
Don’t drop it down<br />
On you<br />
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We don’t care about no<br />
Religion we don’t care<br />
About the sin<br />
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We just keep on a living<br />
It’s the world that we are in<br />
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Don’t want to hear about your problems<br />
Gotta a bit more than we can spare<br />
Just gotta hear the solution<br />
We are people down on here<br />
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So we just keep on<br />
A living<br />
Got nothing else to do<br />
But if the world keeps<br />
On a turning then the Lord<br />
Will have something to do!<br />
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Are we really safe?<br />
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You just read it on <br />
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Odds & Ends<br />
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MickMickey Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557765780497179492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560726611132194296.post-32239879481278418832011-10-11T03:25:00.000-07:002011-10-11T03:48:59.657-07:00The Greatest BookGreetings <br />
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It has been quite some time since I have last wrote anything worth reading, but as I have reviewed my last post, I have discovered that I left off the most important book in the world that should be read and re-read until the end of time.<br />
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That book being ----<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">The Holy Bible</span></strong></div><br />
There just is not any substance or existence in this life without God, and without the word of God, life has no meaning<br />
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So as you go along and educate yourself and your children –<br />
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Introduce them to the most famous book in the world!<br />
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As you read and study, you will come to the conclusion that –<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Jesus Is Lord !</span></strong></div><br />
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You just read it on Odds & Ends<br />
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But you should read about it in the Holy Bible!<br />
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Til another time<br />
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Mick<br />
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<div align="center"></div>Mickey Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557765780497179492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560726611132194296.post-46777565770044759162010-07-08T07:09:00.000-07:002010-07-08T07:09:00.131-07:00EDUCATIONDO we really educate people anymore beside just the basics? Our education system is now designed to get people to past a test and prepare to get a job and be a slave the rest of their lives instead of enhancing their knowledge and have them think for them selves.<br />
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Yes teaching the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic at an early age is very much still important but as a student advances we must maintain that they are given a broad education in the liberal arts.<br />
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The GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD are a great place to start – however one must be prepared to think.<br />
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READING – and I don’t mean just the internet. BOOKS are the best form of educating ones self – nobody reads anymore.<br />
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To learn how to write correctly and communicate with our fellow man takes indeed an intense reading of a variety of subjects to enhanced one’s mind.<br />
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Take the time to teach your kids to read – read more yourself and expand your mind in order to try and make a difference in a world that is forever changing.<br />
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READING -- THE LOST ART<br />
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You can listen to the radio – read articles on the internet <br />
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Or<br />
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You can read it on<br />
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ODDS & ENDS<br />
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MickMickey Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557765780497179492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560726611132194296.post-9833338813277593102010-06-03T08:01:00.000-07:002010-06-03T08:07:01.520-07:00Do We Really CommunicateIt is a lost skill. In a world with all this high tech communication gadgets and devices and what not; we have lost the time, morals, and etiquette to properly deal with people in a civil manner.<br />
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We simply forget how to talk to people. We use cell phones in the most inappropriate places where conversations should be a bit more discreet or just rudely displayed with no thought for the people around us.<br />
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: yellow;">Texting</span>! What’s that all about? <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: yellow;">Lol</span> –<span style="background-color: yellow;">brb</span> and all the others symbols of a not so highly evolved people who have simply complied with the masses.<br />
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What happened to a simple letter, a thank you note that is actually sincere? No – we take the easy way out and blurt out a nonsense email and feel we have accomplished some great feat. <br />
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We are so involved with keeping ourselves amused that we forgot what is really important on how to go about conveying those feelings. Our education system is so messed up we don’t even bother to teach about the proper ways to speak with each other. Too busy trying to teach people how to pass a test rather than how to have the skills it takes to convey anything with any real meaning.<br />
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Alas! The world is evolving; people are moving forward, backward and all points in between ---<br />
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However – DO WE REALLY EVEN TALK TO ANYONE ANYMORE?<br />
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You can say it – you can play it –<br />
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Or --- you can simply read it --- ON<br />
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Odds & Ends<br />
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MICKMickey Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557765780497179492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560726611132194296.post-49686930408747760512010-05-27T08:04:00.000-07:002010-05-27T08:07:31.852-07:00What It's All AboutLife and the process there of is quite a varied thing. It will lead to more questions than answers but can be an interesting road.<br />
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While impossible to get all my songs, stories and such published - as I go about finishing my first novel; hoping to publish sometime in the next year, I was encourage to share some of my insights and thoughts on a varied of subjects that I'm sure will cause somewhat of a stir.<br />
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Thinking and writing sometimes Do not mixed well however the journey perhaps could be interesting.<br />
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ZZ TOP - the rock & roll band once said "You heard it on the X"<br />
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Well now ------------------------------<br />
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You read it on --<br />
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ODDS & ENDS<br />
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MickMickey Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557765780497179492noreply@blogger.com0