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I wrote this one too.

"Take a Little Time"

Take a little time,
Each and every day,
To do something good,
To spread a little cheer.
Whether it is a phone call,
Or just a little note,
Take a little time,
To give something of yourself.
Send an e-mail to someone,
That you haven't talked to for a while,
Just take a little time,
To let someone know that you care.
Give someone a smile,
Or speak a kind word,
Or help someone in need.
Take a little time,
To perform a kind deed.
We seem to always find the time,
For that which is truly important to us,
So every day, just take a little time,
To tell someone how much we love them,
And that they are important to us.
Kindness and love,
Just take a little time.

Written by Charlotte Anne Seigler Miller
12-27-2002
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lguffy@sctelcom.net (Lois Guffy)
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         »§«THE OLD OUTHOUSE OUT BACK»§«
   »§«:*´`³¤» Lois Caywood Guffy«¤³´`*:»§«

Just say all you want about living in the good old days.
I lived em' and I know there are more comfortable ways.

Now, imagine having to go to the little house out in back
Waiting until the last minute to hop out of your cozy sack

Running out into the night and wondering if you can wait
To answer natures call, that is, if you hadn't waited too late.

With your nightshirt a flippin and flappin in the breeze
As you quickly ran down the path to the house in the trees

Now folks, you can say what you want and say it with pride,
But I cherish my old Sears & Roebuck Throne that sits inside.

Author
Lois Caywood Guffy 3-17-2001
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>     :»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:
> * (\o/) *. Are There Puter's in Heaven ? *(\o/) *
> .* /_\     Lois Caywood Guffy       */_\ .*
>  `³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´
>
> Me an my puter have ben roun a long long time,
> An there's one thang I think ya alls need to no.
> If there ain't any of them puters up ther in heaven,
> Wal,  I can tell ya rite now, I jest ain't gonna go
>
> Me an my puter have ben roun a long long time,
> My puter don't make fun o' me iffen I cain't spel,
> Caus me and my puter are the bestus of friens,
> I kin even tell it all of my secruts and it don't tell.
>
> Me an my puter have ben roun a long long time,
> So please Lord, tell me there is a puter up ther,
> Heaven is spost to have enything ya need a tall
> No puter would be more than my heart cud bear.
>
> Me an my puter have ben roun a long long time,
> So Lord, pleaz tell me ya understand and do care,
> For If nary a one is in thet big mansion up above,
> I'll tell ya rite now, I ain't gonna join yew up there.
>
> »§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«
>              Author
>           Lois Caywood Guffy
>             9-15-2000
> »§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`
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      CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL...
     Changing the World One Story at a Time
      A Visit with My Parents
                   By Leah Burgess

     While I was serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the
Philippines, my parents came to visit me.  They arrived
three days before my birthday.  We rested one day in the
capital city of Manila before embarking on the twenty-four-
hour boat ride to the small island of Sibuyan where I was
assigned.
     The heat was intense inside the ship's cabin.  Rows of
bunk beds with vinyl mats filled the small space, and every
bed had at least one body.  I had advised my parents to
dress conservatively in below-the-knee attire to adhere to
the cultural norms.  Dad, who is claustrophobic by nature,
sweated miserably in his pants and collared shirt; Mom
fared little better in culottes and a T-shirt.
     I lay on my bunk, accustomed to the discomfort and
worried about how they would do once we actually arrived on
the island.  I lived in an eight-by-ten-foot hut by the
ocean, without electricity, plumbing, beds or window
screens.
     Upon our arrival, we traveled to my host family's
house in a 1970s vintage motorcycle with a creatively
welded sidecar.  There waiting for us were my host mother
Nanay, father Tatay, two sisters Gina and Nene, and brother
Bindel.  Like the timid first meeting of spouses in a
prearranged marriage, my two families stared inquisitively
at each other as we sat together in the bamboo rest house.
     Both had been anticipating this in-person assembly. 
After the initial introductions were complete, my mother
with wavering voice tried to express in broken and simple
English the gratitude she felt toward my Filipino hosts for
taking care of me as one of their own.  In her eyes and in
her words, I could sense all of the worries that she had
harbored for me in this place so far from home, so foreign. 
Nanay looked into my mother's eyes and smiled knowingly. 
She is the mother of six children.
     We washed up at the river, then walked the half-mile
through groves of mango and coconut trees, across the swamp
outlet, and finally along the seashore to my hut.  Mom and
Nanay walked together.
     As I watched them, I was struck with the awareness of
my good fortune.  These two amazing women are mine to learn
from, to lean on, to love and to be loved by.  Nanay
possesses an enduring strength and peacefulness much like
my own mother.  It shows in the way she winnows rice in the
wind until her arms won't raise up any more, in the tender
way she holds her first grandchild, and in the way she
spoke to me of love, family and the responsibilities of
women.
     Approaching my little hut, my parents grew quiet as
they took in the seemingly impoverished human condition of
island life-my life.
     Dad stood on the bamboo platform under my roof and
cast his eyes seaward.  His shoulders bespoke the sad and
amazed bewilderment that his eyes would not show me.  I had
already been living on the island for over a year and was
not prepared for how this lifestyle might appear to a "more
comfortable" mind, especially my father's.
     He was farm-raised on the ideal that hard work will
get you somewhere.  When we visited my host father at work,
Dad stood solemnly watching as Tatay, clucking and
grunting, trudged through the thick mud of his rice field. 
He guided a handmade plow with one hand, while wound around
the other was a rope leading to the nose of the water
buffalo straining against the plow.  Tatay has toiled that
way all of his sixty-seven years, and he will continue to
do so until his body won't let him.  Tatay and Nanay know
hard work.  Tatay and Nanay have lived hand-to-mouth every
day of their lives.
     While celebrating my birthday with coworkers from the
Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources,
we unwittingly ended up taking part in the confiscation and
seizure of an illegal fisherman's boat.  It was full of
dynamite that the fisherman would have used to blast a
school of fish, consequently destroying the already damaged
corals.
     There was some shooting and a boat chase, and the
birthday party was over when our group was forced to flee -
confiscated boat in tow ? for fear of retaliation.
     My parents were not comforted in the least by this
display of my work environment.  I tried to ease their
fears and my own threadbare nerves by explaining repeatedly
that this was not a normal day on the job.
     At night, we retired to the comforts of my bamboo
floor and the darkness, where Mom and Dad cringed in horror
at the sounds of rats and mice scuttling, lizards
chuckling, palm-sized spiders leaping, and carnivorous
cockroaches gnawing just beyond the flimsy mesh barriers of
their mosquito nets.  While I slept soundly, my parents had
an altogether different experience.  In my mother's words,
"It seemed as if dawn would never come."
     When dawn did arrive, we were up at the crack of it. 
And I was the one, this time, cracking the whip.  Chore
time!  Water needed to be fetched, food scavenged for,
laundry soaked and scrubbed, and a fire started to heat the
day's cooking and drinking water.
     The day before my parents departed from the
Philippines, we had lunch at a hotel overlooking the
island's shore.  As we finished eating, I glanced over at
Dad and the look on his face stilled me.  I saw tears where
I hadn't seen them in years.
   I asked him what was wrong.  He shook his head and,
looking deeply at my mother, he said, "We've seen so little
of the world, other people, other customs, other ways of
living."  He paused before continuing, "Thank you, Leah,
thank you for opening our eyes."
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Date:    3/13/03 11:13:30 AM Eastern Standard Time
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    [OH-MEM]  Car Thieves - UNBELIEVABLE!]
Date:    3/13/03 2:03:38 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:    doris40@aeroinc.net (Doris Mathis)
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Just heard this from a friend. Apparently car thieves have yet again found ma way around the system and steal your car or truck without any effort at all.

The car thieves peer through the windshield of your car or truck,
write down the VIN number from the label on the dash, go into the local
dealership for that car brand and request a duplicate key for it from the VIN number.

Car dealerships make up a duplicate key from the VIN number, collect payment from the 'customer' who's really a would-be car thief for making up the duplicate key -- the car thief goes back to your vehicle, inserts the key they've just gotten and off they drive with your car or truck.  They don't have to break in, don't have to damage the vehicle and
draw no attention to themselves as all they have to do is to walk up to your car, insert the key and off they go to their chop shop with your vehicle!!!

Can you believe it?
To avoid this from happening to you, simply put opaque tape (like a strip of electrical tape, duct tape or medical tape) across the VIN label located on the dash board. You can't remove the VIN number legally under most state laws, so cover it so that it can't be viewed
through the windshield by a car thief.

Anyway, feel free to forward this on before some other car thief steals another car or truck like this.
Unbelievable!
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    clownswclass@triton.net (Clowns With Class)
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    clownswclass@triton.net (Clowns With Class)
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-  W. Somerset Maugham
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    clownswclass@triton.net (Clowns With Class)
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Recipes for Today
[OHMEIGS] Recipe
Date:    3/13/03 9:58:16 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:    jakay3@hotmail.com (John Kincaid)
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The following is at least twenty years old. Source is unknown, but with
chocolate/butter/sugar it has to be good.

                           SEE'S FUDGE
               (From an old 3.1 Window's file)
1/2 cup butter
1 (6-ounce) package semisweet chocolate pieces
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups sugar
1 (5 3/4-ounce) can evaporated milk
10 large marshmallows
1 cup chopped nuts
     Combine butter, chocolate pieces and vanilla in
     medium bowl. Set aside.
     Place sugar, evaporated milk and marshmallows in
     medium saucepan. Bring to boil over medium heat,
     stirring frequently. Reduce heat to low and cook
     6 minutes stirring constantly.
     Pour hot mixture over ingredients in bowl. Beat
     with electric mixture until fudge is thick and
     dull (this doesn't take long). Stir in nuts.
     Pour into lightly buttered 8-inch-square baking
     pan. Refrigerate several hours to firm. Makes
     about 36 squares.
     Each square contain about 125 calories;33mg sodium
     8mg cholesterol; 7g fat; 17grams carbohydrates; 1g
     protein; 0.08g fiber.

John P. Kincaid
http://jpkincaid.com