San Diego Zoo

I try to capture at least one good photo every time I go to the San Diego zoo. Today it was these gorgeous flamingos.

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They died too soon

This is for Frank, Lana, Judy and all the others who have shared the experience of digging out the yearbooks to reminisce about those good old days.

Too Soon

Flipping through the yearbook

It seems like yesterday

We graduated high school

And went our separate ways

Every day is precious

We’ve often heard it said

The yearbook now affirms it

With faces of the dead

Some were lost to cancer

Some to heart attacks

Some went off to fight a war

And never made it back

So open up your yearbook

Every single day

And thank the Lord for giving you

Another chance to pray

29 August 2010

Steven Pein

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SEPTA HO Scale PCC Trolley

There are some things you just can't part with. I was looking through some old possessions and I came across this brand new Bachmann SEPTA trolley. My ex-wife used to work for Bachmann and they had just prepared to market these beautiful SEPTA trolleys when SEPTA filed a lawsuit to stop them from using the SEPTA logo. So they had to pull back all inventory and replace it with an old PTC version which they sell to this day.  I immediately got my hands on two of these beauties and gave one of them to my old friend (and now Bensalem District Justice) Lenny Brown, an avid collector.

I remember when these gems ran down Erie Ave? Does anyone know if they're still running?

After all these years, I wonder if SEPTA realizes how stupid and irresponsible they were to spend publicly funded dollars to block this product from being sold to the public.

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Pull the Troops

Maybe we don’t really need troops in the Middle East. I thought of something better we can do with them.

Pull the Troops

Pull out all the soldiers

From Iraq and Afghanistan

Deploy them on our borders

To truly protect our land

After we seal our borders

Bad guys can’t get in

Making the war on terror

A war that we can win

Steven Pein

6 August 2010

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The USS Rancocus

“Google” USS Rancocus and learn all about it.

The USS Rancocus

The Navy has a cruiser

That never sailed the seas

And never can it bask in

An ocean’s balmy breeze

Never did this ship slide

Down a shipyard’s ways

Commissioning had doomed it

Landlocked for all days

Driving down the Turnpike

Its bridge comes into focus

A cruiser in the cornfield

The USS Rancocus

Steven Pein

1 August 2010

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Genesis 3:22 and “The Six”

My novel “The Six” is based on Genesis 3:22.

Genesis 3:22 in the New Living Translation says:

Then the Lord God said, “The people have become as we are, knowing everything, both good and evil. What if they eat the fruit of the tree of life? Then they will live forever!”

God knew that "eating the fruit of the tree of life" would make men immortal, so He designed a wonderful way to prevent it. But something went horribly astray with God's plan.

Read “The Six” to find out what went wrong. It’s free on line by clicking on this link "The Six" by Steven Pein . Happy reading!

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