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what do you think about my poem? My Random Poem?
MY RANDOM POEM
My hands are red
Yours are blue
My socks are old
Yours are new
I want to eat a pickle
But you don’t
I want to eat an avocado
But you won’t
I ran a mile
You ran ten
When I asked “How?”
You said “When.”
My eyes are orange
Yours are yellow
When I asked who you were
You said “Just a fellow.”
I have snow
You’re wanting it
I could send it to you
With a baseball mitt
My room is circle
Yours is square
When I asked what to draw
You said silverware
See now?
This is me being random
Tell me is this how?
To be random
*I stink at being random, so I wrote this poem for one of my friends, who tries very hard to get me to be random
Hee Hee, I like it!!
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Bare Feet And White Flour
Have you ever wondered why your parents did some of the things that they did. I always wonder. My dad had so many regimented activities that I thought he had a screw lose or something. I’m only going to talk about two here because there are too many to put into one essay. I really spent time observing my dad as a kid and listening to him, and it wasn’t until I was about forty that I realized some of the benefits of his behavior and very recently some of the real benefits of his behavior. My dad had an unbelievable fear of getting a cold. He came home from WWII with malaria and tuberculosis. He was always cautious of sharing food, towels, cups, and silverware. Any watermark on silverware in a restaurant was sent back immediately. I remember one time in a restaurant in New York a fork went back three times. Some people send food back he sent the silverware back. It got so bad that one guy sitting close to use told my dad that the he thought that the waitress was on Candid Camera. If you sneezed you were accused of trying to bring a cold into the house, to try and kill him. He was hospitalized on December 27, 1967 due to a re-occurrence of the TB and was sent to the infirmary at the veteran’s hospital in East Orange NJ for 3 months. When he came out that’s when anything and everything could give him a cold. Two things were absolutes, cold feet and white flour. I never saw my father walk around without shoes or slippers on. He wouldn’t walk three feet without putting on a pair of slippers. If you sneezed he would always ask you what you ate. My sister, my mother, and I thought he was crazy. Bare feet and white flour would make you sick and if you got sick, well as he put it, “If I get a cold I am finished.”
All of these things I observed always stuck with me. When I was about 40 years old I started to battle my weight. Always watching my calories and trying to stay in shape. The Atkins diet started to become very popular along with other diets that restricted carbohydrates, and other foods that contained you guessed it, white flour. Exactly what the old boy was talking about 30 years ago. Suddenly everyone had a carbohydrate allergy, was gaining weight, had type-two diabetes, high blood pressure, and all kinds of health issues because of white flour. I started to watch my white flour intake and I started to lose weight. The stuff I loved as a kid was something that could kill me. The stuff that my father said could make me sick was making me sick.
Recently I was walking around the backyard with a pair of flip-flops on. I have a tendency to drag my feet when I walk primarily because my feet are kind of flat, something my dad had also. I walked from the shed to the concrete walkway and slammed my right foot into an Adirondack chair. I know I broke the middle toe, at least it looked broken. The next day passing through the garage I stubbed the same toe on a hand weight in the middle of the floor. I got into the car in agony looked down at my foot which had the same $3.00 flip-flop on it and I could hear my father say to me, “Will you please put your slippers on.” This isn’t the first time I stubbed that toe but it is the first time it dawned on me that my father knew me because I was just like him. He didn’t want me to go through the same agonies that he had gone through. He didn’t want me to get fat or stub my toes he just had a strange way of letting me know. I don’t think he ever gave me the reason why he did what he did, that’s probably why it took me thirty years to figure it out on my own. If I could ask for something I would ask that my two daughters learn the reasons why I do what I do quicker than I learned things from my father. There’s a question that kids ask all the time “Why do we have to do this?” Sometimes by the time that gets figured out it’s too late. So put your slippers on and have a piece of whole wheat toast, you’ll be glad you did.
About the Author
Jim Burns is one of America’s most inspirational educational speakers. His humorous and insightful presentations touch and influence his audiences in an unforgettable way. Best known for his presentations on Bullying, Motivating Disaffected Students, Diffusing Power Struggles, Character Education, and Leadership, Jim has worked as a teacher and administrator since 1977. He is also an accomplished college instructor who teaches graduate level courses in the areas of Cooperative Discipline, Disability Awareness, Brain Compatible Methods in the Classroom, and Teaching and Learning through Multiple Intelligences.
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What is one of your fondest memories of a loved one?
My father passed away in 1998 and I miss him dearly. All I have left is the memories of him and I wanted to share one of my favorites: He woke us (me and my brothers and sisters) up early one Saturday morning to have breakfast in the dining room. I didn’t want to get out of bed, so he carried me down. He set the table with the “good” china and silverware and we drank orange juice out of wine glasses. He like to cook and when he did, you had to eat it and like! Its the simple things in life that you miss when that are gone.
So tell me some of your memories. Its nice to jog the memory and have a warm fuzzy! lol It can be with anyone, the person doesn’t someone who passed away. 
what a wonderful memory. one of many, i’m sure. i have so many of my mom and sister, both are passed. i love remembering our shopping trips, how my mom taught my kids about butter and sugar sandwiches (bad for you but a fun snack), how they both loved my boys so much. it’s hard to pin point just one. god, i miss them, desperately.
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