"Down by the Salley Gardens" - by William Butler Yeats

  Down By the Salley Gardens
   by William Butler Yeats
~~~~~~~~~ // ~~~~~~~~~   Down by the salley gardens
   my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens
   with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy,
   as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish,
   with her would not agree.
In a field by the river
   my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder
   she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy,
   as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish,
   and now am full of tears.    

"Down by the Salley Gardens" sung by Maura O'Connell      and Karen Matheson

Speaking my Mind - by Hénock Gugsa

Speaking my Mind
- by -
Hénock Gugsa
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Recently, I spoke my mind honestly when I posted something on Facebook about a politician running for the presidency, and I questioned his intelligence.   I said, in essence, he is a "pendejo".*

An old high-school classmate, now an old wealthy socialite, was up in arms calling me a "hater" and everything. Then she sent me a pm that I should refrain from posting my "liberal" views because she does not like seeing them in "her" Facebook. 

She said if I continue this way, she might have to "unfriend [me] at least until after the elections." 

I decided I will save her the bother ... I "unfriended" her on the spot.

Then I told one or two of my friends and explained about the old Ethiopian (Abyssinian) saying: Less beans, less farts!!  ...
  " ባቄላ ቢቀር ፈስ ቀለለ !! "
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* "pendejo" - (Spanish) asshole