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Entries from August 2007

Mom’s Pet Giraffe

August 18th, 2007 · No Comments

When you were a child, in thoughts sweet and wild, did you wish you could visit a zoo and take home a camel, or any such mammal, to live forever with you? Did you dream with rapture of the day you might capture a lion, tiger, or bear, a kind furry beast who’d join in [...]

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Tags: For Kids of All Ages · Pets

Songs

August 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Follow the descants of your dreams To the land of sparkling singing streams Whose harmony—since time began— Plays the mystic music of Michigan. And nowhere else is the sound as sweet As where the Great Lakes waters meet, For the Upper Peninsula’s loving embrace Beckons to all with its beauty and grace.

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Tags: Poetry

Northern Lights

August 18th, 2007 · No Comments

In forest deep, filled fair with pine, On banks where laughing waters shine, Night spreads along Chicaugon shore. Wigwams long gone; canoes no more. Pensive, pondering, here I roam, O’re paths of sandstone, rock, and loam. North wind, whispering, curls the air With legends of the tribal lair. Stars of magic, moon of light, Shimmer [...]

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Tags: Poetry

Anyone can be a good writer!

August 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Writing is fun! Anyone can be a good writer. The important thing is to write about what you know. To get started, create an Authority List of ten things you know something about. Then choose one topic from your list. Picturing this topic in your mind, ask yourself the following questions: What do I see? [...]

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Tags: Writing