"A house is made with walls and beams.
A home is made with love and dreams."
~Author Unknown
Friday, August 20, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Home is where I’m alone with you...
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - HOME
LYRICS:
[Her:]
Alabama, Arkansas,
I do love my ma and pa,
Not the way that I do love you.
[Him:]
Holy, Moley, me, oh my,
You’re the apple of my eye,
Girl I’ve never loved one like you.
[Her:]
Man oh man you’re my best friend,
I scream it to the nothingness,
There ain’t nothing that I need.
[Him:]
Well, hot and heavy, pumpkin pie,
Chocolate candy, Jesus Christ,
Ain’t nothing please me more than you.
[Both:]
Ahh Home. Let me come home
Home is wherever I’m with you.
Ahh Home. Let me go ho-oh-ome.
Home is wherever I’m with you.
La, la, la, la, take me home.
Mother, I’m coming home.
[Him:]
I’ll follow you into the park,
Through the jungle through the dark,
Girl I never loved one like you.
[Her:]
Moats and boats and waterfalls,
Alley-ways and pay phone calls,
I’ve been everywhere with you.
[Him:]
We laugh until we think we’ll die,
Barefoot on a summer night
Nothin’ new is sweeter than with you
[Her:]
And in the streets you run afree,
Like it’s only you and me,
Geeze, you’re something to see.
[Both:]
Ahh Home. Let me go home.
Home is wherever I’m with you.
Ahh Home. Let me go ho-oh-ome.
Home is wherever I’m with you.
La, la, la, la, take me home.
Daddy, I’m coming home.
(Talking)
Him: Jade
Her: Alexander
Him: Do you remember that day you fell outta my window?
Her: I sure do, you came jumping out after me.
Him: Well, you fell on the concrete, nearly broke your ass, you were bleeding all over the place and I rushed you out to the hospital, you remember that?
Her: Yes I do.
Him: Well there’s something I never told you about that night.
Her: What didn’t you tell me?
Him: While you were sitting in the backseat smoking a cigarette you thought was gonna be your last, I was falling deep, deeply in love with you, and I never told you til just now.
[Both:]
Ahh Home. Let me go home.
Home is wherever I’m with you.
Ahh Home. Let me go ho-oh-ome.
Home is where I’m alone with you.
[Him:]
Home. Let me come home.
Home is wherever I’m with you.
[Her:]
Ahh home. Yes I am ho-oh-ome.
Home is when I’m alone with you.
[Her:]
Alabama, Arkansas,
I do love my ma and pa…
Moats and boats and waterfalls,
Alley-ways and pay phone calls…
[Both:]
Ahh Home. Let me go home.
Home is wherever I’m with you.
Ahh Home. Let me go ho-oh-ome.
Home is where I’m alone with you…
Sharing = Caring…
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
My big sis ROCKS!!!! Love you Sher!
I am so very proud of you!!!
(With video) SAWN honors Gayle White, Janice Polk, Marie Brown, Shan Pletcher, Sherry Bell and Julia Nipper
By Mike McNeill, publisher and editor
Posted: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 1:29 pm | Updated: 10:27 pm, Wed Aug 18, 2010.
Six Magnolia-area women were honored Tuesday by the South Arkansas Women's Network for their contributions to community life.
Julia Nipper received the Horizon Award as a young person with potential. She was introduced by her uncle, Steve Nipper.
Two women were presented with the Career Achievement Award. They were Columbia County Clerk Sherry Bell, and Magnolia Insurance Agency owner Shan Pletcher. They were introduced by former Municipal Court Judge Rodney Chambers, and former Magnolia Insurance Agency owner Charles Tripp, respectively.
Three women were recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award. They were Marie Brown, a former nursing teacher at Southern Arkansas University, introduced by her daughter, Cynthia McIntyre; Janice Polk, owner and manager of Polk's Furniture, introduced by her son, Pete Polk; and Dr. Gayle White, former management professor at Southern Arkansas University, introduced by Dr. Anna Trexler.
Nipper works at Title Guaranty but volunteers her time to work with The Caring Place at First United Methodist Church, which provides activities for Alzheimer's sufferers. Nipper said she receives inspiration from her family. "They have shown me that being active in your community not only benefits you, but others as well. Volunteering has such a positive impact on where we work and where we play," she said.
Bell said she appreciated how well the community has accepted a quick-talking woman from Illinois by way of Texas into its life, including service in the tax assessor's office and, since 1998, as county clerk. "There are so many women in this audience that have received this award who have empowered me and empowered other women in our community. We have had so many women step up to the plate, and I think that's wonderful," Bell said.
Pletcher was profuse in her thanks to two men, Archie Monroe and Charles Tripp, who mentored her in their insurance business - Magnolia Insurance Agency - of which she is now president and owner. "I truly believe that for your life in general, other people pave the way for you. You don't do it on your own. I've had some incredible people in my life who have done just that," Pletcher said. She also praised the women in her life, including her mother and her aunts, who have given her spiritual guidance and strong will.
Brown entered the nursing profession fairly late in life after her husband, John, told her that it was time to fulfill her lifelong wish to attend college. She became one of the first two African-American women in the LPN program at Arkansas Baptist Hospital. This led to a job at Magnolia Hospital and later to a teaching position with SAU. "I loved my students. I was hard on my students. They had to learn what we were teaching. One of my students later told me, ‘I would tremble when you came into class.' I expected a lot from them."
Polk and her husband James opened a furniture and appliance store in McNeil in 1949, moving to Magnolia in 1951. James Polk died in 1990 but Mrs. Polk continued to run Polk's Furniture with her son, Pete, until the store was closed earlier this year. "I want to thank you for being our friends and for trading with us. If Polk's has done anything through the years to help you with the furniture you love, then I'm thankful for that. We did have a fun life and the Lord has blessed me. There's no way to tell you how much he's blessed me. I hope to be around to see the rest of you get this same award," Polk said.
White taught at SAU for 44 years until her recent retirement. She was instrumental in the encouragement of academic research as the university and is one of only five people in SAU history to hold the rank of distinguished professor. "I think all the time of people who have helped me all the way through," White said. They have included professors who kept her humble while she was a student. One composition teacher once praised an essay she had written, and then distributed copies the next week for dissection during a class session. White also recalled that another one of her SAU teachers, Dr. Robert Walz, once wrote an "A-"on her semester grade knowing that the registrar's office would simply record it as an "A." When White asked Walz about it, Walz replied he'd done it to remind White that she wasn't as smart as another student in the class. White remembered that while serving as dean of the College of Business, her fellow professors worked to make her job easier and to make the college look good professionally.
About 150 people attended the event at Southern Arkansas University's Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center. Karen Weido was the mistress of ceremonies. Brother John Hampton Brown presented the opening prayer. Weido presented the women with awards engraved with their respective names and honors. Arkansas State Rep. Bruce Maloch read a resolution from the Arkansas House of Representatives honoring the women, and presented them with copies of it.
That's my sister!!!!!!!!!!!! She is totally awesome! :)
(With video) SAWN honors Gayle White, Janice Polk, Marie Brown, Shan Pletcher, Sherry Bell and Julia Nipper
By Mike McNeill, publisher and editor
Posted: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 1:29 pm | Updated: 10:27 pm, Wed Aug 18, 2010.
Six Magnolia-area women were honored Tuesday by the South Arkansas Women's Network for their contributions to community life.
Julia Nipper received the Horizon Award as a young person with potential. She was introduced by her uncle, Steve Nipper.
Two women were presented with the Career Achievement Award. They were Columbia County Clerk Sherry Bell, and Magnolia Insurance Agency owner Shan Pletcher. They were introduced by former Municipal Court Judge Rodney Chambers, and former Magnolia Insurance Agency owner Charles Tripp, respectively.
Three women were recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award. They were Marie Brown, a former nursing teacher at Southern Arkansas University, introduced by her daughter, Cynthia McIntyre; Janice Polk, owner and manager of Polk's Furniture, introduced by her son, Pete Polk; and Dr. Gayle White, former management professor at Southern Arkansas University, introduced by Dr. Anna Trexler.
Nipper works at Title Guaranty but volunteers her time to work with The Caring Place at First United Methodist Church, which provides activities for Alzheimer's sufferers. Nipper said she receives inspiration from her family. "They have shown me that being active in your community not only benefits you, but others as well. Volunteering has such a positive impact on where we work and where we play," she said.
Bell said she appreciated how well the community has accepted a quick-talking woman from Illinois by way of Texas into its life, including service in the tax assessor's office and, since 1998, as county clerk. "There are so many women in this audience that have received this award who have empowered me and empowered other women in our community. We have had so many women step up to the plate, and I think that's wonderful," Bell said.
Pletcher was profuse in her thanks to two men, Archie Monroe and Charles Tripp, who mentored her in their insurance business - Magnolia Insurance Agency - of which she is now president and owner. "I truly believe that for your life in general, other people pave the way for you. You don't do it on your own. I've had some incredible people in my life who have done just that," Pletcher said. She also praised the women in her life, including her mother and her aunts, who have given her spiritual guidance and strong will.
Brown entered the nursing profession fairly late in life after her husband, John, told her that it was time to fulfill her lifelong wish to attend college. She became one of the first two African-American women in the LPN program at Arkansas Baptist Hospital. This led to a job at Magnolia Hospital and later to a teaching position with SAU. "I loved my students. I was hard on my students. They had to learn what we were teaching. One of my students later told me, ‘I would tremble when you came into class.' I expected a lot from them."
Polk and her husband James opened a furniture and appliance store in McNeil in 1949, moving to Magnolia in 1951. James Polk died in 1990 but Mrs. Polk continued to run Polk's Furniture with her son, Pete, until the store was closed earlier this year. "I want to thank you for being our friends and for trading with us. If Polk's has done anything through the years to help you with the furniture you love, then I'm thankful for that. We did have a fun life and the Lord has blessed me. There's no way to tell you how much he's blessed me. I hope to be around to see the rest of you get this same award," Polk said.
White taught at SAU for 44 years until her recent retirement. She was instrumental in the encouragement of academic research as the university and is one of only five people in SAU history to hold the rank of distinguished professor. "I think all the time of people who have helped me all the way through," White said. They have included professors who kept her humble while she was a student. One composition teacher once praised an essay she had written, and then distributed copies the next week for dissection during a class session. White also recalled that another one of her SAU teachers, Dr. Robert Walz, once wrote an "A-"on her semester grade knowing that the registrar's office would simply record it as an "A." When White asked Walz about it, Walz replied he'd done it to remind White that she wasn't as smart as another student in the class. White remembered that while serving as dean of the College of Business, her fellow professors worked to make her job easier and to make the college look good professionally.
About 150 people attended the event at Southern Arkansas University's Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center. Karen Weido was the mistress of ceremonies. Brother John Hampton Brown presented the opening prayer. Weido presented the women with awards engraved with their respective names and honors. Arkansas State Rep. Bruce Maloch read a resolution from the Arkansas House of Representatives honoring the women, and presented them with copies of it.
That's my sister!!!!!!!!!!!! She is totally awesome! :)
Monday, August 16, 2010
ooooooh la la! ;)
"I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!"
~Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
~Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
Thursday, August 12, 2010
good thing... you came back to me!
"When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation."
~Felicity Kendal
i will always be that girl... always.... :)
~Felicity Kendal
i will always be that girl... always.... :)
Sunday, August 1, 2010
GOOD THING! YA BEEN GONE TOO LONG!!! *giggle*
My good thing
MY GOOD GOOD THING
People say I should forget
Who cares what people say
You've been gone too long
It's been so long
Good thing
GOOD GOOD THING
You came back
... oh yeah... ***all smiles***
What a great morning I've had!!!
MY GOOD GOOD THING
People say I should forget
Who cares what people say
You've been gone too long
It's been so long
Good thing
GOOD GOOD THING
You came back
... oh yeah... ***all smiles***
What a great morning I've had!!!
♥ live for the moments you can't put into words ♥
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