So ends April
Marking a month of lunacy and tribute
Ending and beginning life
Defining what is, is not terrorism.
Changing climate foretold by educators and scientists
As the rivers spill over
Earth shudders
Fires break out
Levees give way
People, animals, homes, schools, crops lost
Even as last year' s pansies show their heads above ground.
Through it all
Illinois, Missouri and Mississippi
Working People lining river shores
Remembered in song
Watch as economic progress, health, and education stall
Representatives who prefer to look away
Off set by Voices growing in number
Demanding no more false idols or messages!
So ends April!
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
DON'T COUNT MISSOURI OUT YET!
If we think of Missouri as a know-nothing state, we are kidding ourselves. Here's why!
A school in the Ozark Mountain area allows teachers and others to bring and use concealed weapons in school. Many parents were pleased with the action, but some felt uneasy and would prefer alternative ways to protecting the safety of their children.
Whether it is health care for a select few, or unequal sharing of the burden of taxes, or failure to limit easy access to manufacturing and the sale of guns, Missouri's Citizens recognize the danger of each to each of us and our communities.
We live on farms, in cities and towns. We know there are many of us, voters and organizations working diligently on issues that have and do impact the quality of life where we live. We know too that some of our work has been a surprise to those who represent us up and down the great rivers which sometimes have separated us from each other and the rest of the country.
We have been schooled by and live with nature's moody disposition.. We have learned how to carry on before her screaming winds. We are one state with communities of men, women and children, threatened or prospering in rural counties or on city streets.
We recognize this and caution the skeptics, don't count Missouri out yet!
A school in the Ozark Mountain area allows teachers and others to bring and use concealed weapons in school. Many parents were pleased with the action, but some felt uneasy and would prefer alternative ways to protecting the safety of their children.
Whether it is health care for a select few, or unequal sharing of the burden of taxes, or failure to limit easy access to manufacturing and the sale of guns, Missouri's Citizens recognize the danger of each to each of us and our communities.
We live on farms, in cities and towns. We know there are many of us, voters and organizations working diligently on issues that have and do impact the quality of life where we live. We know too that some of our work has been a surprise to those who represent us up and down the great rivers which sometimes have separated us from each other and the rest of the country.
We have been schooled by and live with nature's moody disposition.. We have learned how to carry on before her screaming winds. We are one state with communities of men, women and children, threatened or prospering in rural counties or on city streets.
We recognize this and caution the skeptics, don't count Missouri out yet!
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