What is that breeze? Is it just wind?

Where does the wind come from?

And where does it go?

It is clearly invisible.

It moans, it wails and it whispers.

Its force is such that it bends palms to the ground

and takes up mighty water oaks up by the roots.

It whirls a little leaf, and spins and gathers and

gusts and speeds until it picks up cows and cars.

It wafts across your cheek like a baby’s kiss.

It turns mighty buildings into matchsticks.

The wind cannot be contained it is everywhere.

It raises the ocean over the land like wet, heavy and moving walls.

It tosses boats about like rubber ducks in a giant tub.

Some days it is so still you think it is gone forever.

What is the wind?

Why it is the spirit and breath of God, of course!

It is the Holy Spirit that breathed upon the deep in the beginning.

It is the indwelling comforter, counselor, teacher and

protector given to all upon rebirth.

all rights reserved Johna Moody

WHAT'S A LITTLE FAT AND AGE AMONG WOMEN? WAR!

Shame, shame on all of you who are belying this lovely young woman, Sarah Palin an incompetent, a woman unable to work at a responsible job and care for five children. I know who you are. You are those women my age who fought so hard to get equality for women. So much progress was made you forgot who you once were. You were young, pretty, strong, able to take on the world and feed, dress, teach and make a living for the children without the father because he ran off with a long legged, blond who never once asked him why on anything. Get over it all, we can’t do what she is planning on doing but she can.

We are retired because life has changed, changed drastically. Oh don’t get me wrong we are nowhere ready to go to assisted living. We are not ready to have you assign us a driver, nor are we studying our last handful of chips for a last big stage flash, no we are struggling happily, thank you.

Why don’t we work? So many of us are a pound or two over the top. Do youyoung women who are appalled at seeing little old ladies with butts wider thanthey are tall have any idea what would be required of them to be on time for work even it that happened to be eleven in the morning? They have already put in 40 plus years and need a break for God’s sake. It goes something like this.

Well we are showered and shampooed. Then we get the scant handful of hair sprayed and crunched, tucked and smoothed and dispersed into as many areas as it will fill. We spray again and get on to the work at hand. Some of us were not born with ample blessings above the waistlines but bless my soul after Minni pauses and passes we find ourselves with such abundance we haven’t any explanation for it. This is a nice surprise until the whole of our bodies fill out to match the upper forward push. Things change. Things fall. Thngs stretch.

I want to be a nice lady with my words but I must do a visual for you. After retirement age some of us are so ready not to ever dress up again that we were totally shocked to see John McCain’s 96 year old mother. I think they left her body at home and brought her head on a mannequin.

For those of us who are no longer trim and sagging; we do something like this. We draw what appears to be two albeit small bowling balls made of apricot jam and poked into a pair of panty hose cut off at the knees up into a proper carrying case. The best possible attire for them is a front hooking bra. Soon we are very tired and need a rest.You see we have been standing bent at the waist arranging these panty hosed things into this contraption with at least thirteen hooks and they just lob out on either side about the time you have a hook done and the process begins again and again until you are finally plopped up hooked up and ready to do your hair all over again from the sweat.

We know we will never wear that little black dress again but we still use the little stick that promises not to leave us with an unsightly white streak under our arms. Oh well, that is all gone. Back to the drawing board alcohol soaked cotton balls swab those underarms and go with the little white stick once again.

We wriggle and wobble into the best black skirt and top we could possibly find, add that new single string of pearls; the old ones don’t fit anymore you gave them to the daughter some time ago. You are getting to the presentable stage now, after having gone through the process of putting on panty hose. Oh didn’t I tell you about that. You go to the store where they sell you all the fixings for a hospital room for the home and buy a frame to help you put on your hose. I refuse to even go there because no explanation will suffice.

Shoes? Yes we need to wear nice shoes. Avoid, heels, buckles, buttons, straps anything you have to touch. Having come this far in getting dressed you are sure to pass out if you stoop that low. Oh come on let us all be honest here that will put a new light on things. You can’t stoop that low. You could wear flip flops with just a tad of silver streaking or little flat black simple shoes. You know your feet will swell out over and near the floor with those binding things.

Oh! We must move along it is already a quarter to eleven and face it you need a two hour nap after this ordeal. We don’t have it any more but don’t blame her for her age.

But you could have done it when you were Sarah Palin’s age, with a loving and helpful husband and all the care people you could ever need. She can and will do it.

SHE IS DRAWN AND QUARTERED AND WE HAVEN'T HEARD HER SIDE

There are occasions I have to apologize for being a woman. I believe it is coming up on the horizon. I have never heard such catty behavior as women are pulling over this Vice Presidential candidate choice made by John McCain.

The claws are bared, the fangs are showing and the hissing is at a very high decibel. What are the problems? Well on one site where I write I have heard her called. Big Foot's cousin, NRA Queen, A former cute queen, Gun Toten' Hockey Mom, My God, she married to an Eskimo one said. Another said she has five kids to care for what more does she want? Another brilliant statement was her fifteen year old kid is pregnant and I heard some of her family did or is doing time. Another, to be expected one, was that Bible totin' fools would approve. These were some examples and all by women.

If anybody had been looking several magazines have done pieces on her including the Weekly Standard some time ago.

What individual male or female in any state in the Union has 90% favorable rating? She does.

How many of you city folk know anything about needing a gun for survival? The inner city hoodlums is a totally different situation, they will not give up their guns one way or another. So why do you think the presidency and the legal rulings should cover only the city folk and give total freedom to the gangs? i would much rather have a woman who could kill and cook dinner than a wimpy man or woman.

I think the media has said she admitted her fifteen year old daughter is pregnant and plans to marry the father. Well I would like to see the teen pregnancy rates drop. I would much rather that the abortion rates drop. The girl is keeping the baby and Mama is not requesting an abortion for hiding it. What galls me is Bill Clinton a man who is not fifteen but has a fifteen year old having oral sex in 'my office'. Yes my office and it belongs to every American Citizen. John F. Kennedy served at a time when the press was not as blatant as today; many have attested to the fact later that they knew that he slept with many women in their personal quarters when his wife was away. Scum is the only word I have for that. I did see when Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday to him on public venue and it was nothing more than a sexual invitation gone public before his wife and children. Or more recently John Edwards leaving a wife with cancer to care for children while he bunks with an employee.

Democrats and Republicans are human and make mistakes it appears to me that the Democrats, back as far as I remember and that is Franklin D.Roosevelt who could care less that the world knew of his affair; are just more blatant, vulgar, in your face with their dirty laundry. Finesse is not in their vocabulary.

Before you send this woman to the gallows walk a mile in her shoes. She knows a lot more than you know she knows. Get over it. Obama has 146 hours of experience she has years! Go make cookies if you have to act so catty.