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+====== Froggies and Doggies of Light ======
+by Robert L. Paddock\\
+Copyright (C) 2022
+<blockquote>
+Let there be light!
+Light is forever more.
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+Lights the day.
-**Spiders**
+Lights the night.
-Copyright 2015 by
+Guiding Light.
-Robert Paddock
+[1]
+Let there be light.
+Ever more light.
+To darkness removed.
+There is only light.
+Froggies and Doggies
+Enjoy the light
+Whiter than White
+There is always more light!
+[2]
+Forever more you are loved
+in all the light
+by The Light.
+[1: At this point
+Search for Tomorrow
+(TV Soap Opera Series 1951–1986) final seen appears in my Mind's Eye:
+Stu to Joann:  What are you searching for Joe?
+Joann:  Tomorrow
+Guiding Light (TV Soap Opera Series 1952–2009).
+I have no memorable scenes from GL?]
+[2:Channeling Dr. Seuss?]
+</blockquote>
+====== The Death of Opossum ======
+by Robert L. Paddock\\
+Copyright (C) 2014
+<blockquote>
+On the way to work this morning I saw Opossum die.
+It trotted out of the brush to my left.
+Full day a head, full of life.
+Opossum was oblivious to the approaching car inches from it.
+Inches from Death.
+I braced myself, slowing as fast I could, praying for the best for the beast.
+The oncoming car startled Opossum causing it to rise.
+To beat Opossum against the bottom of the car.
+Oh what a surprise!
+Opossum rolled twice.
+Four legs to the sky.
+Still Opossum lies.
+I had just watched Death.
+A critter had just died.
+It made me think of the instant between life and death.
+Why has Karen died?
+At night she no longer lies near my side.
+Is she happy on the other side?
+To at long last be pain free with Angels at her side?
+As I type this I cry still.
+Trying hard not to bawl.
+So hard to go on still.
+We are here for but an instant //then gone as we lie still//.
+The old joke "Why did the Chicken cross the road?  To show the Opossum
+that it could be done!".
+Funny no more, as Opossum lies still...
+</blockquote>
+Dedicated to the late Karen Paddock, 1969 - 2013.
+[[http://www.kpaddock.com|http://www.kpaddock.com]]
+Opossum are colloquially called possums; Latin: Didelphimorphia.
+====== Spiders ======
+by Robert L. Paddock\\
+Copyright (C) 2015
+<blockquote>
 Spiders are everywhere.
 Grandma's baseman. Parents basement.
-Silken webs as clingy has a cocoon, dew filed at night.
+Silken webs as clingy as a cocoon, dew filed at night.
 We watch them for hours on the old Kennerdell Bridge as they ate last nights meal.
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 To pounce with delight when one landed and started to fight, the web of the night...
+</blockquote>
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 http://blog.therainforestsite.com/reasons-to-love-spiders/
+====== I Want a Do Over ======
+by Robert L. Paddock\\
+Copyright (C) 2013,2017
+<blockquote>
+There are several days in my life that I'd like a “do over” for.
+Do I got back to a few days before Karen's suicide due to Chronic Pain to prevent it?
+Do I got back 24 years to prevent her car accident in the first place,
+so that she did not suffer for all of the years?
+Do I got back to the post office where I let a lovely looking young
+lady go before me, where there was a very long line at Christmas.
+She hung around by the door clearly wanting me to talk to her
+and I was too shy at the time, something I've overcome with the
+passing years. I would have never meet Karen at all.
+Do I go back to high school and ask the girl there that I liked, that
+I was too afraid too even talk with due to my shyness?
+Do I go back to the first big decision of my life when I was seven,
+and my parents gave me a choice between Karate Lessons or an Organ
+with music lessons. I chose the music lessons, as being a Nerd, I was
+attracted to all the blinking lights and buttons of the organ.
+I should have chosen Karate.
+If we could pull at the threads of the tapestry of our lives how much
+of it will unravel? Do we want it too?
+I chatted with a lovely young lady as we left a meeting about our shared interests.
+I asked her to join me for lunch.  A new regret I shall not have.  We only regret those things that we do not do...
+</blockquote>