Donald Gerard's Page

Hi Donald: It's a pleasure to "meet" you. Thank you for accepting my friend request. I am just getting ready to go to your web page, and I have read your "About Me" post, which I find most interesting and sort of exotic. I am a poet/writer, with one book of poems published, and another almost finished. I am also writing a memoir, and a book of very different non-fiction. I am a wife, mother, and grand-mother to a 15 and a half month old little girl, who has stolen my heart. *smiling* She is a delight. I have 2 children, a daughter who is 27, and a son who is 26. I am 56. I have been married for 19 years, and we have been together for over 23 years now. I like to read, write, and I love good music. I also love to dance. It makes my body and soul feel good. That's enough about me. Thanks again, and I wish you the best, and hope to hear from you soon.

May you and yours mentor and grow together in the new year, uniting in the most compassionate spirit of Ubuntu.

Wishing you P-E-A-C-E that takes root in our souls and spreads throughout the worlds foundation.

"We Can Change The World." Graham Nash
Lynda
& Elliot

If you are living with lupus, you are no longer "living." You are waiting. Waiting to recover from one flare or for your next one to begin.
HOPE
Lynda
& Elliot

Be Positive To Be Creative

Negative attitude I strongly condemn
As it brings hope to the bottom
Moults confidence like an autumn
And makes heart a melancholy-drum
Our potential becomes infinite
If we strongly hope every minute
Will-power is mind’s main kit
Which makes success definite
Free the mind of cowardice-mask
With great care study the task
Will efforts suffice? Every day ask
With complacency never bask
When the task to achieve is mammoth
The road to reach it can never be smooth
Stones will laugh with sharp teeth
Determination alone can close each mouth
With rules of hard-work have strict compliance
Use brain which is the very best appliance
Ever develop with confidence an alliance
In goals never at all make any variance
Compete, compete, and compete
Ever with a true winning spirit
Allow not courage to split
The task, we will surely complete
Happiness gives a shining skin
Hard-work powers the bone within
Hope supplies courage-vitamin
Thought and soul prayers pin
If thoughts run helter-skelter
Pray to God to provide shelter
Offer tears on the holy altar
Mind will alter as prayers filter
Chewing the past is a postmortem
Which will spoil your AM and PM
Instead pray through a hymn
And find in hard-work asylum
Let him be Newton, Milton, Dalton or Washington
For all of us God is the one and only captain
His blessings come through prayer-fountain
And give us strength to move a mountain.

by mv.venkataraman

Have a great start to your morning

If you feel so inclined, send me an FR. I'll happily accept!