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Little Lady has enough.

Harrison Cole Smith takes her photo

Avery Grace Smith, Christmas 2009

WORDLE

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Into the Twilight

ARTICLE http://www.crosswalk.com/ books/11616901/page0/ je's COMMENT I've read the whole series, and enjoyed them, and I think the fascination is simple: Edward is a vampire who does not kill humans, who loves a simple teenaged human girl. His attraction to her (for her blood) is strong because she has an enticing "fragrance," but his love for her is stronger. He's dangerous, but he controls himself. As a literary character, he fulfills innocent girls' wishes for a strong, brave, platonic hero, all romance without embarrassment, pain or messiness--prince charming--who sweeps the heroine off her feet, carries her to safety, cradles her, fights for her. He fights to save her life from those who want to kill her. He sweeps her behind him and stands bravely to defend. He can't bear to be separated from her and literally carries her to mountain heights and tops of towering trees. When she begs him to change her from human to vampire, he refuses because he love...
Today at Bible study I heard three different women say something similar to " I don't need to know the details; I just know (1) God loves me, (2) Jesus loves me, (3) whether I like that church or not. I don't care about the details because they aren't important. AAAAAGGHH!

Merry Christmas? 2009

Would you believe this? Before I could post the previous post, I received this in an email: MERRY CHRISTMAS *Twas the month before Christmas* *When all through our land,* *Not a Christian was praying* *Nor taking a stand.* *See the PC Police had taken away,* *The reason for Christmas - no one could say.* *The children were told by their schools not to sing,* *About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.* *It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say* * December 25th is just a ' Holiday '.* *Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit* *Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!* *CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod* *Something was changing, something quite odd! * *Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa* *In hopes to sell books by Franken ...