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About Ken Greenman

Married and Happy. Retired and busy. Living in NC. 71 and counting. December 12, 2025 and it's 77! ... I would love some written comments, critiques, adulation or kind suggestions.... If you have the time and or inclination, please feel free! Not in fear but by faith. We will see. See you later! If you ever want to talk for real, email me and I will send you my cell number.... I am enjoying this!

638 Happy Sabbath, Doc 11-19-16 (go to 580 for key word search)

Happy Sabbath, Doc! This is the first one since you left us. I hope you’re sitting next to MaryA, your arm tight around her shoulder, your new shinning robe comfortably wrapped around you. I hope you’re loving listening to which … Continue reading

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637 In the 11th month 11-18-16 (go to 580 for key word search)

It’s November for the nuthatch, the chickadee and me. They fly to my back deck. They know where their food will be. Hanging from the low pine branches, dangling from the chains I’ve hung there, while teetering on the top … Continue reading

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636 Gods Will, will. 11-11-16 (go to 580 for key word search)

Why would I whine, when, whether I win or whether I loose, if I have prayed the frightening, faith filled prayer of that Gethsemane night: “…yet not my will but Yours…” then, given the view from my just opened tomb, … Continue reading

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635 For no explicable reason 11-5-16 (go to 580 for key word search)

Daniel Moloongo had an epiphany. At 27, it came a little late, perhaps. But, at 27, marching to his graduation ceremony at the divinity school in Lusaka, the only seminary the Anglicans administered in his native Zambia, and the most … Continue reading

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634 The good Christian wife 11-1-16 (go to 580 for key word search)

Her husband was a nasty, abusive, angry slob. Everyone who knew him, knew it. But she, given the kind of woman she was, Christian, understanding, gentle, forgiving, hated his God damned guts.

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633 Knitting (written 10(?) years ago. Posted 11-4-16

over, under, over, under over, under, over, over, under!!!! the world is blown asunder by an under over blunder! then, if it’s noticed, it’s unravel, unravel, unravel, pick up the offending stitch, which, would have rendered the Comforter, uncomfortable, making … Continue reading

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632 Oh! there’s no place like home, etc. (Go to 580 for key word search)

It’s so nice to see the folks for the holidays! Christmas is the season to be joyous! The Eve, it’s caroling in family chorus! Morning, it’s waffles and Eggs Benedict for us! Yep! It’ great to be home for the … Continue reading

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631 Toilet seats 10-23-16 (go to 580 for key word search)

There are only two types of people on earth. Those who use slam-bang, hard top toilet seats and those who prefer slow closing, padded toilet seats. The universal characteristics of the entire Human Race can be divided in two by … Continue reading

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630 Commode relief 10-23-16 (see 580 for key word search)

My wife and I are retired and downsized, waiting the ground break for our new North Carolina home in Southport. So, we find ourselves sleeping in the finished basement bedroom of our forty year owned home while our recently divorced … Continue reading

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629 Where the beaches face South 10-22-16 (go to 580 for key word search)

South, down the eastern coast of our country, there, where the continent turns in on itself, and the string of island beaches face south, is one of the pearls on the barrier necklace, Oak Island. It’s where my wife and … Continue reading

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