Dwight - You are definitely one of the reasons that I enjoy Newsvine so much. Your articles are honest, heartwarming, and often laugh-out-loud funny. I wish you'd write more!
— lauhal
Happy New Year to you and the missus! Dwight you are one of my favorite authors here on the ol' vine. I always look forward to your next original piece. They are like whispers to my heart.
— rwarner
The mother spread the ancient quilt across the bed of her daughter with loving hands. Handed down from mother to first-born daughter for more generations than the mother could easily remember, the quilt had graced the beds of family for more than a hundred years.
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Sometimes the urge to write overwhelms me. And quite often, I will sit myself down in front of my computer, today's version of the old Royal typewriter, and start up my favorite word processing program. And then, nothing.
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Raven, Raven. Black as the abyss. Through the snowstorm, I see You, Perched in the tree, You are home. Through the snowstorm, You see Me, Far from home, craven, my way long lost.
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I am sure that many of you are out on the town now, it is after all Friday night here in the U.S. As I write this, it is after 2:00 AM on Saturday in London and Djehuty and Tamh are probably still out on the town drinking scrumpy cider.
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My Proposal As conversations swirl about a potential Vinestock, I have a simple proposal for you: Lets have a Vinemeet at my small farm over the 4th of July holiday next year, 2008. I have thought about a Vinemeet here since last year but personal health problems got in my way.
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This is the tale of a kitty's tail. There are two eight month old kitties, named Fluffy and Eve, who live with a Farmer and her husband on their farm in rural Virginia. Fluffy, the boy kitty, is an orange tabby with white feet.
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In Celestina's Vinestock Anyone, article, she made a recommendation that Vinestock be held in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Winsome Cowboy recently published an article asking whether we couldn't be using Vinemeets for something a little more constructive than meeting strangers and sitting around getting plastered.
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This morning on NBC's Today Show, the crew presented a a story of a family touched by tragedy. The young California couple discussed the loss of their three children in a freeway accident. The oldest of the three, two girls and one boy, was five.
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Friends, I am in a quandary. Sitting unplugged under the sideboard of my desk is an old PC. It is an Alienware, Area-51 gamers machine that when new, was the cats meow. I have not used it in any meaningful manner in at least two years.
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Veteran's Day is tomorrow, November 11th, 2007. I wanted to share some of my thoughts about this special day with you.
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This morning while having breakfast with the Missus, she thanked me for something that I didn't believe that I deserved any credit for. She insisted. And that led to my thoughts about women and rejection.
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DISCLAIMER: Since I have been away for awhile and with the important changes that have occurred recently with Newsvine, I felt it only proper to issue this disclaimer: This is not a news article.
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There might be flies on some of you guys, But there's Bees on me!
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Setting the Stage I spent a little over twenty years in the U. S. Air Force and retired from active duty in 1984. In the USAF, I was a good airman and very rarely questioned the orders given me by my superiors: Implementation yes, orders, no.
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When you need to bring a dish to pass, this one can fill the bill. It's sort of like a Mexican lasagna. Substitute fresh jalapenos for the green chili peppers for more heat.
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I checked the Leaderboard tonight and got a real shock: I was ranked 50,000 in popularity for the week! The sound you may be hearing is my fragile ego shattering on the hard-news floor of our Community...
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For my Friends, this is an update to a column I did in the late Summer of 2006. The original article was intended to see where in the world Newsviners called home.
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As some of you have been able to discern recently, I have struggled to understand what Newsvine is (or wants to be) and whether my contributions are consistent with the intents and goals of this service.
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The Camel's splayed-toe feet, Padded softly across the shifting sands. The large prominent hump, stood, And cast a unique shadow. The great head, shaggy, and carried low, Swayed neither left nor right, but pointed true to his path.
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Rage against wars declared and fought because of an unwillingness to work honestly and fairly with others to find peaceful solutions to issues, Rage against the tribal warfare that commits genocide against entire races, societies and ideas,
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I wanted to write a story, for I have something to say. "Prose," I thought. "That is the path that I will take." At the far boundaries of my consciousness, words in fertile ground, lay. And then, my prosaic words winked out, like candles on a cake.
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Okay, so I'm not in school anymore. But that shouldn't stop me from doing a book report, should it? So, using a generic book report writing template, here is my book report:
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in my hand, her touch, electrified. in my ears, her voice, whispered. in my eyes, her vision, shimmered. in my mouth, her taste, exhilarated. in my heart, her beats, reverberated. in my soul, her soul with mine, mated.
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The cold wind sighs softly through the leafless trees, hinting of the Winter that is near. Though my coat shields me from the cold and wind, nothing can stop the shivers of dread and fear, within.
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