PUMPKIN WALL

When once time lovers see the other

There is obvious recognition;

Along with denial, disbelief, a heart tug or two,

Some jealousy, some disappointment,

As well as the full knowledge

That only callousness can erase linger.

Physicality, personalysis and so much more

That brought anticipation of more time spent

Eradicated. Scrubbed clean. "Nothing to build on there,"

As Frost said.

Yet like a worn eraser or slick chalkboard

It can be seen upon close inspection.

Or just maybe the one handling the eraser didn't press hard enough,

Purposely

Because if love remains even in the remote shadow

Of what's left after being wiped away,

It's still better than complete oblivion.

ONLY DISNEY COULD MAKE

A warthog cute. Even the little ones are pretty rough looking (note: that is a paradox and not an oxymoron. An oxymoron uses only 2 words, yet I'm hearing more and more people use it interchangeably with paradox). Granted the young ones look better, but not by much.

We saw them when we were on a safari in South Africa. They hung around the zebras. It seems that the hogs ate the lower grasses and the zebras the higher ones. So they were buds. I learned a lot more about zebras--they are black with white stripes and they fart a lot.

As far as the warthog, he tastes pretty good barbecued. I suppose somewhat like javalina, but I haven't had the pleasure of dining on our Arizona wild pigs. Hint as I have to two hunter buds. But besides that, I don't know much about them.

The wildebeest may be uglier, but not by much. Nope, the warthog even without warts is simply one ugly dude.

RE-BAR

I can recognize re-bar, if I can't spell it. Now how to tie off re-bar and help to support or strengthen concrete I'm totally ignorant. But like a remedy of a lot of ignorance, I know a resource person or two who have worked construction and could enlighten me. One is our daughter who worked for Habitat for Humanity for a few weeks in Costa Rica and that was her primary job.

So what's up with rebar or re-bar anyway? There is a re-bar of the human body and it's a molecule called laminen. A protein, it holds the body together. It is so vital that I'm surprised it's not more well known outside the medical community.

A Bible Study Fellowship friend of my wife makes jewelry. This past year, I think it was for Valentine's Day, I purchased a necklace for CQ made in the shape of laminen. Why? Well, you see laminen perhaps not coincidentally is shaped like a cross.

It's a beautiful necklace and design of the adhesion molecule of the human body. Paul in Collossians 1 writes by Him all have been created. In Jesus all things hold together. Just onother example of how great our Lord is and how symbolically we need His Son as our adhesion.