What is Mother?

12:30 PM Greeting by Reverend Byron Miller

12:35 PM Psalm 121 by Rev Miller

12:40 PM Lord's Prayer by Assembled in Unison

12:45 PM Eulogy for Mom by Patrick Darnell

12:50 PM Reflections -- by Hunter Paniagua
-- by David Darnell
-- by Bernadine Foster

1:00 PM Sermonette by Rev Miller

1:10 PM Closing Prayer

In Loving Memory

Jerre Jean Hynds Darnell

Born

December 3, 1926

Entered into rest

April 19, 2013

Houston, Texas

Celebration of Life Services

The Chapel of SouthPark Funeral Home

12:30 PM

April 24, 2013

Officiating 

Reverend Byron Miller

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A Eulogy for Mom

Some of you know Jerre Jean Hynds Darnell as your coworker. Others know her as your party planner. Some know her as their dance partner. The board of Directors knew her as that fastidious worker. You might have caught her style as she walked the runway at the Country Place style show. Maybe you see her in her yard. You might see her praying with her church circle. Many know her as your top secret confidante. Many, many know her as that ravishing beauty. I don't often use the word ravishing, but in Mom's case she is.

But you see, Jerre Jean Hynds Darnell is my Mother!

She bore me, she named me with her heart of hearts husband, and she raised me.

My brother and sisters know of what I speak.

Most important to me is that Mom always speaks the truth. Jerre Darnell always tells the truth. That is her way. The truth isn't always the most popular thing we want to hear. Sometimes when she said those truths, it would make me want to run and hide. And she always stuck to her guns. If you fidgeted, she tells you to sit tight. If you tried to pull her away from her important task, she tells you to hold your horses.

When conversations become nonsensical, Mom relies on her maternal wisdom. Her truth statements have become pearls in her children's, grandchildren's, and great-grandchildren's lives. Mom's wisdom, you see, comes back to her.

Mom and her steadfast friend, Robert, are blessed with long lives, 67 years of which they have been husband and wife.

What is Mother --
what is Mother,
without her house
and her child?

Her babies are born
and grown in her domicile

Many houses
Mom has known
Many seeds she has sown,

Where she settled
she made it her own.

As years gathered numbers
some ideals are put to rest
her children, now with children,
are wiser, never alone, at best,
for Mother journeys with us ...

See all their bright little faces
Hear their falsetto voices,
... full of trust, truth, and whim,
Creating such a din.

Thank you all for coming.

MooPig Report from the Middle :: The Initials have been Changed to Protect the Innocent PART TWO

by Pat Darnell  |  June 13, 2012  |  Bryan TX

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Today, June 13th, is my older brother's birthday. We are both pain-in-the-ass June babies, seven years apart. The initials are changed to protect the innocent. Yes, we have brought on the pain over the years.

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It so happens that a word in use has been spotted by the MooPig "Verses, Commentaries, Concordances Department." That word is "convoluted." It has been spotted used in many different places for the last year or so. What does convoluted mean?

Well it goes something like this: "

" ... Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked consideration of a Democratic bill to prevent the doubling of some student loan interest rates, leaving the legislation in limbo less than two months before rates on subsidized federal loans are set to shoot upward.
NOTE:
YES = vote to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling
NO = vote to allow student loan interest rates to double (See Poll Results HERE ) ... "

Is this a good thing or a bad thing -- WHO THE HELL KNOWS??!!!

A married couple trying to put two through college will see this as a slap in the face... since the student loan system has been the only way to put a kid in college of late. Suddenly, the convoluted government decides to let the interest rates double for some unwitting moms and dads? The loan programs have been around since the 60's...!

Convoluted: " ... highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" ... " (online dictionary. HERE)

Byzantine, eh?

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That's our Report from the Middle, where men are good looking, women are strong, and children are all above average ... not convoluted.

faceBook Parenting

Teenagers, the Test of Fire
Pirated by Pat Darnell | Mar 6, 2012 | Bryan TX

30,953,476 and one, Views -- Worldwide

And there you have your Introduction to a new wave of faceBook Parenting and further criminalization of Youth!

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Caption This ! :: "Face" -- PART One

Face
by Pat Darnell

Why is it so hard to forget the Face of one's enemy? Eh? Is it correction of our spirit as we ponder menaces that pervade our existence? Could be. Does one feel stalked and tracked down in every turn of the screw; surely peace will endure, but remember, our patch of face is enemy to others we will never know.

Otherwise, how can we explain our enemies. Do we say: "Don't shoot till you see the yellow of their eyes?"

One's face is his life: the face of newborn, face of his identity, face of his game, then the face of his senility, and in the end it is his face of death.

In a universe far far away that parallels one's own home, one's enemy, it turns out, was no enemy at all.

We at MooPig like to think that the FACE is a miracle. It is a map of one's sensors, and a target of all that is human. Therefore, we meditate on vastness of ruminative FACE.

Does ANyone REmember the old days of ATandT Mega Monster Company??

RUMOR MILL:

Pay for FACEbook ?? YIKES!!! There is no value there.
Retrieved by Pat Darnell from folks in Italy

[OFFICIAL] FACEBOOK PAID BY May 1, 2010! HERE HOW TO AVOID! Category:Internet & Technology - General Description: Facebook has now confirmed the sad news that will be payable from 1 May 2010, just follow these steps to avoid it.

1) Invite all your friends to this group, without exception.
2) Verify your data on the site http://www.verificaaccount.info
3) Complete the site http://www.facebookgratis.info
4) You will see a yellow icon on your account that says "APPROVED ACCOUNT FREE"Privacy Type:Open: All content is public.

Patrick Darnell Retrieved by Pat Darnell from folks in Italy... YIKES!! Pay for fBook? There is no value there... if so -- sorry that I forsook you fBOOK ... bye bye
8 minutes ago ·

Patrick Darnell or is this just another phishing site?
8 minutes ago ·

Chris UselessEater O'Rourke i don't believe this -- it would have been a major google explosion and there isn't
6 minutes ago ·

Chris UselessEater O'Rourke the domain names are probably not really affiliated with facebook
6 minutes ago ·

Patrick Darnell it is a phish from across the Atlantic?

a few seconds ago ·

LATE EDITION UPDATE -- Elements of Partial Renumerations about Who's Who??

Have I ever wondered what it takes to be buckwheat, pork futures famous? Yes. But then I look at the faces of the developing Famous... and I see a pattern.

Does one really have to adapt oneself to this sociopath persona?


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Do you ever feel like no one any where gives a shyte about you? Considering thousands of acquaintances, and friendly encounters; it doesn't add up to squat...

Since I have introduced this malleable subject, I will pose the following situation.

I got to Heaven, and St Peter says, "Did you sleep well?"

"No, I never slept well."

So Peter the Saint crunches some numbers... 365 x 72 = 26280 days x 24 = 630720 hours / 8.2 = 76917 hours

I"I have you down for plenty of hours of sleep," Says St Peter, "actually, you got more than the usual hours of sleep."

"That doesn't surprise me, Saint Sir," I reply in my most polite way.

Chorus: Like a rhinestone
[G] cowboy
Riding out on a horse
in a star spangled
rode [D] o
Rhinestone [G] cowboy
getting cards
and lettters from people
I don't even [D] know
Offers coming over the
[C] phone.....[D] (Weiss)