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"What's In A Name?" Part 2"What's In A Name?" Part 2"What's In A Name?" Part 2
The third (or was it second?) grade teacher picked up the white chalk and wrote on the green slate panels in big, cursive letters three names. She said, "Okay, now come up here and write your names like I have them on the board." A young boy went up to the name on the left. A young girl went to the name on the right. And nobody went to the name in the center. The teacher looked at me and said, "Bo, come on up here and write your name."
In a quiet, uncomfortable voice, I replied, "But, my name isn't up there."
"Yes it is. See here: (she placed her hand on each word as she said
by ~AcumenicalGoliard
What's In A Name? Part 1"What's In A Name?" Part 1What's In A Name? Part 1
Everybody calls me "Bo." It's my name. But,for those who do not know, my full name is Vernon Alfred McGuffee II. Usually, when I tell this to people, the first thing they ask is “Okay, but how do you get ‘Bo’ out of that?” Perhaps it’s time to share the story.
Back when I was less than a year old, my family lived in Paxton, IL (down by Champaign-Urbana). Since Paxton was a small town, people tended to leave everything unlocked. Kids wandered the neighborhood, and the local parents just took any of them who wandered into their yards under their wings.
Anyway, there was a youn
by ~AcumenicalGoliard
All I GetSitting here in dark of night. My cave known but by candlelight. The rain pours down, through cracks it spreads, but does not threaten. Peace reigns instead.All I Get
A human peace? A fickle peace? Sometimes, no more.
Yet there are times I find myself stretching for the door.
My cave seems tight. Can't hold the light.
Beyond the wall, beyond my call, to sit here in the night,
I search for "why" in voiced dread sigh. But all I get is candlelight.
Sitting here in dark of night. Bathing in
by ~AcumenicalGoliard
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- Current Residence: My own little world
- Interests: Depends on my mood
- Favourite movie: Mirror Mask
- Favourite band or musician: Tool
- Favourite genre of music: This, too, depends on my mood
- Favourite artist: Me (duh)
- Favourite poet or writer: Me again
- Favourite photographer: Chino!!!!!
- Favourite style of art: Pencil or wash
- Operating System: XP
- MP3 player of choice: iPod Shuffle
- Skin of choice: The one I'm wearing (I'm kinda attached to it)
- Favourite cartoon character: Wade, the duck from "Garfield and Friends"
- Tools of the Trade: Words, pictures, etc.
- Website: http://www.eclecticmass.net
- Email: vmcguffe@hotmail.com
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Feels like i'm flying above you
Dream that i'm dying to find the truth
Seems like you're trying to bring me down
Back down to earth, back down to earth (Anathema)
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"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Albert Einstein
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