BlogHide Reblurtsreblurtedmattsanthonyit in # instablurt • 5 yr. ago • 3 min readChicken Market As The Festive Season 🎉🎄🎋🎉 Approaches || Daily Paid Jobs For The Chicken Dressing More Income || The Market-Friday InitiativeHello Blurtters, Different market Showcase at this point of Festivity Period. When it is this time of the year we see a lot of people running here and there to make two ends meet for themselves for the family and for the whole community to some extent. This is what I mean by for the family and for themselves. there are hundreds of people out…dswigle in # r2cornell • 6 yr. ago • 3 min readMerry almost Christmas!Merry Christmas, almost!! Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles!! As the Holiday Season is on top of me, I find myself reflecting on the past year and some of the sad things- like burying my brother but soothed by the birth of my beautiful niece. I value my friends and look forward to seeing many of you in the…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readGlowing momentsHere in the glow of those last lingering moments before Christmas, I take pleasure in its warmth. It has been a real treat to receive cards this year with so many beautiful messages they contain. In the past couple of years, I had fallen down and not gotten many out. I find it heartwarming to get cards and letters from my cousins…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 4 min readMemories of ChristmasI went to my mailbox yesterday and retrieved a Christmas card with a beautiful message inside. In the past few years, they had lost my current address, and well, time ticked on. Apologies were sent for not being more diligent. I laughed because, at some point, every member of my family has had to call me to get my correct address. Truly though…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readAdvent of ChristmasChristmas means so many things, it's hard to define. Phases of emotion corresponding to my age. The unsurpassed anticipation as a child, only to be outdone when it was my turn to be the giver to my children. Oh, how I wanted to make it magic, just like when I was a kid. But it's not about the gifts, is it? It's family and friends, caring and…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readChoose your Song, it's all about ChristmasI decided to pick six Christmas songs that I liked. Only six. This is so much harder than it looks at first glance. Hundreds if not more than that litter my thoughts, running through the scales of songs, in different octaves and timbres. I will have to start off with a song that has been my personal favorite for almost as many years as I have…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 1 min readSong from HighTraditions built, memories made Wrapping my heart with a well-placed bow Spreading our gifts To all that we know From the top of the tree The softest of songs Drift through the air Lifting my soul Hallelujah "Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readHomemade ChristmasA man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season is here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readIf Wishes Came TrueHow can you resist the season of joy? I find myself being drawn in, every year, just a little bit earlier than the other. Pretty soon, I suspect, I will just be celebrating it all year, to the annoyance of many. Admittedly, I love the Christmas season. It seems a little bit shinier; a little bit brighter than the rest of the year. The…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readPulling Out the MemoriesSome days, it is the smallest things that can touch my heart, my heart. Those are the things that fill up that space, stay in the meaningful mode, and become one of our favorite memories in life. Today, I am getting some of those treasured memories out of the attic to start my Christmas season off. To begin that tradition, all over again…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readHappy Thanksgiving!Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! “What are you thankful for?” A lot of this going on around here; especially at this time of year. Most people know intuitively, at least to some degree, that the privileges and good things they enjoy in life are given to them and that they are meant to be grateful for what they have. I have friends from…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readVirginia is for LoversSome days, you just need to play hooky. Nothing quite like a beautiful fall day on the beach. How can you spell perfect? — at Virginia is for lovers. The days have been fraught with tiny little annoyances, just enough to change the direction of getting it all done. So, I ditched the day and went fishing in the surf, with the sun shining…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readDo your Remember the Gettysburg Address?Today is the 157th anniversary of one of the most famous speeches ever given -- the Gettysburg Address. Did you know? I had forgotten all about it! The opening words, "four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" ……dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readWreath of Thanks and GivingIn the weeks before Thanksgiving, the one in my heart, I piece together a wreath to hang on my door. Normally it would be there to greet the guests who would be coming to my house, and yet, like everything else in the abnormality of the past year, changes have been made and there will be no guests. Most everyone in the family will be in on a zoom…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 3 min readRed White and BloomMy goosebumps heard it before I did, those notes of the trumpet. The buglers all gathered in the mist and fog that left a glistening of dew on the grass beneath my feet at the Old Amphitheater; taps were played during the Bugle Call to Remember in honor, then again as they spread out throughout the cemetery- to honor the fallen. I could scarcely…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readMary, Mary and other Garden ThoughtsI watched the temperatures plummet last night, knowing this was the beginning of the end. We didn't really get fall and I already had started the garden, being part of the advance team in this house. Okay, to be fair, plummeting meant it was in the fifties, Fahrenheit. Cabbage definitely lends an entirely different texture to my winter garden.…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 1 min readOh Summer, Wherefore Art Thou?It saddens me to watch as my summer faded into the fall, right before my very eyes. But, there is beauty in the demise of things, we just have to shift our focus to finding it. Oh, summer! Wherefore art thou? I never even had time to say good-bye. And when we find ourselves In the place just right, We will be in the valley Of Love and…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readTo Live and Love in a World of ProseI never saw it coming and left it unattended. Did I tell you once upon a time how you set my heart afire? Do you know of this feeling, deep inside my soul? Where the warmth of your words pass on a sweet afterglow? I bask in your verse, they carry me for miles, some days... and I look back on them to make it even further. And then. Oh, foolish…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 4 min readDon't Forget to Pay the Lady!We grow wild, running in the sun. Cast your shadow and keep company with the shine of the day. There were hundreds of us, making our way down the beach, finding our piece of it, where we can sit and watch as the ponies parade by. Oh, it is not such a grand event, but, it is a tradition of sorts and I have been going and supporting the cause for…dswigle in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readShine On!Have I told you lately how you shine on my day? Oh, yes, you do. Whether blanketed lavishly in color or exposed and unadorned, nature reveals her beauty all through the seasons. From light and bright to the rich hues that mark the transition to fall, whereas, her beauty goes to sleep, sleep, sleep. What color is peace…
