Straight from the South Seas

Straight from the South Seas
Retired Expat living the Philippines

Augustus Summerfield Merrimon

This Blog is dedicated to my great-great-grand uncle who was a Democratic US Senator from the state of North Carolina between 1873 and 1879.

Showing posts with label love story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love story. Show all posts

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Farrah Fawcett Playboy

Farrah Fawcett the former Charles Angeles Girls, died after loosing a 3-year old battle with the cancer at the age of 62 and Chose the Same Fate as Michael Jackson did and on the very same day.

Her Partner Ryan O’Neal told People Magazine,”She’s gone. She now belongs to the ages, She’s now with her mother and sister and her God. I loved her with all my heart. I will miss her so very, very much. She was in and out of consciousness. I talked to her all through the night. I told her how very much I loved her. She’s in a better place now.”

Saturday, June 20, 2009

The woman who called 911 to ask a police officer on a date

A woman in Aloha, Oregon, called 911 because she thought a deputy who had just visited her house on a complaint was good-looking. After her neighbors reported a noise complaint, two sheriff's deputies knocked on Lorna Jeanne Dudash's door. One of them caught her eye. When they left, Dudash dialed 9-1-1 in a desperate attempt to get the deputy she described to dispatchers as “a cutie pie” to return. She said that she didn't have an emergency; she just wanted the dispatcher to “throw the cute police back her way”. The “cute” deputy returned, and, once he determined there was no legitimate emergency, he arrested Dudash for misusing 9-1-1. She now faces a fine of up to several thousand dollars and up to a year in jail.

Loving Day

In the not-too-distant past, it was against the law in many states for people of different races to marry. Richard and Mildred Loving married in Washington, DC in 1958 and returned to their hometown in Virginia as criminals. When they went to trial, the judge found them guilty and sentenced them to a jail term of one to three years. However, the judge told the Lovings that he would suspend the sentence if they agreed to leave Virginia for a period of twenty five years. Given the choice between imprisonment and banishment, they chose banishment. The Lovings moved to Washington, DC. The Lovings filed a suit challenging the law. After a nine-year battle, on June 12, 1967, the US Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case of Loving vs. Virginia that did away with the remaining miscegenation laws. The Loving Day project promotes the celebration of this milestone around June 12th.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Fantasy

"Alas there’s no remedy – let’s forget,our silent love cannot exist forever. There are others to whom our love’s in debt. You will find others hearts to endeavor. For this long year I have held my breath,awaiting to feel your body and heart,but instead been led to false glances of death,that only make our hearts greater apart. The innocence I see makes me love you more. The truth I don’t know – I truly don’t know.Without your love, my love for you is sure.With your love, I may no longer wallow. Day by day, my thoughts become more complicated. Someday we’ll end or go – my ambivalence ended."

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Charming and beautiful dancing woman

Far far beyond the asteroid belt on Jupiter’s satellite Ganymede you may find this charming and beautiful dancing woman.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

A Love Story


Love reigned over his heart. He offered her a world
In which death could not do them part. Her beauty could outlast the stars,
But she would bear a tiny scar, A pale, crescent mark, Telling of her lover dark.
Time and sleep would hold over them no sway, But they could not stand against the golden day.
He gave her his all, But with such pride… That there must be a fall.

Her mind adored him. Her heart abhorred him.
Torn between the two, There was only one thing to do.
Pleaded she for a morrow day
To decide to change or to stay.
He could bear this no longer,
And he, being stronger,
Kissed her with his burning silver,
A molten, changing silver,

Burning through her screaming veins,
Stilling her ruby heart, Never to beat again.