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Online Status: Last On: Oct 8, 2008 - 4:09 PM
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Age / Gender: 59 / Female
Member Since: October 31, 2007
Location: Vancouver, WA
ShoutLife Address: shoutlife.com/beverlyjraffaele
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General Interests
I love My God and My family above all. I am crazy about creative things. If one is attracted to the beauty of the earth and sky, then they are my instant friend. I adore little chil;dren and all the hilarious things they say.
Music
No hip hop, or rap, but I enjoy some of most every genre'
Books
I read and read and read, cozy murder mysteries, Patrick McManus, Malachy McCourt- I could only hope to write like him.
Movies/TV
Places In The Heart, Big Fish, Pride and Predudice, Sense and Sensibility, Gone With The Wind, anything with James Gardner in it.
QuickLinks: About - Blog - Friends - Guestbook

About Me
PLEASE VISIT MY WEBSITE AT http:www.artspoetry.com


I am proud to say that I share
my life with Stephen. He is
My husband and my best friend.
We have six grown children
who have blessed us greatly
with sixteen grandchildren.

My passion is writing, art, and
flower gardening. I have
published six books as of this
date and I have three more on
the horizon. They are available
at Barnes&Nobel,
Amazon.com, and LULU.com as well
as many other online
bookstores...

I love to write, paint, create,
and spoil our sixteen grandchildren.
There is nothing more precious than a child.
Educate them, train them, hug
and play with them, worry about
them and nose into their life.
Parenthood is not for cowards.

My favorite written prayer outside
of the Lord's Prayer is that of
Saint Francis of Asisi

"Lord, make me an
instrument of Thy peace,
Where there is hatred,
let me so love,

Where there is injury, pardon,
where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is despair, hope,
Where there is darkness, light,
where there is sadness, joy,

Oh Divine Master, grant,
that I may not so much seek to
be consoled as to console,
To be understood
as to understand,
To be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that we receive,
But it is in pardoning
that we are pardoned,

And it is in dying that
we are born to eternal life."

MY ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY



BOOKS THAT I HAVE WRITTEN


Blog
An Ode To Georgia   7/14/2008 - 11:54 AM
This is a true story.... "An Ode To Georgia" The day was hot and steamy in New Orleans. I had taken a nap while my husband was at the New Orleans Convention center on business. The hotel we were staying in was across the street from the ... (login or sign up to read more)
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Dream Vacation   6/21/2008 - 1:01 PM
Dream Vacation Cobblestone streets and home baked breads gave the village a sense of tranquility. The scents that greeted me were torture as I glimpsed my hips in a shop window. I didn't want to fall back into eating rich butter melted into ... (login or sign up to read more)
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An Ode To Georgia   6/21/2008 - 12:59 PM
This is a true story.... All suggestions are welcome. "An Ode To Georgia" The day was hot and steamy in New Orleans. I had taken a nap while my husband was at the New Orleans Convention center on business. The hotel we were staying in was ... (login or sign up to read more)
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The Church-   12/09/2007 - 10:57 PM
The Church- A Church- Your Church- His Church- Her Church- What does it mean? Is it a body of people who believe in Jesus? Is it a building with amazing architecture, is it a place to judge or a place of love. In Las Vegas, ... (login or sign up to read more)
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Portrait   12/09/2007 - 10:52 PM
Easel poised Hexed canvas sits near shafts of morning light Self portrait of roundness, lines and smock Walls covered in strings of drying paper hanging Canvas touched as artist speaks Come to me self portrait Like a ghost in the ... (login or sign up to read more)
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