hello Robert,my Christmas I celebrated with friends, as Elke and Bart were at the coast and Leslie and her family in SD, in America.One lives alone and we can always connect with friends of course.Mom and me celebrated the 2 birthdays of the kids :Lynn, now 4 and Lars now 2 yrs.It was amusing and they recited their wishes. Lynn learned by heart a little poem and she does as if she reads it. She did it so well!Elke filmed it.Now I can enjoy it watching it.:) Lars got a horse head on a rolling stick; he can run around with it and Lynn got 5 hand puppets from me.We played a muppet show together.We ate a pie and afterwards good food and tomato soup she made.Flags were hanging at the ceiling; decorated as their birthdays fall only a week apart.Well Robert, mom knows I'm going to America to visit George.Shortly we will get a new terrace, so I've to make it empty, because works can start right after my return. Lately I went to listen to a candidate from The Voice of Flanders, a TV show.He's a 19 yr old young man who sang in that contest.His dad registered him!He worked in summer as a job student at that library and now they had invited him there to have a concert with his guitar.He reached far in that contest!I enjoyed his performance. A lady behind me had seen how I moved with the music and she talked to me later on.I told her I used to play the piano, but stopped right after my friend Greet(read Grate) had done eutanasia... :( But that I still painted.You paint?And now I can do an exhibition in September!The program books were already printed, but in the next one I will be announced.I am very pleased with it!Today I went with my bike to a poetry workshop, given by a known poet, Maud.She lets us do 2 exercises.We had to tear out snippets from magazines with sentences.Then we had to make poems with the snippets.We had fun and it was very spontaneous too.We all had good results!Only two of us had done poetry: Kerstin and me.Robert, I got the lovely photo of you and the dog.Animals are so friendly! :))I had sent money to Melanie... wonder if she got it? Keep all the joyful moments with your mom in your heart and cherish them for ever, Robert!Keep faith and take every new day as your best day.A beautiful saying, just for you:'I know everywhere in the life- desert how to discover one or another beautiful oasis.'- Heinrich Heine. Robert, hope you can find harmony in your heart and know there are good friends to watch over you. One is Rita. A big cuddle from far! Everybody needs a few cuddles each day.
Byron, I scheduled the wrong day at SQ. I went there this morning and I wasn't on the schedule. I'll be sending you a copy of the final zine. Talk soon. Joe
Dear Jack, Your poetry is beautiful. I love reading religious poetry and hearing about other people's views on religion. I look forward to reading more of your poetry. As a fellow poet, I hope you keep writing poetry. Thank you for responding to my comment by the way! That made me super happy! I hope you have a nice day. -Grace
Hello! Thank you for sharing your story about being eighteen and gay. I myself am part of the LGBT (bisexual and transgender) community and I'm always interested in hearing other stories. It's fascinating to hear how other people have been a part of the community or not a part of the community. I personally am really an online-community type of person. I'm so socially awkward that I don't have the guts to talk to people in person. Thank you again for sharing your story. -Grace
Hey Byron, the copies came out really nice. As you can see I gave Kathy the very first copy, along with a few others to distribute. I will make enough copies to make sure every one in the ministry gets a copy. The MTTC was really well done and i can't believe how well it turned out, be sure to give our thanks to everyone that contributed. Me and Kathy will be heading to SQ tomorrow morning, so hopefully you will have a few minutes to chat with Kathy. Kai's poem was really well done, was that an actual dream he had? Talk more tomorrow. Joe
Hello! I read both your responses. Thank you for responding! I decided I'll send a quote to you. It's one of my favorite quotes, a Bruce Springsteen quote. I love Bruce Springsteen. "Baby there are nights when I dream of a better world." -Bruce Springsteen My theatre teacher told me this quote reminded him of me. He says I'm opinionated and want to change the world and all that. So I carry this quote with me a lot. I hope I can pass this quote to you, too, and it can mean something to you. -Grace
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Joe
Your poetry is beautiful. I love reading religious poetry and hearing about other people's views on religion. I look forward to reading more of your poetry. As a fellow poet, I hope you keep writing poetry.
Thank you for responding to my comment by the way! That made me super happy! I hope you have a nice day.
-Grace
Thank you for sharing your story about being eighteen and gay. I myself am part of the LGBT (bisexual and transgender) community and I'm always interested in hearing other stories. It's fascinating to hear how other people have been a part of the community or not a part of the community. I personally am really an online-community type of person. I'm so socially awkward that I don't have the guts to talk to people in person. Thank you again for sharing your story.
-Grace
Joe
I read both your responses. Thank you for responding!
I decided I'll send a quote to you. It's one of my favorite quotes, a Bruce Springsteen quote. I love Bruce Springsteen.
"Baby there are nights when I dream of a better world." -Bruce Springsteen
My theatre teacher told me this quote reminded him of me. He says I'm opinionated and want to change the world and all that. So I carry this quote with me a lot. I hope I can pass this quote to you, too, and it can mean something to you.
-Grace