tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109513767581594272024-03-13T10:25:53.207-07:00The Detailed Laughter in My LifeJonathan Eric Ruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11506456751616793700noreply@blogger.comBlogger326125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110951376758159427.post-13308477111194599352012-10-23T01:33:00.003-07:002012-10-23T01:34:50.267-07:00Companions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Now you will feel no cold</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">between </span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">you two.</span></div>
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<br />Jonathan Eric Ruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11506456751616793700noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110951376758159427.post-66265409480848908422012-09-26T16:51:00.003-07:002012-09-26T16:55:00.177-07:00Lit<div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;">
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The fall needs no remembrance</div>
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of its past due.</div>
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Have you seen this new light</div>
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The light of cheer </div>
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How can you see through me</div>
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I risk to lose</div>
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when the light can not be canvassed</div>
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Fallen but yet revived</div>
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Will it be you</div>
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more than a thought, more than a dream</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and find the true feelings that you need in order to make </span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;">your life whole. Just a simple "how was your day?", or </span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Can I help you with something?" I've never had a </span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"(Jeremiah 29:11)I know you are frustrated. Just remember God is in charge and will take care of you. :)"</span></h3>
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What am I doing?</div>
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It's been at least a month and a half since I've blogged.</div>
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Am I depressed?</div>
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Do I have nothing to say?</div>
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I haven't even painted for at least a month.</div>
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or just life catching up with me.</div>
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Mononucleosis slowed me down a few weeks ago.</div>
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As long as my "to do" list is this summer.</div>
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I really need to turn this around.</div>
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This isn't what Summer is about.</div>
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It's really not. </div>
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Here's to finding the Answer.</div>
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</div>Jonathan Eric Ruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11506456751616793700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110951376758159427.post-38812079503150619292012-05-25T15:03:00.002-07:002012-05-25T15:03:15.215-07:00I'm ecstatic over this.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">for friends and friends of friends. But lately, I </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The Restaurant Martini Sky in Danville is most well</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">A sweet lesson on patience.</b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">A NYC Taxi driver wrote:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift I thought about just driving away, but instead I put the car in park and walked up to the door and knocked.. 'Just a minute', answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 90's stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it, like somebody out of a 1940's movie.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">By her side was a small nylon suitcase. The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with sheets.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the counters. In the corner was a cardboard</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">box filled with photos and glassware.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">'Would you carry my bag out to the car?' she said. I took the suitcase to the cab, then returned to assist the woman.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the curb.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">She kept thanking me for my kindness. 'It's nothing', I told her.. 'I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother to be treated.'</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">'Oh, you're such a good boy, she said. When we got in the cab, she gave me an address and then asked, 'Could you drive</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">through downtown?'</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">'It's not the shortest way,' I answered quickly..</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">'Oh, I don't mind,' she said. 'I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to a hospice.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I looked in the rear-view mirror. Her eyes were glistening. 'I don't have any family left,' she continued in a soft voice..'The doctor says I don't have very long.' I quietly reached over and shut off the meter.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">'What route would you like me to take?' I asked.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Sometimes she'd ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">As the first hint of sun was creasing the horizon, she suddenly said, 'I'm tired.Let's go now'.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We drove in silence to the address she had given me. It was a low building, like a small convalescent home, with a driveway that passed under a portico.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up. They were solicitous and intent, watching her every move.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">They must have been expecting her.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase to the door. The woman was already seated in a wheelchair.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">'How much do I owe you?' She asked, reaching into her purse.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">'Nothing,' I said</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">'You have to make a living,' she answered.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">'There are other passengers,' I responded.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug.She held onto me tightly.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">'You gave an old woman a little moment of joy,' she said. 'Thank you.'</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I squeezed her hand, and then walked into the dim morning light.. Behind me, a door shut.It was the sound of the closing of a life..</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I didn't pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly lost in thought. For the rest of that day,I could hardly talk.What if that woman had gotten an angry driver,or one who was impatient to end his shift? What if I had refused to take the run, or had honked once, then driven away?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">On a quick review, I don't think that I have done anything more important in my life.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">But great moments often catch us unaware-beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.</span></span>Jonathan Eric Ruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11506456751616793700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110951376758159427.post-45754981787103577402012-04-28T13:07:00.000-07:002012-04-28T13:07:01.713-07:00Bliss<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The reason that I am so in love with this band is that they remind me so much of my favorite band U2. This concert had so many intricacies, that it made it unbelievable. First of all, by far the wristbands. Each person received a light up wristband that was controlled by the band</span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">and their producers. It would start blinking <span style="font-family: inherit;">during songs</span></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">and made the concert so interactive. Every song had something that made me love being at this concert. Confetti butterflies during songs, enormous neon laced balloon balls being thrown around to get everyone involved. I just had a lot of fun listening to great music. Sometimes stuff like this comes around to get you intrigued about the next day in your life. I'm in a </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">pretty happy mood today. I think I may go paint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I Love Sunny Days. I Love painting oils mixed in with mediums. I Love my Friends. I Love Pandora. I Love forgiveness. I Love being creative. In my life and in my actions. I Love Mumford, The Xx, Kid Cudi and Sigur Ros. I know, I know such variety. I Love books that answer the call in which you are searching for. I Love concerts where you can sing at the top of your lungs. I Love students that work so hard that their work mimics a genius. I Love really nice wine. I also love triple creme Brie to go along with that wine. I Love my IPhone and all that it entails. I Love being humble. I Love Mt. Diablo and the opportunities it reveals to my heart. I Love Panera Salads. I Love breaks. I Love my style of art. I Love Justice, Coldplay, and Angus and Julia Stone. I Love an empty chair and a notebook. I Love the chance at impressing others by what I do every day. I Love Jesus. I Love SEP cards found everywhere. I Love Philadelphia. I Love weekly catchups with my mom at Starbucks. I Love wood fire Pizza. I Love when people tell me that my blog is a mish mash. I am in Love with the Loves of my life. Until next time. </span>Jonathan Eric Ruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11506456751616793700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110951376758159427.post-45085958508533121162012-04-23T12:01:00.000-07:002012-04-23T12:01:37.936-07:00prose<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I believe there is a difference between a Love Story, and a Story, about Love. Love stories are, romantic. They are about, love itself and it's relationship with people. A story about love, may not even be romantic. Not even a story of people, loving people. It may be a search for love. An inability to love. Could be an obsession, or substitution for it. An unwillingness to it. Even a strange addiction. A love story, is a, timeless classic. A story that will be told, taught, learned, and repeated through history. A story about love, will stop time. And changed everything you know about it. There will be nothing of it's kind. The biggest difference is.. not everyone will have a love story. But everyone will have a story about love. - God is Love </span></span></div>Jonathan Eric Ruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11506456751616793700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110951376758159427.post-11106246963167403772012-04-05T16:56:00.000-07:002012-04-05T16:56:09.571-07:00Proving the worth of Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6GkbhLubgay30nUm-ymrrE9SoMuOWfW9m0Q9xV6TrYBbULsPAtdq4Md0_SF1UsIr0Kjc-taRi4WFba6TZ62dqzCJKg9z06MWEmp7akD1MSiw1TJaaiYimcgWQL0SNznhMXDgOeAceE1NO/s1600/photo-68.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6GkbhLubgay30nUm-ymrrE9SoMuOWfW9m0Q9xV6TrYBbULsPAtdq4Md0_SF1UsIr0Kjc-taRi4WFba6TZ62dqzCJKg9z06MWEmp7akD1MSiw1TJaaiYimcgWQL0SNznhMXDgOeAceE1NO/s320/photo-68.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4W_bDUyuDJzBwakma9itWrc6a29FLml79vsv8JKVKE1oGV6kNAB2szGX8qUkJ3dzpSmTmgWO5b3gkRbwDywQNCTf7su6MJxW0q_JGPD79Hr7g4YFIXYmVBInEAVnTvAsP18UAWQ1a_EWa/s1600/33895_10150285693105157_853525156_15034011_4770018_n.jpg" style="color: #990000; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"><br />
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<div class="post-header" style="color: #990000; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"> </div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Do you believe everything happens for a reason? Do you believe that when the right person looks at you just the right way, at just right the moment, from far across the room, is it possible to lose your breath? Is it possible to want to live more for someone else, than for yourself? Is forever love possible? Does it know no bounds? When you lose someone you love to distance. When you say goodbye to your father for the very last time. When you fall in love so deeply you can barely hear the noise around you. When you touch the hand of the one who holds your heart. When you kiss the one you know you’re going to love, but don’t love yet.</span></span><br style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><br style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">When you do these things, does your heart drop?</span><br style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><br style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Forever is only a concern if you reach it. No one chases love for forever, if we did, we’d all be disappointed. The actual feeling of love doesn’t hit us once and stay with us forever, it comes and goes. Just as anger comes and goes, happiness comes and goes, sadness comes and goes, love comes and goes. Which is why I would encourage you, hold onto the ones you love. Hold them as dear as you did the day you fell in love with them. Blow them kisses over the phone. Send them flowers just enough to send the message, not too much that they forget the thought. Touch their hearts with old stories, first dates remembered and key ones attached on the wall for a daily reminder. Write them letters. Kiss them.It needs to be nurtured and honored, because only time can prove the worth of love.</span>Jonathan Eric Ruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11506456751616793700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110951376758159427.post-76983000111393197292012-03-08T22:15:00.000-08:002012-03-08T22:15:12.129-08:00Tminus 2 hours<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEc5vaO1mY2AjWPhiBUYNqKF15_Mn1iopoDDZXUvRU_KrDrYBpCacsMGjfUEpg5dmw1ZvdAxz9o_LrjiIBuCR6AvALIESEtVCjk4_kpiFTp_qNadpLqtYKHmAD5qkUDbSpL0QoXpLf9RJv/s1600/IMG_0474.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEc5vaO1mY2AjWPhiBUYNqKF15_Mn1iopoDDZXUvRU_KrDrYBpCacsMGjfUEpg5dmw1ZvdAxz9o_LrjiIBuCR6AvALIESEtVCjk4_kpiFTp_qNadpLqtYKHmAD5qkUDbSpL0QoXpLf9RJv/s400/IMG_0474.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><h1 style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Only those who will risk going too </span></h1><h1 style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">far can possibly find out how far one can go.”</span></h1><h1 style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h1><h1 style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">T.S. Eliot </span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Obviously I had a love for cats</span>.</div>Jonathan Eric Ruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11506456751616793700noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110951376758159427.post-36547368776985077542012-03-03T11:33:00.000-08:002012-03-03T11:33:18.390-08:00Be My Everything<div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">There in my weeping</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">God in my hurting</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">God in my healing</span></strong></div><div> </div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Christ in me</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Christ in me</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Christ in me the hope of glory</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">You are everything</span></strong></div>Jonathan Eric Ruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11506456751616793700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110951376758159427.post-55153360987860553852012-02-29T01:15:00.000-08:002012-02-29T01:15:45.985-08:00Two roads<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXxa2LeHyI9xkkN-HorQYlE21ei4Ia2qgL-wYwwvgcoyE7P5ahRbsAtvaruqCgnxmbOSrqqCtr-I2GJcM-n8hV46h3L7ib_yGjodUzGCwD-gBfJiOlRtH46dwNjbn-Mp6C_Eoqeah0q3tv/s1600/IMG_9970.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXxa2LeHyI9xkkN-HorQYlE21ei4Ia2qgL-wYwwvgcoyE7P5ahRbsAtvaruqCgnxmbOSrqqCtr-I2GJcM-n8hV46h3L7ib_yGjodUzGCwD-gBfJiOlRtH46dwNjbn-Mp6C_Eoqeah0q3tv/s400/IMG_9970.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b> </b></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b> </b></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b> </b></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><b>IN OCTOBER 2009 I WROTE</b></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>and the days that pass by</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>the song in my head</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>the image of your stare</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>and the cold sets</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>you're everywhere</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>it blows right through me</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>i'm standing here</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>but you don't see me</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>it achingly seeps through your palms</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>my thoughts are confused</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>the kind of clutter that just wont move</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>and i can't move.</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>I'm stuck, with no thought of advancement </i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><b>TODAY I WROTE</b></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>after some time</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>maybe a long time, for me at least.</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>my mind has forgotten these things,</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>the true feelings of today realign my thoughts on my future.</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>my heart has let it fade</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>and i am happy that my heart has healed</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>to the point of restitution.</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>then what might have been</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>can be replaced and covered over by my love of love. </i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>and eventually the days have turned into excitement, </i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>this memory is a foregone thought </i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>my pieces, have been sewn up, attached anew to </i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>a soul that cries for patience.</i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>Joyful for an additional journey </i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>with the one I see with myself </i></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><i>as if it were always meant to be.</i></div><div><i><br />
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</a>Jonathan Eric Ruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11506456751616793700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110951376758159427.post-11836326947212786712012-02-21T22:32:00.000-08:002012-02-21T22:32:23.719-08:00I love this Song<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HAfFfqiYLp0" width="600"></iframe>Jonathan Eric Ruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11506456751616793700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110951376758159427.post-31715616584524236562012-02-18T15:47:00.000-08:002012-02-18T15:47:23.472-08:00My Sevens List<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJIZfmgVSVRC3_IfU3qVvBCkaHzH_xhQms3kt18lPke3yZ6EWPhV1Yrj2V7KNpAc-TmIwENwv-YB6nBg0vAuOh63ViJiMurYk0DLw548ZS7WtdmqCbJf_2Anlg4af59i5jfmTpSgMlneJt/s1600/161.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJIZfmgVSVRC3_IfU3qVvBCkaHzH_xhQms3kt18lPke3yZ6EWPhV1Yrj2V7KNpAc-TmIwENwv-YB6nBg0vAuOh63ViJiMurYk0DLw548ZS7WtdmqCbJf_2Anlg4af59i5jfmTpSgMlneJt/s400/161.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span id="goog_1830220886"></span><span id="goog_1830220887"></span><br />
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</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">7 things in my room</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">- My Road bike</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">- My queen bed</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">- laundry piled up on the floor</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">- Blank Canvas'</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">- clutter</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">- my golf clubs</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">- a case of Italian Red Wine</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">7 songs</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">- slow dancing </div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">- sigh no more</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">- fix you</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">- How He loves</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">- with or without you</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">- you give love a bad name</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">- ultraviolet (light my way)</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
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Teaching position for a long time and now that I have my 3rd grade class<br />
I want it to last Forever. Solid friends that are with you through the <br />
Thick and thin. I want our relationship to last forever. My life, as <br />
Tattered and worn down it feels sometimes I wish it could last forever.<br />
As I try to sleep tonight, this word keeps dwelling in my thoughts. <br />
Forever let me down before. Or maybe I let down Forever. It's something<br />
That I think about everyday. Why did I screw up? Why did I let everyone <br />
Down? I truly think that in the future I will make a mends with forever. <br />
I am sure that my heart is ready for forever, even though it was spit out<br />
So quickly back in the day that I didn't understand why the crack began to<br />
Split so aimlessly. My heart is ready for forever. Maybe it wants more than<br />
It needs, but I know I was never able to feel forever truly before. <br />
I'm not usually the jealous type other than my siblings and my close friends.<br />
Coming to SoCal this weekend makes me very jealous of living with, kissing<br />
With, fraternizing with, and being with forever. Right behind my shoulder<br />
is forever. Does this sound weird to some? Well it's something I've wanted <br />
For a while, but have never taken the time to think it out. Her heart is so <br />
amazing. Last thought of the night before going to bed is sleeping right over <br />
There. Church will be so fun tomorrow :)Jonathan Eric Ruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11506456751616793700noreply@blogger.com0