Poetry: Death of a Child, A Mother's Lament

"The Reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mother's child is precious, and a child no matter what the age. We are all someone's son or daughter. For mother's everywhere:

A mother's strengths, legendary to a fault
Keeps one going because we must
And yet, in the dusk of the dark night's pain
My heart bleeds of tears and my soul questions,
Should I have done it at all?

Were thou but a child again
That I could touch your brow
And kiss away the teardrops,
as the melted "dew."

And help thee walk but just once more
The road of life that you must go.

Could I trade thy pain
For the vessel of my heart
Gladly that I would my "dear,"
And snatch death from thy door.

Oh my love, my flesh and blood
Though thou be gone
The windows of time shall not erase
My every thought of you.

Life's wealth of mysteries cannot surpass,
The greatest gift of all -
No greater pearl or precious stone
Has God created that I know
Than my baby "Angel Love" so many years ago!


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National Do Not Call List: Telemarketers Will Be Back If . . .

Washington - AP: Here we go again ...

Are you one of the millions of people who originally registered their home and cell phones in the National Do Not Call Registry back in June 2003? Numbers registered on the List are valid for five years and will start dropping off next June if the numbers are not re-registered.

It's been wonderful, peaceful and a pleasure to live without those phones ringing off-the-hook disrupting with unwanted callers and annoying solicitations. That's about to change if: you and I don't re-register.

Representative Mike Doyle (c) Pennsylvania believes the public should not have to keep re-registering, and is introducing legislation this upcoming week, with bipartisan support, to make all registrations permanent. -- "I don't understand why Congress didn't think to do this the first time around. It seems so simple: register once, and re-register only when a phone change is needed."

There remains standing issues: those groups exempt from the List, Charitable Organizations, Survey Companies, and Political contact. -- Companies that you have established a business relationship with or purchased from - can continue to call for 18 months after the last purchase, payment or delivery.

Where appropriate to counter these individuals or companies from contacting you further . . . when called, do not hang up. Ask: "to have your name and number taken off their calling list effective immediately." Many computerized calls allow you to press number 2 on the phone pad to be removed from a companies list. Non-compliance could mean $11,000 assessed for each violation. -- Many individuals have indicated they hang up in anger...this does no good, as you have just delayed the inevitable, another callback.

To file a complaint or to register again visit: http://www.donotcall.gov/ or call (888) 382-1222. The process is easy and quick and takes less than five minutes. Remember: an email will be sent back requiring confirmation on your end before activation can take place. If your still having problems you can contact the FTC's bureau of consumer protection in your local area.


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