Thanks, Brad.  Well, it hurts my feelings when I get rejected but I'll try
to have a tougher skin.  The toughest part will be trying to get around this
agent nonsense.  Other than that, it will just be a matter of discipline,
something the LORD has told me to work on in the coming year anyway.

Toughing it out lion
----- Original Message -----
From: "BD" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: IDEAS FOR HOSTESS GIFT?


> Ode To Chocolate! What talent!! What gifting!! What a master of the
English
> language. It's as though his  fingers command the language as a
bondservant
> or slave! I've never before seen Um or yum written so beautifully  lol
>
> As far as the inspiration with short stories and etc., ask anyone who is
in
> a position they sought to find, or desire they carried out, it more than
> likely came first with much quote, unsuccess. Garth Brooks was nearly
> laughed at and told to go back to Oklahoma and shunned, Colonel Sanders
> slept in his car for two years traveling about trying to sell his recipe
to
> restaurants, I'd not give up so easily. I just noticed one of the weirdest
> pronounced words in the English language. How do we get phonetically
kernel
> from C o l o n e l? Must be some southern drawl thing that everyone
adapted
> is the nearest thing I can see. Anyway I digress, you have a gifting for
> writing and a gifting of applying godly principles to today's life
> activities, and, you have a good imagination, imagining I'm older than
you,
> remember more than you? Hmmm. lol. What does it hurt to try?
>
> Brad
>
> At 12/22/2003 on Monday, you wrote:
> >Okay, here it comes...
> >
> >Ode to a Chocolate
> >
> >Um um um
> >Yum Yum Yum
> >How good you feel down in my tum tum.
> >
> >Bowing to applause lion
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 4:52 PM
> >Subject: Re: IDEAS FOR HOSTESS GIFT?
> >
> >
> > > Oh, Come on Paul,  let's hear it!  Ode to a Chocolate!
> > > Kathy
> > >
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