Mary

Maddona and Child

Raphael

Mary you're covered in roses, you're covered in ashes

You're covered in rain

You're covered in babies,

You're covered in slashes

You're covered in wilderness, you're covered in stains

You cast aside the sheet, you cast aside the shroud

Of another man, who served the world proud

You greet another son, you lose another one

On some sunny day and always you stay, Mary

Jesus says Mother I couldn't stay another day longer

He flys right by and leaves a kiss upon her face

While the angels are singin' his praises in a blaze of glory

Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place

Oh Mary she moves behind me

She leaves her fingerprints everywhere

Everytime the snow drifts, every way the sand shifts

Even when the night lifts, she's always there

Jesus said Mother I couldn't stay another day longer

He flys right by and leaves a kiss upon her face

While the angels are singin' his praises in a blaze of glory

Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place

Mary you're covered in roses, you're covered in ruins

you're covered in secrets

Your'e covered in treetops, you're covered in birds

who can sing a million songs without any words

You cast aside the sheets, you cast aside the shroudof another man,

who served the world proud

You greet another son, you lose another one

on some sunny day and always you stay

Mary, Mary, Mary
---Patty Griffin

More Duncan Grandbabies: Larry and Linda Duncan

This is Ryan!

Lynn and Linda Duncan are Grandparents

Here is a picture of Eli Thomas McClung and his Mom and Dad (Angela and Philip McClung). He weighed 6 lbs. 15 ozs. and is 19 inches long....born Monday, February 19th at 3:00 p.m. Congratulation to Grandparents Lynn and Linda Duncan

The Monastry of the Holy Spirit at Conyers.

The path I walked upon with Father Bob some 27 years ago.

Miss USA: Behold our Beautiful Children

Miss USA and Miss America used to be ideal models of American values. Tara Conner is a child of our culture. Her sad story holds up a mirror of the world we have given our children. How can we reach the Tara Conner's in our midst?

NEW YORK (AP) -- Miss USA Tara Conner, who nearly lost her crown for hard-partying in New York nightclubs, says in the upcoming issue of People magazine that her recent stint in rehab was a wake-up call.
"I didn't think I had an issue _ but I was willing to do anything to save my job. ... I've realized that I suffer from the disease of alcoholism and addiction," says Conner, who logged in 31 days at the Caron Foundation rehab center in Wernersville, Pa.

"I was an equality-opportunity (user) _ I would try anything once," Conner, 21, tells the magazine in its Feb. 12 issue.
At a much-publicized press conference in December, Donald Trump, who owns the Miss USA pageant, said the contrite Conner could hold onto her crown if she changed her ways. She then entered rehab.
In her interview in People magazine, her first since leaving treatment, Conner admits that she's dabbled in cocaine.
"Cocaine was one of the drugs that I did use," she says. "It's hard to look back at that."
Alcohol, though, was her biggest vice.
"I'm an alcoholic. It was a craving thing _ once I put it in my body, I would start craving more," says Conner, who notes she drank heavily but wasn't "getting sloppy drunk and dancing on tables."
As for reports that her wild ways also included promiscuity, she says, "I would talk to more than one guy at once _ it doesn't mean that I was sexually active with every one of these people."
The Kentucky native, who has a family history of alcoholism, says her problems "didn't develop overnight." And, she adds, "It wasn't New York City's fault."
Her mother, Brenda Johnson, tells the magazine that Conner once showed up to school drunk when she was 14 _ the same year she won her first beauty pageant and her parents divorced.
Conner, who now lives with a chaperone, says she spends time reading instead of running around town. "I thought I needed to be around people, that I needed that acceptance," she says.
She's itching to return to her Miss USA duties.
"I just can't wait to get back to work _ `I'm Miss U.S.A., my name is Tara Conner, and I'm happy to meet you,' you know? Life is good."