Saturday, April 30, 2016

By The River - By Carroll Bryant

BY THE RIVER - By Carroll Bryant 


I'm gonna lay
Gonna lay me down by the river
Raise my hands and then shed my skin
It's okay
To be good enough for decent 
I forgive myself for all my sins 

It so happens that life gets so little 
Before it gets too big
When you're young 
You only live to reach the middle 
Because you never think you will ever make it to the end 

That's the sickness
Being invincible 
Being all you can
 
I'm gonna lay
Gonna lay me down by the river
Raise my hands and then shed my skin
It's okay
To be good enough for decent 
I forgive myself for all my sins

Life's lemonade is made with imperfect lemons 
Bitter to the taste so swallow what you can
Mysteries and magic
You hold it in your hands
Best to be gentle and a gentleman 

We're only human
Woman to woman 
And man unto man 

I'm gonna lay
Gonna lay me down by the river
Raise my hands and then shed my skin
It's okay
To be good enough for decent 
I forgive myself for all my sins 

A team of wild horses couldn't pull me away 
Drag me away from the likes of you
So, listen closely
I will be your hero and I will be your fool 

That's the sickness
Being invincible 
Being all that you can 

We're only human
Woman to woman
And man unto man 

I'm gonna lay
Gonna lay me down by the river
Raise my hands and then shed my skin
It's okay
To be good enough for decent 
I forgive myself for all my sins
 
 

Monday, April 25, 2016

Carroll's Journey: If I Could Dream

Everyone and everything is trying to get to someplace. Life is just one part of many stops in which we experience along the journey.

When I die, I don't know to where my next adventure will begin, but if I could choose, I think I would want to begin the next phase in the moment when I had my first play-date with my little nephew, Caden.

We played derby cars and it was a wonderful day. And after spending a few thousand years in that moment, I would then like to travel to when... I was a young boy myself and go back to when I was walking with my dog Pepper in the woods one day. Nothing exciting occurred that day, just a boy walking in the woods with his dog. It was just simply a beautiful day. I don't know why I remember that day, or why i dream of it from time to time in my sleep, but it was a great moment of peace for me.

After spending a couple hundred years in that moment, i would then go to a day when I was sitting on the couch and watching a show on TV. My mother walked into the room and handed me a cup of vanilla pudding she had just made. She sat down on the couch with me with her own cup of pudding and she and I watched TV together and eating our pudding. I can't remember the show we watched, but that aint the point. I just remember watching Tv and eating pudding with her and thinking how much I loved my mother. And I would like to stay in that moment for a few hundred years.

After that, I would like to soar through the universe and see all of the amazing sights it has to offer. Maybe live inside a nebula for a few thousand years. That would be nice.

I don't know where the journey continues after this, or maybe I do, but one thing is for sure - I hope there isn't as much pain in the next life as there is in this one.

A man can dream, can't he?





Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Kim Kimmy - By Carroll Bryant

KIM KIMMY - By Carroll Bryant



Kim Kimmy
I was feeling a little bit down
Kim Kimmy
Sorting through memories until I had found
All the good times I spent with you
In the hot nights of summer
Your husband never knew 

Kim Kimmy
You stood about five feet seven
Kim Kimmy
Your perfect little body was my piece of heaven
For the sake of letting me in 
We escaped to our little island of sin 
Nobody even tried to figure it out 

And the earth moved
The sky fell apart
Two children of fate making out in the dark
And the music played on the radio station and then
Two people trying to solve mysteries - again

Kim Kimmy
I was only trying to look back
Kim Kimmy
My heart went off into another attack
Of all of the days that I need a kiss
Why does it always happen in a moment like this?
A family reunion of every emotion inside

And the earth moved
The sky fell apart
Two children of fate making out in the dark
And the music played on the radio station and then
Two people trying to solve mysteries - again 

We were baptized by the night 
Lurking undercover out in plain sight 
Never again, you said, to fall in love 

Kim Kimmy
I was feeling a little bit down
Kim Kimmy
Sorting through the memories until I had found you

And the earth moved
The sky fell apart
Two children of fate making out in the dark
And the music played on the radio station and then

And the earth moved
The sky fell apart
Two children of fate making out in the dark
And the music played on the radio station and then
Two people trying to solve mysteries - again 

Two people passing themselves off in the daylight as friends

Kim Kimmy
Kim Kimmy
Kim Kimmy
I'm doing it all over again








Friday, April 15, 2016

Flag Of South Korea

The flag of South Korea, also known as the Taegukgi (also spelled as Taegeukgi, literally "Taeguk flag"). It has three parts: a white rectangular background, a red and blue Taeguk in the center that symbolize a balance, and four black trigrams, which are selected from the original eight, on each corner of the flag.

The flag's background is white, which is a traditional Korean color, common to the daily attire of 19th century Koreans and the color is also use for a traditional Korean wear (hanbok). It represents peace and purity. The circle in the middle is derived from the philosophy of yin and yang and represents the balance of the universe. The blue section represents the negative cosmic forces, and the red section represents the opposing positive cosmic forces. The trigrams together represent the principle of movement and harmony.






  The lack of the national flag only became an issue in 1876, in the Joseon Dynasty. Before 1876, a national flag did not exist and it was not considered important. The issue began during the negotiations for the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876. Although the delegate of the Empire of Japan had the Japanese national flag, the Joseon Dynasty could not hang a corresponding flag. Thus, there were some proposals to create a flag, but the issue was considered unimportant by the government. At 1880, the proliferation of foreign negotiations led to a need for the national flag. The most major proposal was described in the ‘Korea Strategy’ papers written by the Chinese delegate Huang Zunxian. The proposal was to incorporate the Flag of the Qing Dynasty for the Joseon Dynasty. In response to the proposal, the government sent the delegate of Lee Young-Sook to explore the possibility of the issue through the politician Li Hongzhang. Li Hongzhang agreed with some parts of the proposal, but proposed that some other factors should be differed. The Qing Dynasty agreed with Li Hongzhang, but it is unknown how far the Joseon government explored this proposal.

The issue was then shelved but reemerged with the ratification of the United States–Korea Treaty of 1882. The controversy arose after the delegate Lee Eung-Jun presented a flag similar to the flag of Japan to the Chinese official Ma Jianzhong. In response to the discussion, Ma Jianzhong argued against the proposed idea of using the flag of the Qing Dynasty and proposed a flag with a white background, with a half-red and half-black circle in the center, with eight black bars around the flag On August 22, 1882, Park Yeong-hyo created a scale model of the Taegukgi to the Joseon government. Park Yeong-hyo became the first person to use the Taegukgi in the Empire of Japan in 1882. On January 27, 1883, the Joseon government officially promulgated Taegukgi to be used as the official national flag.

Before the division of Korea, a flag similar to the current South Korean flag was used for the entire country. However, after the division, two flags started to be used, the flag of South Korea and the flag of North Korea. The current South Korean flag was declared official by the government of South Korea on October 15, 1949 although it had been used as the de facto national flag before then.

 In October 1997, the exact colors of the flag were specified via presidential decree.





Source: Wikipedia 

This work is released under CC 3.0 BY-SA - Creative Commons 


 

Sunday, April 10, 2016

She's Too Sexy For Me - By Carroll Bryant

SHE'S TOO SEXY FOR ME - By Carroll Bryant




She's too sexy for me 
She's so hot she can never cool down
Lord have mercy, baby
She'd tap her own ass if she thought she could get away with it

Never ask her twice
If she doesn't answer 
It means she wasn't listening 

She's always acting naughty and nice 
If you catch her in the right mood 
She'll give you something good to groove

She's way past anything you could smell
The very thing you'd love to play with
Her body rocks so wild as hell 
Whatever she gives to you, consider it a special gift 

She's too sexy for me 
She's so hot she can never cool down
Lord have mercy, baby
She'd tap her own ass if she thought she could get away with it

Never turn away
If she thinks you disrespected her
She'll eat you up like cake

She's always talking fashion about your face 
If you drop her like a time-bomb
She'll sing you to death with a Taylor Swift song 

She's way too fast for you to even touch
The very thing you would go to jail for
Her fatal charms will knock your socks off
Whatever she tries to sell you, buy it out, the whole damn store

She's too sexy for me 
She's so hot she can never cool down
Lord have mercy, baby
She'd tap her own ass if she thought she could get away with it

She's way past anything you could smell
The very thing you'd love to play with
Her body rocks so hard as hell
Whatever she gives to you, consider it a birthday gift

She's too sexy for me
She's too sexy for you
She has to be a lesbian 
Imagine what she likes to do
Locked inside her sexy bedroom

OMFG!

She's too sexy for me 
She's so hot she can never cool down
Lord have mercy, baby
She'd tap her own ass if she thought she could get away with it

You can fool yourself into whatever you want to believe 
But she's too sexy for me








Friday, April 8, 2016

Carroll Bryant Quote: April, 2016

"Without trust and respect, love is nothing but a meaningless gesture." 

- Carroll Bryant

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Story Time: Coconut

Every little boy wants a dog. I was no exception. When I was nine years old, and a few days into the new summer, I saw my friends with their dogs and I knew I wanted one too. My only problem was, we lived in an apartment at the time and dogs were not allowed. And it wasn't like it would be easy to ask my mother for a dog even if we were allowed because by the time I was eight years old I knew that if I asked my mother for something and she said no then that would be that. I would never get what it is I asked for so the trick was, if I was to get a dog, I would have to find a way to let her know I wanted one but without ever actually coming out and asking for one. Kind of let her come to the idea kind of thing.

And even though I knew I couldn't have a dog while we lived in the apartments, I also knew we were not going to live there forever. I had to somehow get the idea into my mothers head in so that when we did eventually move, she would get me a dog.

Then it happened! Just a few weeks into the summer and my mother took me to Florida for vacation. Right on schedule. I had a blast. The one thing I always enjoyed doing was bringing something back home from Florida.

Sure, mother always allowed me to buy a souvenir or two, but I liked to find something on the ground to bring back. Like one time, I brought back some awesome seashells. Or that time I brought back some small crabs in a bucket. Yeah, they died a few days later but what the heck.

This year was no different, and I wanted to find something cool to bring back again. My wish came true in the form of a coconut. I found a coconut tree and some scattered coconuts at its base so I plucked one to take back home with me.

Once we got back home, I placed it on my dresser. While in Florida, my quest for a dog was postponed. Now that I have returned, I started thinking about it all over again.

Then one day, while laying on my bed in the middle of the afternoon, after just eating some lunch, I glanced over at that coconut and suddenly, I got me a good idea.

I pulled out some kite string and glue, and wrapped the string around the coconut and then tied it off around a long piece of fiber that had grown off of it. I then glued the string to the fiber to ensure it would not slip off. I stood back to enjoy my creation.
My mother stepped outside on her way to the car to go to work when she came up to me to give me a kiss goodbye. She took notice to my new friend. "What are you doing dragging that coconut around on a string?" She asked me.

I looked up at her and smiled. "It's my dog." I told her. "I named her Coconut. Isn't she adorable?"

A queer look swept over my mothers face. It could have also been a look of great despair where my faculties were concerned. She may have thought I finally lost it. But to her credit, she simply shook it off and went to work. Meanwhile, I dragged that coconut around the rest of the day like it was a real dog. Sure, people stared and probably wondered if I had been kicked in the head by a mule, but it was all part of my plan to land myself a dog. I mean, let's face it, my mother is a smart cookie so I had to be a lot more smarter if this scheme was to work.

Days passed, about two weeks actually, when one day, mother and I was on our way to the store. We argued and debated about me bringing Coconut with us, but in this debate, I won.

When we arrived to the store, I jumped out of the car with my pet coconut-dog in tow right behind me. The string, and glue was still holding up quite nicely.

My mother was starting to hide her head in shame as onlookers smiled and shook their heads. "That kid is nuts."

And me just a smiling, proud as ever of my coconut dog. We got about halfway across the parking lot when my mother stopped and looked at me. "I know why you're doing this." She said. I played the dummy. "Doing what, mommy?"

"This coconut dog thing. I know why you're doing this. It's because you want a dog, don't you? A real one?"

"I already have a dog, mommy. Her name is Coconut." I proudly stood.

My mother took a deep breath. "Look, if you put that thing back in the car and promise me you will never drag that thing around ever again, I will buy you a dog the moment we move from these apartments. deal?"

I was so happy inside, but I still didn't want to tip my hand. "You mean, I have to get rid of Coconut?" I played like being sad. My mother shook her head. "No, sweetie, you can keep her inside in your room. She can be an indoor ......" she paused momentarily "..... dog."

"She's not a real dog." I replied. "It's my pretend dog. But I guess a real dog is better than a pretend one, huh?" I suggested while sticking out my hand for a shake, and then I declared, "Deal! I'll take the real dog."

And just like that, I was one step away from being a dog owner. Which, by the way, eventually came within another few weeks as my mother announced we would be moving soon and a few days before we finally moved, she brought home a dog. A three year old black lab that I aptly named Pepper. And the reason my mother picked Pepper out of the dog pound was because when she got there and began her search, all the other dogs were barking like crazy, except for Pepper. She just sat there wagging her tail and, my mother swore, she had a smile on her face. "I wanted a dog that didn't bark." She joked. This is why she selected Pepper. It was a match made in heaven. Pepper turned out to be one the smartest dogs I ever knew. She was never properly trained, but she could still do a few tricks, but only if I commanded her to do so. She also became a very good protector of me, and for the family. And you rarely ever heard her bark. Mother liked that best of all.