Decoding Color

Jenny Appleseed

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• A Baby Named Brock
• A Baby Named Paige
• A Baby Named Thomas
• A Glad New Year
• A Holy Fire
• A Living Faith
• Again it’s Tomorrow
• Agency
• America Under Attack
• Be Strong
• Before Our Very Eyes
• Brigham Young Quotes
• Doubt Not Fear Not
• Eternally One
• Fading Echoes
• Fanning the Embers
• Fifty Long Years
• Fluff
• Forgiveness
• Fragment
• Giving In
• God is Not Dead
• He Lives Again
• Hemingway Impressions
• His Gift
• Humility
• I Knelt
• I Met Someone Today
• I Seek Devotedly to Serve
• Idling on the Seashore
• If Love Was Fire
• Infused With Faith
• It’s Christmastime in Germany
• It’s Time
• Just Little Sins
• Kites and Children
• My Daily Choosing
• My Favorite Tool
• My Plea
• My Silent Anguished Prayer
• No Room in the Inn
• O Death
• Ode to the Prophet Joseph Smith
• Of Soil and Men
• Oh Holy Little One
• Oh Mercy Me
• Old Hand
• On the Brink of Flight
• One by One
• Phantom Friends
• Pondering
• Prelude
• Remember
• Renewal
• Sail On
• Show Me of Your Love
• Stillborn
• Sweet Onion Soup
• Sweet Sixteen
• Temple Square
• Testimony of The Book of Mormon
• That Special Room of Ours
• The Choice Emancipation
• The Choice
• The Gift
• The Giver of the Gift
• The Key
• The Latent Power of Godliness
• The Light of Love
• The Memory of my Mother
• The Mud Pot
• The Path to Faith
• The Restoration
• The Struggle of the Common Man
• The Triplets Are Cummins
• The Triumph
• The Worth of Souls
• Things
• Thoughts About Replacing Your Boss
• Thoughts of Her
• To Comfort Broken Hearts
• Together
• Unfinished Fragment
• What is Priesthood?
• When Mammon Grasps the Heart
• When Memory Fails
• Who is Listening?

I never quite know when the urge to write will strike me.  Mostly it’s in the early morning while I’m preparing for the day; but sometimes I find myself stroking my computer far into the night.  I don’t know if any of it is worth reading; but I enjoy it,   and I hope you will too.

Poetry in the style of Doctor Suess and Shel Silverstein

• The Sales After Christmas
• Oprah at the Opera
• Things

Readings

• It Vas ze Night Before Christmas - a parody
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - a parody
• The Twelve Days of Christmas - a reading
• Limburger Cheese - a Christmas Gift
• The Prayer of Cyrus Brown

Humorous Song Lyrics

• Them Folks Whut’s Usin’ Cellyphones
• Them Folks Whut’s Usin’ Cellyphones - an encore
• Hangin’ Over
• Look to Heaven and be Grateful
• Oh, My, Oh My, Dear Sister
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

I have always enjoyed a good laugh.  Life is full of human idiosyncrasies ... little oddities and that bring a smile.  I have tried to capture a few of them.  (I borrowed a few, too.)

Literary Meanderings

• The Law and the Lazy Old Cat
• Changing the World one Man or Woman at a Time
• A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place
• Nearly Eighty - the perceptions of aging
• Those Magnificent Leaky Pots
• Out of the Depths of Our Despair
• Getting out of Debt
• What a Fragile Thing Life Is
• Choose the Light
• The Treasure Trove Within
• The Bookcase Effect
• Treasure in the Attic
• Moody Weather
• Things
• Why Sorrow
• The destructive voice of gossip
• Ancient Graveyards
• A Change of Heart

Home & Family Life

• Intimacy
• Family Home Evening
• The challenges of aging
• Perceptions of old age
• My life with Jean
• A surprising romance
• Our Forebears
• Treasure in the Attic

The things of my soul

• Moral agency - on our shoulders
• The Principle of Motivation
• The Golden Plates Revealed
• An Analogy of the Workings of The Holy Ghost
• The Seedling
• Riddle, Apex model
• The six levels of conversion
• Prayer, continuum
• Holy Spirit, have I received an answer?
• Apocrapha, The testament of the 12 patriarchs
• Shumway, Lazarus and the Atonement
• Warner, Feelings, Self-Deception and Change
• Riddle, Mighty Prayer
• Justification and Sanctification, Ivan
• Wilcox, The Atonement
• Mammon, a roadblock
• A voice from the dust
• The principle of motivation, teaching it
• Agency, moral, on our shoulders
• What is the precise test of mortality?
• Raising children, a key to exaltation
• Stewardship; doctrine, principles, applications
• The process of change
• Holy Spirit, Schmuhl

Stories

• Judge Not - For Ye Know not What Ye Judge
• Runaway to the River - an answer to fervent prayer
• A Christmas Story - by Paul Harvey
• The Healing of the Lambs
• From Dealing Death to Giving Life - by CW4 Max Smith
• The Lion and the Lamb
• Black Bananas
• Little Things
• Facing the Future

Parables

• The Parable of the Potter
• The Parable of the Wayward Ewe
• The Parable of the Husbandman
• The Parable of the Couch Potato

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