Sunday, August 31, 2014

Serving needs of extended family

                                                                                               Attribution: Lands Dept                    
Image: Harvesting with horse drawn
reapers and binders (here)

Sunday Whirl Wordle #176
time concern collaborate state care contact
compromising decades serve chat community

Harvesting wheat of times past
Horse drawn reapers and binders
Concern for joint efforts extended to last
To collaborate with foreign workers

Crossing state lines over the borders
Care the best part of the venture
Contacts sustained among neighbors
Compromising decades working together

Serving basic needs of extended family
Empty chats were no more kind of silly
Language barriers were resolved easily
When working within the community

For Brenda's Sunday Whirl and
d"Verse OpenLinkNight - harvest

20 comments:

  1. Working as one can cut out all the silly crap and get things done

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  2. It is uplifting to see people can work together when the needs of the family is at stake.

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  3. You took me back to the past with your write here, Hank. I like the idea of people working together for the community. I'd like to think this happens today as well in some places.

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  4. That's the positive way of looking at this ~ Good for the community ~

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  5. working in the community...working for family...for their needs...there is honour in that...in serving the greater good...

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  6. it is cool when we cross borders and work together on something... and yeah... language becomes secondary then...

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  7. There are no language barriers where hard work is involved. Good write.

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  8. So good to share the workload - helping each other with harvest - somehow that's we need to help each other independent of language

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  9. It seems the more technology comes or way to make our lives better, the more disjointed our society becomes. It might be good for us to go back to the days of hard work and honest conversation

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  10. I do remember those days of cooperation. I would like to think in some places this camaraderie still exists.

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  11. In some families the camaraderie does exist. As long as everyone in in a forward mindset. You have to try. Sometimes pleasant surprises happen. Nice write about the old days. But, the small guy does not have all that mechanized luxuries.

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  12. working within the community is a ray of hope to end all the conflict...it's a wheel of progress...

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  13. You did a beautiful job with these words and incorporating the feel of that photograph. Well done.

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  14. A shared occupation can break down many barriers...well wordled hank!

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  15. I like your poem. It has some tenderness to it even though it talks about hard working people whose circumstances can be tough.

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  16. Nice work with the wordle, Hank, and that possibility of coming together to serve a purpose.

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  17. Nice form, rhythm, worked well with the chosen words to form a poem of co-operation, of building a new world of neighbors, friends. We miss that now. That message seeped through the lines as well. Good work.

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  18. Ah nostalgia for a better time ... nice Hank I enjoyed your poem.

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