Tag: faith
member name: Christopher Cole
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May 14, 2008 10:30 AM EDT --
Goodbye Cruel World!
"Goodbye cruel world" - That was the caption on the framed cartoon I viewed in the bathroom of one of the apartments in our farmhouse, some fifty years ago. . . .
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October 07, 2007 08:18 AM EDT --
Forty years have I stumbled forward in vain,
Weighed down by indifference and mediocrity.
Adrift in the glare of self pity and inactivity.
A mechanical being devoid of sympathy.
Squinting in the bright . . .
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June 03, 2008 07:32 AM EDT --
I spent my entire life trying to figure that one out. I once attempted a poem to investigate this gnawing urge to comprehend human existence.
HUMAN CONDITION
Salubrious slime thinly . . .
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June 08, 2008 06:39 PM EDT --
I had a rough start in the beginning. I did not begin to read until much later than most (fifth grade). I sat squarely somewhere upon the autistic spectrum. I was intimidated and overwhelmed by . . .
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November 26, 2007 06:37 PM EST --
One Sunday I decided to take a ride on my Yamaha 1100 VSar custom North along the Delaware River just outside of Philadelphia. Once on the road I followed the old canal which hugs the river and decided . . .
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October 28, 2007 04:49 PM EDT --
I have gained many friends since I first posted this poem:
Gnosis:
I once thought I could go it alone,
Embrace the things of this world, find my way home.
Exhausted . . .
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January 08, 2008 09:14 AM EST --
I write for the Woodstock Preservation site during the year. I received this gift in the form of an email at the beginning of the New Year from the director, Joanne. Her words were so inpsiring . . .
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July 22, 2008 09:54 PM EDT --
I was ten years old, the eldest of eight children. I grew up poor in the richest county in America in the fifties.(Westchester, NY). My early childhood was filled with the pain of psychological and physical . . .
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January 07, 2008 11:39 AM EST --
Many of us are plagued by addictions of one form or another. Most are very hurtful and destructive. With spiritual help and resolve even the most insidious can be overcome. There . . .
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May 05, 2008 07:06 AM EDT --
I turned fifty-nine years old today. Just before bed last night my grandson came into my room and asked to use the computer. I looked into his deep blue eyes and took his long black hair into . . .
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January 30, 2008 07:39 AM EST --
Who Am I...
I am a child who was battered
I am a kid with learning disorders
I am an adolescent who lost his best friend to suicide
I am a young man who loved deeply and lost
I am a seminarian . . .
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September 18, 2007 09:58 AM EDT --
I once thought I could go it alone,
Embrace the things of this world, find my way home.
Exhausted and anxious I arrived at this place,
Upon the precipice of the . . .
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October 28, 2007 10:20 AM EDT --
You Called to Me...
You called to me and I followed
Crawling toward you on linoleum floors
Down long corridors and open doors
Tripping along moss grown pathways
Crunching the rocks . . .
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May 22, 2008 01:47 PM EDT --
Woodstock Ronins - a Call to Arms!
As I am swept through the lush overgrown farmland surrounding New Hope Pennsylvania, I can't help but reflect upon Woodstock New York where I spent a great . . .
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January 22, 2008 05:52 PM EST --
You Called to Me...
You called to me and I followed
Crawling toward you on linoleum floors
Down long corridors and open doors
Tripping along moss grown pathways
Crunching the rocks . . .
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December 20, 2007 10:43 AM EST --
Gerald sat in the empty house alone and thought about his grandmother. He noticed that somehow the goat horns had been overlooked and still hung from a nail on the front door. It was only a few hours . . .
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November 22, 2007 07:40 PM EST --
The Closer’s Song and Woodstock
Why does the first Woodstock festival in 1969, almost 40 years ago, continue to symbolize the hopes of the hippie generation? The Closer’s Song , . . .
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April 17, 2008 08:20 AM EDT --
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Apr 17, 2008 7:59 AM
I need your help with my Woodstock . . .
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October 16, 2007 09:50 AM EDT --
The Closer’s Song and Woodstock
Why does the first Woodstock festival in 1969, almost 40 years ago, continue to symbolize the hopes of the hippie generation? The Closer’s Song , . . .
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