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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

Your words, Joyce, are some of the best that come across my feed. Thank you......

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

Thanks, our Chicken TV day are behind us, but it is fun to see someone else enjoying their antics. Being pretty much confined to my chair, I will be rummaging around in my mind to find a poem or two this weekend. Today, even before I read your newsletter, I was thinking about what it's like to think about writing, and how much it is like a herd of buffalo. This was this morning poem I'll be editing over the weekend:

On Writing

Thoughts gather like bison on the Great Plains

Bumping and jostling for position

Each thought imagines itself 1000-2000 pounds

Shaggy furred, with a mane and beard. Ideas have

long, end tufted tails, with big heads,

Black horns and lumps on their shoulders.

These thoughts prefer resting, chewing cud

Or wallowing in dirt. They’re grazer who

Munches a spear here and there randomly

In an ocean of abundant sedge and words.

So which path in the prairie grass do I follow?

How do I stop images from stampeding

Trampling the sly foxes and horned larks

Who shyly and sweetly want to sing to you?

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This is lovely. Thank you so much for sharing. Can't wait to see the final version, although this hardly needs editing!

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…..your own sweet Soul&Spirit…..

The Silver-linings

Like mist surrounding buffaloe-thoughts

In and out we must weave

From scarred-to-the-face

To serene-almighty-knowing…

The balance strikes a life plentyfull

And Grace caresses like a gentle breeze

Our mental capacities🤗🧡🌈🍀✨✨✨

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Isabelle, A warm thank you. Your poem is like a Dear One's hug... what we all need to get through these troubling times.

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We inspire one another🤗🧡🌈

As the Buddhist would reply:

I am an other yourself….(we are all One) 🕉

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Love the poem, particularly how you developed the bison image and then linked it to images (thoughts) "stampeding" and "trampling". Thanks for posting it.

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

We loved the President's speech also - and he said it as only he could - a man for the times, plain and clear.

Bella pictures always a plus!

We in Oregon are having a warm and beautiful end of summer - and school has started so it is sweet to see parents walking with the kids to school. We are headed to Whidbey Island for the Labor Day weekend, and will be watching birds at Deer Lagoon and on the Useless Bay beach. Shorebirds are migrating through now.

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

Hi Joyce! Really enjoying your posts these days. I will (unsurprisingly) be knitting, on a dock, on a lake, trying to clear my mind. Hoping you have a peaceful weekend.

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

Such sweet pics! Biden’s speech was one for the ages! I’m off to Kentucky Sunday night to Monday for my oldest niece’s 13th birthday party. Looking forward to celebrating her and visiting family, and hopefully getting in some much needed rest and reflection. Have a great and restful weekend!

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

Joyce...thanks so much for the late night uplifting words and adorable pics of your pets. I will be mowing grass and trying to clean up the yard this weekend and next week. After that, I will be driving to Virginia Beach to visit family and friends. The ocean is a soul soother and healer of body and mind.

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

Love the pictures. Have you given those new chicks names yet from our suggestions?

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I decided I couldn't pick names or I would keep them all, so going to send a few more to new homes this weekend and then I'll go back through the list (I compiled all of them, really great suggestions) and name the ones who will be with us permanently.

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

Have a great weekend yourself. Best wishes to you and your human, furry, and fluffy family.

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

Grandsons and their mom and dad at a cabin by a stream by a lake will brighten my days.

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I love the idea of you having coffee with the ladies. I makes you so real. I will spend time with family and friends on Saturday and enjoy the beginning of cooler weather here in North East Florida. It has the best weather anywhere. I am so happy to be a part of Democratic movement.

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

Saying goodbye to my vegetable garden. Time to clean it all up. Might plant some daffodils this weekend too

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I am so glad you wrote as you did about the President’s speech. I loved it and reject the idea that it was “a campaign speech” or “partisan,” as it has been characterized by some journalists. I think it’s more akin to Lincoln calling out the leaders of the Confederacy as a threat to the nation.

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Yes, I took it exactly the same way.

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

Have a safe and fun Labor Day everyone! Roll Tide!

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Roll Tide

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Well Joyce, I do wish the Tide well. Being an alumnus of that other university across the state, I must also offer 🟠🔵.

Relax and enjoy your weekend and holiday.

tom j...bluff park

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It's lovely to have such a strong rivalry & still be able to wish each other well!

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

I am a little ignorant of Alabamaisms. A friend also speaks of “roll tide” what is the meaning?

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Debi, in conjunction with Joyce's wonderful dictionary input below, the true context of my "Roll Tide" was related to The University of Alabama's football game this Saturday (now today) against Utah State at home in University, AL (adjacent to Tuscaloosa, AL). Known as the Alabama Crimson Tide (another story in itself), my hope is that the "Tide" (like an unstoppable ocean "tide") will roll over their opponent to victory. 🏈🐘🌊RTR (Roll Tide Roll) 😊

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

Hope your weekend is wonderful. We have an exciting beach weekend planned. We have four adjacent apartments on the beach. My daughter and grandkids in one next to us and two of her friends from high school and their kids in the others. I am always honored when we are included in my daughter's plans with her high school friends who we have also known for so many years. I count my blessings every day💕

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That sounds wonderful!

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It was amazing thank you. Lots of drinking and catching up was done💕

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

Joyce, I know you're not a native Alabamian, but as a born and raised Alabamian (although I've lived in Georgia for 50 years), I feel a kinship to you and am so proud that you have chosen to live in that sometimes benighted state. I still have dear family there and am always glad to see shoots of reason in the state. Thank you for all you do.

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Come visit!

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

Also, Roll Tide! Proud UA grad.

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Roll Tide!🐘🌊

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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Joyce Vance

Hi Joyce! Just wanted to drop a quick note and say how much I enjoy Civil Discourse and all of your insights (and of course chicken updates). Thanks for all you do!

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