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Friday, October 26, 2012
Poetry Friday: Good Poems for Hard Times
I decided to remedy this situation today, so I downloaded a pretty fantastic book that I really need to tell you about. It's called Good Poems For Hard Times. It's an anthology that was edited by Garrison Keilor. I don't know much about Keilor outside of A Prairie Home Companion. And even that isn't something I'm very familiar with. But Keilor is, without a doubt, a poetry lover, and wow, can he pick a good poem (it's an aptly titled collection). Just look at what he has to say about poetry in the book's introduction...
"Poetry is about driving the nail into the pine, killing the chicken, mowing grass, putting luggage into the car, gratitude for food, the laughter of a little girl, about our common life."
"American poetry is the truest journalism we have. What your life can be, lived bravely and independently, you can discover in poetry...Nobody will ever speak to you as straightforwardly as poetry does. Nobody."
"Poetry is a necessity as simple as the need to be touched and similarly a need that is hard to enunciate."
So I turned to GPFHT the other day while riding the bus to work. I got through a total of one poem--and not because it was no good but rather because it was so good I had to keep reading and re-reading it. It was the very first poem in the book and it's called "Break of Day" by Galway Kinnell. Take a look:
Break of Day
He turns the light on, lights
the cigarette, goes out on the porch,
chainsaws a block of green wood down the grain,
chucks the pieces into the box stove,
pours in kerosene, tosses in the match
he has set fire to the next cigarette with,
stands back while the creosote-lined, sheet-
metal rust-lengths shudder but just barely
manage to direct the cawhoosh in the stove—
which sucks in ash motes through gaps
at the bottom and glares out fire blaze
through overburn-cracks at the top—
What a perfectly captured moment. And I'm an instant fan of any poem that has the word creosote in it. You can read the rest of the poem here.
What a great day for a Poetry Friday roundup, which is hosted today at Teacher Dance. Be sure to check it out!
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You've chosen some great quotes and a wonderful poem to share. My favorite line is the 'cawoosh' that sucks in the ash motes. I can just hear the suck of that fire. Your description of the book makes me want to get a copy. Happy reading!ReplyDelete
Keillor can definitely make great anthologies!ReplyDelete
I can see it so clearly. We own a primitive cabin in the Rockies, & this is how it sounds and smells sometimes, especially getting the fire going in the little woodstove we have. I love the little moments captured, & the small words that do that, like kerosene & creosote. Thank you Ben. I'm finally catching up with the last of the PF poets.ReplyDelete
I have this anthology, too, and love it. I haven't read it cover to cover yet, just dipped into it when the mood struck me. And I always come up with a winner!ReplyDelete


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Fail2ban is a free, reliable, and easy to configure utility which performs the simple task of watching log files for evidence of suspicious connections, and then locking out traffic from the source IP address.
The default behaviour is to lock out connections for a certain period of time, which doesn't need to be that long to disrupt and defuse a brute-force attack. When the ban time has elapsed, the ban configuration is reversed, so as to only temporarily inconvenience genuine access attempts which may have been incorrectly configured. Or if you're feeling particularly zero-tolerant, ban them for an eternity.
Application Architecture
Fail2ban is available in all the standard repositories for the major distributions, and its installation is typical, according to the usual package procedures. For the purposes of this discussion, I've been using Fail2ban 0.8.6 installed on Centos 6.2.
The fail2ban configuration files are in the conventional place:
/etc/fail2ban/. A discussion of these config files well illustrates how fail2ban works.
This contains mostly just information about logging – the debug level and the location of the log file. You can log either to the syslog or a file of your choice.
The main configuration file is /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf, and it contains blocks for each ban case. That is, one block of configuration settings for a given type of failure in a given log file, a specific action will be taken.
Below is the block pertaining to SSH failures, banned by an iptables rules:
[ssh-iptables] enabled = true filter = sshd action = iptables[name=SSH, port=ssh, protocol=tcp] sendmail-whois[name=SSH, dest=root, firstname.lastname@example.com] logpath = /var/log/secure maxretry = 5
So this states to monitor the file
/var/log/secure using the
sshd filter, and if it matches to perform the
iptables and
sendmail-whois actions. Filters and actions are defined in other configuration files.
Filters: /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/
The directory
/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/ defines the regular expressions which are used to match on log messages indicating connection failures. This text will vary with different distributions and different versions of these services, so the regular expression sets are fairly extensive, although to be fair they realistically cannot be completely exhaustive. Check for new versions of Fail2ban periodically and keep it up to date.
As an example, the file
/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/sshd.conf contains a list of regular expressions which define flagged text. Here is a truncated excerpt:
failregex = ^%(__prefix_line)s(?:error: PAM: )?Authentication failure for .* from
s*$ ^%(__prefix_line)s(?:error: PAM: )?User not known to the underlying authentication module for .* from s*$ ^%(__prefix_line)sFailed (?:password|publickey) for .* from (?: port d*)?(?: sshd*)?$
You get the idea.
Actions: /etc/fail2ban/action.d/
actions.d directory contains configuration files which define the verbs of fail2ban – that is, the tasks which can be performed should an alert be generated – "actionban". Equally, each file also contains an "actionunban" which describes what is executed to undo the effects of the lockout after the ban period has expired.
The relevant lines of the
iptables.conf file are displayed below. The first adds a drop rule to the iptables ruleset, and the second line removes the same rule.
actionban = iptables -I fail2ban-
1 -s -j DROP # actionunban = iptables -D fail2ban- -s -j DROP
The nice thing about fail2ban is that, as you an see here, the configuration is all fairly self-explanatory if you have a reasonable knowledge of shell scripting, and understand what it's trying to do. The source IP is passed to the "actionban" command after being extracted from the filter, and this command inserts a DROP rule for this IP at the beginning of the firewall ruleset. Similar actions are used for banning source addresses with tcpwrappers.
Some of the actions are for sending notifications of events. The "sendmail-whois" action is rather useful in that it sends an alert mail, but also includes the results of a "whois" invocation so you can see the identity and location of the owner of the IP address from which the incursion is emanating.
How to Configure Fail2ban
The steps involved in configuring
fail2ban are as follows:
- Identify those files on your system that need to be watched – generally these would be the log files for an running services through which an outside party would be able to gain a connection to your host – /var/log/secure (SSH), /var/log/httpd/access_log (Apache HTTPD), or whatever.
- Edit /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf:
- select the config block that best suits your purpose, adapt an existing one, or write a new one;
- set the variable
enabledequal to "true";
- set your email address, if you want to be notified;
- set the filter to use, according to what service or process is being monitored;
- check and make sure that the regex in the action.d config file actually matches what you would expect for an alert.
- Restart fail2ban:
# /etc/init.d/fail2ban restart
Repeat the process for everything you feel needs to be monitored. Any problems, check the man page or the Fail2ban Wiki
Fail2ban is a wonderfully simple and straightforward tool that does exactly what it says, and whose operation and configuration is transparent to the systems administrator. It is by no means perfect, and in a site with a large number of hosts, you'd probably be better off using something centralised like OSSEC. However fail2ban is significantly easier to configure than OSSEC and can easily be rolled out to individual servers on an ad hoc basis.
So there you have your ban-hammer. Go on and wield it with extreme prejudice.
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The big day has arrived. We have guests from all over the blogosphere
(he will be changing out of his costume later to do his fabulous DJing for us woot woot!)
OOooooooOOOh, dis sure is a funs pawty! Everypuggy has great costumes! Tuni woons, is u SURE you's not a camel? We wants some punch and a ride in da slimmer puggums clown car! Beep beep!
ET & King Tutenklaus
Woot Woot! Wish I had remembered to send my picture in! :) hehe
Minnie Moo
Lala and I are running a tad bit late!!!!!! I was planning on riding the electric broom over there, but I cant find the charger!!! We are on our way!!!!
Booo's & treats!!! XOXO
Hailey and Lala
Wooohoooo Wilma! I am having the best time! Gotta go, it's my turn to bob for an apple!!!
-Punkin' Pearl
Wow, you sunflower sisters know how to party!!! Not sure old Pip can keep up!
Your pal, Pip
You sista's are hysterical Love the costumes and trick or treaters..BOL
Benny & Lily
Oh my dog, that was the scariest story! Somebody hold meeeee!!!!ReplyDelete
We brought some marshmallows and graham crackers! Are we too late?ReplyDelete
This is the best halloween party of my life! What fun looking at everyones costumes, and meeting news faces.
So much to do, and I was so afraid when you told the Scary Scary Story! Your so right about all our bones shaking (your words) tee hee hee. (TEETH TOO)
Do you know how much you made us smile? LOTS!
So much work to make this fun for us.
I wonder where that little pug ran off to with that treat jar! I think I will try to find him,, that is if I don't get scared.
Thank you for inviting me
Whoa! What a great party! We love all the costume and adorables faces!
Pug love from,
Pearl & Daisy
Hi everybody!!! So glad you coulld make it!
Hey Minnie Moo, dod I see Lincoln buzzing around here somewhere
Haily and Lala, so glad you made it!
Hey there inspector Pip, looks like you are doing all right out there to me!
Hey Pearly, I heard you and Brigitte were changing into your disco dresses to get your boogie on!
Tallulah and Petunia, you are not too late. Sal will be spinning tunes again shortley so we can dance into the night!
Hi Tweedles, I am so glad you are having fun. I love hosting these events. I just love to see everyone having a great time.
It's far from over folks, so pace yourselves.
Wilma thanks for hosting this fab party. Luv all the costumes. Everyone is so into it. Oh Oh Oh I got spooked by the story! Don't turn off any lights! Good times Good times. Oh gotta run and find my Tuni the camel...... Salinger is going spin our song soon and we gots to hit the dance floors.
WInston the bulldozer
What a great time we are having!
hehehe! I love my disco dress! Brig and I are tearing up the dance floor!!! She is one sassy lady!
Thanks for hosting this big bash, Wilma!!!!!
Oh Wilma we love our costumes you picked out for us!!!!! BOL. We are having such a great time. Thanks for putting on the show!
Tuni and Sequoia
What a great Party!!!
We are having a great Time, thank you for inviting us
Happy Halloween!!!
Spongy & Licky
Tell us another scary story!!
Tell us!
Tell us !!
please,,,,, I love SCARY stuff
Love the Costumes!! Love the Scary Story!! Excellent Party Post!
Happy Halloween,
Joan & Jane Austen Eyre
Could someone bring me a Cosmo up to the DJ stand? I'm pawsitively PARCHED up here!
DJ Salisbury Steakbutts
WHOA, was that a scary story!!!
I don't know if I'll be able tuh git MY middle o' the night treat!!!
Well....I think I can manage.


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We need not have worried. That place was a treasure trove of étoffe et truc.
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Market day
We need not have worried. That place was a treasure trove of étoffe et truc.
10 comments:
- GARAGE SALE GAL said...
Hi Rachel,
Awesome buttons :) I think it would be very hard to decide on what to bring home..although that little Jack Russell would be sweet to take home.
Sure hope you feel better tomorrow and you have another 2 weeks!!!
Deb :)
- August 8, 2010 at 3:26 PM
- Barb said...
oh wow...lots of wonderful stuff but I think I would have chosen the buttons as well.
- August 8, 2010 at 3:43 PM
- Quilting Lab said...
Seems like a lovely day at the market and meeting up with friends! So sorry to hear you're both not up to par, get some rest and feel better soon (bound to happen when traveling). Looking forward to the Louvre!
- August 8, 2010 at 7:18 PM
- cozy quilter said...
Those buttons are great! I can see them on a quilting project somewhere down the line... Hope you are feeling better soon.
- August 8, 2010 at 8:15 PM
- Pat said...
Sorry you are still feeling ill. I like those bags of buttons AND I like that now I can speak French...well, at least ONE word......ART!!! :) I did, however, understand in the first sentence that you were talking about FEET when you mentioned one of your favorite modes of transportation, so I guess I'm not totally hopeless with French....LOL
- August 8, 2010 at 8:42 PM
- Thimbleanna said...
Oh no -- sorry to hear you're not feeling well. I hope things are looking better today. And be still your heart indeed -- I'd love that machine à coudre too -- wouldn't THAT be a fabulous souvenir???
- August 9, 2010 at 7:54 AM
- PunkiePie said...
What a wonderful market! So much to see. I would have shipped that Singer home!
- August 9, 2010 at 11:51 AM
- Patty said...
A girl after my own heart... as I was looking at your pictures I was wondering if there were buttons and just look what you bought! Ha!
- August 9, 2010 at 4:54 PM
- goldenbird said...
That market looks wonderful. Nice buttons! I would have gone crazy for the books and postcards and linens.
- August 9, 2010 at 9:07 PM
- Vesuviusmama said...
What a fun looking market! The buttons were definitely a good choice.
- August 12, 2010 at 12:03 PM


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Breaking new of the day! The third season of Anime Natsume Yuujinchou (夏目友人帳) was announced on the latest issue of LaLa magazine; and it will be aired in 2011, that is this year! Noted that I have already introduced the series a few weeks before. If you haven't heard about it, I would highly recommend you to give it a shot and you will never regret. Though the schedule hasn't released, we could expect it to air in July or October and we will have tons of great series to wait for.
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January 27, 2009
Is this not Racist?
When I hear people whine and complain that they are not getting what they want because of the color of their skin I call that racism.
Racism is defined in this country when hate is displayed towards another based on their skin color. That is true. However, I suggest that racism is also when you expect something positive because of the color of your skin.
I am sickened to hear that First Lady Michelle Obama was "dissed" because she did not wear a dress by a designer that was Black.
Wake up people - People should not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Thank You for your wise words MLK
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So I brought my boyfriend's daughter with me to retry a pair of Kate Spade cropped skinny jeans in a gorgeous orange-red and get her opinion. Too tight? Worth the $198? Will I really wear them?
It was clear as I headed back into the store and made my way to the one item I had in mind that I was only bringing that item into the dressing room. This old lady working there had to comment all along the way, "Oh, you look like you know where you're going!"
"Yes," I said, "I just want to try these on again and get her opinion."
"Oh, you were in that room before," she continued.
"Yes," I said, "Just a few minutes ago."
"Because I saw a pair of orange jeans in there," she added as if she had inside knowledge to the whole dressing room situation.
"That's right," I confirmed and proceeded into the room with my party.
I barely poured myself into the skinny jeans before she actually, peeled back the curtain to see if I was "okay."
At that point, I was so annoyed with her nosey self I told her I didn't need her checking on me and to close the curtain!
Nosey bitch!
Needless to say, I bought the jeans. They will look fabulous with royal blue and this shirt I found at Anthrolopologie the same day.
Shopping is hard work, sometimes. Do you notice that when you actually need help, no one is around and when you just want to look, you get stopped every three frickin' seconds by somebody asking you if they can help you find anything?
And how about, when you actually do say, "Yes, I'm looking for a good wearable orange lipstick," they just look at you and smile and let you go on your way?!? and are no help at all?!?
I swear I should try Stephen Wright's approach sometime. He says, "I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if they can help me, and I say, 'Have you got anything I'd like?' Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, 'Extra medium.'"
Have you ever had an unsavory encounter in the dressing room?
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Guns & Knives
Klondike Konfections
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Oil . Graphite . Photography . Carving . Beading - People . Wildlife . Flowers . Scenics . Apparel
Never Knew
So many years ago I tried to tell you
But alas my love I could not sell you
A quarter century I have waited
For your sweetness so belated
Thought that I to bloom was late
Alas the youngest I did wait
You never knew I was the same
Only an older version I became
With other women night and day
Guessed that youd turn me away
Now the sweetest within my dream
I have loved you and as never seen
Dearest brother in my arms tonight
I would never lose you in my sight
For the poet recites within you deep
And compassion comforts me to sleep
So many years ago I thot to tell you
But my love I could not even sell you
You never saw me as I really was
And I can never blame you because
From the waters we floundered deep
While your attention I could not keep
Never enough time day after day
For either of us to have our say
In the sunshine and adversity
No hesitation shall persuade me
Was never meant to be till now
Guess we understand somehow
Three decades we have wandered
So many miles we have pondered
Only now can we possibly realize
The purpose in our past demise
Though the skeptics will all persist
And into their grave they still resist
You're the captain of your longest fight
Captured by some tremendous light
You know you are my absolute delight
No reservations will whisper at night
As a moth unto a flickering flame
I see I shall never be the same....
My prince of passion, poetry, prayer, and promise....
A quarter century I have waited
For your sweetness so belated
Now, you ask me if I'll be your wife
Never more sure of anything in life
As a moth unto a flickering flame
I see I shall never be the same
Douglas...you are my absolute delight
No reservations will whisper at night
For three decades we have wandered
So many miles we have pondered
Only now can we realize
The purpose in our past demise
In sunshine and adversity
No hesitation shall persaude me
Was never meant to be till now
Guess we understand somehow.
Know that you are my earthly delight
Remember when you lay down at night
You are the absolute man of my dreams
So never enough time with you it seems
For decades we have both wandered
Those many miles we have pondered
This quarter century I have waited
For your sweetness that is so belated
Now like vintage wine at forty-nine
After all these years you are mine.
I query what goes on in your illusive mind
And wonder in your words what there is to find
As though I cannot feel most of what you're thinking
Like both cannot recognize each other's fear in sinking
The skies are open wide encouraging expressions from inside
For when my pen does rest so still it's not within my will
Imploring to be understood as though I actually ever could
Forget the swallowed pride for only in some dream did it reside
I shall write as many necessary words as it takes to tell
Just how it is that we'll get out of this crevice that we fell
Catch me with your tempted stare but deny me any future care
And hear me sigh in lost reply each season that should pass us by
So sad it is that we forever sow our own destructive seeds
We never differentiate between our wants and then our needs
How cruel are the arrows that strike our zealous hearts
That we never count the damage until the bleeding starts
And further I am convinced with all my depth of heart
That there are demons to blame for the greater part
Though never to discount our own degree of shame
Our adversary is playing his ancient sordid game
Someday coming we will look into a tarnished mirror
And suddenly this trial will seem so much clearer
For now we hang our heads in vacillating shame
Until our God rewrites this chapter with another name
We are like fire and water against our suffered selves
Reaching yet more iniquities from even further shelves
The young widows do wax cold is a story seldom told
So dreadful I see, more gracious is our God to set us free.
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I hate myself and that I should
For the reasons finally understood
And although I do remain sorry
It is the reprobates outworn story
Partly sorry to be caught I plea
With less remorse than should be
I know my soul God did really save
But how long can these lusts enslave
Faith says through it He will take me
Tho I fear that it will surely break me
My sins seem stronger as I recognize
My desires betray me in many lies
Steady my heart I wear down fast
This present assumes the actual past
It seems that nothing in its beginning
Can bear to last the continual sinning
Not sure when my flesh began to reign
Perhaps when my soul began to pain
All the directions that I am turning
I remain ever absent in the learning
I fluctuate and that you can anticipate
Even until the hours grow so very late
One day lightening might strike me dead
For these interferences within my head.
In The Wee Hours
There's a reason for your late arrival and a reason you must go away
Rest assured that I will be here when you come back to us some day
In knowing we are so much safer just the way we are
There is no doubt that we have both come so very far
Temptation is a fearful thing that never will make right
Comes to us at midnight when there is such little light
When our defenses are impaired we cannot even fight
It lasts us but a season to wander in dark reason
Now turn me back around so I can see things straight again
Don't tell me it's alright because I can start to feel some rain
How many times have I mentioned my obsessions unintentioned
Did you not hear me wanting free or hear me love the misery
Now never did I ever want for you to turn me inside out
Or draw me tight unto you, all beyond a reasons doubt
A moth unto the evening flame with all to lose not to gain
Like sun that shines so brightly but clouds that threaten rain
I know I never will sustain that sin that sends me near insane
Tell me do I thrive on pain or is there something else I gain
Certainly there must be reason for every single suffered season
Why the galaxies exist while we persist while yet resist
Humble man upon the stage your futures not within a cage
And I in sad obsession could not share this desired possession
If it was only your charisma I'd count that I might need
Alas, it really is not only that but everything I must concede
Never have fallen short of impressing me I say in all sincerity
To me you're more than all the rest as I see you at your best
There is safety and there's sanity in our simplicity we are free
Just hold me for one moment then say that you must go
And so I will never be allowed to let those feelings grow
Part of me has fallen deep but you I could not ever keep
And I will wish you'd never gone in the wee hours we used to don
Fond memories of talking and no sleep are absolutely bitter-sweet
Now never will I even consider to take your country paths alone
I'd sooner never walk them again than walk them on my own
Now we watch each other grow, neither young nor old does show
You're a pauper while you're a prince, devils easily could convince
Cultured boy without much care, I treasure everything we share
The greatest times of my life have been but moments in their length
And it's strange how we cannot forget their validity and strength
Will never say you are gone away only absent for the longest day
Like a moth unto the flame, you are sunlight yet you are pain
Must I always be fixated with some love I actually created
Now my gypsy can you tell me what my future holds for me
Are you standing in my door wondering, on earth what for ?
This love is rather strange
So I feel a bit incaged
I never want to turn a lief
Or turn another page
There are times of sorrow
And there'll be times tomorrow
There's times I'd never change
Like when I hold your face in thot
The music that I am brought
Though its left some varied scars
This worry is not the pain
Nor the hidden iron bars
Or the too understood refrain
Yet only hurt is in this soul
When I think of every lonely day
The fight within the shadowed night
Your bed in which I'll never lay
Ten years from now someone will die
The tears they'll probly question why
So b
rother give me some reason
For this God forsaken season
Why I've put myself on hold
For a story never could be told
This rooms become so cold.
in memory of
Cursed are these endless distractions
We choose to suffer in earthly attractions
Into them we run headstrong tripping all along
Even though we know how they are so wrong
Suddenly I notice that I have turned lukewarm
And in that you must know there is much harm
Figure not the reason for balance on the ledge
Or for my failure to stay miles from the edge
I fluctuate and that you might anticipate
Even until the hours grow intensely late
And when I am almost torn asunder
Is when these sins are burried under
There are days that I am not the same
When never entertaining any sordid game
But alas, this infirmity that is yet to tire
Will surely be the detriment of my desire.
There is a doctrine that is most hated
Though its truth cannot be overstated
Many refuse seeing authentic divine grace
Despite it revealed in the front of their face
We all are dead in our sins unwilling to face God
Despite the deploring and prideful human facade
Never mind what fallen humans will deceptively say
When the Word of God teaches us a different way
Seems most hate the story of the Potter and the clay
When the Potter is God whose hand we cannot stay
We were made in His very image just before that fall
Yet conceived in sin we will not search for God at all
To claim synergism within salvation is dastardly odd
I am persuaded it is the influence of a strange god
Monergism like trinity are words not found in Scripture
Yet the teaching is and some will never get the picture
So many common sordid lies are running to and fro
Seeded by the wicked one who proves to be our foe
Do not underestimate the deceptions in this mortal life
Or confusion of the devil and the sharpness of his knife
Vigilant in broken spirit God will keep you in His strength
Persist not to operate your natural will at any given length
Knowing truth at emotions expense is not ever any option
Our coward denial is not a fruit from our indebted adoption
Prideful is the voice that chimes they control the God above
Never minding how vile they remain without undeserved love
And that prince of preachers was as concerned as often me
That a prince of darkness also disables them from being free
Now we know we cannot shuffle blame on any angel dark
Though the fact is devils covet the truth that saints embark
The howling wolves come now through a church front door
They keenly smell the lame and weakling blood they lust for
Now if those old Pharisees despised what Jesus taught
Why would they accept what my God in me has wrought
Go ahead and claim my beliefs hang on a single strand
It is not my fault that the Word some will not understand
I excuse their heresies since they come from Sadducees
Still I stand my ground and will rebuke their blasphemies
Though I do sincerely wish that I could actually save you
As you rebel and refuse there is nothing I can actually do
A remnant of elected souls that no human can ever boast
Are led to Christ through the Spirit from every single coast
All the day they wonder why we still do always preach
As they fail to understand what God does really teach
All the day they carry on how our egos are so very great
Yet I do wonder why my omnipotent God they ever hate
So many common sordid lies are running to and fro
Seeded by their sinfulness and by our deadly foe
I can tell they have not looked in a mirror of late
And in fact never recognized their own vile state
Father give me just some of your omniscient reason
For the reprobates false fruit is always out of season
Now we know that both sides cannot ever be all right
I profess Grace in all boldness and in all righteous light
Their weak god is certainly no more gentle than mine
If they need to believe that I guess I am gonna be fine
Yet I know why they pretend theirs is so much more kind
Anything to relieve discomfort of the truth they left behind
Nothing changes there is a set numbered saints decreed
And that most of the world will sadly go to hell all agreed
Should it matter if you refuse heaven that is offered you
Or if God denies you a salvation that you never drew ?
Nothing changes that God allows most to go to hell
Only few are rescued from their sins that they befell
Though we should always be ready to give an answer
We should not be subjected to their doctrinal cancer
We are not to become victims of their sordid lies
No matter their confusion or their future demise
While they bitterly accuse Monergists of being elite
All because our real God they refuse to even meet
So finally when our convictions they fail to defeat
They resort to vile railings as their sordid retreat
I am definitely sickened by that attitude abroad
That steals such glory from our omnipotent God
Every day they question why we still should preach
And I cannot help query if their birth is actually breach
Yet cringe I could have been someone left myself to die
If my God had not rescued me from my sinful innate lie
Knowing the extent of my depravity I did not so much as care
Would now be more than I would willingly decide to ever share
With nothing in myself to offer anyone and God especially
Was I delivered from that sentence of hell to live eternally
Woe unto them who will call good for evil and evil for good
They have so much torment ahead of them as they should
Alas these depraved continually prefer their bondage still
And so tell me who but God can transform their evil will?
In our vile fallen nature we do run to sin incessantly
Absolutely nothing but the Spirit will ever set us free
We all are dead in our sins unwilling to turn unto God
Despite that our conscience should burn for our God
Without grace we will never sincerely search for God
To boast we chose our salvation is as wretched as odd
There never was anyone who came to God after the fall
That the powerful Spirit of God did not first effectually call
The reprobate argues on continually and refuses to relate
And I can clearly recognize my all powerful God they hate
In the will of God I stand affirmed that as long as I exist
Will fight these lies of synergism and every devise resist
Our God is in control of everything great and even small
Without divine decree no man nor sparrow can even fall
Soon sinners will learn that they cannot tell God what to do
Never has man done righteous without God working through.
Candles in the Storm
From the days of the apostles to the final apostates
Saints are the ones who enter in thro straight gates
Such peculiar people they are called by the masses
A few to be counted worthy as each century passes
Authentic believers have always proved such a mystery
To the unbelievers continually through all human history
Yet for no length of time could they blend in if they tried
They usually have made challenging choices and died
Called fanatics by the common conservatives each day
And ever called intolerant by the persecutors who stay
From the Jesuits and underground gallows of Vatican city
Ancient martyrs can assure you the scene is never pretty
All along in vain that false church tried to kill every lowly saint
Continually spilling their blood without any recognized restraint
Not quite able to wipe them out the Word was hit with vile coercion
She tried to destroy the received text and then authorized version
The women who is the mother of harlots parades a virgin of white
Yet in her there are but a thousand devils and not a single light
Never should you fall for her seductions or her many sordid lies
You look just a little closer and you will see her transparent disguise
So many saints have come and gone and to the world freely gave
Day and night their blood cries out from within their tortured grave
The false church burned them on stakes beside the seething witch
And it never apologized for its Inquisition or conduct in getting rich
The largest churches in this world are nothing but glorified pagan cults
Our path is way more narrow and their numbers prove damned results
So know the saints of God can even come out of these cultic churches
Then you might only discern them after your many careful searches
Yet above all understand they will dare come out of almost nowhere
From unworthy little groups without so much as a name to spare
Out of shadows will they emerge with a trail of their own blood stain
Not a word is said about their vexings or a consideration of their pain
Like paupers holding candles with flames that never quite went out
Silent to the world that refused to hear them for its greedy shout
You look for them in places that this mindless world least expects
While understanding they are minority a transgressor least protects
So many saints have come and gone and to the world freely gave
Day and night their blood cries out from within their tortured grave
The false church burned them on stakes beside the seething witch
And then left their infants tied to bibles floating in the filthy ditch
Now the real saint is called the dangerous heretic and infidel
Only by those threatening false church devils cannot you tell
Running to and fro in the darkness without the living light
Woe unto them who say that truth is a lie and day is night
As the saint is called a heretic and devil possessed soul
They will never see acceptance by this world as a whole
So was Jesus by unbelievers treated that very same way
Nothing has changed much for disciples this dastard day
As a candle that will not go out in this furious storm
We find all saints are so curiously and fearfully born
They are wise as any serpents and harmless as a dove
Their focus is on the next life with affections far above.


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The St. Joseph School District has a new website format! Check it out at www.sjsd.k12.mo.us.Click select a school, Ellison, Staff, then Mrs. Hankins.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
New Website
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Mid-terms go home!
Your student's mid-terms come home tomorrow, November 17th. Please sign and return the mid-terms back to school!
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
P/T Conferences!
Wednesday, October 26th and Thursday, October 27th are Fall Parent Teacher Conferences! The students will have early outs on Wednesday and Thursday @ 1:30 and Friday @ 12:30. I look forward to meeting with you during conferences!!
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Friday, September 23, 2011
Just a reminder about our skating Field Trip to B&J Skate Center on Monday, September 26th! Inline skates are $2.00. The regular skates do not cost extra. If your child wants snack money for the field trip, please send that with them Monday! Thanks!
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
There is so much going on as we get deeper into 1st Quarter! I wanted to remind you of a few things going on. Please make sure your child has returned their Symphony permission slip form and money that goes with it. Another reminder about field trips. Please make sure you child has returned their Skating permission slip for our September 26th field trip! The "Weekly Groove," (our classroom newsletter) has been updated. Please check it out so you know what is happening in 4H this week! Book Reports are going to be due on September 30th....that date is approaching quickly. Please remind your child to read at home!! That's all for now! Enjoy your day!!!
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Friday, September 9, 2011
Congratulations to our new Student Council Class Representatives!
Congratulations to Carson Gaddie and Gracie Neff!!
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Campaign Posters!!
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Student Council Elections!
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
"We're a Groovy Bunch!"
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Peace, Love, Learn in 4th Grade..WELCOME BACK!!
Welcome back to school!! We are going to have a GROOVY year in 4th grade! We are going to learn and grow so much together!! It was great to meet you all at back to school night tonight!! It made me so excited for our 1st day of school together!!! See you soon!
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The winner is.....
In the fall, 4th grade attended Conservation Kids Day at Mark Youngdahl Walking Trail. The day is presented by the Soil and Conservation Department. The kids spent the day learning about soil and water preservation and forestry. 7 schools in the St. Joseph area were invited to this event. All students who attended were able to participate in a poster contest. The theme of the poster contest was "Healthy Conservation Habits Create Healthy Habitats." All the students in our class created a poster that they thought reflected the theme. Then I sent them to be judged by the Soil and Conservation Department. I am happy to announce the top 3 winners from my class!!
1st place-Mackenzie Collings
2nd place-Lydia Woody
3rd place-Madison Roderick
These 3 students were invited to the city wide poster contest on May 2nd. They were honored for their talents at the ceremony! Every student in the class received a blue participation ribbon for their effort. I was very proud of them! Here are a few pictures from the event!
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Spring Chicks!!
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Deadline is right around the corner!
May 6th is the deadline to turn in book reports to earn the Missouri Reading Circle Certificate. Remember the requirements for 4th grade are:
1,200 Fiction pages
600 Non-fiction pages
The students are aware of the types of books they need to be reading and how many pages they need to meet their goal. Ask your student about their reading to make sure they are on top of it before it is too late. Thanks for your help!!
*The field trip for the Reading Circle Celebration is May 13th. Grades 3-6 will go to the movies and the park that day to celebrate our reading accomplishments!!
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Monday, March 28, 2011
It's MAP testing time!!
It's time for us to show what we know!! It's MAP testing time!! We will start Math Map testing tomorrow, March 29th and continue until March 31st. Next week, we have have the Communication Arts part of the test on 5th, 6th, and 7th. Please encourage your student to do their very best, take their time, and show what they know! I know that all students will do great!! Please make sure that your student gets a good breakfast and plenty of rest. Thanks for your support!
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
What's happening???
Time has been flying! We have been very busy finishing up our force and motion unit in science and our measurement unit in math! We are moving right along in all subjects. We have started our geometry unit in math and we will start our land and water unit in science this week.
Friday is the Ellison Carnival at school! Bring the family and come out and enjoy! Class and individual pictures will also be on Friday! Hope to see you all at the carnival!!
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Friday, January 7, 2011
New Year...lots of learning in 2011!!
Happy New Year!! We are off to a great start in 2011!! We are busy starting new units in math, science, and writing!! The students came back from break ready to get busy and learn new things! We are off to a great start in the new year!
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