Posted: under "Jamaica Labrish Korner", "Jamaica ~ Land Of Paradise", "SMILE" Jamaica ~ "Once You Go --- You Know", "Welcome to JAMrock ~ JAMAICA ~ NO PROBLEM".
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World Fastest Man —-Jamaican Usain Bolt
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Jamaican Track and Field Star
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Born Jamaican - By Tony Robinson
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There is nobody like a Jamaican, Nobody! Sometimes it’s difficult to determine where someone comes from. Drop us into the vast mosaic of the peoples of the world and try to figure out who is who.
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“Him is from China, no, is Japanese, but him could be Korean still.” The same goes for people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, or Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana. We just can’t tell them apart. Not so with Jamaicans though, who stand out and stick out like beacons in the night. Foreigners know us in a flash, and we can identify each other from way across the street. We are so distinct that other people try to walk, talk and act like us.
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I’m so amused when I encounter Americans, Europeans, Japanese, [Madam Cleo, or Ron] trying to act Jamaican. “Hey mon, wha hoppening mon, eberyting irie?” I usually reply in my most proper English. If they are Japanese, I say, “Sukiyaki, Sayonara, Sony, Toyota Mitsubishi.” Just to keep them guessing.
OUT OF MANY ONE PEOPLE!
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“So you speak Japanese?”
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“Ah so, Nissan, Sanyo, Toyota Tercel..”
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But what makes us so different from other people? First it’s the walk, nobody walks like us. People in foreign walk briskly, head straight, arms swinging almost in military fashion, with a stride and purpose like they’re going somewhere. Not us though, who saunter with a rhythm that is almost slow motion. No hurry, no scurry, no flurry, no rushy rushy, just cool, with a bop and rhythm that could be put to music. Years ago we used to call it bop. For some it’s natural while others practiced it.
Bob Marley Commemorative Coin
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If you’re a girl in the middle of Paris, Madrid or Tokyo and hear, “psst, psst,” from across the street,
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Jul 31 2009
Posted: under Inspirational Poetry.
Tags: autumn, beauty, blessings, breeze, color, diamonds, dream, earth, flowers, God, humanity, inspiration, joy, lake, mankind, miracle, nature, ocean, pond, prayer, rain, rainbow, rivers, spring, stream, summer, sunshine, time, transformation, water, winter
I never met a spring day I didn’t like…
Or summer, autumn and winter, too.
You’ve turned the prettiest flowers the color of the rainbow…
And the sky the most beautiful blue.
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Mar 09 2009
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", Inspirationals.
Tags: anxiety, attention, beauty, bird, birthday, blessings, butterfly, depression, eyes, focus, God, Heaven, inspiration, journey, knowledge, language, life, listening, man, miracle, music, nature, rainbow, road, singer, star, stress, touch, travel, vision, voice, whisper, words
The man whispered
“God, speak to me.”
And a meadowlark sang
But the man did not hear.
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So the man yelled
“God speak to me!”
And the thunder rolled across the sky
But the man did not listen.
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Feb 27 2009
Posted: under "LOVE is LOVELY", "When You're Down to Nothing God's UP to Something", Inspirationals.
Tags: accident, age, angel, arm, arms, beaches, blessings, bridge, car, child, clothing, color, colors, comfort, companion, couple, creek, dad, era, exam, eyes, faith, family, father, focus, friends, God, gratitude, guidance, hand, hands, highway, history, husband, imagination, inspiration, journey, lake, life, lifestyle, lifetime, mountain, need, noise, ocean, others, partner, path, period, pond, pool, prayer, promise, quiz, race, rain, rainbow, rivers, road, sea, sky, sound, spouse, stream, surprise, test, thankfulness, time, touch, tour, tourist, traffic, travel, trip, truck, trust, truth, vehicle, voice, water, wealth, wife
The Hand Of God
Hello my friends, this is a story about something that happened to me back in 1972. I just thought you might like to know that there is a God and there are Angels out there watching over us. God Bless you all.
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This happened to us (my wife and child, and myself) in 1972, while driving over the mountains from Milton-Freewater, Oregon to Fossil, Oregon, going on a weekend trip to see my dad. As we approached the Camas creek bridge which runs in an arc from right to left about 300 feet across, there were two logging trucks, loaded, racing side by side on this bridge and when I saw them it was too late and I had no place to go.
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Feb 20 2009
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", "When You're Down to Nothing God's UP to Something", Inspirationals.
Tags: accident, advice, age, aid, air, anger, anxiety, assistance, assurance, author, beacon, belief, boat, body, boy, bridge, burden, care, challenges, Christ, cloud, clouds, comfort, Comforter, concern, courage, cross, day, depression, destination, direction, duty, earth, era, exam, example, eyes, faith, fire, flame, focus, food, girl, God, goodness, grace, growth, guidance, guide, hands, heart, highway, history, home, hope, horizon, House, hut, inspiration, instruction, insurance, island, job, journey, King, knowledge, labor, lake, land, language, life, lifestyle, lifetime, light, load, love, man, map, memory, mercy, mind, morning, nature, need, needs, noise, ocean, others, pain, path, perception, period, perspective, phone, plan, plans, plant, plants, pond, possession, praise, praises, prayer, promise, promises, protection, purpose, quiz, rain, rainbow, Redeemer, riches, rivers, road, safety, scripture, sea, season, security, sheep, shepherd, shield, ship, sign, signal, size, sky, sleep, smoke, soil, son, soul, sound, spirit, storm, strength, stress, struggles, surprise, task, test, time, tips, today, traffic, travel, trial, trials, tribulation, trust, vehicle, vision, water, wealth, weight, wind, wisdom, woman, words, work, worries, worry
The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.
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Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements and to store his few possessions.
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But then one day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, the smoke rolling up to the sky.
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The worst had happened; everything was lost. He was stunned with grief and anger. “God, how could you do this to me!” he cried.
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Feb 07 2009
Posted: under Funny and Hilarious Jokes.
Tags: age, bathsuit, body, brain, butt, creek, direction, elderly, era, exam, eyes, fashion, fool, funny, gift, hands, hilarious, history, humor, idiot, jokes, lake, language, laughter, legs, man, mind, moron, ocean, penis, perception, period, pond, pool, present, privates, quiz, rain, rainbow, reading, rectum, rivers, sea, seniors, silly, smiles, stream, stupid, style, surprise, swimsuit, swimwear, test, thought, time, tool, tools, trick, voice, water, weather, woman, words
The weather was very hot and this man wanted desperately to take a dive in a nearby lake. He didn’t bring his swimming outfit, but who cared? He was all alone. So he undressed and got into the water.
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After some delightful minutes of cool swimming, a pair of old ladies walked onto the shore in his direction. He panicked, got out of the water and grabbed a bucket lying in the sand nearby. He held the bucket in front of his private parts and sighed with relief.
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Feb 01 2009