Resa and Norm
Recently I came across a photograph of our lovely Fashionista, Resa McConaghy, and her beloved Norm.
Norman is a GUITAR PLAYER & COMPOSER. They lived in Miami for almost a year in the 80’s. Norman was working on writing songs and had an arrangement with a recording studio there. They lived in an amazing older home on Miami Beach. It was quite grand with a Florida Room and a maid’s apartment along the side. Per Resa, The original owners must of had a fab life there. They were renting it from an Argentine businessman who had bought it.
When they returned with Norm’s songs it led to a record deal in the 1990’s.
Norman at work!
Love is What is Needed
by Holly Rene Hunter
Here in paradise
the sun goes down on the
crescent shore of an empty beach
she found herself with a guitar man
and A life time of memories
It seemed so clear then and now
love is what is needed
Beautiful!!! Beautiful love. Thank you for this post, Holly.
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It was my pleasure! They are so sweet together.
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Love this!
However, I’m not seeing the photo?
Sent you a mail. Maybe it’s just me.
xoxoxoxoxo
The poem is beyond my words!
Love you!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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lol, i had quite a hassle with it…ck it now! It went great on the PC but the phone….gad!
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It’s perfect!
I’m useless on my phone!
I only post from my laptop, and I still use the Classic Editor!
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I use the CE too, usually whatever I put in my PC comes out on my phone…this time not! But finally it came out on the top which I think is good. ❤
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Love it!!!
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Good, I love it too. You two are awesome.
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You’re awesome, too!
Still working on that last drawing…Soon!!
xoxoxoxo
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Smiles for the camera. 😌🎥
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Yeah!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz8AJh7_mKc&list=RDdz8AJh7_mKc&start_radio=1x
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Smiles!!
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How beautiful!
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I think so too. An adorable couple!
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What if the world comes apart when she sings?
Floating down like smoke rings – little rotating flying things…
What if that sound could still catch every pain?
Kind little circles of cloudburst, doing the job of the rain…
And when he lets go of her hands,
watching them dropping like stones in her lap,
sliding like stars over fabric,
rolling like waves over stitchwork and staves…
playing every love song out of orbit –
a halo,
hanging,
hammerheads banging –
one promise…
one ring…
one moon.
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This is incredibly beautiful “one promise…
one ring…
one moon So perfect Woodsy.
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Holly,
I love that poem.
You honour me with your words of love.
I feel a bit humble.
Let me go do some dishes and be choked up for awhile!
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
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This is just so awesome, the two if you there In a grand house on Miami Beach , talk about memories ! ❤️
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There was this bakery, on Collins Ave. OMG! They made this Danish called a Miami Wheel. It was massive. It was 6 small Danish in 1, all different fruit fillings. You could tear 1 off at a time.,,, killer with your morning coffee! xoxo
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Omg, it’s Moise’s, still open. 🤗
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Gasp!!! I want a Miami Wheel! xoxo
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7310 Collins Avenue Miami
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Do you go there?
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I’ve never been there. I think it’s mostly aCuban bakery now.
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Oh… le sniff!
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Lots of Guava and cream cheese pastries 🥮, pastelittos , empanadas, colada’s! Yum. xoxoxo
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Perfect beach treats!!!! xoxoxo
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Perfect and a Colada will keep us wired all day.
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Ohhh… there’s booze in it?
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Haha! No it’s VERY strong Cuban Coffee. It comes in a tiny cup cause it will wake your heart beat out of your chest.
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Ah, I like the sounds of that!
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☕️🥟
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Hey, Gi put up the Fashion Show at the barn!
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…. but then again… maybe they still make Miami Wheels! 😀 😀
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Maybe, I’ll call them lolol! I will!!!
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That’s a super name. We have The Miami Sound Machine (Gloria Estefan, met her) KC and the Sunshine band. We need to form a Miami Wheel band. You’re a genius! xo
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Wish I was down there with you. I just know we could rustle up some musicians!
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Well, there’s Tim out in NM. ‘Oron plays the harp right?
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Yeah Tim is in… but ‘Oron will have to swim across the Atlantic!
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Carrying a harp. That’s not good.
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Yeah…it will rust…he might, too.
I heard he used to play drums. Maybe he could lash them together and make a raft?
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We need a good drummer if he can cross the border I’ll see what I can find at the Pawn shop.
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Reblogged this on Queen's end and commented:
Thank you dear Holly! This is so fabulous & beautiful…just like you!
xoxoxoxo
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You are so welcome dear Resa, it is heartwarming to imagine your amazing life together…esp. in my own home town. xoxoxoxo
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It’s a pretty great place. I love Miami Beach, and will never forget my most romantic time there.
That poem is killing me… in a wonderful way! What an honour!
(I also did a repost thing on GLAM – https://graffitiluxandmurals.com/2020/10/29/love-sweet-love/
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Miami Beach is one of the most exciting and romantic places to live. That gorgeous ocean and huge moon hanging above those palm trees, who could resist falling in love. I’m glad you like this little peek into your past.
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YES! Do the Sherrie comment!!!!
We had dinner and watched a movie! xoxo
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What a super post, Holly. So many things we have to learn about each other. Did you know each other when Resa lived in Miami?
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No, I didn’t. But if I’d been around I would have liked too.
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We would have had some fun!!!
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Just imagine that. South Beach would never be the same!
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True!
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It would have been really cool for you two to have know each other. I’ve met a couple of people blogging who were in Albuquerque before we tarted blogging and now they live other places.
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Yes, I can think of nothing more fun than being in walking distance to Resa’s house. 🤗
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Oh, Holly, that is so wonderfully sweet!!!! That photo is so precious… as is your poem!
I’m sure that older house continued it’s good vibe reputation and after Resa & Norm left …probably enhanced it! 😉
Love to all! ❤️
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I know the pic is adorable! That they lived in my home town right on the beach is awesome. Glad you like it. ❤️
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It really is awesome!!! ❤🥰😘🥰❤
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Yeah! ❤️🌸🌹🌺💖⭐️❤️
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❤️🍂🍁🐶🍁🍂❤️
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❤❣❤
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Did you like the puppy face. It’s for Hera. 😊🤗
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Yes!!!!!! She’s wagging her tail!!!!
🤗🤗🤗🤗
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She loves puppies!
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Yes she does!!! 🤗🤗
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We all do. Yay for puppies!
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I know, the poem is precious, you’re right.
& It’s a lot of other magic words! xo
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Oh yes indeed!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
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❤️🌹🥰🤗💖
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❤️💛🧡🤎❤️
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Awww hearts like candy!
❣🌷💖🌷❣
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Sweets for the sweet!
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🍭🥰🍭
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Yum! Thank you.
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❤🤗❤
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Beautiful! Great photo and lovely tribute, Rene!
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Thank you Merril!
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You’re very welcome!
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My beautiful Auntie Resa and dear Uncle Norm.
Thought you might appreciate this little tidbit…
When Auntie Resa and Uncle Norm were living in Toronto I would spend quite a bit of time with them. He had a studio set up in the house and we decided to hang out with him (and Cabbage, Potato and Mom). He happened to have some band members there that day so Resa and I were on our best behaviour. My Auntie (really my mother) decided she was going to teach me how to apply makeup, I was about 13. I was in absolute awe of her massive makeup kit, her poise, elegance and knowledge. She carefully demonstrated the process as I stared at her with the utmost admiration and love. As she began explaining the importance of a good foundation, she started to shake the bottle in preparation. Well, in true Resa ‘fashion’ somehow the foundation went flying across the room onto a band member (he was wearing all black). Uncle Norm wasn’t too impressed to say the least but I on the other hand, thought it was hysterical. This is just one of many stories like this. My auntie is the coolest, most wonderful person in the world. Not only do I love her with all my heart but she cracks me up like no one else. ❤
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Hi Sherrie, this is so awesome to read. How fabulous to have an auntie like Resa. So much fun. ❤️
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I also taught her how to walk in high-heels…. on Yonge St….. at night! LOL! ❤
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She’s the luckiest girl in the world. I wish I’d had an Auntie Resa. ❤️
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I was just having fun, and lovin’ Sherrie! ❤
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I can tell the feeling is so mutual. Have fun you two! ❤️
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A girls got to learn ❤️
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❤ ❤
Yeah… I still like high heels, used to run in them! Now, I run in sneakers!
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Gotta have high heels 👠. Boots too. and sneakers when you’re in the alley. xo
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I tried heels in the alley, they don’t work, unless it’s a photo shoot!
Boots… love my thigh highs! xo
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Love boots. 👢 thigh highs are cool. Or hot. xo
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Yeah xo…. Have to get some for the Boogapony!
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A must have. We do have those right?Ive got lots of Biker 🚵♀️ 🥾 boots 👢 xo
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I’ve got one cute pair of pseudo biker boots! No make that 2!
👢👢
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That’s all you need. be there at 6, I have to warn you there’s no sissy bar. I do have an extra helmet though. If it goes bad I’ll swing back for you. xo
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Lol!
That happened on a horse ride once! xo
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Lol…get any pics?
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No… long time ago! LOL!
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Ahhh, Sherrie dear,
I love that memory!
Yes…. somehow the foundation went flying. I’ll never understand how that happened.
OR the blender blowing the carrot soup up to the ceiling.. then landing on Brad, or Uncle Sam sitting on my pin cushion then hitting the ceiling, or the …erm burn in your kitchen rug that I put a can of coffee over..or… that spray thing with the baster….. ad infinitum.
It’s a gift, I guess. xoxo ❤
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Or the toothpicks in the cake, the leaf blowing….and my favourite *note to self…ad infinitum.
And yes, you absolutely taught me how to walk in heels. You were the best teacher! No matter how drunk I got (and we’re talking Mr. Clean drunk), I never once fell while wearing my heels ❤
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She taught you well. We must maintain our dignity at all times. ❤️😊
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Ohh, right! I forgot about the toothpicks in the cake. They actually baked up quite well.
Falling off our heels, never! Dignity must remain intact.
We have had some swell times together!
Love you much, darling Sherrie, and Happy Birthday! xoxo WEDGE THREE!
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Why am I not surprised by these things? Hahahahahahaha
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You’ve recognized my special gift!
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I LOVED this story, Sherrie and could see the unfolding drama. I agree, Resa is the coolest and very wonderful!
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💜
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Getting Resa’s approval is good enough for me. Well done, Holly!
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I wouldn’t post about anyone without they’re knowledge and approval Frank.
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Oh my, this is amazing. Just a lovely post. AND about Resa…… YES!!!! That house sounds amazing.
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Thank you Shey, such a cute
Silhouette of those two!
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I LOVE it. I knew she could not ahve lived any other way but like that xxxx
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Holly lives in Miami Beach.
It’s the most pleasing place, ever. I adore the beach strip, and the low riding pastel homes in the area are enchanting. Magic memories!
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Magic. MAGIC… I knew you had exciting times…. xxxx
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xxxx
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Wonderful tribute to enduring love, Holly! This was so heartwarming to read! 😀
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Thank you Tom. This silhouette of these beautiful lovers called out for a bit of a flight into the past. That Resa loves it is a huge plus.
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Reblogged this on John Cowgill's Literature Site.
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Thank you John 🌺
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🌺🌺🌺You are welcome, Holly!!!🌺🌺🌺
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These are going right into my crystal vase 🏺 thank dear John.
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You are welcome, Holly!
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⭐️🌟⭐️
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⭐️🌟⭐️⭐️🌟⭐️⭐️🌟⭐️⭐️🌟⭐️⭐️🌟⭐️
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Amazing! For me it sounds also like great Woodstock feeling and romance. Your poem makes me feeling this spirit of the past. Michael
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That’s such a delightful comment Michael. I know Resa will love it. It’s fun to look back , to find a photograph from “back then” . Thank you, love the reference to Woodstock! 🤗
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Thank you for sharing, andadding this wonderful poem, Holly! Yes, looking back must not be sad. These times it can power up our mind,and love is timeless.
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It is timeless and few are able to remain in love esp in trying times, so I think this so beautiful!
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Fully agree with you Holly.
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Call me a romantic, and yes!
Love that lasts is never in the past.
It is omnipresent.
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🙂
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What a fantastic, loving and beautiful post. ❤ ❤ ❤
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Sweet and beautiful, Holly. A lovely tribute to the creative power of love.
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I think so too, thank you Diana
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Holly, nicely done. You had me at the silhouette kiss. Nice picture. Keith
Different subject – I am worried about Florida. I sent the following email out to about 250 folks. Feel free to use if you like. The title is “Former Republican US attorneys (and one famous historian) support Biden”
There is yet another group of people with gravitas who have officially spoken out against the reelection of the incumbent president. In an article this week in The Washington Post called “Former U.S. attorneys — all Republicans — back Biden, saying Trump threatens ‘the rule of law’” by Tom Hamburger and Devlin Barrett, the hope to make their voice heard by people who will listen.
Here are the opening paragraphs, that give you the gist.
“Twenty former U.S. attorneys — all of them Republicans — on Tuesday publicly called President Trump ‘a threat to the rule of law in our country,’ and urged that he be replaced in November with his Democratic opponent, former vice president Joe Biden.
‘The President has clearly conveyed that he expects his Justice Department appointees and prosecutors to serve his personal and political interests,’ said the former prosecutors in an open letter. They accused Trump of taking ‘action against those who have stood up for the interests of justice.’
The letter, signed by prosecutors appointed by every GOP president from Eisenhower to Trump, is the latest instance of Republicans backing Biden. In August, dozens of GOP national security experts signed a full-page newspaper ad endorsing Biden over Trump.”
These two groups join the ranks of Republicans for the Rule of Law, The Lincoln Project, Republican Voters against Trump and others who had an alternate Republican Party Convention from Charlotte and favor Joe Biden. Then there is the long time respected conservative voices like Max Boot, George Will, Michael Gerson, David Brooks, Ross Douthat and Eric Erickson who have spoken out against the president and favor Biden.
Yet, one more key voice, Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian, Jon Meacham has publicly endorsed his first presidential candidate in Joe Biden saying “our democracy is at stake.” Meacham has written biographies on Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson and George HW Bush as well as writing his acclaimed book “Soul of America.” He is one the most learned and even-handed people I have witnessed. He makes you feel good about our country and what we have accomplished, while telling you where we failed or are failing to live up to our ideals.
Their voices used to mean something and still should. Why are they risking their good names against such a vindictive and unscrupulous person? Why, indeed?
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Thank you Keith. This is the most important election we have ever had. I’m sure these groups and individuals know what is at stake.
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Thanks Holly. Dems need to vote and not mess around this time.
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I hope everyone Eligible to vote will. It’s so important, we must change the disastrous course of America and maybe the world.
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Well said.
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well, I’m feeling very emotional about the damage Trump has perpetrated on our country with his lies and actions. I’m better off letting it go there. I can only hope everyone will do all they can to cast their ballots.
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love needed on the shore by a need of love , with a sound of guitar in background., Holly
Love ❤
Michel
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That’s lovely and fitting dear Michel! Love, ❤️
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“It seemed so clear then and now love is what is needed”. I had goosebumps when I was reading your poem, Holly. You have a marvelous gift that brings beauty, love and meaning to readers. Your friendship with Resa is a dynamic force for good. The two of you have a way of exploring fresh ideas and prompting vibrant creativity in each other. There is a synergistic flow that I feel every time I see your combined talents. It is privilege to see the results of your collaboration. Sending hugs!
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Rebecca that is so beautiful, thank you so much. I adore Resa, she is a truly lovely in every way, so amazingly and completely generous and caring for all who are lucky enough to know her and even those who do not. In addition she’s so much fun and keeps me smiling with her awesome imagination and outlook on life. 🌟
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What a beautiful tribute to Resa and Norm and to their life together. The comments were another chapter in this great story. I thought you all had been friends in Miami until I read that it was a juxtaposition at different times. How even more amazing that the world brought you two amazing souls together in friendship and a sharing of such talent across a broad range. Indeed, love makes everything better and there is a lot of love shared in this House of Heart.
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Resa’s like a magnet, a very beautiful one, and I decided right away I have to get to know this awesome and gifted lady. I’m so glad We connected because I’ve never had so much fun and I’m forever awestruck at her infinite talents.
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The thing that keeps me in a comforting awe is such a talented and wonderful person is also so warm and inclusive. You and Resa fit well together and the other ladies all bring us a happy and fun vibe through Resa’s blog when she pulls it all together. She should have an autobiography to inspire young readers to become infinitely more than they can imagine in an altruistic way.
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Maybe I’ll write a biography about her.
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Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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That is truth, my friend.
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Thank you Dan, That is such a beautiful comment ! 🤗
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This is so beautiful!!! Loved it!
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Thank you!
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My pleasure ❤
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❤️
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There is a lot of beauty, love, and purity in your words and photo. Resa has many special gifts and she has a way of connecting with people in the most amazing ways. Let there always be love and music in your lives.
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That’s such a lovely comment and so appreciated. Wishing you lots of love and music as well!
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What a beautiful post! Love the photo and the poem is wonderful.
Thank you for sharing this lovely bit for Resa and Norman.
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Thank you Dale!
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yeah.. vey wonderful poem;!
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Very nice.
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
I LOVE HOW THEY ALL WORK TOGETHER! ❤ WITH FANTASTIC RESULTS!
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Thank you Jon!
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YOU ARE MOST WELCOME M OH SWEETIE!
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Thank you 😊 that’s very sweet!
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YOU EMBODY—YOUR POETRY DOES—SWEETNESS.
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That’s just sweet as can be.
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YOU ARE!
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Ahhhhhhh!!!
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hey—that’s my line, too! 😀
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We can share that.
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Okay, sis.
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I’m in love already 🥰🥰
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I’ll be over! 🥰
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Oh, I love the poem! Absolutely delightful. Such a great post. ❤️
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Thank you ❤
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Great stuff, well done
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Thank you!
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My dear Holly,
It’s true.
Love is what’s needed.
Love of country.
Love of our fellow humans.
Love of life.
Love of decency.
Love of friends.
Love of democracy.
Some say money makes the world go round.
Some say love makes the world go round.
Let’s just say, the world goes round, and it’s up to humanity how good each round is.
xoxoxo
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Beautifully expressed dear areas and so true. xoxoxo
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xoxoxo
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xoxoxo
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WoW such a beautiful post
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Thank you 🧡
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Awesome pic. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Thank you!
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Thank you, very appreciated.
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